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Kobo can run apps now

https://bandarlabs.github.io/Cobalt/
336•thepoet•5h ago•114 comments

Felony Bench

https://www.felonybench.com/
396•colinprince•6h ago•183 comments

Scientists release biggest 2D map of the universe

https://newscenter.lbl.gov/2026/08/10/scientists-release-biggest-2d-map-of-the-universe/
99•NKosmatos•3h ago•29 comments

Felony charges for citizen deleting phone data at US Border

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/21/us/politics/samuel-tunick-deleted-phone-felony.html
341•floathub•10h ago•432 comments

Kagi added a setting for removing paywalled links from search results

https://kagi.com/changelog#11296
917•speckx•8h ago•316 comments

AI boosted homework scores, then exam scores dropped: study

https://www.economist.com/graphic-detail/2026/08/18/does-ai-stop-children-from-learning
180•dash2•2d ago•242 comments

I accidentally logged hundreds of thousands of phone calls to military bases

https://lina.sh/blog/hijacking-e164-arpa
372•gavide•8h ago•40 comments

SalesPatriot (YC W25) Is Hiring Forward Deployed Engineers

https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/salespatriot/jobs/M46X6YX-forward-deployed-engineer
1•maciejSz•1h ago

Bringing the cybersecurity capabilities of Claude Mythos 5 to more defenders

https://claude.com/blog/bringing-claude-mythos-5-to-more-defenders
34•garo-pro•3h ago•27 comments

DeepSeek-v4-flash-vision-exp

https://api-docs.deepseek.com/guides/vision/
431•dares2573•11h ago•141 comments

People of ACM – Russ Cox

https://www.acm.org/articles/people-of-acm/2026/russ-cox
65•signa11•4d ago•8 comments

I ran Photoshop on a £0.60 computer chip

https://pointinthecloud.com/2026-08-19-144600.html
92•colinprince•6h ago•22 comments

How we made a text-to-speech model respond in sub-50 ms

https://nari-labs.com/blog/qwen3-tts-speed-cost-frontier/
78•toebee•6h ago•13 comments

A look under our trunk: what's in our compute

https://waymo.com/blog/2026/08/look-under-our-trunk/
67•ra7•1d ago•14 comments

What happens when a GPU reads memory

https://blog.doubleword.ai/what-happens-when-a-gpu-reads-memory
81•ibobev•5h ago•15 comments

Claudette: Make Claude stop talking like a BuzzFeed article

https://github.com/adnanakil/nobuzz/blob/main/README.md
148•aakil•7h ago•105 comments

Tumble Forth – from assembly to OS with C compiler

https://tumbleforth.hardcoded.net/
30•vicek22•3h ago•3 comments

Building an (almost) fully self-hosted, sandboxed, agentic software factory

https://blog.jakesaunders.dev/building-an-almost-fully-self-hosted-sandboxed-agentic-software-fac...
65•jakelsaunders94•5h ago•43 comments

Quick impressions: A week of using Codex more than Claude

https://allaboutcoding.ghinda.com/a-week-of-using-codex-more-than-claude/
60•speckx•2h ago•67 comments

Using an old Android phone as a music player

https://monocyte.blog/using-an-old-android-phone-as-a-music-player/
27•surprisetalk•4d ago•11 comments

The Size of the World Wide Web

https://www.worldwidewebsize.com/
18•1970-01-01•4d ago•4 comments

Decayfmt – a file format that corrupts itself a little every time you open it

https://github.com/aravpanwar/decayfmt
42•unprovable•6h ago•13 comments

I'm becoming AI-blind

https://cymerys.com/w/im-becoming-ai-blind
201•rcymerys•10h ago•207 comments

Remotely Unlocking Electric Scooters

https://henriemategui.com/post/remotely-unlocking-electric-scooters
4•henriemategui•39m ago•0 comments

The coolest anti-surveillance tools at Defcon [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-2uAsJ5EPAw
118•neom•3d ago•7 comments

AI companies destroy physical books – let's scan rare books before it's too late

https://annas-archive.gl/blog/physical-destruction.html
475•Cider9986•19h ago•822 comments

Kodak's "pre-invented" lunar orbiter camera; or, the fate of SAMOS readout

https://invertingvision.com/2026/08/10/kodaks-pre-invented-lunar-orbiter-camera-or-the-fate-of-sa...
47•cainxinth•8h ago•1 comments

Man loses so much weight employer doesn't recognize him

https://wsvn.com/news/help-me-howard/man-loses-so-much-weight-employer-doesnt-recognize-him/
20•madihaa•4h ago•6 comments

Quantifying the honey bee dance floor

https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0341456
23•Ariarule•1w ago•1 comments

The B-right/V R2 Operating System (2000)

http://tronweb.super-nova.co.jp/b-right-vr2intro.html
15•Bluestein•6h ago•3 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