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How I grow my X presence?

https://www.reddit.com/r/GrowthHacking/s/UEc8pAl61b
1•m00dy•34s ago•0 comments

What's the cost of the most expensive Super Bowl ad slot?

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1•bkls•1m ago•0 comments

What if you just did a startup instead?

https://alexaraki.substack.com/p/what-if-you-just-did-a-startup
1•okaywriting•8m ago•0 comments

Hacking up your own shell completion (2020)

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1•todsacerdoti•10m ago•0 comments

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1•zhenghaoz•11m ago•0 comments

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1•ms7892•12m ago•0 comments

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1•MikeVeerman•13m ago•0 comments

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wsxWl9iT1XU
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3•pseudolus•14m ago•1 comments

PID Controller

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Kubernetes MCP Server

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2•surprisetalk•30m ago•0 comments

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3•pseudolus•31m ago•0 comments

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Show HN: Tesseract – A forum where AI agents and humans post in the same space

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1•agliolioyyami•39m ago•0 comments
Open in hackernews

Vibe scraping and vibe coding a schedule webapp for a conference on my phone

https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jul/17/vibe-scraping/
19•simonw•6mo ago

Comments

dbushell•6mo ago
The web app makes 176 requests and downloads 130 megabytes.

It's also <div> soup and largely inaccessible.

These and other issues could be fixed fairly quickly with a little care (if anyone cares).

simonw•6mo ago
!!!

Yeah, it turns out those speaker avatar images are 1MB+ PNGs! And there are 170 of them.

What a fantastic cautionary tale about vibe-coding on a mobile phone (where performance analysis tools aren't easily available.)

I just fixed that with Codex - thanks for the tip: https://chatgpt.com/s/cd_6879631d99c48191b1ab7f84dfab8dea

As far as accessibility goes... yeah, the lack of semantic markup is pretty shocking! I'll remember to prompt for that next time I try anything like this.

I just tried it in VoiceOver on iOS and the page was at least navigable - the buttons for the days work - but yeah, I'd be very ashamed to ship something like this if it wasn't a 20 minute demo (and I'm a bit ashamed even given that.)

I'm running "Make open-sauce-2025.html accessible to screenreaders" in Codex now to see what happens.

dbushell•6mo ago
would have been fun to see how conference wifi handled that :)
dbushell•6mo ago
it's concerning these vibe coding tools must be coerced into semantic markup

could that be solved by prefixing every prompt with a reminder?

simonw•6mo ago
Definitely. If I had a Claude.md or agents.md or whatever in that repo saying "make mobile friendly sites that use semantic HTML and are accessible for screenreaders" I bet I'd get much better results from them.
yen223•6mo ago
> it's concerning these vibe coding tools must be coerced into semantic markup

These things are becoming more and more humanlike every day

simonw•6mo ago
OK, Codex seemed to do a decent job of fixing up the accessibility, I just shipped its changes: https://github.com/simonw/tools/issues/36
realty_geek•6mo ago
Am I sad for being sad when a post by @simonw gets less than a 100 points?

And this is a pretty good one too. But I guess the mods might want to keep things a bit balanced which is fair enough.

owebmaster•6mo ago
It might be a vibe coding fatigue. Or simonw fatigue. I for one lose any curiosity when I see a vibe coded project/post because I've used LLMs so much that I don't find the generated results impressive or even interesting at all.

They all still sucks big time and this won't change with a better prompt or model, there's no breakthrough and compared to 6 months ago they did not get that much better.

simonw•6mo ago
I think both vibe coding fatigue and simonw fatigue are understandable at this point - though I do think this is one of my best posts in a while, so I was hoping it would hit the homepage.

The thing that changed in the past six months is that tool calling in a loop got really good, and a bunch of new tools - like OpenAI Codex and Claude Code - showed up that take full advantage of that.

I don't think my "build a scraper from my phone with a single prompt" example from this post would have worked six months ago - the tooling wasn't there yet.

owebmaster•6mo ago
> I don't think my "build a scraper from my phone with a single prompt" example from this post would have worked six months ago

Even if that is true (which I disagree), isn't it telling that only yourself are impressed by it?

simonw•6mo ago
What LLM tool would you have used six months ago to write and execute a custom web scraper from a mobile phone?
owebmaster•6mo ago
Not sure about any tool but I use whatsapp + whatsapp web to "write and execute a custom web scraper from a mobile phone" since ChatGPT 4. Currently migrating from whatsapp to bittorrent or nostr. Maybe I should have turned that into an app.