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I Stored a Website in a Favicon

https://www.timwehrle.de/blog/i-stored-a-website-in-a-favicon/
155•theanonymousone•5h ago•63 comments

Where to Find the Colors Your Screen Can't Show You

https://moultano.wordpress.com/2026/06/19/where-to-find-the-colors-your-screen-cant-show-you/
151•moultano•7h ago•36 comments

Data Compression Explained (2012)

https://mattmahoney.net/dc/dce.html
137•mtdewcmu•3d ago•17 comments

There are no instances in ATProto

https://overreacted.io/there-are-no-instances-in-atproto/
459•danabramov•20h ago•229 comments

Can you see three trees?

https://www.not-ship.com/can-you-see-three-trees/
133•Pamar•2d ago•78 comments

The discovery that changed how scientists think about memory

https://www.ibm.com/think/news/discovery-changed-how-scientists-think-about-memory-kavli-prize
62•rbanffy•3d ago•17 comments

GPT-5.5 hallucinates 3x more than MIT-licensed GLM-5.2

https://arrowtsx.dev/bigger-models/
208•oshrimpton•19h ago•67 comments

Surprising economics of load-balanced systems

https://brooker.co.za/blog/2020/08/06/erlang.html
119•KraftyOne•14h ago•29 comments

A 1969 camera operators' strike created Upstairs Downstairs multiverse

https://ironicsans.ghost.io/the-color-strike/
35•ohjeez•3d ago•10 comments

Hyundai buys Boston Dynamics

https://startupfortune.com/hyundai-takes-full-control-of-boston-dynamics-as-softbank-exits-for-32...
839•ck2•18h ago•365 comments

How many of the 170k English words do you know?

https://vocabowl-870366514258.us-west1.run.app/
386•abnry•21h ago•481 comments

Norway imposes near ban on AI in elementary school

https://www.reuters.com/technology/norway-imposes-near-ban-ai-elementary-school-2026-06-19/
691•ilreb•19h ago•484 comments

Project Valhalla, Explained: How a Decade of Work Arrives in JDK 28

https://www.jvm-weekly.com/p/project-valhalla-explained-how-a
598•philonoist•1d ago•376 comments

Soccer Arcade Games Through the Years

https://arcadeheroes.com/2026/06/13/world-cup-2026-soccer-arcade/
20•speckx•3d ago•6 comments

Bobby Prince, composer for Doom, Wolfenstein 3D, and Duke Nukem 3D, has died

https://www.legacy.com/legacy/robert-bobby-prince-lll
388•pgrote•15h ago•44 comments

Satellite reveals immense scale of GPS signal tampering

https://www.space.com/space-exploration/satellites/its-quite-a-bit-more-than-we-expected-satellit...
93•y1n0•7h ago•44 comments

A Perceptron in Age of Empires II

https://adewynter.github.io/notes/aoe2-circuits
83•EvgeniyZh•2d ago•31 comments

AURpocalypse now: a look at the recent AUR attacks

https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/1077619/f7b07c5489fdd43a/
87•jwilk•18h ago•58 comments

Egyptian Fractions (2006)

https://blog.plover.com/math/egyptian-fractions.html
99•luu•4d ago•9 comments

Visiting the History of Computing and Play

https://arbesman.substack.com/p/visiting-the-history-of-computing
5•surprisetalk•3d ago•0 comments

LLMs Are Complicated Now

https://ianbarber.blog/2026/06/19/llms-are-complicated-now/
24•matt_d•9h ago•2 comments

Zen and the Art of Machine Learning Research

https://blog.jxmo.io/p/zen-and-the-art-of-machine-learning
261•jxmorris12•4d ago•93 comments

John Jumper to join Anthropic

https://twitter.com/JohnJumperSci/status/2068001285173834106
143•artninja1988•17h ago•104 comments

Building a robotics research setup that lives next to my desk

https://dfdxlabs.com/research/2026/robotics-setup/
151•mplappert•1d ago•56 comments

Court Records Should Be Free

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/06/court-records-should-be-free
384•hn_acker•17h ago•83 comments

Show HN: Metiq: a real time 3D globe for 100 public datasets

https://metiq.space
127•rakeda•3d ago•35 comments

Telescope Ranchers

https://kottke.org/26/06/telescope-ranchers
126•bookofjoe•4d ago•49 comments

Digital Printing of Arabic: explaining the problem

https://digitalorientalist.com/2017/08/21/digital-printing-of-arabic-explaining-the-problem/
58•a_t48•3d ago•30 comments

Ten years of ClickHouse in open source

https://clickhouse.com/blog/open-source-10
310•saisrirampur•4d ago•89 comments

The AirPods Effect

https://www.theescapenewsletter.com/p/the-airpods-effect
419•herbertl•1d ago•726 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