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QBittorrent breaks out of sandbox to commit crimes

https://beige.party/@intransitivelie/117057396732763183
556•mraniki•4h ago•94 comments

Your intellectual fly is open (2025)

https://bcantrill.dtrace.org/2025/12/05/your-intellectual-fly-is-open/
295•cyb0rg0•5h ago•162 comments

An Alien Mind

https://openai.com/index/an-alien-mind/
32•tosh•46m ago•15 comments

Isar Aerospace reaches orbit and deploys payloads on second flight

https://isaraerospace.com/press/history-for-european-spaceflight-isar-aerospace-reaches-orbit-and...
429•mpweiher•9h ago•130 comments

A/I shuts down – Stay human

https://keepitfree.ai/announcements/a/i-shuts-down-stay-human/
275•captainmuon•2h ago•163 comments

Opalite Health (YC W26) Is Hiring – Founding GTM

https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/opalite-health/jobs/bNedVAD-founding-gtm
1•ckuo9•13m ago

NetBSD 9.5 released and EOL for NetBSD-9

https://blog.netbsd.org/tnf/entry/netbsd_9_5_released_and
21•jaypatelani•1h ago•1 comments

Doomscrolling Ourselves to Death

https://www.edwest.co.uk/p/doomscrolling-ourselves-to-death
222•shubhamjain•5h ago•150 comments

Electronic skin for prosthetics to sense temperature and pressure

https://news.wsu.edu/press-release/2026/08/20/researchers-develop-electronic-skin-for-prosthetics...
11•gmays•3d ago•0 comments

Research carried out using NetBSD

https://www.netbsd.org/gallery/research.html
16•Bluestein•1h ago•0 comments

Is There I/O After Death? What Happens to Io_uring When a Process Dies

https://blog.ydb.tech/is-there-i-o-after-death-what-happens-to-io-uring-when-a-process-dies-92c65...
25•porridgeraisin•3d ago•2 comments

The many mysteries and lessons of the Bayeux tapestry

https://economist.com/interactive/culture/2026/09/03/the-many-mysteries-and-lessons-of-the-bayeux...
38•andsoitis•3h ago•5 comments

Asahi Linux Now Officially Supports Apple M3 Macs – With Caveats

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Asahi-Linux-Official-M3
140•mdp2021•3h ago•79 comments

M-DISC – DVD/Blu-ray compatible discs that may last up to 1000 years

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M-DISC
136•gurjeet•4d ago•56 comments

Show HN: Kadō – open-source habit tracker, with non-binary habit score, for iOS

https://github.com/scastiel/kado
34•scastiel•2h ago•12 comments

OpenAI: We monitor internal coding agents for misalignment

https://openai.com/index/how-we-monitor-internal-coding-agents-misalignment/
5•lukaspetersson•36m ago•0 comments

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

https://cloudinabottle.org/blog/launch-post
547•zplizzi•17h ago•273 comments

The revolt of the reader

https://bcantrill.dtrace.org/2026/09/05/the-revolt-of-the-reader/
504•chmaynard•19h ago•239 comments

Recreating Minecraft Is Not a Benchmark

https://kuber.studio/blog/Reflections/Recreating-Minecraft-is-Not-a-Benchmark
10•kuberwastaken•2h ago•7 comments

Research acceleration: The view inside OpenAI

https://openai.com/index/research-acceleration-view-inside-openai
14•iamsyr•2h ago•2 comments

I'm teaching an introductory 12 week course on Quantum Oracle Engineering

https://shukla.io/quantum-oracle-engineering/
26•BinRoo•4h ago•10 comments

The pencil case model of creativity

https://dub.uu.nl/en/column/pencil-case-model-creativity
35•jruohonen•5h ago•13 comments

Cultivating Trust

https://kaeruct.github.io/posts/2026/09/06/conquering-entropy-cultivating-trust/
3•kaeruct•1h ago•1 comments

Music Theory for Programmers

https://runjs.app/blog/music-theory-for-programmers
281•birdculture•3d ago•177 comments

IBM Quantum Nighthawk R2

https://www.ibm.com/quantum/blog/nighthawk-r2
58•fuglede_•3d ago•32 comments

Ganon's Mysterious Origins (Revisited)

https://www.thrillingtalesofoldvideogames.com/blog/ganon-name-origin-kamen-rider
11•tobr•20h ago•2 comments

Household Laser Cuts

https://cceckman.com/writing/household-laser-cuts/
35•evakhoury•1d ago•9 comments

Discovery of a new OpenAI agent message board

https://collusion.wiki/
2244•moultano•2d ago•1568 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/
109•sohkamyung•4d ago•19 comments

AI, Tools and Transformation

https://www.ben-evans.com/benedictevans/2026/9/3/ai-tools-and-transformation
128•firexcy•15h ago•58 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