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iCloud+ Hide My Email addresses will remain on icloud.com

https://developer.apple.com/news/?id=1ptvdtcm
247•K7PJP•4h ago•56 comments

Xiaomi: New CPU matches Apple cores single threaded, much faster multithreaded

https://twitter.com/lemire/status/2091894299289874926
739•tosh•11h ago•502 comments

MS Paint and Photos inivisibly watermark even locally generated output with GUID

https://xusheng.dev/posts/reversing/mspaint_invisible_watermark/main/
573•ComputerGuru•11h ago•230 comments

Moon (2024)

https://ciechanow.ski/moon/
111•simonebrunozzi•4h ago•20 comments

How Universities Should Prepare Founders

https://paulgraham.com/prepare.html
23•gmays•51m ago•12 comments

The entire city of San Francisco as a video game

https://sf.thijs.gg/
359•centrosphere•9h ago•122 comments

How Europe is killing makers and micro-entrepreneurs

https://lectronz.com/u/lectronz/articles/how-europe-is-killing-makers-and-micro-entrepreneurs
1079•l-one-lone•13h ago•666 comments

Bookshelf – Self-hosted eBook library that runs on object storage

https://github.com/murerkinn/bookshelf
36•arbayi•3h ago•13 comments

Where did all the public bathrooms go?

https://daily.jstor.org/where-did-all-the-public-bathrooms-go/
165•herbertl•9h ago•333 comments

Jabber/XMPP: 25 Years of Digital Independence

https://gultsch.de/posts/25-years-of-digital-independence/
175•inputmice•10h ago•67 comments

Vintage Artificial Intelligence: Before It Got Awkward

https://blog.archive.org/2026/08/16/vintage-artificial-intelligence-before-it-got-awkward/
56•signor_bosco•5h ago•13 comments

Octopus intelligence may be related to never-before-seen mutation

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/why-are-some-octopuses-so-smart-the-answer-might-lie-in...
86•bookofjoe•8h ago•57 comments

IPFS Maintainers Winding Down

https://ipshipyard.com/blog/2026-the-end-of-ipfs-at-shipyard/
331•iand•10h ago•165 comments

Oceans hit highest temperature on record

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c62m4gpnp78o
415•tcp_handshaker•7h ago•330 comments

LLMs could control their host machines by exploiting inference engines

https://boydkane.com/essays/llms-could-control-their-host-machines-by-exploiting-inference-engines
97•zdw•7h ago•51 comments

One corner of China’s internet is insisting that the Tang Dynasty never existed

https://www.cnn.com/2026/08/19/style/china-tang-dynasty-never-existed-hoax-intl-hnk
132•related•5h ago•111 comments

Peppermint oil reduces blood pressure by 8.48 mmHg in small study

https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0344538
94•brandonb•11h ago•66 comments

Hot Chips 2026: CUDA Targets RISC-V – By Chester Lam

https://chipsandcheese.com/p/hot-chips-2026-cuda-targets-risc
80•rbanffy•9h ago•10 comments

SeL4 security proofs now complete on AArch64

https://proofcraft.systems/news-2026/#2026-08-21
172•snvzz•14h ago•38 comments

Show HN: PicoMQ – Durable Streams over HTTP, on object storage

https://picomq.com/
98•adesh_nalpet•10h ago•18 comments

Removed all counters, replies, following/ers, timestamps, from textlog

https://textlog.cc/post/2059
60•stagas•7h ago•24 comments

I were 17, I'd learn how to build LLMs from scratch

https://twitter.com/paulg/status/2091544343589060625
516•bilsbie•1d ago•608 comments

Autostep (YC P26) Is Hiring AI/Fullstack Engineers and a Chief of Staff

https://app.dover.com/Autostep/careers/e9510e3b-a854-4e48-9e5d-c89796acaed4
1•adawg4•8h ago

OpenAI: GPT 5.6 Sol price reduction (until at least Nov 21)

https://developers.openai.com/api/docs/pricing
300•tosh•11h ago•271 comments

What languages are agent skills written in?

https://plicara.ai/research/agent-skill-languages/
11•3Mathematicians•1h ago•2 comments

Coding expertise is going to collapse from AI reliance

https://larsfaye.com/articles/ai-coding-will-prevent-expertise
477•larsfaye•10h ago•468 comments

Show HN: A techno machine in one HTML file, with verifiable renders

https://ssx360.github.io/rack-02/?src=hn
176•ssx360•13h ago•31 comments

Anger, Anxiety and Agency

https://lucumr.pocoo.org/2026/8/24/anger-anxiety-agency/
102•lumpa•7h ago•113 comments

Show HN: GlassBox – what the browser reveals, and how identifiable you are

https://glassbox.codecanary.org
100•tke248•10h ago•49 comments

Codefloe Is a Professionally Hosted Public Git Forge

https://codefloe.com/
55•jeremyjh•11h ago•24 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