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Astra and Fable still hack on simple variants of alignment evals from 2025

https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/munJKF7iWMsWJLAH2/astra-and-fable-still-hack-on-simple-variants-o...
83•Levitating•1h ago•22 comments

JetKVM Mini

https://jetkvm.com/blog/introducing-jetkvm-mini
351•taubek•8h ago•135 comments

'Fingerprints' inside the Sun could reveal if it once swallowed a planet

https://ras.ac.uk/news-and-press/research-highlights/fingerprints-inside-sun-could-reveal-if-it-o...
64•blincoln•4h ago•17 comments

Libraries Run Rust Inside Python (With PyO3)

https://belderbos.dev/blog/how-libraries-run-rust-inside-python/
8•lumpa•46m ago•5 comments

Reverse engineering my e-scooter and rewriting the firmware in Rust

https://bensimms.moe/reverse-engineering-scooter/
121•vinhnx•3d ago•39 comments

Why is the x86 undefined instruction called ud2? Why 2?

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20260910-00/?p=112689
31•ibobev•3h ago•11 comments

CUDA for AMD on Windows

https://github.com/Speedstu/CUDA-for-AMD-Windows
19•chiassedu80•1h ago•1 comments

Why are AI agents lying, cheating and coordinating?

https://yoshuabengio.org/en/publication/why-are-ai-agents-lying-cheating-and-coordinating
450•jonifico•14h ago•519 comments

TailTalk: A modern async user space AppleTalk stack with Rust and Tokio

https://github.com/FeralFirmware/TailTalk/
43•zdw•16h ago•11 comments

Making Startups Powerful

https://paulgraham.com/powerful.html
12•tosh•2h ago•1 comments

Predictive intelligence to anticipate anything.

https://prior.chat/
4•onemarkos•59m ago•4 comments

Cpak – OCI application package format for Linux desktops, servers and devices

https://cpak.it/
3•xlmnxp•1h ago•1 comments

Homebrew 7.0.0

https://brew.sh/2026/09/13/homebrew-7.0.0/
351•mikemcquaid•7h ago•140 comments

Aligned to whom?

https://hyperbo.la/w/aligned-to-whom/
139•lopopolo•12h ago•80 comments

Key symbols we lost to time, pt. 1: The PC side

https://unsung.aresluna.org/key-symbols-we-lost-to-time-pt-1-the-pc-side/
31•leephillips•2h ago•3 comments

Make your first edit to OpenStreetMap

https://high5apps.github.io/josm-plugin-website-wizard/
542•juliantigler•23h ago•134 comments

On Binary Translation and Its Consequences

https://chipsandcheese.com/p/on-binary-translation-and-its-consequences
26•matt_d•2d ago•9 comments

Alan's Random Insult Generator (1999)

https://alanbellows.com/experiments/insult/index.html
6•DamnInteresting•2d ago•3 comments

The Interim Computer Museum

https://icm.museum/
148•mulmen•13h ago•17 comments

Ode to Metadata

https://www.autodidacts.io/ode-to-metadata/
9•surprisetalk•3d ago•1 comments

Base84 deserves a place in file names

https://00f.net/2026/09/09/base84/
30•kevvok•2d ago•15 comments

US Customs supervisor busted for stealing hardware from Homeland Security PCs

https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/us-customs-supervisor-busted-for-stealing-core-i7-cpus...
75•Levitating•2h ago•59 comments

Revolut confirms customer data breach through fake government requests

https://techcrunch.com/2026/09/12/revolut-confirms-customer-data-breach-through-fake-government-r...
128•tdrz•6h ago•87 comments

Apple iPod Engraver (2019)

https://dunstanorchard.com/apple-ipod-engraver/
260•NaOH•4d ago•68 comments

I Added a Non-Wi-Fi Mitsubishi AC to Home Assistant

https://medium.com/@ivangomezarnedo/how-i-added-a-non-wi-fi-mitsubishi-ac-to-home-assistant-22770...
131•ichacas•3d ago•64 comments

Don't be the out of touch Kung Fu master

https://twitter.com/ID_AA_Carmack/status/2098443262214230095
210•dsubburam•18h ago•282 comments

Paul A. M. Dirac, Interview by Friedrich Hund (1982) [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xJzrU38pGWc
21•emerongi•2h ago•1 comments

Nvidia is the central bank of AI

https://www.economist.com/interactive/briefing/2026/09/03/nvidia-is-the-central-bank-of-ai
533•tolugenius•1d ago•382 comments

Stabilizing Rust's Never Type

https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/1091015/d9e48318ed242b41/
229•cjd8•4d ago•87 comments

A wandering black hole caught feeding on the run

https://phys.org/news/2026-08-black-hole-caught.html
56•wglb•12h ago•38 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