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Using the railway network as a flatbed scanner

https://philo.gay/linecam/
179•otherayden•2h ago•35 comments

Fixing a Bricked Framework Laptop

https://quantum5.ca/2026/08/16/fixing-bricked-amd-7040-series-framework-13-laptop-with-20-tools/
110•jp_sc•2h ago•45 comments

The Amazon Tax

https://seths.blog/2026/08/the-amazon-tax/
265•herbertl•2h ago•201 comments

Linux 7.3 improves performance when running out of vRAM

https://pixelcluster.dev/VRAM-Overcommit/
374•flaburgan•7h ago•144 comments

Python Polars Cheatsheet (based on our O'Reilly book)

https://opensource.posit.co/resources/cheatsheets/polars/
48•jeroenjanssens•1h ago•7 comments

Teaching my kid to code with a modern MUD

https://tau.dev/2026/08/07/canon
117•andrewjanke•6d ago•36 comments

Composable Tests

https://newsletter.kentbeck.com/p/composable-tests
29•vinipolicena•2h ago•20 comments

Fairphone is now officially available in the United States

https://www.fairphone.com/nl/stories/the-fairphone-gen-6-is-all-about-giving-you-more
163•Vinnl•2h ago•73 comments

An Engineer's Old Cooking Trick Is Going Viral, Divides the Internet

https://pleated-jeans.com/2026/08/15/engineers-forgotten-recipe-hack-viral-divides-internet/
20•alexandrehtrb•54m ago•8 comments

Babies born under sugar rationing grew into adults with lower cancer risk

https://theconversation.com/babies-born-under-sugar-rationing-grew-into-adults-with-lower-cancer-...
48•zeristor•1h ago•4 comments

Splitting a Git Commit

https://blog.gnoack.org/post/git-history-split
8•signa11•3d ago•3 comments

Google buys crashed airline Spirit's data at auction

https://www.theregister.com/ai-and-ml/2026/08/18/google-buys-crashed-airline-spirits-data-at-auct...
388•pseudolus•5h ago•262 comments

Meta Files Patent for Facial Recognition, Automatic Recording of People

https://www.privacyguides.org/news/2026/08/17/meta-files-patent-for-facial-recognition-automatic-...
129•DeepLogin•3h ago•86 comments

How Bluesky draws its logo on screenshots

https://timmarinin.net/2026/bluesky-screenshots/
637•gavide•17h ago•397 comments

Oxford Electric Bell

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxford_Electric_Bell
16•gurjeet•4d ago•1 comments

Code-native generation of highly programmable 3D assets (2026)

https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.22738
3•baigy•39m ago•1 comments

Deus Ex creator Warren Spector is retiring from game development

https://www.videogameschronicle.com/news/its-just-not-as-much-fun-for-me-anymore-deus-ex-creator-...
77•danbolt•2h ago•51 comments

Show HN: A local MitM proxy to control TLS fingerprints

https://github.com/ytkoka/impersonate-proxy
13•ytkoka•2h ago•1 comments

Finger: Social network that never died

https://en.andros.dev/blog/54572bc7/finger-the-1971-social-network-that-never-died/
108•andros•8h ago•34 comments

JPEG XL converter and .jxl viewer

https://jpegxlconvert.com/en/
3•El-Necora•48m ago•0 comments

Rethinking Database Programming

https://acadia.engineering/blog/rethinking-database-programming
163•honungsburk•8h ago•77 comments

Baking a Model: A Metaphor for LLM Training

https://newsletter.kentbeck.com/p/baking-a-model
20•KentBeck•3d ago•1 comments

Quake Shareware, a CD-ROM just a little too full

https://fabiensanglard.net/quake_shareware_cd/index.html
440•shdon•17h ago•189 comments

GPT-5.6 Sol Pricing Cut by 50%

https://openrouter.ai/openai/gpt-5.6-sol
576•Topfi•18h ago•377 comments

Israel creates fake think tank in likely attempt to dupe AI chatbots

https://responsiblestatecraft.org/israel-influence-chatgpt/
884•DeepLogin•18h ago•509 comments

Claude writing a macOS driver for my obscure HP printer built only for Windows

https://twitter.com/kuberwastaken/status/2089377982536388964
88•porridgeraisin•3h ago•26 comments

Fairphone 6 and PostmarketOS working main camera

https://catcrafts.net/posts/fairphone-6-postmarketos-working-main-camera
264•pizzaiolo•17h ago•66 comments

IBM Simon (1994): the original smartphone, explained in its own ad [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xoTFywZpPcc
69•kls0e•2d ago•34 comments

A Preview of DuckDB v2.0

https://duckdb.org/2026/08/17/duckdb-20-highlights
684•ibotty•1d ago•120 comments

The coolest anti-surveillance tools at Defcon [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-2uAsJ5EPAw
9•neom•45m ago•0 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