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AI Has No Wisdom and Neither Will You

https://alexn.org/blog/2026/09/22/ai-has-no-wisdom-and-neither-will-you/
81•dimonomid•46m ago•68 comments

AMD's random number generator can't generate a 0?

https://board.flatassembler.net/topic.php?t=24261
135•BruceEel•4h ago•80 comments

Can gzip be a language model?

https://nathan.rs/posts/gzip-lm/
221•networked•6h ago•80 comments

MiMo v2.6

https://mimo.xiaomi.com/mimo-v2-6
954•volf_•16h ago•430 comments

Will Open Source Survive the Agents That Replaced It?

https://albertoarena.it/posts/will-open-source-survive-the-agents-that-replaced-it/
14•albertoarena•52m ago•18 comments

Type Punning in C and C++

https://blog.pwkf.org/2026/09/21/correct-type-punning-in-c.html
29•ingve•1h ago•10 comments

Spymarks, Not Watermarks

https://brand.io/article/spymarks/
512•possibilistic•13h ago•127 comments

9 Ads per Minute: FIFA Cup 26 – "the price of the beautiful game"

https://www.bristol.ac.uk/news/2026/september/world-cup-viewers.html
105•KellyCriterion•2h ago•126 comments

Video games inspire great UX (2019)

https://jenson.org/games/
9•andsoitis•1d ago•0 comments

Transformers Explained Visually

https://poloclub.github.io/transformer-explainer/
475•aray07•17h ago•74 comments

Attention is all you have

https://alicegg.tech/2026/09/21/attention
883•zer0tonin•22h ago•266 comments

I said no and Apple said yes

https://dbushell.com/2026/09/22/apple-intelligence/
358•thatslast•4h ago•269 comments

What Sun got wrong

https://bcantrill.dtrace.org/2026/09/20/what-sun-got-wrong/
614•chmaynard•22h ago•353 comments

A font that reads what you wrote

https://rohanadwankar.github.io/posts/semfont.html
38•RohanAdwankar•2d ago•19 comments

MiMo-v2.6-Pro: Intelligence, Performance and Price Analysis

https://artificialanalysis.ai/models/mimo-v2-6-pro
103•theanonymousone•8h ago•39 comments

Verda (Finland) raises $189M in Series B

https://verda.com/blog/what-189m-in-funding-unlocks-for-verda-customers
47•cmrdporcupine•3h ago•16 comments

I don't want to read what you didn't write

https://blog.colinbreck.com/i-dont-want-to-read-what-you-didnt-write/
780•mooreds•14h ago•319 comments

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

https://linear.app/now/ci-bottleneck-reworked
268•julian_digital•17h ago•314 comments

Engineering Memory: On learning to memorize first 100 digits of pi (2024)

https://gregorygundersen.com/blog/2024/12/21/engineering-memory/
29•fuzzythinker•1d ago•16 comments

Divide by depth for instant 3D

https://gabrieloc.com/2026/09/15/perspective.html
177•gabrieloc•2d ago•32 comments

NASA’s Mars Sample Return mission is dead

https://www.science.org/content/article/nasa-s-mars-sample-return-mission-dead
414•Muhammad523•17h ago•338 comments

What It's Like to Work in One of America's Data Centers

https://www.wsj.com/business/what-its-like-to-work-in-one-of-americas-data-centers-b4358003
27•JumpCrisscross•1d ago•14 comments

Looking forward to Git 2.56 – and 3.0

https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/1094575/2385e98583715c2b/
155•chmaynard•13h ago•80 comments

World Wide Words

https://www.worldwidewords.org/genindex.html
27•Petiver•2d ago•2 comments

A build graph that rolls dice

https://fzakaria.com/2026/09/20/a-build-graph-that-rolls-dice
7•ingve•1d ago•1 comments

The Advisory Group on Mathematics and Artificial Intelligence

https://terrytao.wordpress.com/2026/09/21/advisory-group-on-mathematics-and-artificial-intelligence/
146•digital55•17h ago•73 comments

Claude Status – Elevated errors for multiple models

https://status.claude.com/incidents/7g1qpkyz5gxh
125•corvad•11h ago•98 comments

HERMES radio enables voice and data communication over vast distances

https://spectrum.ieee.org/hermes-shortwave-radio-digital-data
154•SamuraiLion•20h ago•62 comments

Python Workers are now generally available

https://blog.cloudflare.com/python-workers-ga/
243•torutofu•23h ago•39 comments

Socrates vs. the Written Word (2011)

https://wondermark.com/socrates-vs-writing/
56•spectraldrift•12h ago•32 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