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dana321··on Ask HN: Has anyone shipped a self-modifying application with LLMs?
I've been pondering having some kind of environment that the language model can just modify the application in real time while it is running.

I asked chatgpt and it said hot reloading in a browser, but thats not what i'm talking about. I'm meaning realtime high performance desktop applications that the user can prompt to change the app in realtime while it is running.

The closest thing i saw to this was something called VibeOS, but thats a whole operating system.

dana321··on GPT-5.6 Sol Pricing Cut by 50%
"rewrite unreal engine in rust, make no mistakes"
dana321··on 'VPNs are lawful technical tools,' says EU Court in landmark copyright ruling
The UK government recently said it was not going to ban VPNs

https://www.independent.co.uk/extras/indybest/gadgets-tech/v...

dana321··on Why do we think we understand the world more than we actually do?
"If you're toilet is leaking its probably a faulty flapper" is rooted into my brain. What is a flapper, and why is it called a flapper?
dana321··on Why write code in 2026
I have a few personal projects, i let codex do all the code - i do the thinking and testing.

One time, something didn't work as expected - its the first time it happened with this project. I read through the section of code and it was perfectly readable and well-written.

Turned out a plugin wasn't effecting the audio, so i just got it to pad some blank audio onto the beginning before processing it, then remove it at the end of the process. That fixed the issue, there was nothing wrong with the code but my ability to think laterally is what made it work.

We're getting to the stage where you can just ask them to write code and they will do what you want, and it writes good code. Its up to you to test everything beyond the internal tests it writes.

dana321··on Mesh LLM: distributed AI computing on iroh
I knew this was possible, i asked chatgpt about a year ago and it said no the latency would be too big of a problem. I spent the best part of a year learning libp2p and was looking for a project to do with it at the time.
dana321··on John Deere owners will get the right to repair equipment under FTC settlement
That is good news for once
dana321··on Meta reuses old RAM in new servers with custom bridge chip
Supply-demand economics really went awry in the age of chasing agi
dana321··on Zuckerberg says AI agent development going slower than expected
You always get more work done when you have no legs to worry about
dana321··on SpaceX to buy Cursor for $60B
The writing was on the wall for cursor, this is a good deal for them to get bailed out and continue business.
dana321··on What its like to be an AI Artist [video]
This video tells the story of what its like to be an AI artist
dana321··on AI is just unauthorised plagiarism at a bigger scale
Breaking the law to start a large company seems to be the norm
dana321··on Local AI needs to be the norm
"NO AI" needs to be the norm, we should be working on better ways of sharing information and better documentation instead of fighting with computers for substandard results.
dana321··on Async Rust never left the MVP state
It doesn't take a week to learn the async basics.

add async keyword to functions add .await when calling them use tokio in your main function (easy to look up) use the async recursion crate if you need to use recursion but don't want to box everything

There are some bonuses like calling functions in parallel, but there you go.

dana321··on The West forgot how to make things, now it’s forgetting how to code
You are not using as much of your brain (solving problems, thinking etc.) so you end up in a cycle of becoming stupider and stupider the more you use ai, so eventually your prompts get worse and worse then you start asking "why is it not working as good as it was two weeks ago"
dana321··on OpenAI Acquires TBPN
The attention economy, that is the game - there isn't anything else to it now.

Without attention you're nothing.

dana321··on Britain today generating 90%+ of electricity from renewables
Yes, because its windy today
dana321··on People inside Microsoft are fighting to drop mandatory Microsoft Account
You don't need and apple account to use macos
dana321··on Vibe-Coded Ext4 for OpenBSD
click to continue
dana321··on Epic Games to cut more than 1k jobs as Fortnite usage falls
Its kind of a miracle that any working game gets made on unreal engine considering how buggy the editor is.
dana321··on Meta Horizon Worlds on Meta Quest is being discontinued
Thats a lot of money to (attempt to) remake Ready Player One, and then abandon it??
dana321··on OpenAI Has New Focus (on the IPO)
All the models ignore specific instructions most of the time.

It requires follow-up instructions to get it to do what you want.

By the time its farted around and you have farted around reprompting it you could have done the change yourself.

dana321··on Grammarly Is Facing a Class Action Lawsuit over Its AI 'Expert Review' Feature
Shocking that they did this without permission.
dana321··on Digg is gone again
That and most of the news being behind a paywall, which they can scrape anyway.

The internet archive is my safe haven these days, i can go back and remember the old internet.

dana321··on Parallels confirms MacBook Neo can run Windows in a virtual machine
Not many people know this, but you can use wine on macos.

brew install wine-stable

or package any windows app with your own environment:

brew install --cask Sikarugir-App/sikarugir/sikarugir

dana321··on I Left Anthropic: A note and a letter to former colleagues
clutch
dana321··on Making WebAssembly a first-class language on the Web
This is a brilliant idea for webassembly, implementing the core browser features as libraries - they should do it.

(though i do like the open code nature of the internet even if a lot of the javascript source code is unreadable and/or obfuscated)

dana321··on After outages, Amazon to make senior engineers sign off on AI-assisted changes
Its useful but it makes wrong assumptions, not checking the code is essentially gambling.
dana321··on Redox OS has adopted a Certificate of Origin policy and a strict no-LLM policy
Generating small chunks of code with llms to save time works well, as long as you can read and understand the code i don't see what the problem is.
dana321··on Show HN: The Mog Programming Language
They could have just used cranelift for jit, but no..
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