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What algorithm did Windows XP use to choose your initial user picture?

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20260909-00/?p=112683
85•soheilpro•2h ago•32 comments

Show HN: The same nine streaming subscriptions cost $702/year more than in 2021

https://honestlyranked.com/guides/streaming-price-increases/
61•honestlyranked•1h ago•46 comments

DeepSeek v4.1 Flash

https://twitter.com/deepseek_ai/status/2097930608790167907
449•Liwink•5h ago•229 comments

iPhone Duo

https://www.apple.com/iphone-duo/
1234•thecosmicfrog•17h ago•2163 comments

Stockfish 19

https://stockfishchess.org/blog/2026/stockfish-19/
66•atiedebee•2d ago•36 comments

Show HN: What if the speed of light was 5 km/h?

https://rivendell.dmitrybrant.com/relativity/
383•dmitrybrant•9h ago•157 comments

Larger Pacific Striped Octopus

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larger_Pacific_striped_octopus
78•olalonde•1d ago•41 comments

Shopify acquires Tailwind

https://tailwindcss.com/blog/tailwind-is-joining-shopify
1051•EdwinHoksberg•22h ago•405 comments

What do Visa and Mastercard do? An intro to card networks

https://tautology.town/2026/06/01/card-networks.html
556•evakhoury•1d ago•335 comments

Mathematicians want proof OpenAI didn't use their work

https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/993263/where-does-openai-get-mathematics-trai...
16•kevcampb•16m ago•1 comments

Growing proof that autonomous cars save lives

https://spectrum.ieee.org/are-self-driving-cars-safe
360•bookofjoe•18h ago•630 comments

Object storage is all you need

https://www.tigrisdata.com/blog/object-storage-all-need/
7•jpsaccount•1d ago•1 comments

Show HN: Art – draw one stroke, let symmetry complete it

https://mrdee.in/mandala/
18•cyb0rg0•4d ago•6 comments

Thanks to Siri Recaps, your Apple Watch is always listening

https://www.techradar.com/health-fitness/smartwatches/thanks-to-siri-recaps-your-apple-watch-is-a...
17•geox•59m ago•2 comments

Samsung Debuts zHBM Prototype, Stacking Memory Directly on AI Accelerators

https://www.thelec.net/news/articleView.html?idxno=12835
29•peter_d_sherman•3d ago•4 comments

No Man's Sky Cosmos

https://www.nomanssky.com/cosmos-update/
403•Limb•19h ago•409 comments

GPT-6 Astra, looped transformers, and hidden reasoning

https://magazine.sebastianraschka.com/p/gpt-6-astra-looped-transformers-and
447•ModelForge•20h ago•143 comments

Open Source Durable Objects for Postgres

https://solidobjects.dev/blog/introducing-solidobjects
27•cardmagic•1d ago•8 comments

AirPods 5

https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2026/09/apple-introduces-airpods-5-with-best-in-class-open-ear-act...
462•awad•17h ago•393 comments

PlayStation cancels Kojima's PHYSINT, Xbox steps in

https://twitter.com/hideo_kojima_en/status/2097877506401681753
21•HatchedLake721•1h ago•4 comments

iPhone 18 Pro and iPhone 18 Pro Max

https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2026/09/apple-debuts-iphone-18-pro-and-iphone-18-pro-max/
371•meetpateltech•18h ago•407 comments

All grown-ups were once children, but only few of them remember it

https://mathstodon.xyz/@tao/117244102901892965
195•yurivish•7h ago•144 comments

Automattic's board forces CEO Matt Mullenweg into leave of absence

https://techcrunch.com/2026/09/09/automattics-board-forces-ceo-matt-mullenweg-into-leave-of-absence/
309•LeoPanthera•11h ago•211 comments

Show HN: Compute polynomials twice as fast

https://thomasahle.com/fast-polynomials/
97•thomasahle•1d ago•34 comments

Aardman (Wallace and Gromit) Is Selling Its Original Movie Puppets

https://gizmodo.com/aardman-is-selling-its-original-movie-puppets-this-month-2000807968
56•Gaishan•3d ago•11 comments

Training a 3.8B LLM to 0.384 CORE for $998

https://hugovergnes.github.io/little-lm-3-8b/
87•Anon84•9h ago•14 comments

Desert Ant Labs: local, fast models that run on device

https://desertant.com/blog/introducing-desert-ant-labs/
454•willwhitedc•23h ago•97 comments

Qwen 3.8 follows GPT-5.5 Pro reasoning prefills

https://gist.github.com/wsxiaoys/e0286dc6bb624ff5fdf49e7f4c528ba3
221•wsxiaoys•18h ago•85 comments

I think I hate the internet

https://strategictree.bearblog.dev/i-think-i-hate-the-internet/
84•saikatsg•5h ago•68 comments

Factoring RSA 260

https://cognition.com/blog/factoring-rsa-260
102•samyok•15h ago•11 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