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Eight Bits of Trust; eMudhra's CA keys cracked in milliseconds

https://scotthelme.co.uk/eight-bits-of-trust-emudhras-ca-keys-cracked-in-milliseconds/
116•hkc•1h ago•44 comments

The 1.5°C goal of the Paris Agreement is no longer viable

https://unric.org/en/unep-emissions-gap-report-2026-1-5-degree-overshoot/
213•velo_aprx•1h ago•217 comments

The Future of CSS

https://www.joshwcomeau.com/css/interop-2027/
391•soheilpro•8h ago•163 comments

Whatever Happened to Fire Escapes

https://practical.engineering/blog/2026/10/20/whatever-happened-to-fire-escapes
6•sohkamyung•32m ago•0 comments

Upcoming critical PHP security release (CVE-2026-109618 / -109619)

https://news-web.php.net/php.announce/509
936•xd•14h ago•375 comments

Show HN: SimCity, but with Permits

https://permit.petercai.com/
809•pcai•16h ago•380 comments

Muse exposes users' personal and business secrets when they share conversations

https://arstechnica.com/security/2026/10/meta-muse-exposes-users-personal-and-business-secrets-wh...
189•gumby•10h ago•88 comments

The Decoherence Trap

https://maevyn.codes/decoherence
51•cassianoleal•2d ago•14 comments

eMudhra intermediate CA compromise

https://emudhra.we-have-a-problem.com/
980•galadran•20h ago•413 comments

Voxtral 3

https://mistral.ai/news/voxtral-3/
686•ilreb•18h ago•172 comments

Feds suspect ransom negotiator ran ShinyHunters extortion site

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2026/10/feds-suspect-ransom-negotiator-ran-shinyhunters-extortion-site/
208•Bender•12h ago•97 comments

In Hilbert space, all things are quantumly possible

https://www.quantamagazine.org/in-hilbert-space-all-things-are-quantumly-possible-20260826/
100•unprovable•8h ago•54 comments

Good type against all odds

https://unsung.aresluna.org/good-type-against-all-odds/
134•firloop•9h ago•12 comments

Way to Play Super Mario 64: On Apple Vision Pro

https://www.pagetable.com/303
12•frizlab•2d ago•3 comments

The Other Epidemic: Trying to get off benzodiazepines

https://www.thebeliever.net/the-other-epidemic/
201•gaplong•11h ago•151 comments

ZX Spectrum Next Laptop

https://www.dorchester3d.com/printing/blog/2020/11/zx-spectrum-next-laptop-version-2
90•utopcell•2d ago•15 comments

Bonanza of new dates rewrites the history of the Inca

https://www.science.org/content/article/bonanza-new-dates-rewrites-history-inca
12•pseudolus•1d ago•1 comments

C# now beats Rust on WASM size

https://github.com/zion-sati/NetWasm
75•sumnole•7h ago•26 comments

Google open-sources TorchTPU, a native PyTorch back end for TPUs

https://github.com/google-pytorch/torch_tpu
344•ilreb•18h ago•73 comments

Setting Up SSH Keys on macOS with Touch ID

https://nmattia.com/posts/2026-10-19-setting-up-ssh-keys-touch-id/
61•civilchaos•6h ago•37 comments

What shall I teach my son?

https://stevekrouse.com/ends
408•Curiositry•17h ago•477 comments

Four Years with Decker

https://beyondloom.com/blog/fouryearsdecker.html
42•ibobev•22h ago•6 comments

SlopCodeBench 10/2026 – Opus 5.5, Astra wins overall, xhigh considered harmful

https://github.com/humanlayer/advanced-context-engineering-for-coding-agents/blob/main/benchmarki...
263•dhorthy•5d ago•105 comments

Apple broke an essential presentation feature of iPads

https://teddysvoronos.com/2026-10-19-apple-broke-an-essential-presentation-feature-of-ipads/
561•evanb•22h ago•274 comments

Composite objects and C++26 the std:polymorphic type

https://mariusbancila.ro/blog/2026/10/18/composite-objects-and-cpp26-the-stdpolymorphic-type/
28•jandeboevrie•2d ago•29 comments

DeepInfer: High-performance inference framework for DeepSeek models

https://github.com/deepseek-ai/DeepInfer
2257•ggcr•1d ago•859 comments

Battlezone Online: BZFlag in the Browser

https://github.com/timriker/bzo
32•indigodaddy•5h ago•23 comments

Using Claude to reduce the attack surface of code

https://www.anthropic.com/research/attack-surface-reduction
53•dnw•7h ago•22 comments

Ofcom concedes defeat in 4chan case

https://prestonbyrne.com/2026/10/20/ofcom-concedes-defeat/
399•iamnothere•20h ago•312 comments

Sixteen years after Deepwater Horizon, deep sea life shows few signs of recovery

https://e360.yale.edu/digest/deepwater-horizon-deep-sea-recovery
284•speckx•18h ago•162 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