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Creepy Crawlies

https://people.kernel.org/monsieuricon/creepy-crawlies
821•zdw•1d ago•380 comments

Haiku R1/beta6 has been released

https://www.haiku-os.org/news/2026-08-26_haiku_r1_beta6
223•metrofun•7h ago•65 comments

Cores in space: The core memory module from a 1980 Spacelab computer

https://www.righto.com/2026/08/spacelab-core-memory.html
49•pwg•3h ago•8 comments

Show HN: NFC Energy-Harvesting PCB Business Card with an MCU

https://wilsonharper.net/projects/businesscard/
69•WilsonHarper•2d ago•5 comments

Thoughts on Pope Leo XIV's Magnifica Humanitas

https://adropincalm.com/blog/thoughts-on-magnifica-humanitas/
6•borracciaBlu•17m ago•1 comments

Sort branches by last commit date

https://ryangreenberg.com/til/git-branches-by-commit-date/
63•speckx•5d ago•16 comments

Continuous Diffusion Language Models (CDLM's)

https://sander.ai/2026/08/24/continuous-dlms.html
37•peter_d_sherman•2h ago•7 comments

Why open source rocks – a new SM750 (Silicon Motion GPU) HDMI Driver

https://github.com/KodeMunkie/sm750hdmifb
54•SillyUsername•4h ago•28 comments

Mark Zuckerberg's Social Reckoning

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2026/09/07/mark-zuckerbergs-social-reckoning
9•fortran77•1h ago•1 comments

Show HN: Academa – Long-form STEM lecture videos generated by LLMs

https://academa.ai/
7•sinaatalay•40m ago•2 comments

Coordination Headwind: How Organizations Are Like Slime Molds

https://komoroske.com/slime-mold/
113•rzk•6h ago•38 comments

Hacking IKEA Furniture

https://greenlightning.eu/diy/hacking-ikea-furniture/
244•greenlightning•11h ago•153 comments

Commercially Available Bike Generators Are Not Sustainable

https://solar.lowtechmagazine.com/2011/05/bike-powered-electricity-generators-are-not-sustainable/
8•baud147258•4d ago•3 comments

Zig: Pointer Stability for ArrayLists

https://ziglang.org/devlog/2026/#2026-08-27
75•tosh•8h ago•38 comments

Dad’s Custom Atari Peripherals

https://www.goto10retro.com/p/dads-custom-atari-peripherals
86•rbanffy•3d ago•10 comments

METR and Redwood Offer Holy %^ Postmortem of the HuggingFace Hack

https://thezvi.wordpress.com/2026/08/29/metr-and-redwood-offer-holy-postmortem-of-the-huggingface...
204•catbird•8h ago•139 comments

Artie (YC S23) Is Hiring Technical AES

https://www.artie.com/careers?ashby_jid=e87b84d2-78b3-41a3-937a-47e83643cdf1
1•j-cheong•6h ago

Arbitrary code execution in QubesOS via copy-to-VM error reporting backchannel

https://www.qubes-os.org/news/2026/08/29/qsb-118/
193•vntok•14h ago•80 comments

Startup Anti-Patterns

https://www.itamarnovick.com/intro-to-startup-anti-pattern-series/
48•rzk•7h ago•14 comments

Electric rain can eat through metal

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/electric-rain-can-eat-through-metal/
84•sohkamyung•3d ago•15 comments

European Commission Revives Push for Encryption Backdoors in ProtectEU Strategy

https://reclaimthenet.org/eu-protecteu-strategy-encryption-backdoor-law-enforcement
321•nickslaughter02•7h ago•132 comments

Longest Straight Line Paths on Water or Land on the Earth (2018)

https://arxiv.org/abs/1804.07389
185•joebig•14h ago•56 comments

Omarchy: Any User Process Can Escalate to Root

https://0xcc.io/posts/omarchy-root-creds/
347•trap0xcc•7h ago•350 comments

Synchronisation and SMPTE timecode (time code)

https://www.philrees.co.uk/articles/timecode.htm
27•sublinear•2d ago•8 comments

Storm Summoner, a MIDI controller for effects pedals

https://kabaragoya.com/products/storm-summoner
26•peteforde•3d ago•8 comments

Quest for the Eternal Dock – Lambdock

https://jointhefreeworld.org/blog/articles/gnu-linux/quest-for-eternal-dock/index.html
6•signa11•1d ago•0 comments

What my dad taught me about AI coding in the 90s

https://askmike.org/articles/ai-coding-lessons-in-the-90s-from-my-dad/
123•askmike•6d ago•67 comments

Casey Muratori – The Root of the Root of All Evil – BSC 2026 [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hpj6r6CjJf8
286•surprisetalk•3d ago•153 comments

Automating Immersive Reading

https://smoores.dev/post/automating_immersive_reading/
85•smoores•11h ago•30 comments

Europe's summer drought is so extreme that desertification is a growing threat

https://fortune.com/2026/08/29/europe-summer-drought-desertification-threat-rivers-fish/
227•Brajeshwar•8h ago•271 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