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Commodore 64 released September 1, 1982

https://dfarq.homeip.net/commodore-64-released-september-1-1982/
143•giuliomagnifico•3h ago•61 comments

Claude Fable 5.1 and Claude Mythos 5.1

https://www.anthropic.com/claude-fable-and-mythos-5-1
1304•denysvitali•18h ago•1223 comments

The Emergent Symbolic Structure of Artificial Neural Networks

https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.29530
187•schmuhblaster•8h ago•62 comments

It's OK to hardcode feature flags (2025)

https://code.mendhak.com/hardcode-feature-flags/
17•biscuits1•1h ago•11 comments

How accurate have Ed Zitron's AI skeptic predictions been?

https://danluu.com/zitron/
761•jatins•17h ago•833 comments

Quasar 438B: Europe's Leading AI Model

https://multiversecomputing.com/resources/introducing-quasar-438b-europe-s-leading-ai-model
18•amunozo•2h ago•2 comments

Fine, I'll build my own text editor

https://dbushell.com/2026/09/01/text-editor/
167•Alephinitesimal•19h ago•147 comments

You Know Who Hates AI? Insurance Claims Adjusters

https://www.wired.com/story/insurance-claims-adjusters-really-hate-ai/
47•joozio•2d ago•18 comments

FBI Probes Service Selling 153M+ Drivers Licenses

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2026/09/fbi-probes-service-selling-153m-drivers-licenses/
273•tatersolid•13h ago•139 comments

Open Battery Information

https://github.com/mnh-jansson/open-battery-information
24•toomuchtodo•3d ago•8 comments

Sweden pauses Denmark power cable over EU grid rules

https://www.nordiskpost.com/2026/05/08/sweden-power-cable-dispute-freezes-link-to-denmark/
33•leonidasrup•3h ago•18 comments

Introducing Ad Blocker for Firefox on iOS

https://blog.mozilla.org/en/firefox/ad-blocker-on-ios/
515•HieronymusBosch•22h ago•169 comments

Bugs happen: The easy way to compare solo PQ to ECC+PQ

https://blog.cr.yp.to/20260704-bugs.html
3•zdw•15h ago•0 comments

Telli (YC F24) is hiring engineers and designers [Berlin, on-site]

https://careers.telli.com/
1•sebselassie•3h ago

Why can't you combine .tar.gz files with cat?

https://alexwlchan.net/2026/cat-confusion/
7•surprisetalk•1d ago•5 comments

Sonic Pi

https://sonic-pi.net/
192•Bluestein•4d ago•44 comments

Show HN: Weedout – Safari extension that hides YouTube AI-labeled videos

https://masteranza.github.io/weedout/
157•masteranza•14h ago•70 comments

WebFPGA (2019)

https://webfpga.io/
92•gurjeet•8h ago•32 comments

The efficient frontier of LLM inference

https://www.baseten.co/blog/the-efficient-frontier-of-llm-inference/
132•philipkiely•12h ago•37 comments

My local model setup on an M4 Pro Mac Mini

https://lws.io/blog/my-local-model-setup/
240•raybb•13h ago•143 comments

Launch HN: Nori Robotics (YC S26) – A low-cost humanoid robot for development

https://www.norirobotics.com/
182•AntonioLi•18h ago•57 comments

Why are there no flow batteries with symmetric ferrocyanide electrolytes?

https://chemisting.com/2026/09/02/why-are-there-no-flow-batteries-with-symmetric-ferrocyanide-ele...
15•DamonHD•1h ago•2 comments

Movie Scene Map – 13,312 films, series, games, anime and manga

https://moviescenemap.com/
280•Flightmussy•19h ago•38 comments

Ambient CSS v3 – Blender meets CSS

https://ambientcss.vercel.app/
285•kikkupico•20h ago•82 comments

The ChatGPT/Codex app bundles a full copy of LibreOffice

https://simonwillison.net/2026/Sep/1/codex-libreoffice/
439•timpera•16h ago•201 comments

The creator of Jujutsu has joined ERSC

https://ersc.io/blog/martin-joins-ersc
250•steveklabnik•18h ago•193 comments

Refurbishing a Tektronix TDS7104 Oscilloscope

https://tomverbeure.github.io/2026/08/23/Tektronix-TDS7104-Refurbishing.html
134•jwise0•16h ago•58 comments

Show HN: HN Match Maker – Matching "Who Wants to Be Hired?" With "Who's Hiring?"

https://hnmatchmaker.com/
99•all2•15h ago•41 comments

True Rate of Unemployment

https://www.lisep.org/tru
269•ptrhvns•10h ago•242 comments

Path to Astra: critical capabilities and frontier safeguards

https://openai.com/index/path-to-astra/
165•jithinraj•16h ago•84 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