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https://karpathy.bearblog.dev/hacker-tube/
687•karpathy•5h ago•233 comments

An Italian farmer found some unknown seeds in his attic and planted them

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/italian-farmer-found-unknown-seeds-attic-with-nothi...
125•ecares•2h ago•41 comments

TCP Use-After-Free: CVE-2026-98432 / CVSS 9.8

https://atlasum.net/blog/cve-2026-98432-linux-ipv4-tcp-uaf
330•oger•6h ago•158 comments

Memdoor: A team of 5 Qwen3.8-27B models beats Fable 5 on LiveCodeBench Hard

https://github.com/guregodevo/memdoor/tree/main/examples/workflows/team-solve
66•guregodevo•2h ago•35 comments

Altoids Project

https://uvdn7.github.io/altoids-project/
31•uvdn7•2h ago•0 comments

When electric cars were for women

https://spectrum.ieee.org/early-electric-vehicles
29•dverlaeckt80•2h ago•5 comments

It's the memory latency, stupid

https://pivotlake.io/blog/its-the-memory-latency-stupid/
121•ntur1337•6h ago•37 comments

First response from the Project Suncatcher prototype satellite

https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/models-and-research/google-research/project-suncatcher-sate...
30•praccu•21h ago•20 comments

Molly (Signal fork) has not been updated since 3 months and is vulnerable

https://piefed.world/post/1503394
301•DeepLogin•15h ago•176 comments

Jepsen: ParticleDB 1.1.4

https://jepsen.io/analyses/particledb-1.1.4
196•aphyr•11h ago•102 comments

Surviving "The Graduate"

https://www.newyorker.com/culture/the-weekend-essay/dustin-hoffman-on-surviving-the-graduate
59•samizdis•5h ago•15 comments

The Duty of a Scholar

https://www.daemonology.net/blog/2026-10-31-The-Duty-of-a-Scholar.html
88•gslin•6h ago•28 comments

Show HN: NES Contra (1987) port (ASM –> C and then C –> WebAssembly)

https://epoyraz.github.io/nes-contra-us/
47•tevlon•6h ago•30 comments

AI text watermarking and quality loss

https://blog.keyvan.net/p/ai-text-watermarking-and-quality
16•danielfoster•3h ago•1 comments

Sculpture re-creates odd optical effects of famed Lycurgus Cup

https://arstechnica.com/science/2026/10/scientists-recreate-the-1600-year-old-recipe-of-lycurgus-...
17•dverlaeckt80•1d ago•0 comments

Zinc creep in cable spelter sockets brought down the Arecibo telescope in 2020

https://maketecheasier.com/arecibo-zinc-creep-collapse/
18•ohjeez•1d ago•6 comments

Do the math: How we took over ChatGPT accounts

https://www.parameter.ai/labs/we-found-a-gap-at-openai
302•armcat•14h ago•149 comments

Much Ado About None: Sentinel Values in Python

https://florianwilhelm.info/2026/10/sentinel_values/
50•sebg•2d ago•28 comments

With 86% of the words, you might understand only 38% of an anime's lines

https://learnfromx.com/research/anime-word-coverage-vs-lines-understood
66•lakesare•4h ago•41 comments

Simple circuits can create complex behaviors

https://aatishb.com/myriad/lets-build-a-brain/
215•aatish•4d ago•68 comments

Anthropic blocks users for anything touching training larger models

https://twitter.com/jiahaoshao1/status/2116475922190922088
183•pretext•5h ago•94 comments

Show HN: A language model that lives in a boot sector

https://github.com/kerlenton/bootgpt
58•kerlenton•12h ago•1 comments

Distributed Proofreaders

https://www.pgdp.net/c/
26•gone35•4h ago•1 comments

Switch Lowering in GCC

https://xoranth.net/gcc-switch/
198•signa11•17h ago•39 comments

Reading and writing are less symmetric than you (probably) think

https://fgiesen.wordpress.com/2015/10/25/reading-and-writing-are-less-symmetric-than-you-probably...
78•luu•3d ago•22 comments

5 years of OqtaDrive: Microdrive emulation to Sinclair Network over the internet

https://oqtadrive.org/10.other/5-years/
17•xelalex•1d ago•3 comments

William Nordhaus has died

https://news.yale.edu/2026/10/31/william-nordhaus-nobel-laureate-who-integrated-economics-and-cli...
53•ilreb•7h ago•21 comments

Redox: Ring Buffers Project Summary

https://www.redox-os.org/news/nlnet-rb-summary/
58•g0xA52A2A•3d ago•12 comments

Rhind Mathematical Papyrus

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhind_Mathematical_Papyrus
16•sweetdingoes•1d ago•1 comments

Serbia just elected the world's brainiest parliament

https://www.science.org/content/article/serbia-just-elected-world-s-brainiest-parliament
809•input_sh•15h ago•462 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•1y ago

Comments

johnnyfived•1y 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•1y ago
I just came to bring the calculator for all the hate you're going to receive. Popcorn.
chmod775•1y 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•1y 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•1y 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•1y 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•1y 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•1y 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•1y ago
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johnnyfived•1y ago
And counting
Mountain_Skies•1y 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•1y 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."