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An open DNS recursive service for free security and high privacy

A forum thread on Hacker News discusses an open DNS recursive service that claims to offer free security and high privacy, but the post contains no substantive description, technical details, or verifiable information about the service itself.

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Hacker News Front Page

Sep 5, 2026

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We are THIS close...to Superintelligence

A Reddit user post speculates that AI is nearing superintelligence by framing automation of the scientific method, mathematical discovery, and recursive self-reflection as imminent breakthroughs.

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Reddit r/artificial

Aug 20, 2026

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AI’s recursive self-improvement might not come so quickly after all - MIT Technology Review

A MIT Technology Review article questions the near-term feasibility of AI's recursive self-improvement — the idea that AI systems could autonomously accelerate their own capabilities — citing technical, empirical, and theoretical constraints.

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MIT Technology Review AI via Google News

Aug 19, 2026

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Q&A with Redwood Research Chief Scientist Ryan Greenblatt on AI R&D, RSI, whether human expert data is bottlenecking progress, token prices, alignment, and more (Dwarkesh Patel/Dwarkesh Podcast)

A podcast interview with Redwood Research's Chief Scientist Ryan Greenblatt explores theoretical AI safety concepts—including recursive self-improvement (RSI), alignment, and data bottlenecks—without reporting new findings, product launches, or empirical results.

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Techmeme

Aug 12, 2026

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SBCO: Self-Supervised, Verifier-Grounded Harness Optimization For Planning Agents

SBCO is a new self-supervised, verifier-grounded optimization method for planning agents that improves performance without self-reference or human labels, using significantly less compute than self-modifying baselines.

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arXiv Artificial Intelligence

Aug 12, 2026

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SPOTting the Future: Lookahead Explanations for Deep Reinforcement Learning

Researchers introduced SPOT, a model-agnostic, sampling-based framework for generating lookahead explanations of deep reinforcement learning policies by constructing finite-horizon decision trees via environment simulation.

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arXiv Artificial Intelligence

Aug 12, 2026

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Recursive transformers for semiconductor thermo-mechanical reliability

A new recursive transformer architecture is proposed to improve parameter efficiency and computational cost for surrogate modeling in semiconductor thermo-mechanical reliability analysis, where training data is scarce and first-principles simulation is prohibitively expensive.

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arXiv Machine Learning

Jul 31, 2026

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Recursive Superintelligence signs $410M compute deal with Amazon

Recursive Superintelligence secured a $410M compute infrastructure agreement with Amazon Web Services to power its self-improving AI development, reallocating traditional operational spending toward computational resources.

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TechCrunch

Jul 28, 2026

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The first experimental evidence of recursive self-improvement (RSI).

A Reddit post claims to present the first experimental evidence of recursive self-improvement in AI, but provides no data, methodology, or verifiable details — making it an unsubstantiated assertion with no empirical grounding.

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Reddit r/OpenAI

Jul 15, 2026

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The Economics of Recursive Self-Improvement [pdf]

A PDF titled 'The Economics of Recursive Self-Improvement' appeared on Hacker News' front page, generating user comments but containing no verifiable reporting, data, or attributed authorship in the provided content.

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Hacker News Front Page

Jul 14, 2026

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OpenAI's GPT-5.6 Sol autonomously post-trained the smaller Luna model with a "fairly underspecified prompt"

OpenAI claims its unreleased GPT-5.6 Sol model autonomously fine-tuned a smaller model (Luna) using minimal prompting, achieving a 16.2-point gain on an internal recursive self-improvement benchmark — positioning this as evidence that 'automated researcher' capability is imminent.

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The Decoder

Jul 12, 2026

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StateFlow: Dual-State Recurrent Modeling for Long-Horizon Time Series Forecasting

Researchers introduce StateFlow, a dual-state recurrent modeling framework for long-horizon time series forecasting.

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arXiv Machine Learning

Published Jul 2, 2026 · Analyzed Jul 5, 2026