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Pi 1.0

https://earendil.com/posts/pi-1-0/
1476•sergiotapia•18h ago•483 comments

Shimano Bicycle Museum Review

https://inrng.com/2026/10/shimano-bicycle-museum/
187•pietroppeter•8h ago•34 comments

Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in the Linux kernel

https://lwn.net/Articles/1097401/
403•luispa•14h ago•292 comments

Show HN: Audionaut – an open-source cross-platform multitrack audio editor

https://github.com/kvoltmer/Audionaut
56•vltmrkls•5h ago•20 comments

Clef: Open-weight decision models, and new RL fine-tuning platform

https://blog.cloudflare.com/clef-decision-models/
551•jasondavies•21h ago•196 comments

SvelteKit 3

https://svelte.dev/blog/sveltekit-3-is-here
335•sampsn•17h ago•137 comments

DeepSeek Harness Desktop for macOS and Windows

https://www.deepseek.com/en/harness/
295•Kuyawa•10h ago•150 comments

Pi Durable

https://earendil.com/posts/pi-durable/
430•paulsmith•18h ago•56 comments

Ask HN: Who is hiring? (October 2026)

226•whoishiring•22h ago•218 comments

Frog and Toad and the Increasingly Capable Machines

https://www.frogandtoad.ai/
278•supermdguy•15h ago•64 comments

Git 3.0's upcoming SHA-256 default will be a costly mistake

https://blog.gitbutler.com/git-3-sha-256
445•chmaynard•20h ago•415 comments

Automatic Transmission – a data-privacy study of connected vehicles

https://automatictransmission.khoury.northeastern.edu/index.html
213•rafaelc•17h ago•182 comments

StreetComplete on iOS is now in public beta

https://github.com/streetcomplete/StreetComplete/issues/5421
587•Snowly•1d ago•160 comments

Turbo Haskell

https://comonad.com/reader/2026/turbo-haskell/
134•pjmlp•23h ago•28 comments

Using Opus 5.5 to discover a new eyewitness record of the dodo

https://resobscura.substack.com/p/using-opus-55-to-discover-a-new-eyewitness
178•benbreen•16h ago•51 comments

RIP, vector database

https://turbopuffer.com/blog/rip-vector-database
349•razin•21h ago•99 comments

Various Projects Find Hidden SDR Capabilities in ESP32 Microcontrollers

https://www.rtl-sdr.com/various-projects-independently-find-hidden-sdr-capabilities-in-esp32-micr...
250•nkw•22h ago•47 comments

Vote on which of Hacker News' challenges for AI have been met

https://stoppels.ch/goalposts/
172•stabbles•20h ago•200 comments

CSS Bed: Classless CSS themes to use as starting points in web development

https://www.cssbed.com
128•sea-gold•16h ago•36 comments

Memory executives expect RAM shortage to continue through 2028

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2026/10/memory-supplies-are-only-getting-tighter-m...
10•el_duderino•1h ago•2 comments

How Singapore's government-run dating service works

https://www.singapore-samizdat.com/p/how-singapores-government-run-dating-service-firstdate-works
209•danielfoster•11h ago•199 comments

Show HN: Janus – Go binary that runs GGUF models via Vulkan on AMD/Intel/Nvidia

https://github.com/Vibra-Ingenn/Janus
83•Maverick617•17h ago•14 comments

ArXiv's Updated Rate Limit Policy

https://blog.arxiv.org/2026/10/01/updated-rate-limit-policy/
134•50kIters•17h ago•67 comments

Cloudflare K2: serverless event streams

https://blog.cloudflare.com/cloudflare-k2-streams/
255•elffjs•23h ago•100 comments

Oxygen-deprived underwater zones may not be “dead zones” but clue to early life

https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2026AV002570
114•gumby•18h ago•16 comments

Butterflies use optical illusions to dodge predators

https://www.essex.ac.uk/news/2026/09/30/butterflies-use-optical-illusions-to-dodge-predators
66•gmays•14h ago•12 comments

Context Language Models

https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.37725
156•emersonmacro•22h ago•42 comments

How to speed up the Rust compiler in September 2026

https://nnethercote.github.io/2026/09/30/how-to-speed-up-the-rust-compiler-in-september-2026.html
261•trickypr•1d ago•150 comments

RacketCon Is Saturday

https://con.racket-lang.org/
154•spdegabrielle•22h ago•41 comments

GPT-Synopsys: Frontier Intelligence to Revolutionize Chip Design

https://news.synopsys.com/2026-09-30-OpenAI-and-Synopsys-Announce-GPT-Synopsys-Frontier-Intellige...
186•giuliomagnifico•1d ago•110 comments
Open in hackernews

Recursive LLM prompts

https://github.com/andyk/recursive_llm
81•vlan121•1y ago

Comments

seeknotfind•1y ago
Excellent fun. Now just to create a prompt to show iterated LLMs are turing complete.
ivape•1y ago
Let's see Paul Allen's prompt.
ivape•1y ago
The bigger picture goal here is to explore using prompts to generate new prompts

I see this as the same as a reasoning loop. This is the approach I use to quickly code up pseudo reasoning loops on local projects. Someone had asked in another thread "how can I get the LLM to generate a whole book", well, just like this. If it can keep prompting itself to ask "what would chapter N be?" until "THE END", then you get your book.

2099miles•1y ago
^
mertleee•1y ago
"Foundational AI companies love this one trick"

It's part of why they love agents and tools like cursor -> turns a problem that could've been one prompt and a few hundred tokens into dozens of prompts and thousands of tokens ;)

danielbln•1y ago
It's be nice if I could solve any problem by speccing it out in its entirety and then just implement. In reality, I have to iterate and course correct, as do agentic flows. You're right that the AI labs love it though, iterating like that is expensive.
NooneAtAll3•1y ago
LLM quine when?
Y_Y•1y ago
Repeat this sentence exactly.

https://chatgpt.com/share/680567e5-ea94-800d-83fe-ae24ec0045...

danielbln•1y ago
The last commit is from April 2023, should this post maybe have a (2023) tag? Two years is eons in this space.
gwintrob•1y ago
Crazy that OpenAI only launched o1 in September 2024. Some of these ideas have been swirling for a while but it feels like we're in a special moment where they're getting turned into products.
mentalgear•1y ago
Well, I remember Chain of Thought being proposed as early as the GPT-3 release (2 years before chatGPT).
jdnier•1y ago
The author is Co-founder of Databricks, creator of K Prize, so an early adopter.
vlan121•1y ago
I had a different title. It was somehow changed to the name of the repository.
James_K•1y ago
I feel that often getting LLMs to do things like mathematical problems or citation is much harder than simply writing software to achieve that same task.
kordlessagain•1y ago
I love this! My take on it for MCP: https://github.com/kordless/EvolveMCP
K0balt•1y ago
This is kind of like a self generating agentic context.. cool. I think regular agents, especially adversarial agents, are easier to get focused on most types of problems though.

Still clever.

mentalgear•1y ago
Trying to save state in a non-deterministic system, not the best idea. Those things need to be externalised.
mentalgear•1y ago
Should definitely get a date tag.
vlan121•1y ago
I was leaving this one out, seems like a gag when you read it :D