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OpenShot 4.0: Record, Edit, and Color Like Never Before

https://www.openshot.org/blog/2026/08/30/openshot-40-record-edit-color-like-never-before/
83•metrofun•1h ago•22 comments

“I just chose words carefully”

https://unsung.aresluna.org/i-just-chose-words-carefully/
856•zdw•12h ago•217 comments

Breaking Claude Code Opus 5 Auto Mode

https://embracethered.com/blog/posts/2026/breaking-claude-code-opus-5-and-automode/
86•Recursing•3h ago•18 comments

Creepy Crawlies

https://people.kernel.org/monsieuricon/creepy-crawlies
1203•zdw•1d ago•601 comments

P99 0 ms* autocomplete for 240M domain names

https://ruurtjan.com/articles/p99-0ms-autocomplete-for-240-million-domain-names
139•dbalatero•7h ago•58 comments

uv: Deduplicate all files in the wheel cache

https://github.com/astral-sh/uv/pull/21327
58•tosh•5h ago•7 comments

My hobby of building miniatures and taking pretty pictures

https://sandyuraz.com/blogs/tiny-cafe/
160•thecsw•2d ago•26 comments

Highlighting My Code Based on How Much I Care

https://hank.bond/posts/highlighting-my-code-based-on-how-much-i-care/
73•hankbond•2d ago•37 comments

Matrox: Graphics for Professionals

https://www.abortretry.fail/p/matrox
130•BirAdam•11h ago•38 comments

A 12TB Steam "teraleak" spills more than a decade of lost PC gaming history

https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2026/08/a-12tb-steam-teraleak-spills-more-than-a-decade-of-lost-pc...
167•WithinReason•5h ago•24 comments

Understanding ChatGPT Work

https://simonwillison.net/2026/Aug/30/understanding-chatgpt-work/
203•gmays•9h ago•104 comments

Haiku R1/beta6 has been released

https://www.haiku-os.org/news/2026-08-26_haiku_r1_beta6
332•metrofun•19h ago•93 comments

How to build a diffusion language model

https://kuleshov-group.github.io/blog/blog/2026/how-to-build-a-diffusion-language-model/
106•volodia•11h ago•10 comments

Study: Blue light impairs the eye's ability to distinguish fine detail most

https://research.uga.edu/news/blue-light-has-a-surprising-effect-on-your-eyes-study-finds/
6•giuliomagnifico•2h ago•3 comments

Formalization of the Solution to the Hopf Problem

https://github.com/plby/HopfProblem
11•robinhouston•3d ago•4 comments

What 2000 Buried Underpants Revealed About Where Soil Is Most Alive

https://studyfinds.com/what-2000-buried-underpants-revealed-about-where-soil-is-most-alive/
32•mdp2021•3d ago•6 comments

Show HN: NFC Energy-Harvesting PCB Business Card with an MCU

https://wilsonharper.net/projects/businesscard/
181•WilsonHarper•2d ago•19 comments

It takes 5 cloud services to hear my doorbell

https://blog.vghaisas.com/rube-goldberg-doorbell/
175•vghaisas•2d ago•161 comments

Cores in space: The core memory module from a 1980 Spacelab computer

https://www.righto.com/2026/08/spacelab-core-memory.html
113•pwg•15h ago•18 comments

Hacking IKEA Furniture

https://greenlightning.eu/diy/hacking-ikea-furniture/
329•greenlightning•23h ago•240 comments

Sort branches by last commit date

https://ryangreenberg.com/til/git-branches-by-commit-date/
128•speckx•5d ago•44 comments

OpenClaw 2.0, Accidentally

https://openclaw.ai/blog/openclaw-2-accidentally
109•doppp•7h ago•107 comments

Why open source rocks – a new SM750 (Silicon Motion GPU) HDMI Driver

https://github.com/KodeMunkie/sm750hdmifb
112•SillyUsername•16h ago•38 comments

Transfer files over an Ethernet patch cable

https://maurycyz.com/misc/etherfiles/
104•jllyhill•7h ago•94 comments

Relm4 makes developing beautiful cross-platform applications idiomatic

https://relm4.org/
47•Bluestein•5d ago•23 comments

Continuous Diffusion Language Models (CDLM's)

https://sander.ai/2026/08/24/continuous-dlms.html
113•peter_d_sherman•14h ago•36 comments

Coordination Headwind: How Organizations Are Like Slime Molds

https://komoroske.com/slime-mold/
164•rzk•19h ago•47 comments

Meta Security Researcher's AI Agent Accidentally Deleted Her Emails

https://au.pcmag.com/ai/116091/meta-security-researchers-ai-agent-accidentally-deleted-her-emails
48•Bluestein•3h ago•36 comments

Dad’s Custom Atari Peripherals

https://www.goto10retro.com/p/dads-custom-atari-peripherals
139•rbanffy•3d ago•16 comments

Arbitrary code execution in QubesOS via copy-to-VM error reporting backchannel

https://www.qubes-os.org/news/2026/08/29/qsb-118/
239•vntok•1d ago•95 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