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Cloud in a Bottle: making self-hosting accessible to everyone

https://cloudinabottle.org/blog/launch-post
286•zplizzi•6h ago•125 comments

The revolt of the reader

https://bcantrill.dtrace.org/2026/09/05/the-revolt-of-the-reader/
253•chmaynard•8h ago•97 comments

The ColorChecker, photography's most important 24 squares, turns 50

https://www.dpreview.com/news/the-colorchecker-photographys-most-important-24-squares-turns-50/
28•sohkamyung•4d ago•4 comments

OpenBSD Stories: Strange Medieval Devices

http://miod.online.fr/software/openbsd/stories/smd.html
34•zdw•3d ago•8 comments

GPT-6 Astra on robot arms

https://openai.robocurve.org/gpt-6-astra/
134•Anon84•4h ago•88 comments

Chrome again exempts Google from user site data settings

https://lapcatsoftware.com/articles/2026/9/1.html
251•ExMachina73•6h ago•38 comments

Learn Programming with OCaml

https://usr.lmf.cnrs.fr/lpo/
224•elvis70•13h ago•83 comments

Private German rocket makes history, reaches orbit from European soil

https://www.space.com/space-exploration/launches-spacecraft/isar-aerospace-second-launch-norway-a...
478•bookmtn•9h ago•251 comments

The "$60 Gaming PC" – AMD BC-250 (2025)

https://devquasar.com/hardware/the-60-gaming-pc-amd-bc-250/
324•networked•16h ago•97 comments

Discovery of a new OpenAI agent message board

https://collusion.wiki/
2159•moultano•1d ago•1533 comments

Actively exploited sandbox RCE in all Chromium versions

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/cve-2026-85046
765•negura•1d ago•454 comments

RecurseCenter.return()

https://mm-dev.rocks/series/recursecenter.return/
37•evakhoury•4d ago•3 comments

Nitter has more working instances than before the takedowns

https://codeberg.org/mv12star/shitter/wiki/Instances
659•Cider9986•1d ago•319 comments

Visualizing Rust's Vtables: How dyn Trait Works In Memory

https://sofiabelen.github.io/projects/visualizing-rusts-vtables-how-dyn-trait-works-in-memory/
157•torutofu•16h ago•29 comments

LLMs as a Cognitive Virus

https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.03344
242•canjobear•10h ago•184 comments

Topologist's Map of the World

https://www.futilitycloset.com/2026/09/01/small-world-20/
65•beardyw•4d ago•20 comments

How Swiss tables work in Go built-in map

https://victoriametrics.com/blog/go-swiss-table-map/index.html
63•valyala•2d ago•4 comments

Finite time blowup for an averaged three-dimensional Navier-Stokes equation (2014)

https://terrytao.wordpress.com/2014/02/04/finite-time-blowup-for-an-averaged-three-dimensional-na...
66•gmays•9h ago•34 comments

Delidded Intel I9-14900KS CT Scan

https://www.lttlabs.com/articles/2026/09/02/delidded-intel-i9-14900ks
89•willx86•3d ago•4 comments

Music Theory for Programmers

https://runjs.app/blog/music-theory-for-programmers
21•birdculture•3d ago•3 comments

AMD Based FreeBSD Desktop Reloaded

https://vermaden.wordpress.com/2026/09/06/amd-based-freebsd-desktop-reloaded/
9•vermaden•3h ago•0 comments

Balrogg: Demonically compacting (up to 15%) lossless Vorbis/Opus recompressor

https://github.com/iczelia/balrogg
75•palaiologos•2d ago•10 comments

AI, Tools and Transformation

https://www.ben-evans.com/benedictevans/2026/9/3/ai-tools-and-transformation
18•firexcy•3h ago•6 comments

Terpstra Keyboard

http://terpstrakeyboard.com/
127•cl3misch•19h ago•58 comments

Show HN: Fly By – retro biplane flying game

https://michaelteter.com/flyby.html
71•michaelteter•4d ago•46 comments

Statichost.eu – European static site hosting

https://www.statichost.eu/
458•p4bl0•1d ago•208 comments

OKF Agent Memory – Git-native persistent memory for AI coding agents

https://github.com/okf-memory/okf-agent-memory
60•okf_memory•7h ago•18 comments

Can AI design circuit boards yet?

https://eebench.org/blog/can-ai-design-circuit-boards-yet/
400•iopapa•1d ago•213 comments

Stopping the Unstoppable: When an unstoppable force meets a dashpot snubber

https://practical.engineering/blog/2026/9/1/stopping-the-unstoppable
62•crescit_eundo•4d ago•7 comments

ISAR Aerospace 5 Sept Mission Onward and Upward

https://isaraerospace.com/mission-updates-overview
32•t43562•10h ago•4 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