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Audacity 4.0

https://github.com/audacity/audacity/releases/tag/Audacity-4.0.0
493•ClydeN•3h ago•123 comments

Elevated Errors for Multiple Models

https://status.claude.com/incidents/461yvfrzpwtt
91•__vivek•1h ago•61 comments

Mom Gets 6-Mo Suspended Sentence for Letting 5-Year-Old Walk to the Pond

https://reason.com/2026/09/02/virginia-mom-gets-6-month-suspended-jail-sentence-for-letting-5-yea...
76•softwaredoug•25m ago•33 comments

Pre-Release of Polars 2.0

https://pola.rs/posts/announcing-polars-2/
285•komape•7h ago•91 comments

The Browser's Main Thread Is Expensive

https://kciter.so/posts/the-expensive-main-thread/en/
244•kciter•2d ago•80 comments

Fuck Off as a Service (Foaas)

https://foaas.io/
24•speckx•50m ago•4 comments

Invisible Companies

https://colossus.com/article/invisible-companies/
66•ltononro•2d ago•19 comments

What I Learned from My Mom (1941-2026)

https://experimentalliving.substack.com/p/what-i-learned-from-my-mom-1941-2026
137•NaOH•4d ago•7 comments

Intrusive Linked Lists

https://www.data-structures-in-practice.com/intrusive-linked-lists/
31•tripdout•3d ago•16 comments

9 Mothers (YC P26) Is Hiring in Austin, TX

https://9mothers.com/careers
1•ukd1•2h ago

Gemini 3.8 Flash and 3.8 Flash Cyber

https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/models-and-research/gemini-models/3-8-flash-and-3-8-flash-c...
1102•bratao•23h ago•624 comments

Muse Spark 1.3

https://developer.meta.com/ai/models/muse-spark/
642•bvaldivielso•19h ago•418 comments

Nvidia to Acquire Hugging Face

https://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/nvidia-to-acquire-hugging-face/
96•tosh•2h ago•33 comments

Amazon Stonehenge: Parque Arqueológico do Solstício

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parque_Arqueol%C3%B3gico_do_Solst%C3%ADcio
13•nycdatasci•3d ago•5 comments

Three sites made 215,128 “best software” pages for AI. Perplexity cites them

https://trellner.com/reports/manufactured-sources-behind-ai-recommendations/
481•jakobgreenfeld•1d ago•233 comments

Google avoids a breakup of its ad tech business

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/02/technology/google-ad-tech-remedies.html
434•donohoe•23h ago•306 comments

Fish Bad, Sugar Good and Other Medieval Ideas About Food

https://lithub.com/fish-bad-sugar-good-and-other-medieval-ideas-about-food/
57•mooreds•2d ago•41 comments

Holden's Lightning Flight

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holden%27s_Lightning_flight
200•ColinWright•3d ago•41 comments

The Computer Museum of America reclamation project

https://computer-museum.org/wp/
75•rbanffy•2d ago•31 comments

Three schoolgirls in Kinsale pulled up a pea plant covered in warts (2016)

https://scienceblog.com/b-three-schoolgirls-in-kinsale-pulled-up-a-pea-plant-covered-in-warts-and...
117•DamonHD•7h ago•49 comments

Can I opt out of my input or output data being used for training?

https://help.mistral.ai/en/articles/455207-can-i-opt-out-of-my-input-or-output-data-being-used-fo...
475•teekert•1d ago•222 comments

Google Antigravity TOS: 3rd party usage can get Google account suspended

https://twitter.com/GergelyOrosz/status/2095453567955968398
81•tosh•3h ago•45 comments

Fable 5.1 World Modeling

https://github.com/PhiloLabs/fable51-worlds
303•surreal_•18h ago•84 comments

Reverse Engineering Unknown File Formats with ImHex

https://werwolv.net/posts/file_format_reverse_engineering/
233•carlos-menezes•3d ago•44 comments

Biggest dark matter detector spots a single weird particle

https://www.science.org/content/article/world-s-biggest-dark-matter-detector-spots-single-weird-p...
324•randycupertino•1d ago•117 comments

Launch HN: RonanRX (YC S26) – Personalized Peptides and GLP-1s

75•lloydarmbrust•16h ago•76 comments

Aging brains blend memories together instead of just forgetting them

https://studyfinds.com/aging-brains-blend-memories-together-instead-of-forgetting-them-study-finds/
315•mdp2021•1d ago•127 comments

Wendell Berry has died

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/31/us/wendell-berry-dead.html
220•Curiositry•2d ago•113 comments

A dark horse enters China's AI race: StartLux

https://chinaonchina.com/article/chen-dawei-returns-enters-the-large-model-sector
43•try-working•3h ago•22 comments

Astronomers Detect a 10-Sided Structure in Saturn's Atmosphere

https://www.sciencealert.com/astronomers-spot-an-uncannily-geometric-10-sided-structure-in-saturn...
6•jjgreen•50m ago•0 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