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Fighting Fire with Fire: Scalable Oral Exams

https://www.behind-the-enemy-lines.com/2025/12/fighting-fire-with-fire-scalable-oral.html
49•sethbannon•1h ago•37 comments

Ask HN: Who is hiring? (January 2026)

177•whoishiring•4h ago•89 comments

4th Edition Unix in the Browser

https://unixv4.dev/
21•pjmlp•42m ago•5 comments

Clicks Communicator

https://www.clicksphone.com/en/communicator
133•microflash•2h ago•93 comments

FracturedJson

https://github.com/j-brooke/FracturedJson/wiki
410•PretzelFisch•7h ago•109 comments

Publish (On Your) Own Site, Syndicate Elsewhere

https://indieweb.org/POSSE#
9•47thpresident•12m ago•0 comments

10 years of personal finances in plain text files

https://sgoel.dev/posts/10-years-of-personal-finances-in-plain-text-files/
344•wrxd•8h ago•145 comments

TinyTinyTPU: 2×2 systolic-array TPU-style matrix-multiply unit deployed on FPGA

https://github.com/Alanma23/tinytinyTPU-co
15•Xenograph•47m ago•4 comments

IPv6 just turned 30 and still hasn't taken over the world

https://www.theregister.com/2025/12/31/ipv6_at_30/
85•Brajeshwar•5h ago•132 comments

What you need to know before touching a video file

https://gist.github.com/arch1t3cht/b5b9552633567fa7658deee5aec60453/
190•qbow883•6d ago•124 comments

Punkt. Unveils MC03 Smartphone

https://www.punkt.ch/blogs/news/punkt-unveils-mc03
68•ChrisArchitect•3h ago•63 comments

Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (January 2026)

56•whoishiring•4h ago•91 comments

Standard Ebooks: Public Domain Day 2026 in Literature

https://standardebooks.org/blog/public-domain-day-2026
294•WithinReason•11h ago•44 comments

Assorted less(1) tips

https://blog.thechases.com/posts/assorted-less-tips/
123•todsacerdoti•7h ago•29 comments

39th Chaos Communication Congress Videos

https://media.ccc.de/b/congress/2025
303•Jommi•6h ago•45 comments

Accounting for Computer Scientists (2011)

https://martin.kleppmann.com/2011/03/07/accounting-for-computer-scientists.html
10•tosh•1h ago•0 comments

Miri: Practical Undefined Behavior Detection for Rust [pdf]

https://research.ralfj.de/papers/2026-popl-miri.pdf
40•ingve•4d ago•6 comments

C –> Java != Java –> LLM

http://www.observationalhazard.com/2025/12/c-java-java-llm.html
10•WoodenChair•5d ago•8 comments

HPV vaccination reduces oncogenic HPV16/18 prevalence from 16% to <1% in Denmark

https://www.eurosurveillance.org/content/10.2807/1560-7917.ES.2025.30.27.2400820
412•stared•9h ago•217 comments

Why users cannot create Issues directly

https://github.com/ghostty-org/ghostty/issues/3558
675•xpe•18h ago•244 comments

ThingsBoard: Open-Source IoT Platform

https://github.com/thingsboard/thingsboard
35•pretext•5d ago•4 comments

Happy Public Domain Day 2026

https://publicdomainreview.org/blog/2026/01/public-domain-day-2026/
404•apetresc•18h ago•81 comments

Parental controls aren't for parents

https://beasthacker.com/til/parental-controls-arent-for-parents.html
246•beasthacker•6h ago•230 comments

The rsync algorithm (1996) [pdf]

https://www.andrew.cmu.edu/course/15-749/READINGS/required/cas/tridgell96.pdf
13•vortex_ape•3h ago•1 comments

One Number I Trust: Plain-Text Accounting for a Multi-Currency Household

https://lalitm.com/post/one-number-i-trust/
101•ayi•9h ago•64 comments

A small collection of text-only websites

https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2025/12/a-small-collection-of-text-only-websites/
86•danielfalbo•8h ago•37 comments

A website to destroy all websites

https://henry.codes/writing/a-website-to-destroy-all-websites/
714•g0xA52A2A•23h ago•347 comments

Show HN: Dealta – A game-theoretic decentralized trading protocol

https://github.com/orgs/Dealta-Foundation/repositories
47•kalenvale•7h ago•18 comments

Matz 2/2: The trajectory of Ruby's growth, Open-Source Software today etc.

https://en.kaigaiiju.ch/episodes/matz2
94•kibitan•1w ago•47 comments

Going immutable on macOS, using Nix-Darwin

https://carette.xyz/posts/going_immutable_macos/
95•weird_trousers•11h ago•63 comments
Open in hackernews

How to Vibe Code a Logomaker in 10 Days

https://medium.com/@johnnyfived/how-to-vibe-code-a-logomaker-in-10-days-llms-can-they-build-it-b744209e350b
8•johnnyfived•8mo ago

Comments

johnnyfived•8mo ago
Logomaker (https://github.com/manicinc/logomaker) is a web and desktop app designed and developed entirely by LLMs over a period of 10 days, to see how far vibe coding can take you.

Try the app free forever on GitHub pages: https://manicinc.github.io/logomaker/.

okokwhatever•8mo ago
I just came to bring the calculator for all the hate you're going to receive. Popcorn.
chmod775•8mo ago
Was the AI playing codegolf? I'm used to AI writing needlessly verbose code and confusing itself with its own comments. This is the polar opposite, but equally horrifying.

Is it a strategy to fit more code into its context window?

https://github.com/manicinc/logomaker/blob/master/js/fontMan...

It's rather impressive because the result works.

dockercompost•8mo ago
Oh god that's gnarly. I'm pretty sure you're right about it being a strategy to fit more into the context window. Prior to Windsurf changing their credit system I'd thought about purposefully limiting my file lengths to fit under multiples of 100 to use fewer of the defunct flow credits.
johnnyfived•8mo ago
Great catch, I noticed this with Gemini specifically, while GPT-4o and Claude would just insert placeholders. Gemini would actually enforce generating full scripts by means like this. And higher-level logic looks human-readable, though this might be because I prompted Gemini multiple times to make more usable code.
matt_heimer•8mo ago
Seems about right for AI generated code. It breaks words on any letter and on mobile the default text "Manic" ends up as:

Mani

c

Switching to desktop view doesn't cause the default text to wrap... So I guess you get different logo generation depending on browser size? Or at least different previews.

I'd expect a logo generator to never break words in-between letters unless explicitly asked for.

AI generated code is useful but it shouldn't be trusted to be complete.

dgfitz•8mo ago
I have the same result.

My only thought was: if my employer paid me for 2 weeks (10 days) of work and this is what popped out the other end, I would be looking for a new employer, this isn’t acceptable where I work.

lukev•8mo ago
I hate this app and I hate its code.

I think the fact that this can happen at all is important.

And whoever can contextualize this capability in the context of "real" software development will be the victor.

abetancort•8mo ago
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johnnyfived•8mo ago
And counting
Mountain_Skies•8mo ago
Seems pretty harmless. There's no PII or PCI data. It doesn't interact with the physical world. I'm far more concerned about "vibe" coding being used in situations where it can cause real harm. Human coders can and do make mistakes of that type but there are review processes to catch them. In theory, the same reviews could be used for vibe code but the big appeal of it is cutting out the type of people who can identify and correct such defects.
xnx•8mo ago
Amazingly, Gemini has gotten so good that you can one-shot this: https://g.co/gemini/share/7f98e1145bc0

I was too lazy to prompt it with full requirements, but it did very well for a first attempt with: "Create a single page web app using vanilla javascript that allows the user to enter up to 40 characters of text and has interface controls for many css attributes including: font-family, size, letter-spacing, text-transform, weight, text-decoration, style, padding, rotation, color, border color, animation, etc."