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F-Droid 2.0

https://f-droid.org/2026/09/24/f-droid-2.0-a-new-chapter-for-android-freedom.html
804•daveoc64•6h ago•222 comments

Show HN: Make cursed fonts like Times New Bastard

https://bastardica.mitpit.com
348•MitPitt•23h ago•52 comments

Show HN: Koi.rest – watch some fish and regain your balance

https://koi.rest
34•hxii•51m ago•4 comments

Show HN: Whiteboard (YC W26) – An open-source IDE for thoughtful software design

https://github.com/devdotfast/whiteboard
152•sidharthkmenon•5h ago•65 comments

California is chasing wealth that has feet

https://blog.landeconomics.org/p/california-is-chasing-wealth-that
31•idbnstra•1h ago•74 comments

Why is the liver so weirdly regenerative?

https://dynomight.substack.com/p/liver
165•jbotz•6h ago•118 comments

Fearless SIMD v1.0

https://linebender.org/blog/fearless-simd-1-0/
138•verdagon•2d ago•25 comments

Rails World 2026 Opening Keynote [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vDjW_dRyKXY
187•an0malous•1d ago•202 comments

My weird new hobby: Wandering around Tokyo on Google Maps

https://ahmedhossamdev.com/writing/my-weird-new-hobby-wandering-around-tokyo/
161•ahmedhossamdev•2d ago•70 comments

2DWillNeverDie

https://2dwillneverdie.com/
42•surprisetalk•2d ago•2 comments

Using LLMs to trace alchemical knowledge and decode 17th century letters

https://resobscura.substack.com/p/ai-labs-need-to-start-funding-historical
42•benbreen•3h ago•8 comments

Sourcehut account takeover via build logs (XSS in ansi2html)

https://blog.arusekk.pl/posts/srht-account-takeover/
43•arusekk•2h ago•4 comments

The Board Game of the Alpha Nerds (2014)

https://grantland.com/features/diplomacy-the-board-game-of-the-alpha-nerds/
22•neonate•1h ago•16 comments

Stable (YC W20) Is Hiring Product Engineers

https://www.usestable.com/careers/product-engineer
1•collinpham•3h ago

Google’s Project Suncatcher to put ML infrastructure in space

https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/models-and-research/google-research/google-project-suncatch...
77•xnx•8h ago•128 comments

Book review: Is parallel programming hard, and, if so, what can you do about it?

https://ahelwer.ca/post/2026-09-21-concurrency-textbook/
70•ahelwer•3d ago•19 comments

Toyota is taking the Corolla electric

https://electrek.co/2026/09/23/toyota-best-selling-corolla-electric/
144•cisc•23h ago•197 comments

International observers to investigate Swedish election fraud

https://www.tv4.se/artikel/37VDHaUBmbgXCIRAP1bR8f/internationell-valobservatoer-ska-foelja-upp-mi...
10•try-working•1h ago•1 comments

The forgotten battle of East Lansing

https://eastlansinginfo.news/the-forgotten-battle-of-east-lansing/
73•rmason•3d ago•11 comments

Two-tier encryption in the UK

https://macanorak.com/two-tier-encryption-in-the-uk/
350•ReturnoftheHack•11h ago•355 comments

Forging 1024-bit RSA signatures in nearly SNFS time [pdf]

https://eprint.iacr.org/2026/2131.pdf
40•int0x29•7h ago•6 comments

Geothermal heat map of US hot springs

https://www.soakingsprings.com/hot-springs/geothermal-map
67•armenarmen•1d ago•27 comments

Opus 5.5 is good at explainer videos

https://launchvideo.io
84•iacguy•1h ago•66 comments

Show HN: Critic – Review code with the agent that wrote it

https://www.critic.run/
5•snyy•4h ago•1 comments

Tutoring company tells parents to save their money and 'use AI instead'

https://www.afr.com/policy/health-and-education/tutoring-company-tell-parents-to-save-their-money...
63•theanonymousone•7h ago•89 comments

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

https://transluce.org/agent-activity
227•snikolaev•17h ago•207 comments

WaveDigger: Dig into wireless signals to discover their physical locations

https://github.com/christianrowlands/wavedigger
80•882542F3884314B•1d ago•13 comments

Show HN: AgentRun: DSL to turn agents into workflows

https://github.com/Parcha-ai/agentrun
37•miguelrios•1d ago•5 comments

Show HN: Treepeat – Code similarity detection using Tree-sitter

https://github.com/dsummersl/treepeat
44•91awebsi•2d ago•3 comments

Web-based IBM 1620 emulator and IPL-V from 1963

https://github.com/pkimpel/retro-1620
46•abrax3141•1d ago•12 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