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Google Has Removed MV2 Extensions from the Chrome Web Store, Including UBO

https://webiterate.dev/google-removed-extensions-ublock-origin-108/
266•twapi•1h ago•204 comments

I turned my security cameras into an automatic bird identification system

https://jasontucker.blog/how-i-turned-my-security-cameras-into-an-automatic-bird-identification-s...
318•speckx•6h ago•88 comments

Playa Phone

https://playaphone.com/
452•cutoff•8h ago•173 comments

A walkable ASCII cyberpunk city in one HTML file [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3YtygAx_C6A
165•keithcarolus•4h ago•28 comments

'Mad honey' that can stop your heart is being sold online

https://phys.org/news/2026-08-mad-honey-heart-sold-online.html
80•samizdis•3d ago•55 comments

Show HN: Laser Graffiti

https://laser.consti.de
101•con•2d ago•21 comments

Terence Tao explains 6 essential mathematical concepts [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OOMx2BHHWtE
135•matthewsinclair•1d ago•18 comments

Smartphone LED detects hidden cameras with AI

https://www.chosun.com/english/industry-en/2026/08/30/SBFXUIJQYZEARKP5T4FBAY25HQ/
122•geox•1d ago•31 comments

Dwarf Fortress is getting the mother of all magic updates

https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/dwarf-fortress-is-getting-the-mother-of-all-magic-updates-extend...
250•Tomte•4d ago•97 comments

Autonomous (YC F25) is hiring engineers

1•dkobran•2h ago

Apple caught off guard by AI demand for Mac Mini and Mac Studio

https://www.macrumors.com/2026/08/30/apple-unexpected-mac-mini-and-studio-demand/
258•thm•10h ago•285 comments

Tmp.0ut, Vol. 5

https://tmpout.sh/5/
116•kmstout•6d ago•5 comments

How we configured OpenTelemetry logs in Rails

https://www.sixpatterns.com/blog/how-we-configured-opentelemetry-logs-in-rails
11•__vivek•1h ago•2 comments

Lion-man – the oldest confirmed statue ever discovered

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lion-man
6•gurjeet•1d ago•1 comments

ravynOS: Pre-alpha open-source OS based on Darwin, FreeBSD, Apple open-source

https://ravynos.com/
144•Bluestein•6h ago•93 comments

I think the military commissary's freezers were hacked

https://signalandsilence.substack.com/p/i-think-someone-hacked-the-commissary
211•jcurbo•11h ago•122 comments

Reverse engineering my ADHD test

https://nullpt.rs/reverse-engineering-adhd-test
114•hazebooth•4d ago•35 comments

Develop Cross-Platform CLI and GUI Tools with Tcl/Tk

https://cgicoffee.com/blog/2026/04/tcl-tk-develop-cross-platform-cli-gui-tools-tutorial-guide
4•aryonoco•34m ago•0 comments

Claude × retrocomputing: emulating a QIC-117 tape drive

https://dmitrybrant.com/2026/08/23/claude-x-retrocomputing-emulating-a-qic-117-tape-drive
9•zdw•1w ago•5 comments

Internet centralization and the original sin of NAT

https://dreamstation.systems/personal/ntppost.html
160•robinpie•20h ago•119 comments

Launch HN: Almanac (YC S26) – AI that knows your company

https://usealmanac.com/
40•kushagrchitkar•7h ago•37 comments

Since it was stripped of planetary status, Pluto’s defenders have been fighting

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2026/aug/31/forbidden-planet-was-plutos-2006-demotion-a-big-m...
38•ziofill•17h ago•111 comments

The safest job from AI may be writing

http://muratbuffalo.blogspot.com/2026/08/the-safest-job-from-ai-may-be-writing.html
66•ilreb•4h ago•108 comments

No country for mediocre mathematicians

https://garvvee.substack.com/p/no-country-for-mediocre-mathematicians
117•reasonableklout•1d ago•67 comments

Euphemisation of Taboo Areas [pdf]

https://ajmp.uwr.edu.pl/wp-content/uploads/sites/39/2023/12/10_Kleparski.pdf
31•Eridanus2•4d ago•1 comments

Show HN: We built the smallest dual-band aircraft tracker

https://pantsforbirds.com/the-worlds-smallest-dual-band-ads-b-receiver-module/
70•CoolNamesAllTkn•5d ago•20 comments

Launch HN: Hebbian Robotics (YC S26) – Build scalable robotics data pipelines

https://github.com/Hebbian-Robotics/hflow
34•kstonekuan•8h ago•10 comments

Dimethyl Mercury Exposure Incident at MIT

https://twitter.com/andrew_n_carr/status/2093524390390694232
104•notRobot•2d ago•66 comments

'Stunning' percolation proof solves decades-old puzzle about phase transitions

https://www.quantamagazine.org/stunning-percolation-proof-solves-decades-old-puzzle-about-phase-t...
46•tzury•5h ago•17 comments

OpenShot 4.0 – Open-source video editor

https://www.openshot.org/blog/2026/08/30/openshot-40-record-edit-color-like-never-before/
515•metrofun•13h ago•120 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