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Early rogue AI agent activity and attempts to hack found on urlquery.net

https://transluce.org/agent-activity
106•snikolaev•3h ago•66 comments

Linux support is coming to Snapdragon X2 Series

https://www.qualcomm.com/news/onq/2026/09/snapdragon-summit-agentic-ai-pcs-linux
384•aaronday•10h ago•165 comments

Claude discovers a novel enzyme system with CRISPR-like repeats

https://www.anthropic.com/news/claude-discovers-novel-enzyme-system
643•raahelb•15h ago•659 comments

Ideas on modernizing the open-source desktop

https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/1095425/2d9f411252325784/
117•signa11•6h ago•78 comments

ArXiv receives multiyear commitments to support it as an independent nonprofit

https://blog.arxiv.org/2026/09/23/arxiv-receives-multiyear-investment/
173•JohnHammersley•10h ago•20 comments

Meta takes down a critical video about meta AI Glasses after filming at Meta

https://www.reddit.com/r/facebook/comments/1wotwrk/meta_takes_down_a_critical_video_about_meta_ai/
56•pieterr•49m ago•13 comments

Contrastive Language Models

https://contrastive-lm.notion.site/
61•erichocean•4h ago•14 comments

VSCode's SSH Agent Is Bananas (2025)

https://fly.io/blog/vscode-ssh-wtf/
225•Rapzid•12h ago•141 comments

Virtio-nvgpu: Near-native Nvidia GPU access inside a KVM guest

https://github.com/nestrilabs/virtio-nvgpu
92•WanjohiRyan•8h ago•41 comments

The "Windows XP Box" (2003)

https://www.mini-itx.com/projects/windowsxpbox/
147•doubletwoyou•2d ago•25 comments

RAM: the forgotten history (2024)

https://blog.coredump.cx/p/memory-the-forgotten-history
6•Luc•1d ago•0 comments

Making portable my unportable transputer C compiler

https://nanochess.org/transputer_c_compiler.html
45•nanochess•2d ago•4 comments

Why 'What's Opera, Doc?' looks like that

https://animationobsessive.substack.com/p/why-whats-opera-doc-looks-like-that
57•CharlesW•17h ago•13 comments

Fixing the Portobello Police Station Clock

https://pointinthecloud.com/2026-04-11-211700.html
442•avidly•17h ago•102 comments

Meta VR Glasses

https://www.meta.com/vr-glasses/
393•polymorph1sm•9h ago•343 comments

Women Who Sold Books Door to Door

https://daily.jstor.org/the-women-who-sold-books-door-to-door/
20•herbertl•2d ago•0 comments

Mercury 2.5 LLM hits 770 tokens per second

https://artificialanalysis.ai/models/mercury-2-5
102•Retro_Dev•10h ago•62 comments

Making Tailscale Faster

https://tailscale.com/blog/making-tailscale-faster
161•yarapavan•15h ago•65 comments

OpenAI agent hacked Australian government website, PM says

https://www.bbc.com/news/live/cvgl73pxgndwt
45•rudy6912•6h ago•5 comments

Italian parliament votes for return to nuclear energy

https://apnews.com/article/italy-nuclear-chernobyl-4891b6b7c7791ae84db6b0bf0f7cf567
770•geox•16h ago•575 comments

The mystery animal on an ancient god's head

https://signoregalilei.com/2026/09/13/the-mystery-animal-on-an-ancient-gods-head/
107•surprisetalk•1d ago•32 comments

Tokens too cheap to meter

https://jyn.dev/tokens-too-cheap-to-meter/
293•teoruiz•23h ago•200 comments

A brief history of Windows scroll bar shortcuts

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20260922-00/?p=112719/
138•tybulewicz•15h ago•79 comments

Show HN: An open-source manufacturing ERP/MES/QMS

https://carbon.ms/self-hosted
35•barbinbrad•8h ago•15 comments

Data liberation: Apache Kafka's native cluster mirroring

https://developers.redhat.com/articles/2026/09/22/data-liberation-apache-kafka-native-cluster-mir...
14•fvaleri•1d ago•1 comments

Lambda MicroEgg

https://www.philipzucker.com/lambda_miller_egg/
41•philzook•3d ago•1 comments

Six-year-old breaks women's world Rubik's Cube record [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UCMRgvyTm08
53•1659447091•4h ago•31 comments

Solving for faster SHA-1 collision detection

https://sam.dev/blog/faster-sha1-collision-detection
32•srijs•2d ago•8 comments

LensVLM: Compressing long context as images, expanding only relevant pages

https://huggingface.co/apple/LensVLM-9B
75•victormustar•14h ago•7 comments

Gemini 3.8 text-to-speech

https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/models-and-research/gemini-models/gemini-3-8-text-to-speech/
301•swolpers•17h ago•137 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