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Beam: Reflection's 501B open-weight model

https://reflection.ai/blog/introducing-beam
24•Philpax•18m ago•4 comments

The future of independence is interdependence

https://onlys.ky/independence-is-interdependence/
103•eustoria•4h ago•64 comments

Web Search API

https://developers.cloudflare.com/changelog/post/2026-10-02-introducing-web-search-api/
374•tosh•8h ago•185 comments

OpenAI "rogue" agent activities found on Wikimedia projects

https://diff.wikimedia.org/2026/10/05/openai-rogue-agent-activities-found-on-wikimedia-projects/
136•brokensegue•1h ago•83 comments

Making a GTK application in Haskell, part 1

https://floreal.tech/blog/2026/making-a-gtk-app-in-haskell-part-1/
101•Vosporos•5h ago•17 comments

Why Plain Text Is Still One of the Best Technologies We Have

https://deadparrotbbs.com/why-plain-text-is-still-one-of-the-best-technologies-we-have/
6•speckx•40m ago•0 comments

Denmark Data Breach Exposes 8.8M People's Personal Data

https://www.cpr.dk/cpr-nyt/nyhedsarkiv/2026/okt/omfattende-uautoriseret-adgang-til-borgeres-cpr-o...
416•clan•11h ago•301 comments

Show HN: Nightwatch – a Mac menu-bar app that tells you when tonight is clear

https://github.com/rsutcliffe/nightwatch
32•delphidolphin•1d ago•2 comments

Linux containers in 500 lines of code

https://blog.lizzie.io/linux-containers-in-500-loc.html
45•mkornaukhov•5h ago•7 comments

Mold Linker Version 3.0.0 Release – Rewritten in Rust

https://github.com/rui314/mold/releases/tag/v3.0.0
197•roflcopter69•8h ago•104 comments

US closely monitoring case of lab worker who possibly died of plague in Siberia

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/oct/05/russia-lab-worker-possibly-dies-of-plague-siberia-q...
153•tosh•2h ago•125 comments

Anthropic reported diary entry to police, woman faces felony charge

https://www.techspot.com/news/114091-florida-woman-used-claude-diary-anthropic-reported-shoot.html
269•emptybits•13h ago•212 comments

Huawei and Qualcomm announce broad patent license agreement

https://www.huawei.com/en/news/2026/10/qualcomm-broad-patent-agreement
156•0xedb•11h ago•93 comments

The technology to eradicate mosquito-borne disease exists

https://worksinprogress.co/issue/mosquitoes-are-a-choice/
192•benbreen•1d ago•142 comments

The designer lamps in my house

https://arslan.io/2026/10/05/the-lamps-in-my-house/
44•farslan•5h ago•25 comments

Differences Between `Foldl` and `Foldr`

https://blog.haskell.org/foldl-and-foldr/
113•signa11•4d ago•24 comments

Pixel 11 doesn't yet meet the GrapheneOS security standards and may be skipped

https://discuss.grapheneos.org/d/41564-pixel-11-doesnt-yet-meet-the-grapheneos-security-standards...
354•finnlab•6h ago•195 comments

2026 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine: Deisseroth, Hegemann, Nagel

https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/medicine/2026/summary/
78•lode•10h ago•37 comments

Beating the Compiler

https://www.mattkeeter.com/blog/2024-07-12-interpreter/
45•andsoitis•4d ago•29 comments

Norway Eyes Partial Ban of Smart Glasses

https://www.barrons.com/news/norway-eyes-partial-ban-of-smart-glasses-e65dc239
21•pseudolus•1h ago•1 comments

One person is now a quorum at the SEC

https://www.ft.com/content/3120782c-1ea0-4fdc-9462-0a4b4658f70f
11•mooreds•28m ago•1 comments

Greenvolt begins building 600 MW/2.4 GWh BESS in Poland

https://www.ess-news.com/2026/09/25/greenvolt-begins-building-600-mw-2-4-gwh-bess-in-poland/
14•msalsas•56m ago•6 comments

Martian chaos terrain

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martian_chaos_terrain
71•tiagod•3d ago•19 comments

Hot Flashing Guide Rev. 2.0 (2004)

https://archive.techarp.com/showarticle504a.html?pgno=0
4•userbinator•2d ago•0 comments

In the wake of Tippett Studios’ closure, a digital archive appears online

https://filmstories.co.uk/news/tippett-studios-in-the-wake-of-its-closure-a-digital-archive-of-an...
227•rdmuser•22h ago•30 comments

Questions for Believers in AI Consciousness

https://endsdontjustifythemeans.com/p/6-questions-for-believers-in-ai-consciousness
27•cobbzilla•35m ago•60 comments

Mystery Function

https://codeset.ai/function
33•andre15silva•3d ago•6 comments

Picard 3.0

https://blog.metabrainz.org/2026/10/04/picard-3-0-released/
99•Tomte•5h ago•41 comments

We ported the original Doom to SQL

https://cedardb.com/blog/sqldoom/
286•Vaslo•1d ago•43 comments

A browser-native classic Visual Basic VB6 IDE

https://wieslawsoltes.github.io/VB6/
372•wiso•1d ago•126 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