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AnkiDroid: Google Play no longer allowing Open Collective donation link

https://github.com/ankidroid/Anki-Android/issues/21656
133•hexa555•1h ago•12 comments

44% on ARC-AGI-1 in 67 cents

https://mvakde.github.io/blog/44-on-arc-1/
55•porridgeraisin•1h ago•14 comments

Fastpotify

https://fastpotify.rocks/
461•nreece•8h ago•245 comments

GPU World

https://www.gpuworld.org/
266•simonpure•8h ago•142 comments

American Airlines' Legendary Mechanic Passes Away at 100 After 80-Year Career

https://simpleflying.com/american-airlines-mechanic-passes-away-100-record-80-years/
78•NaOH•2d ago•22 comments

Tmp.0ut Volume 5

https://tmpout.sh/5/
87•ghuntley•11h ago•24 comments

Restroom Archive

https://restroomarchive.com
149•jcalx•7h ago•38 comments

Polishing Cloth Updated

https://512pixels.net/2026/08/polishing-cloth-updated/
41•zdw•6d ago•32 comments

Playa Phone

https://playaphone.com/
646•cutoff•20h ago•212 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...
521•speckx•18h ago•126 comments

Terence Tao explains 6 essential mathematical concepts [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OOMx2BHHWtE
446•matthewsinclair•1d ago•63 comments

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3YtygAx_C6A
337•keithcarolus•17h ago•45 comments

CollectWise (YC F24) Is Hiring

https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/collectwise/jobs/7U500pP-founding-customer-success-engineer
1•OBrien_1107•4h ago

RotaryCell: Making an unmodified rotary phone work over LTE with an ESP32-S3

https://github.com/fregacmols/RotaryCell
76•jombib•8h ago•10 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...
427•Tomte•4d ago•175 comments

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/
422•thm•22h ago•475 comments

Evidence of Fraud in an Influential Study About Procrastination

https://datacolada.org/138
257•Anon84•11h ago•175 comments

Show HN: Laser Graffiti

https://laser.consti.de
200•con•2d ago•42 comments

NASA: Fill in a name, and you can have an exclusive coordinate in the universe

https://science.nasa.gov/mission/roman-space-telescope/adopt-a-pixel/
15•BearBest•1h ago•17 comments

I think the military commissary's freezers were hacked

https://signalandsilence.substack.com/p/i-think-someone-hacked-the-commissary
359•jcurbo•23h ago•199 comments

Codes – typed application outcomes for Kotlin and Java

https://github.com/aalsanie/codes
4•aalsanie•6d ago•0 comments

Cheap GPS jammers are filling the world with navigation dead zones

https://www.wsj.com/tech/gps-jammers-dead-zones-e76f3261
152•vinnyglennon•1d ago•146 comments

Roget's Thesaurus

https://artflsrv04.uchicago.edu/roget-thesaurus/
19•gregsadetsky•1d ago•2 comments

Smartphone LED detects hidden cameras with AI

https://www.chosun.com/english/industry-en/2026/08/30/SBFXUIJQYZEARKP5T4FBAY25HQ/
223•geox•2d ago•66 comments

Flat vs. segmented memory – it's recursive

https://www.humprog.org/~stephen/blog/2026/08/25/#flat-vs-segmented
26•signa11•5d ago•0 comments

DoltLite: A SQLite fork with Git-style version control, built with 2k agent PRs

https://www.dolthub.com/blog/2026-08-31-doltlite-beta/
51•lbw1215•9h ago•35 comments

Lion-man

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lion-man
118•gurjeet•2d ago•65 comments

Reverse engineering my ADHD test

https://nullpt.rs/reverse-engineering-adhd-test
233•hazebooth•4d ago•139 comments

Lake Ontario ("Lake America")

https://community.openstreetmap.org/t/lake-ontario-lake-america/146975
6•rdmuser•25m ago•1 comments

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

https://ravynos.com/
204•Bluestein•19h ago•115 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