frontpage.
newsnewestaskshowjobs

Open Source @Github

fp.

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
[flagged]
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."

Previewing GPT‑5.6 Sol: a next-generation model

https://openai.com/index/previewing-gpt-5-6-sol/
747•minimaxir•6h ago•464 comments

A C++ implementation of a fast hash map and hash set using hopscotch hashing

https://github.com/Tessil/hopscotch-map
37•gjvc•2h ago•3 comments

The gap between open weights LLMs and closed source LLMs

https://blog.doubleword.ai/frontier-os-llm
80•kkm•2h ago•58 comments

U.S. government will decide who gets to use GPT-5.6

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2026/06/26/openai-says-us-government-will-vet-users-its...
708•alain94040•5h ago•833 comments

MicroVMs: Run isolated sandboxes with full lifecycle control

https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/run-isolated-sandboxes-with-full-lifecycle-control-aws-lambda-in...
230•justincormack•3d ago•136 comments

We Can Still Stop California's 3D Printer Surveillance Scheme

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/06/we-can-still-stop-californias-3d-printer-surveillance-scheme
115•hn_acker•2h ago•13 comments

The "Bizarre Headgear" exhibit at the Sam Noble museum

https://svpow.com/2026/05/15/the-bizarre-headgear-exhibit-at-the-sam-noble-museum-is-incredible/
63•surprisetalk•3d ago•6 comments

The US lifts its block on Mythos 5

https://twitter.com/Techmeme/status/2070638481265905837
42•bobrenjc93•38m ago•17 comments

A Tiny Compiler for Data-Parallel Kernels

https://healeycodes.com/a-tiny-compiler-for-data-parallel-kernels
7•healeycodes•1d ago•0 comments

Show HN: Smart model routing directly in Claude, Codex and Cursor

https://github.com/workweave/router
131•adchurch•6h ago•83 comments

Hightouch (YC S19) Is Hiring

https://hightouch.com/careers#open-positions
1•joshwget•2h ago

Ultrasound imaging of the brain

https://alephneuro.com/blog/ultrasound-brain
221•rossant•11h ago•91 comments

What Is a Nomogram and Why Would It Interest Me?

https://lefakkomies.github.io/pynomo-doc/introduction/introduction.html#what-is-a-nomogram-and-wh...
66•Eridanus2•6h ago•14 comments

The open source DOCX editor submitted to HN a few weeks ago has been deleted

28•gcanyon•1h ago•23 comments

PlayStation Is Deleting 551 Movies from Customers' Accounts

https://kotaku.com/playstation-store-movies-digital-studio-canal-terminator-2000711013
104•ortusdux•3h ago•55 comments

Modern GPU Programming for MLSys

https://mlc.ai/modern-gpu-programming-for-mlsys/
52•crowwork•3d ago•7 comments

Show HN: Autofit2 – End-to-end pipeline for multilingual text classification

https://github.com/neospe/autofit2
11•leschak•1d ago•0 comments

A human postmortem of the 1996 AOL outage

https://ngrok.com/blog/aol-was-down-1996
23•EndEntire•2d ago•3 comments

Long Wave radio era set to end with Droitwich switch-off

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c74yn7v7k4qo
35•speckx•4h ago•16 comments

The Art of Kite Flying (1430–1929)

https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/art-of-kite-flying/
19•benbreen•4d ago•9 comments

Pre-Modern Armies for Worldbuilders, Part III: Paying for It

https://acoup.blog/2026/06/26/collections-pre-modern-armies-for-worldbuilders-part-iii-paying-for...
31•jfoucher•5h ago•2 comments

The National Parks Were Reportedly Told to Stay Silent on Deaths

https://www.outsideonline.com/outdoor-adventure/environment/nps-internal-memo-deaths/?link_source...
56•LostMyLogin•2h ago•12 comments

Lippmann Photography

https://www.jonhilty.com/lippmann
7•andsoitis•2d ago•0 comments

Gossamer: a Rust-flavoured language with real goroutines and pause-free memory

https://gossamer-lang.org/
60•mwheeler•4h ago•48 comments

Data centers trigger voter backlash

https://www.newsweek.com/cost-me-the-election-data-centers-trigger-voter-backlash-12118327
144•randycupertino•6h ago•255 comments

LaTeX.wasm: LaTeX Engines in Browsers

https://www.swiftlatex.com/
76•theanonymousone•3d ago•28 comments

My Steam Machine is a 50ft HDMI cable

https://blog.matthewbrunelle.com/my-steam-machine-is-a-50ft-hdmi-cable/
142•speckx•3d ago•147 comments

Slisp: Simple Lisp compiler (Linux/amd64)

https://github.com/skx/slisp
49•stevekemp•4h ago•2 comments

Bipartite Matching Is in NC

https://scottaaronson.blog/?p=9851
105•amichail•4d ago•16 comments

Show HN: WebBase-III – dBASE III rebuilt in the browser with its own interpreter

https://github.com/DDecoene/WebBaseIII
76•ddecoene•2d ago•25 comments