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Knowing When to Stop: The Art of Making a Loop Converge

https://a16z.com/knowing-when-to-stop-the-art-of-making-a-loop-converge/
14•gmays•58m ago

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ausbah•17m ago
i’m not trying to dismiss this article entirely as i did get value around from discussion around verifying

but this coming from a VC firm invested in token producing companies and quoting the “genius” behind openclaw makes me think this is just an psyop of over engineering to get ppl to blindly spend tokens on the LLM slot machine

datadrivenangel•15m ago
Put another token in the slop machine!
jdcaballerov•44s ago
Not really; looping is a requirement when there's an imperfect generator: LLMs. I read the article some days ago and included the citation in my own.

For a longer explanation why, here's mine:

https://memseek.ai/blog/the-loop-has-always-been-there/

Sha1rholder•8m ago
I failed to think of any polite words to express my feelings about this article.

Chinese robot beats Usain Bolt's 100M world record at Beijing games

https://www.reuters.com/sports/chinese-humanoid-robot-lightning-beats-human-100m-world-record-sta...
1•Markoff•1m ago•0 comments

Abah_chat – Persistent Memory Local Chatbot

https://github.com/john-abah/ABAH_CHAT
1•JA2026•1m ago•0 comments

The Singularity Is Post-Privacy

https://hollisrobbinsanecdotal.substack.com/p/the-singularity-is-post-privacy
1•HR01•1m ago•0 comments

Yam – Local AST-based plagiarism detector (MOSS, JPlag, Turnitin alternative)

https://gitlab.com/shamtech.ai/yam
1•jmresler•3m ago•0 comments

Three quarters of Indo-Pacific coral reefs could drown as sea levels rise

https://oceanographicmagazine.com/news/three-quarters-of-indo-pacific-coral-reefs-could-drown-as-...
1•littlexsparkee•3m ago•0 comments

A Hustler's Way – Multiplayer mafia browser game with live economies

https://hustlersway-ten.vercel.app/login
1•YGhosty•5m ago•0 comments

The Fragility of Self-Improving Agents: Variance, Task Order

https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.18066
1•jdcaballerov•6m ago•0 comments

The search for consciousness inside LLMs

https://www.economist.com/interactive/briefing/2026/08/20/the-search-for-consciousness-inside-llms
1•samizdis•9m ago•0 comments

Oura rings unable to measure any signals needed to assess sleep quality / stages

https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/21/oura-faces-lawsuit-accusing-it-of-misleading-consumers-about-sl...
1•cwwc•10m ago•0 comments

The importance of teaching students what AI can't do

https://theconversation.com/the-importance-of-teaching-students-what-ai-cant-do-286100
5•billybuckwheat•13m ago•0 comments

DeepSeek's Price Increase Goes Beyond GPU Costs

https://blog.chuanxilu.net/en/posts/2026/08/deepseek-price-increase-beyond-gpu/
1•gmays•15m ago•0 comments

Books That Will Change the Way You Look at the World

https://ardentlyhuman.substack.com/p/20-books-that-changes-perspective
1•theanonymousone•21m ago•0 comments

Slide-deck.io: remixable decks and MCP so Claude returns a live URL (gantt too)

https://slide-deck.io/
1•mortondigital•23m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Oxbow, a dynamic tiling window manager for the Wayland compositor River

https://oxbow-wm.readthedocs.io/en/latest/
2•3L0C•25m ago•0 comments

If Machines Could Talk

https://american-innocence.com/p/if-machines-could-talk
2•AnnaGat•27m ago•0 comments

Mortal Limits, Humans Minds

https://american-innocence.com/p/mortal-limits-humans-minds
1•AnnaGat•28m ago•0 comments

Response of epigenetic aging biomarkers to longevity interventions in humans

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591-026-04562-9
2•bookofjoe•29m ago•0 comments

Where are people finding GPU capacity?

3•adilhafeez•29m ago•1 comments

Tracking the cost of Donald Trump's tariffs

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3•vinni2•29m ago•0 comments

Delve

https://netwars.pelicancrossing.net/2026/08/21/delve/
1•ColinWright•30m ago•0 comments

My Ultimate Affordable Adventure Bikepacking Setup After 1 Year and 10.000kms

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MbBUZPkjopc
1•conferza•32m ago•0 comments

Yeast β-glucan supplementation supports immunometabolic anti-tumor responses

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2•OutOfHere•36m ago•1 comments

The software buyout wave is upon us

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2•RickJWagner•36m ago•0 comments

Oral therapy protected mice from lethal radiation while sparing cancer treatment

https://medicalxpress.com/news/2026-08-oral-therapy-mice-lethal-cancer.html
2•mdp2021•37m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Locum – Grok Bot delegates tasks to Claude/Codex CLI on your machine

https://github.com/HarjjotSinghh/locum
1•harjjotsinghh•38m ago•0 comments

The Wright Brothers Didn't Learn by Crashing

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1•julienreszka•38m ago•1 comments

Show HN: Rmd – lightweight reminder daemon and CLI for Linux

https://github.com/PaulBunch/rmd
1•PaulBunch•42m ago•0 comments

Portland area leaders are dismantling a third of the homeless shelter system

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2•petethomas•44m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Cloudflare Workers boilerplate for your bidding site

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2•buildItN0w_•45m ago•1 comments

Ingo Swann

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ingo_Swann
2•softwaredoug•45m ago•0 comments