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Nvidia agrees to acquire Hugging Face for $13B

https://www.businessinsider.com/nvidia-in-talks-to-buy-hugging-face-13-billion-dollars-2026-8
516•mfiguiere•3h ago•229 comments

CEO fired developers to make room for AI. Developers create open source AI CEO

https://github.com/SenteLabsAI/OpenExecutive
202•GrumpySciGuy•2h ago•126 comments

Mechanical Turk shutting down September 30

https://www.mturk.com/
206•tmp10423288442•4h ago•69 comments

GLM-5.3-Flash

https://z.ai/blog/glm-5.3-flash
931•Philpax•14h ago•466 comments

Laion Big Video Dataset

https://projects.laion.ai/bvd/
26•ks2048•2h ago•2 comments

Asahi Linux Progress Report: Linux 7.2

https://asahilinux.org/2026/08/progress-report-7-2/
144•pizzaiolo•5h ago•31 comments

Kusama Yayoi Dies at 97

https://news.jp/i/1465528042000662661
73•phantomathkg•2h ago•6 comments

Tailcat – Like netcat, but over Tailscale’s data plane

https://github.com/tailscale/tailcat
505•nderjung•10h ago•94 comments

AWS Acquires DuckLabs

https://ducklabs.com/news/2026/08/26/ducklabs-to-join-aws
1007•onderkalaci•15h ago•297 comments

Worst-case glacial lake flood scenarios in a transboundary Himalayan basin 2022

https://nhess.copernicus.org/articles/22/3765/2022/nhess-22-3765-2022.html
100•totetsu•5h ago•43 comments

An ongoing 3D-printer AGPL violation

https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/1089390/46116614cc74b814/
346•Velocifyer•10h ago•153 comments

Zohran and the Short Link

https://iamwillwang.com/notes/zohran-and-the-short-link/
138•wxw•4h ago•42 comments

U.S. State Department pauses immigrant visa applications

https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/u-s-state-department-pauses-immigrant-visa-applications-25b31b23
361•sss111•11h ago•521 comments

Stripe acquires Clerky

https://www.clerky.com/blog/clerky-is-joining-stripe
105•zakshay•7h ago•20 comments

Qwen3.8-Flash-Next

https://qwen.ai/blog?id=qwen3.8-flash-next
648•tosh•15h ago•210 comments

The Hugging Face incident and the road ahead

https://openai.com/index/hugging-face-incident-and-the-road-ahead/
208•amrrs•9h ago•253 comments

Twitter Viewer – View Twitter Without Account

https://twitterwebviewer.com/
353•motownphilly•14h ago•169 comments

Actinide is first startup to produce high-assay low-enriched uranium (HALEU)

https://www.actinideinc.com/press/actinide-becomes-first-startup-to-ever-enrich-natural-uranium-t...
143•dsalzman•9h ago•75 comments

CoMaps: The Offline App That Guided Rescuers Without a Signal in Venezuela

https://hotosm.org/en/news/comaps-the-offline-app-that-guided-rescuers-without-a-signal-in-the-ve...
213•gedankenstuecke•11h ago•48 comments

GitHub Outage Tracker: Is GitHub Cooked?

https://isgithubcooked.com/
205•toomanyrichies•8h ago•129 comments

Humanity has the debate about AI consciousness backwards

https://economist.com/by-invitation/2026/08/20/humanity-has-the-debate-about-ai-consciousness-bac...
14•semiquaver•1h ago•10 comments

IBM Unveils Next Generation Dual-Architecture Processor for IBM Z and LinuxONE

https://newsroom.ibm.com/2026-08-24-ibm-unveils-next-generation-dual-architecture-processor-for-i...
102•porridgeraisin•7h ago•75 comments

FDA approves first in class targeted therapy for metastatic pancreatic cancer

https://www.fda.gov/news-events/press-announcements/fda-approves-first-class-targeted-therapy-met...
183•leopoldj•12h ago•43 comments

Serve Markdown to AI Agents with Accept Headers

https://acceptmarkdown.com/
106•tilt•8h ago•61 comments

Nebula Sans

https://www.nebulasans.com
366•GavinAnderegg•13h ago•136 comments

Mold: A Massively Parallel Linker

https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.23228
93•matt_d•7h ago•11 comments

Getting video models to learn better, faster

https://www.linum.ai/field-notes/data-filtering-gen-video
14•schopra909•2h ago•7 comments

The Harness Is the Thing

https://scott-fryxell.github.io/blog/the-harness-is-the-thing/
64•sfryxell•11h ago•20 comments

Taylor Farms: How One Company's Reach Became a National Risk

https://farmaction.us/taylorfarmsreport/
256•speckx•14h ago•169 comments

Launch HN: Risklytics (YC S26) – Insurance brokerage for frontier tech companies

https://www.risklytics.ai/
46•AlexRisio•12h ago•18 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