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AWS Acquires DuckDB

https://ducklabs.com/news/2026/08/26/ducklabs-to-join-aws
582•onderkalaci•3h ago•148 comments

GLM-5.3-Flash

https://z.ai/blog/glm-5.3-flash
314•Philpax•1h ago•131 comments

Disruption with Some GitHub Services

https://www.githubstatus.com/incidents/hcbtzksccj2f
71•blimmer•42m ago•39 comments

Qwen3.8-Flash-Next: A New Architecture, Towards Ultimate Cost-Efficiency

https://qwen.ai/blog?id=qwen3.8-flash-next
333•tosh•3h ago•103 comments

Nebula Sans

https://www.nebulasans.com
62•GavinAnderegg•58m ago•26 comments

Taylor Farms: How One Company's Reach Became a National Risk

https://farmaction.us/taylorfarmsreport/
57•speckx•1h ago•21 comments

WebMCP: Teaching Your Website to Talk to AI Agents

https://sreenathmenon.com/blog/2026-08-04-webmcp-teaching-websites-to-talk-to-ai-agents/
31•sreenathmenon•1h ago•25 comments

GLM-5.3-Flash Intelligence, Performance and Price Analysis

https://artificialanalysis.ai/models/glm-5-3-flash
38•theanonymousone•1h ago•8 comments

France reaches 94.9% fiber coverage in 2026

https://cartefibre.arcep.fr
63•nehalem501•2h ago•15 comments

You could have invented PageRank

https://praveshkoirala.com/2026/08/26/you-could-have-invented-pagerank/
29•pkoird•1h ago•12 comments

Show HN: How much of Hacker News is AI?

https://hnstats.com
30•beekthos•1h ago•18 comments

RAG Is Simpler Than You Think

https://www.lighthousenewsletter.com/p/rag-is-simpler-than-you-think
304•j0selit0•7h ago•135 comments

It's so hard to finish an idea that is not yours (and suggested by AI)

https://www.ssp.sh/brain/using-obsidian-with-ai/
6•zazuke•32m ago•1 comments

Proliferate (YC S25) Is Hiring

https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/proliferate/jobs/OgpCKYJ-founding-product-engineer
1•pablo24602•4h ago

A curmudgeon tries a language server

https://entropicthoughts.com/curmudgeon-tries-language-server
55•crescit_eundo•3h ago•36 comments

A Citation to Asimov

https://www.bookandsword.com/2026/08/25/a-citation-to-asimov/
18•speckx•1h ago•1 comments

Twitter Viewer – View Twitter Without Account

https://twitterwebviewer.com/
95•motownphilly•1h ago•34 comments

How HN: Qisutu – an open-source, self-hosted ticketing and service desk

https://github.com/qisutu/qisutu
13•OFORK•1h ago•2 comments

AI Is a Harsh Mistress

https://cacm.acm.org/opinion/ai-is-a-harsh-mistress-on-anima-machina-herd-acceptance-and-the-poli...
46•fscaramuzza•2h ago•25 comments

AurionMail: E2EE suite (CryptPad/Stalwart) with single-password UX

https://github.com/AurionMail/docs
18•polo46•1h ago•0 comments

Oldinsurancemaps.net is now a Charter Project

https://openstreetmap.us/news/2026/08/oim-charter-project/
138•altilunium•7h ago•26 comments

Show HN: TexLite – A lightweight self-hosted LaTeX workspace

https://github.com/SWUFE-DB-Group/TexLite
6•thisispi•54m ago•0 comments

Take a Tour of SLAC

https://www6.slac.stanford.edu/public-tours
11•mooreds•1h ago•2 comments

Z.ai confirms Ox Alpha is a new GLM-series model and will release its weights

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-08-26/china-s-z-ai-made-ox-alpha-stealth-model-that-...
357•garo-pro•5h ago•128 comments

A Man Who Saw Humanity from Two Billion Years Away

https://thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/the-man-who-saw-humanity-from-two-billion-years-away/
15•samizdis•2h ago•1 comments

Stalking the Wily Hacker: 40 years later – Cliff Stoll [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=656058JxTM0
203•zoenolan•4d ago•69 comments

Radiation link in flight attendant's breast cancer, French court finds

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cn0j3z6147jo
26•dazhbog•4h ago•6 comments

11,000-year-old sculpture of man riding a leopard found in Turkey

https://www.thehistoryblog.com/archives/76809
16•speckx•2h ago•2 comments

Beyond Recall and the Illusion of Competence

https://var0.xyz/posts/beyond-recall-and-the-illusion-of-competence.html
65•tuxie_•5h ago•20 comments

Value Classes Still Need Compiler Sympathy

https://johan-sjolen.github.io/post/compiler-sympathy/compiler-sympathy/
69•lichtenberger•7h ago•35 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