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CVE-2026-111943: Compromised Intermediate Certificate Authority

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/cve-2026-111943
127•keks24•2h ago•31 comments

Faster than earcut: triangulating 3.7M map polygons in 489 ms

https://globus.software/blog/2026/10/16/cutting-map-polygons/
42•molind•1h ago•2 comments

WorldTUI: I trained a 360M model to pretend to be a terminal

https://simedw.com/2026/10/21/world-model-terminal/
241•alphax314•8h ago•78 comments

The recently proposed o(n log n) integer multiplication algorithm [pdf]

https://web.maths.unsw.edu.au/~davidharvey/research/subnlogn.pdf
213•craigcitro•8h ago•146 comments

Achieving AI-style reasoning without an LLM

https://fleetingswallow.com/minotaur-ai-deep-dive-achieving-reasoning-without-a-language-model/
36•edwardchalk•2h ago•12 comments

Security Disclosure

https://blog.railway.com/p/security-disclosure-wednesday-october-21st
478•passenger•13h ago•279 comments

Claude Duet

https://claude.com/product/claude-duet
402•kuberwastaken•15h ago•365 comments

No more icons in every menu by default

https://blog.jim-nielsen.com/2026/icons-in-every-menu/
334•riffraff•2d ago•197 comments

Compromised LiteLLM 1.107.0 on PyPI Installs a Credential Stealer and Backdoor

https://safedep.io/litellm-pypi-compromise-credential-stealer-backdoor/
529•abhisek•20h ago•172 comments

Rust Style Guide

https://google.github.io/styleguide/rustguide.html
318•kaycebasques•15h ago•191 comments

Using LLM for confidence scoring is a bad idea

https://rumple.github.io/blog/2026/10/20/asking-llm-for-confidence.html
105•jimauthors•1d ago•55 comments

GitLab critical patch release

https://docs.gitlab.com/releases/patches/patch-release-gitlab-19-5-1-released/
359•artooro•15h ago•84 comments

OpenAI CLI

https://github.com/openai/openai-cli
133•armcat•5h ago•74 comments

Startup taps underwater volcano as energy source in "proof point" test

https://arstechnica.com/science/2026/10/startup-taps-underwater-volcano-as-energy-source-in-proof...
8•wffurr•2d ago•1 comments

The Robot I Didn't Expect to Build

https://spectrum.ieee.org/agility-robotics-digit-5-redesign
13•bojackh•2d ago•7 comments

What Is the Karakoram Anomaly?

https://nsidc.org/learn/ask-scientist/karakoram-anomaly-it-real
38•thunderbong•2d ago•8 comments

PingCap TiDB Leaks

https://fulcrumsec.vg/pingcap/
355•swyx•1d ago•56 comments

Meta ordered to pay $25B penalty in New Mexico Cambridge Analytica case

https://www.cnbc.com/2026/10/21/meta-new-mexico-cambridge-analytica-penalty.html
577•cbg0•17h ago•333 comments

Tiny possum and glider thought extinct for 6000 years found in remote West Papua

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cp814l80pw2o
224•bryanrasmussen•2d ago•51 comments

Code is clay now

https://www.albertodenia.com/writing/code-is-clay-now
181•albertodenia•2d ago•116 comments

mitmproxy adds --emudhra option

https://github.com/mitmproxy/mitmproxy/commit/169234499088fc2c414644a67efaed3d64ae2e3b
496•ahlCVA•11h ago•117 comments

Beyond the &

https://lwn.net/Articles/1096028/
70•PaulHoule•1d ago•4 comments

OpenAI models are coming to Google Cloud

https://openai.com/index/openai-models-google-cloud/
294•armcat•22h ago•122 comments

DuckDB 2.0.0 LTS “Cinnamon Teal”

https://duckdb.org/2026/10/21/announcing-duckdb-200
425•nnx•20h ago•56 comments

I can't use generic lambdas at compile-time, now what?

https://blog.ganets.ky/ClangGenericLambdas/
14•ibobev•2d ago•1 comments

Today's PHP security release, and how we're strengthening security

https://thephp.foundation/blog/2026/10/21/todays-php-security-release-and-how-were-strengthening-...
745•ejohnso49•19h ago•368 comments

Chain of Thought for Humans

https://www.boristhebrave.com/2026/10/18/chain-of-thought-for-humans/
99•ibobev•2d ago•51 comments

ThinkPad I9990303 Error Catch-22

http://www.os2museum.com/wp/thinkpad-i9990303-error-catch-22/
30•userbinator•2d ago•4 comments

Show HN: Omnara – Open-source alternative to Claude Managed Agents

https://github.com/omnara-ai/omnara
82•kmansm27•18h ago•25 comments

There isn't an easy exploit for this PHP vulnerability

https://eliastaylor.com/noexploit/
541•zkldi•11h ago•328 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