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How Europe is killing makers and micro-entrepreneurs

https://lectronz.com/u/lectronz/articles/how-europe-is-killing-makers-and-micro-entrepreneurs
230•l-one-lone•1h ago•116 comments

SeL4 security proofs now complete on AArch64

https://proofcraft.systems/news-2026/#2026-08-21
78•snvzz•2h ago•16 comments

I were 17, I'd learn how to build LLMs from scratch

https://twitter.com/paulg/status/2091544343589060625
299•bilsbie•17h ago•411 comments

Everything I own, owned

https://schlarp.com/posts/everything-i-own-owned/
1159•schlarpc•15h ago•304 comments

Why older tech is sometimes safer from hackers

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20260821-why-older-tech-is-sometimes-safer-from-hackers
25•tchalla•2h ago•10 comments

Executable Is a SQLite Database

https://fzakaria.com/2026/08/23/your-executable-is-a-sqlite-database
237•setheron•9h ago•46 comments

FDA clears blood test to aid evaluation for Alzheimer's disease

https://medicine.washu.edu/news/fda-clears-blood-test-to-aid-evaluation-for-alzheimers-disease/
102•dabinat•7h ago•36 comments

The Future Belongs to the Weird

https://essays.georgestrakhov.com/weird/
78•georgestrakhov•5h ago•43 comments

Anthropic's best AI model struggles to attract users as cheaper tools thrive

https://www.ft.com/content/5ee49718-c258-4f01-aa32-7e5b76ae5245
653•naves•19h ago•569 comments

Fast drilldown dashboards from a single Parquet file

https://www.hamiltonulmer.com/customer-dashboards-r2-hyparquet/
86•v3gas•6h ago•1 comments

How I find problems to solve as a staff engineer

https://lalitm.com/post/find-problems-staff-engineer/
479•vanpra•18h ago•141 comments

Agent Is Not the Model

https://code.joejag.com/2026/your-agent-is-not-the-model.html
35•joejag•2h ago•8 comments

Andreessen Horowitz is investing billions into a bleak future

https://www.modelrepublic.org/articles/a16z-portfolio
388•reasonableklout•7h ago•148 comments

I built a low-latency AI companion that plays Skyrim with me

https://pantel.is/projects/ai-gaming-companion/
254•pantelisk•14h ago•49 comments

OCR It – pull text out of un-copyable documents for your LLM

https://github.com/thiagotigaz/ocr-it
83•thiagolima•7h ago•19 comments

Woman stranded in Spain after UK's eVisa system mistakes her for twin sister

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026/aug/24/woman-stranded-spain-uk-evisa-system-mistakes-twi...
111•giuliomagnifico•4h ago•83 comments

What Is a Harness?

https://earendil.com/posts/what-is-a-harness/
502•tosh•23h ago•159 comments

Google Workspace thinks my domain is an email provider (2025)

https://blog.elis.cc/articles/google-workspace-thinks-my-domain-is-an-email-provider/
353•el1s7•18h ago•121 comments

My agent.md to improve LLM-assisted code quality

https://fabiensanglard.net/agent.md/index.html
347•ibobev•20h ago•146 comments

New EU-wide product repair rules come into force

https://www.rte.ie/news/business/2026/0824/1588931-repair-rules/
190•austinallegro•8h ago•108 comments

Mourning Steve French

https://lwn.net/Articles/1090098/
43•mfrw•9h ago•0 comments

How Complex Systems Fail (1998)

https://how.complexsystems.fail/
345•shortcrct•23h ago•72 comments

Show HN: Vanilla OS 3 Reunion – Immutable and Reproducible Operating System

https://vanillaos.org/blog/article/2026-08-24/vanilla-os-3-reunion---stable-release
10•NN708•3h ago•1 comments

AI Chip Architectures

https://www.jepeake.com/ai-chip-architectures
110•Finbarr•1d ago•37 comments

Malware infects Android-based automotive head unit firmware

https://securelist.com/android-head-unit-malware/121106/
251•campuscodi•1d ago•130 comments

The treasury bond mess: is this the demise of the US as a safe haven?

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2026/aug/24/treasury-bonds-trump-administration-debt
82•fittingopposite•3h ago•62 comments

Fable and the end of the free lunch

https://www.dbreunig.com/2026/08/23/fable-the-end-of-moore-s-law.html
193•dbreunig•19h ago•177 comments

My favorite nonfiction books about cults, scams, and schemes

https://bookdna.com/best-books/nonfiction-about-cults-scams-and-schemes
259•bwb•1d ago•105 comments

Over 5,200 Ebola cases recorded in Congo

https://www.afro.who.int/countries/democratic-republic-of-congo/news/over-5200-cases-recorded-dem...
98•simonebrunozzi•7h ago•42 comments

Explain it to me like I'm ten

https://timharford.com/2026/08/explain-it-to-me-like-im-ten/
165•bookofjoe•20h ago•59 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