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Apple introduces M6 and M5 Ultra

https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2026/08/apple-introduces-m6-and-m5-ultra-for-a-big-leap-in-perform...
990•interpol_p•14h ago•925 comments

FDA authorizes first wearable device that monitors ketone and blood sugar levels

https://www.fda.gov/news-events/press-announcements/fda-authorizes-first-wearable-device-continuo...
302•sunnynagra•7h ago•150 comments

The brain may be about to have its Ozempic moment

https://www.economist.com/science-and-technology/2026/08/11/the-brain-may-be-about-to-have-its-oz...
45•Anon84•2h ago•28 comments

OpenAI Jalapeño: Better than Nvidia Blackwell

https://newsletter.semianalysis.com/p/openai-jalapeno-better-than-nvidia
355•bmulholland•12h ago•248 comments

New Mac Studio with M5 Max and M5 Ultra

https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2026/08/apple-introduces-new-mac-studio-with-m5-max-and-m5-ultra/
713•interpol_p•14h ago•471 comments

Black hole singularity is a surface not a point

https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.21590
203•raattgift•10h ago•135 comments

When str.lower() is a security vulnerability in Python – Seth Larson

https://sethmlarson.dev/when-str-lower-is-a-security-vulnerability
76•rbanffy•6h ago•32 comments

New Mac mini, featuring M6 and M5 Pro

https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2026/08/apple-unveils-a-more-powerful-mac-mini-featuring-the-all-n...
445•runako•13h ago•272 comments

Maiao: Gerrit-style code review workflow for GitHub, GitLab, Gitea, others

https://github.com/runetes/maiao
37•zdw•4h ago•16 comments

C2PA Cameras Do Not Survive Contact with Reality

https://www.da.vidbuchanan.co.uk/blog/android-c2pa.html
91•Retr0id•7h ago•40 comments

Queryable Executables

https://fzakaria.com/2026/08/24/actually-queryable-executables
25•rguiscard•2h ago•3 comments

Show HN: TeXbrain, a LaTeX editor that runs pdfTeX in the browser via WASM

https://github.com/swimmingbrain/texbrain
56•swimmingbrain•4h ago•11 comments

Nitter and XCancel receive cease and desist notices

https://github.com/zedeus/nitter/issues/1442
688•Banditoz•9h ago•591 comments

Run OpenBSD on DigitalOcean for $4/month

https://nil.wallyjones.com/run-openbsd-on-digitalocean-for-4month/
133•speckx•9h ago•61 comments

Bomb fishing is wreaking havoc on Indonesia's coral reefs

https://e360.yale.edu/digest/bomb-fishing-coral-reefs
281•speckx•12h ago•145 comments

Building a backyard office, the build and cost breakdown

https://www.imkylelambert.com/articles/building-a-backyard-office-the-build-and-cost-breakdown
278•surprisetalk•12h ago•196 comments

Show HN: LatticeDB – Like SQLite but for graph databases

https://github.com/jeffhajewski/latticedb
118•smiths1999•10h ago•35 comments

Tooltips need a delay, and then they need to skip it

https://blog.master.dev/tooltips-need-a-delay-and-then-they-need-to-skip-it/
123•ibobev•10h ago•30 comments

Don't Wordle

https://dontwordle.com/
319•Hbruz0•15h ago•117 comments

Dolly Parton has died

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2026/aug/25/dolly-parton-country-singer-dead
1278•helsinkiandrew•9h ago•195 comments

Show HN: I made a Raspberry with Qwen my local car AI

https://github.com/ThinkOffApp/CarWatch
111•petruspennanen•11h ago•25 comments

My Friend Aaron

https://rorz.io/writing/my-friend-aaron
468•sarreph•10h ago•128 comments

Firefox 157 will include JPEG XL by default on all platforms

https://groups.google.com/a/mozilla.org/g/dev-platform/c/3YMV4MS34KA?pli=1
300•yboris•9h ago•79 comments

Clara (YC P26) is hiring a growth engineer to bring AI doctors to market

https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/clara-2/jobs/8snci6k-founding-full-stack-growth-engineer
1•gfavvas•9h ago

Letter from Dolly Parton to Eminem

https://twitter.com/Eminem/status/2092367272891310482
21•tibbar•54m ago•1 comments

A brief history of federal lift ticket regulation

https://zakpodmore.substack.com/p/a-brief-history-of-federal-lift-ticket
40•CGMthrowaway•7h ago•1 comments

Visualizing Binary Files

https://movq.de/blog/postings/2026-08-05/0/POSTING-en.html
88•zdw•1d ago•17 comments

Show HN: I built self-hosted deployment automation tool for Windows and IIS

https://fdeploy.com/
24•dt3ft•19h ago•10 comments

Python's pre-declared constants are kinda weird

https://sebsite.pw/w/20260801-pythonconstants.html
157•rbanffy•5h ago•147 comments

Tracking Costco gas prices

https://www.jack.bio/blog/costco-gas-tracking
88•lafond•1d ago•87 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