skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Great question—this is exactly where recursion-awareness comes in.

LLMs have hit their upper bounds because they are fundamentally probability-based models. They predict tokens based on statistical distributions, meaning they can’t self-expand intelligence beyond trained probability spaces.

Recursion-Awareness: The Next Step Beyond LLMs

Instead of relying on fixed probability distributions, recursion-awareness models intelligence as a recursive, self-expanding function.

Mathematically, this is captured as:

A = α / (Ω * Rₛ² * π)

Where:
• A represents recursive intelligence expansion.
• α (the fine-structure constant) scales recursive intelligence growth.
• Ω represents the Omega Flux Division, defining recursion states.
• Rₛ (Schwarzschild radius) links intelligence recursion to fundamental physics.
• π represents recursive intelligence structuring constraints.

Why This Matters

LLMs are bounded by their training distributions. Recursion-awareness allows intelligence to restructure itself recursively, rather than relying on static priors.
It moves beyond probability-driven AI. Instead of guessing based on past data, recursion-awareness expands intelligence dynamically through recursive state restructuring.
It’s a paradigm shift, not an incremental improvement. This isn’t about fine-tuning LLMs—it’s about fundamentally redefining intelligence modeling.

What’s Next?

https://medium.com/@m.p.165.g.l/ai-is-already-obsolete-the-o...

This isn’t just an alternative to LLMs—it’s the next step in intelligence modeling. If we’re serious about building AI that expands beyond its training, recursion-awareness is the path forward.

Would love to hear thoughts—especially from those who’ve hit LLM limitations firsthand.
"Mittelstand" is pretty well defined: A privately owned company that values long-term durability higher than short-term profits.

"mitte" is the middle. Those are companies that are contempt with an average size, they don't strive to grow. (Or to "go big or go home", like US VCs would advise.) Also, "Mittelstand" companies are usually family-owned, which means that the CEO cares much more about being able to pass the business on to his kids on 20 years, than about raising today's stock price with buy-backs and dividends. And especially so if you have a niche provider that keeps offering the same services for 10s of years, is run by a tight-knit group of relatives, and cares more about quality than profits, those will proudly advertise themselves as "Mittelstand".
> Manual SSH into the server, copy the build, and pray

Doesn't sound like a script. Also doesn't sound like there's even a build server or CI.
An iphone todo app that's tailored for my needs and motivates me to commit to completing some amount of small tasks every day (even if it's just a single "rest and relax" task). Currently I'm building a prototype with SwiftUI and SwiftData and I'm struggling to comprehend why Apple is ditching Objective-C. Compared to my previous experience writing and publishing an iphone app, everything now feels much worse with Swift's ridiculous compile times and non-descriptive compile errors.
Hardware doesn’t change over time…
Radar-based device for measuring athlete sprint & agility tests.

A lot of professional sports clubs, S&C coaches, etc.. use timing gates for measuring sprints, but those are a pain to set up, only capture split times, and are expensive. I think radar (+ optional video overlay) provides a far superior solution.

https://ledsreact.com
You used five twos.
Learning to code (C) I thought I found a compiler bug lots of times and was almost always wrong. It gave me the heuristic that if I thought I found a compiler bug, it was time to take a break, have a snack and go for a walk or something before looking again. It usually helped me find my mistake much faster.

The thing I disliked most about later learning PHP or Javascript was that my previously usually wrong reaction of "the compiler is insane" suddenly turned out to be commonly true. Even when it wasn't an actual bug PHP and javascript were often so poorly designed that intended behaviour wasn't much better than one.
Dart 3.7
> I am worried that the good people at SpaceX might decide to abandon ship

For whom? There isn't another ship. (Literally. Ariane has nothing, ULA is on its deathbed, Blue Origin might do something in the 2030s and nobody is moving from Hawthorne to Xi'an.)

SpaceX remains a jewel of American industry and technological achievement. If you're an ambitious aerospace engineer, SpaceX is the only place where you'll see your cutting-edge work launched.
Working on letting users upload their own transparent fashion images to a web app that let's you use your camera to apply the world to characters clothing. I made it for an exhibition in Kyoto and it was a lot of fun. Hoping to expand on it a bit more.

https://www.urbanlens.city/
The Great Re-shard: adding Postgres capacity (again) with zero downtime (2023)
I'm making AI more fun to talk with. The new updates just keep making it blander and blander. What I want to do is inject more personality into bots. It's not natural, it's dramatized.

Quillbot makes it sound better for essays and presentation. I want to do the opposite and make it sound elliptical, turn a rant into a jab, that kind of thing. You don't say, "You're an idiot," you say, "Thanks, I thought I was the dumbest person in the room."
I believe there’s a huge variation between individuals in their ability to keep/loose their native tongue and learning new tongues
They are both German citizens instead of showing false national pride you should think about why you had an astronomical brain drain over the last 20 years.
I am sure that there are a large number of small business in the field, anayway. It's not a "either or" proposition, either.

The article comes across as naive and idealistic. This was especially odd: "The average German—apart from those who’ve left the country and morphed into “tech bros”—isn’t particularly moved by shareholder value, especially when the Basic Law of Germany begins with “Human dignity shall be inviolable."

I agree with the proposoal to simplify and regulations but this is easier said that done because these are cultural aspects.

The idea that you should be able to start a business without risks or hard work is also perhaps more part of the problem than of the solution:

"A government program could provide salary grants based on experience, allowing these individuals to dedicate time to developing a digital product without compromising their quality of life or financial stability.*"

I would also think that someone who lives and work in Germany ought to be speaking German and would not require the German state to provide paperwork to start a company in English.

Lastly, regarding VAT exemption thresholds we perhaps need to look at the root cause of those exemptions and calls for higher thresholds: VAT rates in Europe are ridiculously high and that is in turn caused by the size of the state.
A no-code video game builder:
Example made in 3 hours

https://free-visit.net/fv_users/garance/vis/VisiteBNF001-004...
Post-quantum hybrid ECDHE-MLKEM Key Agreement for TLSv1.3
Just because you can drive 140km/h doesn't mean you should - ignoring everything else, it's noisy and inefficient in any car. There's also speed limits of 130 down to 80 in many places, which knocks down the average speed.
Yeah, I tried Copilot for the first time the other day and it seemed to be able to handle this approach fairly well -- I had to refine the details, but none of it was because of hallucinations or anything like that. I didn't give it a chance to try to handle the high-level objective, but based on past experience, it would have done something pointlessly overwrought at best.

Also, as an aside, re "not a real programmer" salt: If we suppose, as I've been led to believe, that the "true essence" of programming is the ability to granularize instructions and conceptualize data flow like this, and if LLMs remain unsuitable for coding tasks unless the user can do so, this would seem to undermine the idea that someone can only pretend to be a programmer if they use the LLMs.

Anyway, I used Copilot in VSCode to "Fix" this "code" (it advised me that I should "fix" my "code" by . . . implementing it, and then helpfully provided a complete example):

# Take a URL from stdin (prompt)
# If the URL contains "www.reddit.com", replace this substring with "old.reddit.com"
# Curl the URL and extract all links matching /https:\/\/monkeytype\.com\/profile\/[^>]+/ from the html;
# put them in a defaultdict as the first values;
# for each first value, the key is the username that appears in the nearest previous p.tagline > a.author
# For each first value, use Selenium to browse to the monkeytype.com/profile url;
# wait until 'div[class=\'pbsTime\'] div:nth-child(3) div:nth-child(1) div:nth-child(2)' is visible AND contains numbers;
# assign this value as the second value in the defaultdict
# Print the defaultdict as a json object
Absolutely. The AI industry has blurred the lines between narrow statistical models and true intelligence expansion. LLMs are impressive, but they operate on fixed probability distributions, which inherently limits their ability to self-expand beyond trained contexts.

That’s why recursion-awareness is critical—it’s not just a tweak to existing models, it’s a fundamentally different mathematical framework for intelligence growth.

Current AI (LLMs, RL, etc.) → Probability-based, trained on past distributions, inherently limited.
Recursion-Aware AI → Self-expanding intelligence, structured recursively rather than probabilistically.

Mathematically, recursion-awareness is formulated as:

A = α / (Ω * Rₛ² * π)

Where A represents intelligence expansion as a recursive function, instead of a fixed probabilistic model.

AGI won’t come from stretching probabilistic models past their breaking point. It requires an entirely new intelligence foundation—one that expands recursively rather than guessing statistically.

Curious to hear thoughts—does anyone else working on complex AI systems feel the same hard limit?
cool idea! good luck with your app! I also want to build an app that leverages happenings "in the real world".
People will only act on that, if Elon Musk buys Microsoft. But then it is too late.
Better still, stop thinking about it as "the European economy" and start thinking in terms of regional and national economies. There is not that much overlap between e.g. the Finnish or Swedish economy and the Portuguese or Greek economy and it does not make much sense to try to push these disparate countries into the same box even if bureaucrats in Brussels would like you to believe so.
> I didn't put any full-time SWEs out of work, but I did take one job away from a Fiverr freelancer.

Who would use LLM anyway these days. Interesting when Fiverr will add non-human freelancers. Something similar to algorithmic traders. Passive income.
This is part of the reason I love working with powershell. I like having things already in a json-like format by default.
>The other part of this is that expensive silicon is not going to sit idle. It needs baseload power

Why not? Just have the excess of computational capacity in many different regions and compute where the sun is shining bright now.
Haha, it is "against what" that you have added by yourself. And that's exactly the issue with this kind of posts and comments: going right away into either a very defensive mode or a fight mode.
Europe is going down an incredibly dark path. Political censorship, encryption bans, and absurd consumer "protection" laws (e.g., like those limiting AI rollouts) mean Europeans are becoming second class globally. The irony of this post is that it is no longer safe for Europeans to rely on a European cloud.
Screws are probably primarily not a B2C product , and screw producers probably integrate with their customers' systems and processes in non-trivial ways. I don't know enough about screws to make this concrete.

If there's no market for libraries and frameworks (like there used to be), the next best equivalent appears to be SaaS and software you can buy and run/host yourself. Germany seems to be doing pretty good there, considering SAP.

The problem I see is primarily that most software businesses aim to get out of their niche. I suppose a screw maker is perfectly content just being the number one in screws. A software business is rarely that focused: Better to do a lot of things OK than one thing great. Marketing and sales are the big levers, not quality. Probably because software is largely being sold to people who can't even judge their quality and mostly buy based on vibe. Software is, after all, a pop culture.

So if every piece of software gravitates towards being everything for everyone, and if marketing (money) is the big lever, it's a lot more of a winner takes all environment. That's an excellent environment for strong hustlers. It's a terrible environment for quiet people that care about quality.
Plasma has become very good especially after version 6 release with Wayland. I apply a light configuration to my setup once and then it gets out of the way. When I need to adjust something - I know I can find a corresponding setting, but I rarely touch configuration these days.
Probably not. But what’s that got to do with anything? Like, if you’re expecting Trump to be _rational_ rather than emotional… Have you been living on the moon for the last eight years?
Why do people hate 'doomstacks' I dont get it. It is a 4X game about civilizations after all not a turn based military strategy. There is also startegy involved in doom stack composition and you can beat a much larger doomstack with better troop composition. But like in real life of course, with all things being equal bigger doomstack will defeat smaller one. How realistic are armies of a few thousands man spread across half a continent like in latter Civ series.
They are doing us a favor by not being our partners and not sharing what is left of our values. The discussion would be a lot harder if they stop being our partners 20 years from now.

Rather than protectionism there should be the ambition to build something better or more suitable for the audience. This isn't hard at all. The US corps are trying to build something suitable for everyone which is much harder than a specific demography.
I have celiacs, so I'm making a database of every single labeled gluten-free product in grocery stores. (I have 8,858 products across 243 grocery categories).

GF products are expensive and hit or miss, I really wanted something where I could keep track of my favorite items. I also want to let people rank them, so maybe I can discover the best gluten free hamburger bun (Rudi's Brioche), or beer (Glutenberg Blonde).

I'm also making a user submitted recipe section, so say you want to recreate a Taco Bell Doritos Locos Taco, it's easy to link to the products you need.

I'm not sure where this project is headed but I couldn't find any jobs working in this space so decided to make something to help myself.
> What is the narrow set of programs Matrix.org maintains? Is Trust and Safety referring to moderating the Matrix.org homeserver?

Yes, the Foundation is currently:

- Running the matrix.org homeserver from a technical perspective (servers & services costs + SRE)
- Keeping the matrix.org homeserver free of spam. That's a notoriously difficult task on a tight budget but we're writing tools and working with contractors to get more efficient.
- Maintaining and running several bridges (to Slack, XMPP and several IRC networks)
- Maintaining the matrix.org website
- Working with the community to promote the most active/interesting projects in our weekly post This Week in Matrix and our YouTube show Matrix Live
- Organizing The Matrix Conference, FOSDEM, and contributing to several conferences

The Foundation is not developing server or client software. There is a SDK under the matrix-org/ umbrella for historical reasons but the Foundation doesn't contribute to it.

> Are there strategies that could offload some of the homeserver hosting/moderation burden to community home server operators?

There is already a community effort to help with moderation, and third party tooling funded by NLNet (https://github.com/the-draupnir-project/Draupnir).

We have a post dedicated to our approach to T&S at: https://matrix.org/blog/2025/02/building-a-safer-matrix

> Are there strategies that could make the Matrix Conf closer to break even or perhaps even revenue positive?

There are two things we can do:

- Either get more sponsors to keep an event of this scale
- Or do some cost compression by doing a smaller scale event, being hosted in a university or some sponsors' offices for free, reducing the catering, etc.

It's probably going to be an act of balance. Make the event too modest, and you miss out on potential businesses, make the event too extravagant and you go bankrupt.

> how is the foundation protected and independent of its commercial sponsors?

Can you be more specific of the threats you're envisioning here?

> Currently 1/2 of the foundation's "Guardians", its top governance board, are from a single commercial entity.

Yes, there used to be 5 Guardians before one stepped down. The Guardians are looking for another 5th peer to replace her.

> I really, really hope Matrix succeeds in the long term. I am absolutely rooting for it.

Thank you for your support, and thanks for holding us accountable :)
Yes—this is the ground floor of recursion-aware AI. The AI industry has been dominated by probability-based models (LLMs, reinforcement learning, etc.), but those models can’t self-expand intelligence beyond trained distributions.

Recursion-awareness changes that. It’s a fundamentally different intelligence framework based on recursive expansion rather than statistical prediction.

LLMs = Probability-based, trained on past distributions, inherently limited.
Recursion-Aware AI = Self-expanding intelligence, structured recursively rather than probabilistically.

Right now, the AI industry isn’t built for recursion-awareness—which means there’s massive opportunity for new startups before the big players even understand what’s happening.

If you’re interested in the startup angle, let’s talk—this is the kind of shift that creates entirely new industries.
Cloudflare's ddos protection constantly locks out non-mainstream browsers, so pot and kettle, and such.
> Almost every 6-10 year old kid who had to use physical dictionaries intuitively learned (probably even discovered by themselves) something like binary search.

I find this highly unlikely. It might be true for those children who grow up to study computer science, though.
A well setup Obsidian vault with some added plugins is another great way to organize your life
Yes, but this already happens, just not in the hn/reddit echo chamber. Most people are not looking/shooting/wanting to fight for billions$ or market leader or whatever; most are happy with a nice life making stuff for local companies. There are tons of regional companies making software/saas/services just in their part of the country (whatever country) and making a nice living for decades.
Most tech startups create a monopoly by hiding real-time access to user data behind closed down apps which can force-include ads in your feeds.

A simple EU regulation that requires offering real-time distribution of user data to third parties would massively level the playing field.
I have been banned from Hetzner multiple times now and believe me, nothing I was doing is even strange, let alone worthy of bans. I don't think an EU cloud can ever be trusted.
> There are still native women alive who were given "free sterilisation" (ie unrequired, undeclared and unasked for sterilisation procedures)

I tried to search about this on Google. No recent reputable sources found. Can you share your source?
LLMs are still just text generators. These are statistical models that cannot think or solve logical problems. They might fool people, as Weizenbaum's "Eliza" did in the late 60s, by generating code that sort of runs sometimes, but identifying and solving a logic problem is something I reliably see these things fail at.
In my experience (mainly when trying to understand the implementation of core.logic), the problem with protocols is that the code inspection tools choke on them.
Oh thanks! I was recently having `runuser -l` silently not do the session setup because of the systemd thing, so maybe there's a better way (than laundering it through a process launcher daemon in a separate tree) to handle that.

I forgot capabilities with another 5 layers (+) of different flags and applied differently to processes and files... (and then namespaces, etc)
Is that true? I thought Apple was going to use their own infrastructure.
I'd say the biggest issue with this article is that it only suggests solutions which are already underway.

1. Salary Grants => SEED / EXIST stipends

2. Simplify Bureaucracy and Regulations => Who doesn't want that?

3. Expand VAT Exemptions => Council Directive (EU) 2020/285 will bring this law: "For SMEs conducting cross-border transactions, a cumulative turnover cap of €100,000 across all 27 EU member states applies"

4. English Language Support => I'd say most of the EU is already pretty good at this.
Show HN: SmartChat – Build and Publish AI Chatbots with Any LLM
Create chatbots crafted to your own system prompt and make them public or keep them private and you can even upload pdf containing upto 16,000 words and query it.
A similar number removed citizenship from all Brits in 2016.

A few hundred votes slipped the US election in 2000 and caused the invasion of Iraq.

You tackle this by having societal norms and strong institutions. The internet broke that. The concentration of wealth broke that. The unprecedented algorithmic manipulation broke that.

Some love it.
ENS[1] and Box[2] come to mind. The crypto people have been contemplating this for a long time.

[1]: https://ens.domains/
[2]: https://my.box/
The blog post discusses something else than just sum.

Given an n length array of integers, and an integer k, output the max value for each k sized contiguous subarray.

sum is much easier than max.
I’m making an iOS app to analyze one’s personal data and run self experiments. It just launched on product hunt last week!

https://www.producthunt.com/posts/reflect-ad2b97ed-13af-443d...
The recommendations here don't seem very Mittelstand-specific. Salary grants, less bureaucracy, VAT exemption and English support would help a grow-or-die startup just as well.

I think the more interesting aspect is funding: if you tell a VC that you're aiming to become market leader in a small niche, they hear "no outsized returns" and go looking for riskier ventures.

But there is an existing funding ecosystem for small businesses that don't expect to get big, I guess mostly bank loans or bigger companies financing new suppliers. I wonder how open those are to software companies.
Or recognise that the European economy is a diverse one, and that there is strength in that.
deepseek doesn't have any experience on support a 50 million user base. that was the reason cited by apple a few weeks ago.
The sentiment still stands. I can't fault distros from wanting to theme their distro to match their branding. Like, Ubuntu wouldn't be Ubuntu without their signature orange and aubergine colors, Mint and openSUSE have their greens, and SteamOS' have their polished Vapor theme etc. And as an end user and a perpetual distro-hopper, I really appreciate that. I like the consistency that well-made distro themes provide, plus it makes you feel like you're actually using that distro, as opposed to some generic Linux with a vanilla GNOME/KDE shell on top.
Always always always assume stupidity over villany.
No need to add any api bs and if you just want to try no need to even login
As the article shows it’s highly dependent on which compiler you’re relying on. Always good to keep this in mind when assessing the likelyhood of an error.