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The NASA/ESA Mars Sample Return mission has been canceled

https://www.science.org/content/article/nasa-s-mars-sample-return-mission-dead
70•Muhammad523•51m ago•26 comments

What Sun got wrong

https://bcantrill.dtrace.org/2026/09/20/what-sun-got-wrong/
395•chmaynard•6h ago•207 comments

Attention is all you have

https://alicegg.tech/2026/09/21/attention
389•zer0tonin•5h ago•113 comments

Why Does an NPM Math Library Need an Encrypted Loader?

https://safedep.io/mathmain-encrypted-loader/
60•abhisek•1h ago•9 comments

In Search of a Compositional Theory of Self-Stabilization

http://muratbuffalo.blogspot.com/2026/09/in-search-of-compositional-theory-of.html
20•matt_d•1h ago•0 comments

The Advisory Group on Mathematics and Artificial Intelligence

https://terrytao.wordpress.com/2026/09/21/advisory-group-on-mathematics-and-artificial-intelligence/
17•digital55•48m ago•5 comments

Turn off and restrict access to Apple Intelligence features on Mac

https://support.apple.com/guide/mac-help/turn-restrict-access-apple-intelligence-mchlb2e44f94/mac
135•alwillis•2h ago•87 comments

Grok 4.7

https://x.ai/news/grok-4-7
364•meetpateltech•4h ago•306 comments

AI coding has made CI a bottleneck, so we reworked ours to keep up

https://linear.app/now/ci-bottleneck-reworked
15•julian_digital•42m ago•5 comments

US halts flights at busy East Coast airports, says fiber line cut

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/faa-halts-some-us-east-coast-flights-due-communication-issues-20...
91•allanbreyes•1h ago•55 comments

Python Workers are now generally available

https://blog.cloudflare.com/python-workers-ga/
130•torutofu•6h ago•17 comments

A restored PDP-11/83 serving this page on 211BSD Unix

http://pdp1173.com/
69•davepl•4h ago•26 comments

Frontier AI on Your Own Hardware

https://timdettmers.com/2026/09/21/dlab-open-source-week/
5•pretext•1h ago•0 comments

Avoiding the babbling-idiot failure in a time-triggered communication system

https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/689473
17•ronfriedhaber•1h ago•3 comments

This Digital Radio Gets Messages to the World’s Remotest Locations

https://spectrum.ieee.org/hermes-shortwave-radio-digital-data
52•SamuraiLion•3h ago•29 comments

Kev: Tiny Jev-like family of decision models built on top of Qwen3.5

https://github.com/jaredpalmer/kev/tree/main
343•tosh•12h ago•159 comments

Wall Street Is Growing Skeptical of the Data Center Boom

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/21/business/ai-data-center-ipos.html
26•mikhael•51m ago•27 comments

Advisory Group on Mathematics and Artificial Intelligence

https://openai.com/index/advisory-group-on-mathematics-and-ai/
41•js73js8•2h ago•28 comments

How do Traffic Signals Work (2019)

https://practical.engineering/blog/2019/5/11/how-do-traffic-signals-work
35•at1as•3h ago•25 comments

Fable 5 – Median thinking declined in August

https://twitter.com/Lon/status/2101793422487204027
254•espeed•3h ago•171 comments

Apple Copland D11E4 Booting in the Browser

https://www.pagetable.com/300
9•luu•1h ago•0 comments

Grim Fandango Puzzle Document (1996) [pdf]

http://gameshelf.jmac.org/2008/11/13/GrimPuzzleDoc_small.pdf
343•kelseyfrog•14h ago•80 comments

Help 404 Media Find Out How Your Local Police Are Surveiling You

https://www.404media.co/is-your-city-using-axon-license-plate-cameras-we-need-your-help/
47•paimapi•1h ago•2 comments

Noodle Gallery- Open-source, self-hosted alternative to Google Photos and Immich

https://digitalescapetools.com/tools/noodlegallery.html
37•xabd•5h ago•24 comments

M5 Ultra Mac Studio Review

https://www.macstories.net/stories/m5-ultra-mac-studio-review-the-dream-mac-for-local-ai-agents/
193•piotrgrabowski•6h ago•178 comments

macOS 27: Workaround to avoid downloading AI models and save storage

https://www.reddit.com/r/MacOSBeta/comments/1vlnf13/workaround_to_avoid_downloading_ai_models_and/
161•ano-ther•5h ago•76 comments

Heretic removes restrictions from language models

https://heretic-project.org/
197•Bluestein•15h ago•84 comments

Amazon blocks Meta’s new Muse AI agent from shopping on amazon.com

https://www.forbes.com/sites/jonmarkman/2026/09/21/amazon-blocks-metas-new-muse-ai-agent-from-sho...
123•simianwords•3h ago•118 comments

Raspberry Pi blocks changing RAM chips

https://forums.raspberrypi.com/viewtopic.php?p=2380887#p2380888
188•edandersen•7h ago•153 comments

U.S. Small Biz Can't Ship to the EU Anymore

https://glog.glennf.com/blog/2026/09/17/u-s-small-biz-cant-ship-to-the-eu-anymore/
19•alsetmusic•1h ago•2 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