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New paper shows that 37% of workers in US saw real wages decline from 2021-2024 [pdf]

https://bfi.uchicago.edu/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/BFI_WP_2026-108-1.pdf
239•jplusequalt•2h ago•115 comments

Meta's blockbuster trial draws parallels to big tobacco

https://www.economist.com/business/2026/08/18/metas-blockbuster-trial-draws-parallels-to-big-tobacco
45•newsomix9xl•1h ago•18 comments

OpenLogi

https://openlogi.org/en
52•amatheus•1h ago•7 comments

Cerebras CS-4

https://www.cerebras.ai/cs4
121•sunils34•3h ago•79 comments

A 3D fruit fly on macOS desktop powered by the real FlyWire connectome

https://github.com/DenisSergeevitch/desktop-fly
191•phoenix120•5h ago•51 comments

The Amazon tax

https://seths.blog/2026/08/the-amazon-tax/
990•herbertl•14h ago•573 comments

Solo – a .so loader for static Linux binaries

https://github.com/pg83/solo
67•zX41ZdbW•3h ago•69 comments

How does IKEA come up with names for its products?

https://www.ikea.com/se/en/customer-service/knowledge/articles/6f564c4d-2ccc-46de-b643-545a3948dc...
255•NaOH•9h ago•151 comments

Scientists stunned by children's lung recovery in ultra low emission zone

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c1l1r1zne1ro
54•dabinat•2h ago•27 comments

AI usage patterns in software teams

https://linear.app/data
65•giuliomagnifico•5h ago•30 comments

Turbovec – Google's TurboQuant for vector search in Rust

https://github.com/RyanCodrai/turbovec
213•fittingopposite•9h ago•30 comments

That Disgraceful, Disreputable, (Wonderful) Form of Punctuation: The Parenthesis

https://lithub.com/on-that-disgraceful-disreputable-wonderful-form-of-punctuation-the-parenthesis/
17•pseudolus•2h ago•2 comments

Palomar: A registry of Lean verified mathematics

https://terrytao.wordpress.com/2026/08/18/palomar-a-registry-of-lean-verified-mathematics/
6•matt_d•58m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Interactive, animated architecture of any HuggingFace models

https://modelmap.cc
44•lizhaoliu•3h ago•7 comments

Cursor launches Origin, GitHub alternative

https://cursor.com/changelog/origin-code-hosting
501•tomasreimers•1d ago•385 comments

Using the railway network as a flatbed scanner

https://philo.gay/linecam/
412•otherayden•14h ago•68 comments

CUDA Shared Memory Swizzling

https://leimao.github.io/blog/CUDA-Shared-Memory-Swizzling/
6•jxmorris12•5d ago•0 comments

Fixing a bricked Framework laptop

https://quantum5.ca/2026/08/16/fixing-bricked-amd-7040-series-framework-13-laptop-with-20-tools/
378•jp_sc•14h ago•258 comments

And then the men with guns tell you to do it anyway

https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2026/08/and-then-the-men-with-guns-tell-you-to-do-it-anyway/
200•_djo_•10h ago•114 comments

A 25-year-old video patent just expired, ending a legal headache for Linux

https://www.xda-developers.com/25-year-old-brazilian-video-patent-expired-legal-headache-linux/
113•theanonymousone•3d ago•41 comments

Memory prices climb 500% in 12 months

https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/ram/memory-prices-climb-500-percent-in-12-months-up-to...
517•haunter•1d ago•433 comments

Being ambitious and being a dad

https://nicholascharriere.com/blog/being-ambitious-and-being-a-dad/
337•nichochar•2d ago•204 comments

The 90-year history of the binoculars bolted to scenic overlooks

https://www.dpreview.com/news/the-90-year-history-of-the-binoculars-bolted-to-scenic-overlooks/
34•sohkamyung•4h ago•7 comments

Beware Management Consultants

https://about.iceland.co.uk/our-story/the-dark-ages/beware-management-consultants/
464•KolmogorovComp•8h ago•125 comments

Tiny satellite will use the dark side of the Moon as a shield

https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/tiny-satellite-will-use-the-dark-side-of-the-moon-to-eavesdro...
15•NordStreamYacht•2h ago•1 comments

Universal health coverage could save $1T and 114k lives a year: study

https://ysph.yale.edu/news-article/universal-health-coverage-could-save-one-trillion-dollars-and-...
757•karakoram•1d ago•826 comments

GLM-5.3 Artificial Analysis Benchmarks

https://artificialanalysis.ai/models/glm-5-3
94•apitman•5h ago•43 comments

Apple announces changes for apps in the European Union

https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2026/08/apple-announces-changes-for-apps-in-the-european-union/
126•newusertoday•11h ago•186 comments

Launch HN: machine0 (YC S26) – Persistent CPU and GPU VMs from the CLI

https://machine0.io
66•bwm•11h ago•41 comments

How a giant battery is transforming a town centre in Cannington, Ontario

https://betakit.com/how-a-giant-battery-is-transforming-a-town-centre-in-cannington-ontario/
25•builtbystef•4d ago•12 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