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The Interim Computer Museum

https://icm.museum/
18•mulmen•30m ago•3 comments

Make your first edit to OpenStreetMap

https://high5apps.github.io/josm-plugin-website-wizard/
357•juliantigler•10h ago•83 comments

Real-SWE: Benchmarking AI models on private, real-world, enterprise codebases

https://withspecific.com/benchmarks/real-swe
143•theanonymousone•6h ago•70 comments

Nvidia is the central bank of AI

https://www.economist.com/interactive/briefing/2026/09/03/nvidia-is-the-central-bank-of-ai
412•tolugenius•12h ago•280 comments

Apple iPod Engraver (2019)

https://dunstanorchard.com/apple-ipod-engraver/
148•NaOH•4d ago•36 comments

Everyone should slow down AI development except for me

https://xeiaso.net/notes/2026/everyone-slowdown-but-me/
184•xena•2h ago•79 comments

Align AI and Mathematics–To Something Else

https://liorpachter.wordpress.com/2026/09/12/align-ai-and-mathematics-to-something-else/
22•nitrogenpuddle•2h ago•6 comments

Getting 50 GB/S Back from the Apple Neural Engine

https://eiln.github.io/posts/ane-dma.html
91•eiln•3d ago•16 comments

Stabilizing Rust's Never Type

https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/1091015/d9e48318ed242b41/
150•cjd8•3d ago•37 comments

Recurrent Looped Transformer

https://yifanzhang-pro.github.io/recurrent-looped-tranformer/
14•MayCXC•3h ago•7 comments

Don't be the out of touch Kung Fu master – John Carmack

https://twitter.com/ID_AA_Carmack/status/2098443262214230095
34•dsubburam•5h ago•18 comments

Vintage Scientific Papers with LaTeX

https://github.com/Foadsf/vintage-latex
34•petalmind•3d ago•2 comments

From Git to Fossil

https://lucio.albenga.es/web-en/posts/2025/from-git-to-fossil.html
7•smartmic•2d ago•3 comments

AgentsDock: An IDE designed for agentic AI research

https://agentsdock.net/
17•ZihuiGeorgia•3h ago•7 comments

LG denies TV spying claims, says tracking and snooping concerns 'not true'

https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/big-tech/lg-strongly-denies-tv-security-claims-says-tr...
452•datakan•2d ago•367 comments

We must pace the frontier

https://darioamodei.com/post/we-must-pace-the-frontier
571•apsec112•13h ago•801 comments

I made a build visualizer to understand Bun's compile times

https://lalitm.com/post/buildprof/
104•lalitmaganti•12h ago•21 comments

Will There Be a 7G?

https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.01877
85•Betelbuddy•10h ago•145 comments

Microcode in Intel's 8087 floating-point chip: the scale instruction

https://www.righto.com/2026/09/8087-microcode-reverse-engineering-fscale.html
93•pwg•11h ago•26 comments

P(doom)

https://lucumr.pocoo.org/2026/9/12/pdoom/
17•lumpa•5h ago•3 comments

Linux Zoom client proactively reading everything written to X11 clipboard

https://hachyderm.io/@simontatham/117201594980991062
212•encyclopedism•8h ago•66 comments

No Atlantic hurricanes by Sept. 12 breaks a 60-year record

https://www.accuweather.com/en/hurricane/no-atlantic-hurricanes-by-sept-12-breaks-a-60-year-recor...
27•RickJWagner•3h ago•27 comments

Android NAT-T keepalive offload bypasses VPN lockdown

https://supuk.ch/papers/android-natt-keepalive-vpn-bypass
176•mhitza•1d ago•45 comments

Show HN: See Sounds on Your Webcam

https://soundmap.darebuild.com/
13•jimhi•2d ago•3 comments

I fixed a tractor using John Deere's self-repair service. Farmers aren't sold

https://www.wired.com/story/i-fixed-a-tractor-john-deere-self-repair-service/
110•sbulaev•1d ago•113 comments

Colliding the Sum Checksum (2019)

https://mcpherrin.ca/2019/11/23/sum-collisions.html
3•mooreds•4d ago•0 comments

LG Says We're Fake News [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ToP9xfLDSME
190•HelloUsername•7h ago•89 comments

A Mathematical Framework for Transformer Circuits (2021)

https://transformer-circuits.pub/2021/framework/index.html
86•Bluestein•13h ago•17 comments

How Trail of Bits helps verify the integrity of Signal chats

https://blog.trailofbits.com/2026/08/11/how-trail-of-bits-helps-verify-the-integrity-of-your-sign...
59•dgroshev•15h ago•39 comments

Eating Fruit Skins

https://pgadey.ca/blog/eating-fruit-skins/
88•surprisetalk•3d ago•183 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