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What Happened to HackerOne?

https://blog.teknogeek.io/posts/what-happened-to-hackerone/
87•hipparchus•1h ago•26 comments

How I use LLMs to learn complex topics

https://laurentiugabriel.github.io/blog/articles/how-i-use-llms-to-learn/
495•laurentiurad•8h ago•279 comments

Turn satellite imagery into a paper globe you fold yourself

https://foldingglobes.com/
17•dango2506•1h ago•2 comments

How We Pushed CDC into Postgres

https://www.snowflake.com/en/blog/engineering/postgres-to-snowflake-replication-mirroring/
48•craigkerstiens•3h ago•6 comments

Ask HN: What are you working on? (August 2026)

200•david927•10h ago•713 comments

Taxi drivers rarely die of Alzheimer's

https://theconversation.com/taxi-drivers-rarely-die-of-alzheimers-how-complex-mental-maps-and-spa...
216•jader201•12h ago•163 comments

Picophysics: Single file physics for games on platforms like N64, PSX, DC

https://gitlab.com/Kazade/picophysics
30•klaussilveira•4d ago•8 comments

Tuxedo No. 2 – Cocktail recipes

https://tuxedono2.com
66•smartmic•7h ago•15 comments

Cool URIs Don't Change (1998)

https://www.w3.org/Provider/Style/URI
206•Klaster_1•13h ago•50 comments

New Zealand lost its music media, and what we're building to replace it

https://propelmusic.co.nz/articles/the-sound-went-quiet-nz-music-media
92•berghoffer•7h ago•52 comments

"The Persian MâR-Nâmeh Or, the Book for Taking Omens from Snakes" (1892)

https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/marnameh/
41•Thevet•3d ago•4 comments

ATProto for Distributed Systems Engineers

https://atproto.com/articles/atproto-for-distsys-engineers
22•LelouBil•3d ago•3 comments

The tragedy of the commons, AI edition

https://www.economist.com/britain/2026/08/06/the-tragedy-of-the-commons-ai-edition
88•simonpure•8h ago•53 comments

Andrew Wiles on proving Fermat’s Last Theorem (1995) [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GS7CxAtV5Ks
41•jackdoe•3d ago•29 comments

OpenChamber: An Agentic Development Environment

https://openchamber.dev/
120•hexomancer•10h ago•66 comments

Everything you do is being recorded

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/2026/05/ai-wearable-surveillance-countermeasures/687203/
237•ike_usawa•16h ago•190 comments

Japanese court overturns Red RAW video patent

https://www.dpreview.com/news/panasonic-did-what-apple-sony-and-nikon-couldnt-overturn-a-red-raw-...
66•anigbrowl•3h ago•11 comments

The German Mittelstand

https://kieranvelasquez.substack.com/p/on-the-german-mittelstand
20•Michelangelo11•3d ago•3 comments

Touring the Consensus, Six Months In

https://theconsensus.dev/blog/2026/08/05/touring-the-consensus-six-months-in.html
15•tosh•3d ago•0 comments

Windows 11's built-in Weather app wastes more than 1 GB of RAM

https://www.notebookcheck.net/Windows-11-s-built-in-Weather-app-wastes-more-than-1-GB-of-RAM.1364...
421•akyuu•13h ago•349 comments

Reviving a four year old reMarkable 2

https://oskrim.github.io/hardware/2026/08/09/remarkable-over-ssh.html
134•oskrim•16h ago•88 comments

Show HN: A Project Oberon System version running on RISC-V instead of RISC-5

https://github.com/rochus-keller/OberonSystem/tree/op2-rv32
108•Rochus•15h ago•16 comments

The Ambition Project

https://www.betonit.ai/p/the-ambition-project
14•herbertl•4h ago•1 comments

How Golden Is Silence, Actually?

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2026/08/10/silence-kate-mcloughlin-book-review
47•tintinnabula•3d ago•24 comments

Memelang: Token-Terse Query Language

https://memelang.net/11/
8•bri-holt•3d ago•1 comments

Taylor Farms recalls salsa and guacamole over salmonella risk

https://www.cnbc.com/2026/08/09/taylor-farms-recalls-salsa-and-guacamole-over-salmonella-risk.html
13•cramer4next•1h ago•0 comments

The Alpha 21264 CPU: NT's Greatest RISC (1998)

https://halfhill.com/byte/1998-12_alpha.html
89•Lammy•18h ago•73 comments

I made tinnitus my friend, then it disappeared [video]

https://mynoise.net/vlog.php?ep=20260803
90•gregsadetsky•9h ago•72 comments

John C. Lilly on solid state intelligence and the elimination of man (1978)

https://kibotronics.net/unlisted/lilly-machines/
133•Kiboneu•14h ago•99 comments

Human vs. AI – Diff-based line-level provenance for text under agentic editing

https://github.com/eighttrigrams/us-vs-them
46•eighttrigrams•12h ago•12 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