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What an unprocessed photo looks like

https://maurycyz.com/misc/raw_photo/
1535•zdw•12h ago•252 comments

Staying ahead of censors in 2025

https://forum.torproject.org/t/staying-ahead-of-censors-in-2025-what-weve-learned-from-fighting-c...
144•ggeorgovassilis•5h ago•91 comments

Show HN: Z80-μLM, a 'Conversational AI' That Fits in 40KB

https://github.com/HarryR/z80ai
168•quesomaster9000•5h ago•40 comments

Asking Gemini 3 for Brainf*ck code puts it in an infinite loop

https://teodordyakov.github.io/brainfuck-agi/
23•TeodorDyakov•1h ago•11 comments

You can make up HTML tags

https://maurycyz.com/misc/make-up-tags/
264•todsacerdoti•8h ago•100 comments

Developing a Beautiful and Performant Block Editor in Qt C++ and QML

https://rubymamistvalove.com/block-editor
48•michaelsbradley•2d ago•13 comments

EU to build no-fee payments service like Visa/Mastercard and Apple/Google Pay

https://www.independent.ie/business/digital-euro-what-it-is-and-how-we-will-use-the-new-form-of-c...
43•seanieb•50m ago•10 comments

Binaries

https://fzakaria.com/2025/12/28/huge-binaries
47•todsacerdoti•5h ago•18 comments

Show HN: My not-for-profit search engine with no ads, no AI, & all DDG bangs

https://nilch.org
86•UnmappedStack•5h ago•45 comments

Unity's Mono problem: Why your C# code runs slower than it should

https://marekfiser.com/blog/mono-vs-dot-net-in-unity/
202•iliketrains•13h ago•100 comments

My First Meshtastic Network

https://rickcarlino.com/notes/electronics/my-first-meshtastic-network.html
52•rickcarlino•5h ago•23 comments

Koine

https://github.com/pattern-zones-co/koine
7•handfuloflight•3d ago•2 comments

As AI gobbles up chips, prices for devices may rise

https://www.npr.org/2025/12/28/nx-s1-5656190/ai-chips-memory-prices-ram
169•geox•12h ago•242 comments

Software engineers should be a little bit cynical

https://www.seangoedecke.com/a-little-bit-cynical/
201•zdw•13h ago•140 comments

Growing up in “404 Not Found”: China's nuclear city in the Gobi Desert

https://substack.com/inbox/post/182743659
770•Vincent_Yan404•1d ago•341 comments

MongoBleed Explained Simply

https://bigdata.2minutestreaming.com/p/mongobleed-explained-simply
195•todsacerdoti•13h ago•74 comments

Researchers discover molecular difference in autistic brains

https://medicine.yale.edu/news-article/molecular-difference-in-autistic-brains/
138•amichail•12h ago•77 comments

PySDR: A Guide to SDR and DSP Using Python

https://pysdr.org/content/intro.html
183•kklisura•14h ago•8 comments

Spherical Cow

https://lib.rs/crates/spherical-cow
98•Natfan•11h ago•14 comments

Formally Verifying Peephole Optimisations in Lean

https://l-m.dev/cs/formally-verifying-peephole-optimisations-in-lean/
7•l-mdev•6d ago•2 comments

Fast GPU Interconnect over Radio

https://spectrum.ieee.org/rf-over-fiber
28•montroser•7h ago•1 comments

Mouse: Computer Programming Language

http://mouse.davidgsimpson.com/
13•gappy•2d ago•3 comments

Formulaic Delimiters in the Iliad and the Odyssey

https://glthr.com/formulaic-delimiters-in-the-iliad-and-the-odyssey
18•glth•2d ago•6 comments

Slaughtering Competition Problems with Quantifier Elimination (2021)

https://grossack.site/2021/12/22/qe-competition.html
55•todsacerdoti•11h ago•0 comments

Line scan camera image processing

https://daniel.lawrence.lu/blog/2025-09-21-line-scan-camera-image-processing/
41•vasco•4d ago•2 comments

A bitwise reproducible deep learning framework

https://github.com/microsoft/RepDL
24•noosphr•1w ago•0 comments

Finding Jingle Town: Debugging an N64 Game Without Symbols

https://blog.chrislewis.au/finding-jingle-town-debugging-an-n64-game-without-symbols/
32•knackers•5d ago•3 comments

Fast CVVDP implementation in C

https://github.com/halidecx/fcvvdp
36•todsacerdoti•11h ago•7 comments

Why I Disappeared – My week with minimal internet in a remote island chain

https://www.kenklippenstein.com/p/why-i-disappeared
84•eh_why_not•13h ago•99 comments

C++ says “We have try... finally at home”

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20251222-00/?p=111890
123•ibobev•1d ago•133 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."