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DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813

https://openrouter.ai/deepseek/deepseek-v4-pro-0813
873•explosion-s•15h ago•351 comments

We tracked down the 16-year-old WAL-reset SQLite bug

https://tailscale.com/blog/sqlite-wal-reset-bug
974•ropbear•16h ago•185 comments

Mushroom behind 'tiny people' hallucinations identified

https://phys.org/news/2026-08-qa-mushroom-tiny-people-hallucinations.html
70•wglb•5d ago•34 comments

Delta

https://zed.dev/blog/introducing-delta
511•khy•12h ago•178 comments

Qwen3.8-2.4T

https://huggingface.co/Qwen/Qwen3.8-2.4T-A95B
584•Philpax•16h ago•135 comments

Principia Mathematica is modern and insightful

https://okmij.org/ftp/Computation/Impressions/PrincipiaMathematica.html
128•matt_d•7h ago•56 comments

Antiqua–Fraktur dispute

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antiqua%E2%80%93Fraktur_dispute
69•buzzy_hacker•2d ago•8 comments

ChatGPT Desktop (Codex Desktop) for Linux

https://openai.com/codex/
20•allanrbo•2h ago•5 comments

2026 Eclipse Webcams

https://jonty.github.io/2026_eclipse_webcams/
476•zoenolan•19h ago•128 comments

Happy 45th Birthday to the IBM PC and Model F/XT

https://sharktastica.co.uk/articles/pc-fxt-45
74•tart-lemonade•7h ago•20 comments

uBlock Origin Is Giving Up the Fight to Keep Ads Off Facebook

https://digitalescapetools.com/2026/08/ublock-origin-stops-chasing-facebook-ads.html
423•Markoff•19h ago•540 comments

Tim King, AmigaDOS developer, has died

https://amiga-news.de/en/news/AN-2026-08-00070-EN.html
262•doener•17h ago•31 comments

Flutter 3.47

https://flutter.dev/blog/whats-new-in-flutter-3-47
74•gumby271•7h ago•63 comments

Why Target Common Lisp for Code Generation?

http://funcall.blogspot.com/2026/08/why-vibe-code-in-lisp.html
83•oumua_don17•22h ago•68 comments

Build Wide, Ship Narrow

https://adapt.com/blog/build-wide-ship-narrow
78•ashumz•7h ago•19 comments

HTML over WebSockets: real-time SPAs with barely any JavaScript

https://en.andros.dev/blog/ef4968f5/html-over-websockets-real-time-spas-with-barely-any-javascript/
183•redbell•14h ago•125 comments

Grok 4.6

https://x.ai/news/grok-4-6
508•iLuddite•15h ago•460 comments

Launch HN: Discovered Materials (YC P26) – AI agents to discover new materials

https://discoveredmaterials.com/research/
132•advaith08•23h ago•28 comments

Celld: Self-hosted, distributed Durable Objects

https://celld.dev/
12•godisdad•2h ago•0 comments

Why tiny JPEGs look different in Chrome

https://guillaumetech.github.io/posts/jpg-scaling-chrome/
290•gutechh•17h ago•63 comments

Thanks to social media, canned sardines are a scarcity on the supermarket shelf

https://corneroffifth.studio/why-cant-you-find-canned-sardines-right-now/
106•carabiner•9h ago•120 comments

Someone is running mass vulnerability scans, spoofing AI bots like ClaudeBot

https://knownagents.com/insights
267•gavinhking•17h ago•199 comments

Locating an unknown source of radiation in a heterogeneous environment (2019)

https://repository.lib.ncsu.edu/items/451b001d-e63a-4968-866d-3fb3a599b1e7
25•toomuchtodo•4d ago•20 comments

From rubber boots to Copa: When MicroProse Soccer revolutionized football

https://spillhistorie.no/2026/08/08/fra-gummistovler-til-copa-da-microprose-soccer-revolusjonerte...
13•TMWNN•3d ago•0 comments

The Three-Stroke Problem

https://penpot.app/blog/the-three-stroke-problem/
4•elenathor•6d ago•0 comments

Pixel Watch 5

https://blog.google/products-and-platforms/devices/pixel/pixel-watch-5/
134•ortusdux•14h ago•252 comments

Breaking the WAL

https://antithesis.com/blog/2026/wal-reset-bug/
93•wwilson•11h ago•42 comments

Lovable raises $400M Series C

https://lovable.dev/blog/series-c
130•thoughtpeddler•14h ago•122 comments

Shade Map

https://shademap.app
182•fredley•18h ago•45 comments

Show HN: Ballet – Workflow automation that writes integrations against any API

https://www.ballet.dev/
29•danielkimber•7h ago•7 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