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How Mark Klein told the EFF about Room 641A [book excerpt]

https://thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/the-whistleblower-who-uncovered-the-nsas-big-brother-machine/
570•the-mitr•15h ago•187 comments

For Linux kernel vulnerabilities, there is no heads-up to distributions

https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2026/04/30/10
472•ori_b•15h ago•361 comments

New copy of earliest poem in English, written 1,3k years ago, discovered in Rome

https://www.tcd.ie/news_events/articles/2026/caedmons-hymn-discovery/
42•giuliomagnifico•1d ago•6 comments

Opus 4.7 knows the real Kelsey

https://www.theargumentmag.com/p/i-can-never-talk-to-an-ai-anonymously
329•ilamont•1d ago•168 comments

Shai-Hulud Themed Malware Found in the PyTorch Lightning AI Training Library

https://semgrep.dev/blog/2026/malicious-dependency-in-pytorch-lightning-used-for-ai-training/
388•j12y•15h ago•133 comments

Softmax, can you derive the Jacobian? And should you care?

https://idlemachines.co.uk/essays/softmax
26•smaddrellmander•3d ago•1 comments

Roboticist-Turned-Teacher Built a Life-Size Replica of Eniac

https://spectrum.ieee.org/roboticist-turned-teacher-eniac-replica
26•oldnetguy•1d ago•6 comments

Apple Says Mac Studio and Mac Mini Will Be in Short Supply for Months

https://www.macrumors.com/2026/04/30/mac-studio-mac-mini-constrained-months/
60•tosh•1h ago•37 comments

CPanel and WHM Authentication Bypass – CVE-2026-41940

https://labs.watchtowr.com/the-internet-is-falling-down-falling-down-falling-down-cpanel-whm-auth...
94•zikani_03•9h ago•31 comments

Can I disable all data collection from my vehicle?

https://rivian.com/support/article/can-i-disable-all-data-collection-from-my-vehicle
611•Cider9986•11h ago•246 comments

I built a Game Boy emulator in F#

https://nickkossolapov.github.io/fame-boy/building-a-game-boy-emulator-in-fsharp/
267•elvis70•14h ago•60 comments

Claude Code refuses requests or charges extra if your commits mention "OpenClaw"

https://twitter.com/theo/status/2049645973350363168
1122•elmean•17h ago•611 comments

How an oil refinery works

https://www.construction-physics.com/p/how-an-oil-refinery-works
407•chmaynard•18h ago•124 comments

Maladaptive Frugality

https://herbertlui.net/maladaptive-frugality/
85•herbertl•2d ago•65 comments

Using a 1978 terminal in 2026 (DEC VT-100)

https://nikhiljha.com/posts/vt100/
26•ninjha•2d ago•6 comments

It’s Toasted

https://yadin.com/notes/toasted/
24•dryadin•1h ago•14 comments

You can beat the binary search

https://lemire.me/blog/2026/04/27/you-can-beat-the-binary-search/
307•vok•3d ago•139 comments

OpenWarp

https://openwarp.zerx.dev
81•zero-lab•5h ago•69 comments

New mechanical panoramic film camera from Jeff Bridges

https://wideluxx.com
131•armadsen•2d ago•63 comments

Reverse Engineering SimTower

https://phulin.me/blog/simtower
185•patrickhulin•2d ago•36 comments

I Got Sick of Remembering Port Numbers

https://gregraiz.com/blog/local-vibe/
80•graiz•2d ago•70 comments

Snowball Earth may hide a far stranger climate cycle than anyone expected

https://sciencex.com/news/2026-04-snowball-earth-stranger-climate.html
77•wglb•9h ago•21 comments

Belgium stops decommissioning nuclear power plants

https://dpa-international.com/general-news/urn:newsml:dpa.com:20090101:260430-930-14717/
802•mpweiher•19h ago•805 comments

Full-Text Search with DuckDB

https://peterdohertys.website/blog-posts/full-text-search-w-duckdb.html
127•ethagnawl•13h ago•30 comments

Honker – Durable queues, streams, pub/sub, and cron scheduler in a SQLite file

https://honker.dev/
212•ferriswil•17h ago•53 comments

10Gb/s Ethernet: what I did to get it working in my home

https://www.gilesthomas.com/2026/04/10g-ethernet-what-i-did
196•gpjt•1d ago•137 comments

I aggregated 28 US Government auction sites into one search

https://bidprowl.com
275•scarsam•19h ago•77 comments

Does Postgres Scale?

https://www.dbos.dev/blog/benchmarking-workflow-execution-scalability-on-postgres
126•KraftyOne•13h ago•57 comments

Show HN: Winpodx – run Windows apps on Linux as native windows

https://github.com/kernalix7/winpodx
73•kernalix7•5h ago•37 comments

The Church Rock Uranium Mill Spill

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Church_Rock_uranium_mill_spill
94•Sir_Twist•2d ago•5 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