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Corruption erodes social trust more in democracies than in autocracies

https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/political-science/articles/10.3389/fpos.2026.1779810/full
88•PaulHoule•1h ago•27 comments

Canada's bill C-22 mandates mass metadata surveillance

https://www.michaelgeist.ca/2026/03/a-tale-of-two-bills-lawful-access-returns-with-changes-to-war...
810•opengrass•15h ago•239 comments

Polymarket gamblers threaten to kill me over Iran missile story

https://www.timesofisrael.com/gamblers-trying-to-win-a-bet-on-polymarket-are-vowing-to-kill-me-if...
226•defly•1h ago•128 comments

The "are you sure?" Problem: Why AI keeps changing its mind

https://www.randalolson.com/2026/02/07/the-are-you-sure-problem-why-your-ai-keeps-changing-its-mind/
11•turoczy•18h ago•11 comments

How I write software with LLMs

https://www.stavros.io/posts/how-i-write-software-with-llms/
297•indigodaddy•11h ago•241 comments

The 49MB web page

https://thatshubham.com/blog/news-audit
643•kermatt•17h ago•290 comments

Chrome DevTools MCP (2025)

https://developer.chrome.com/blog/chrome-devtools-mcp-debug-your-browser-session
521•xnx•17h ago•209 comments

Nango (YC W23, API Access for Agents and Apps) Is Hiring

https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/Nango
1•bastienbeurier•1h ago

Home Assistant waters my plants

https://finnian.io/blog/home-assistant-waters-my-plants/
85•finniananderson•4d ago•34 comments

Electric motor scaling laws and inertia in robot actuators

https://robot-daycare.com/posts/actuation_series_1/
113•o4c•4d ago•20 comments

Six ingenious ways how Canon DSLRs used to illuminate their autofocus points

https://exclusivearchitecture.com/03-technical-articles-CSDS-00-table-of-contents.html
62•ExAr•1d ago•14 comments

Stop Sloppypasta

https://stopsloppypasta.ai/
444•namnnumbr•19h ago•180 comments

What every computer scientist should know about floating-point arithmetic (1991) [pdf]

https://www.itu.dk/~sestoft/bachelor/IEEE754_article.pdf
87•jbarrow•4d ago•16 comments

LLM Architecture Gallery

https://sebastianraschka.com/llm-architecture-gallery/
458•tzury•21h ago•34 comments

LLMs can be exhausting

https://tomjohnell.com/llms-can-be-absolutely-exhausting/
255•tjohnell•16h ago•171 comments

Kona EV Hacking

http://techno-fandom.org/~hobbit/cars/ev/
60•AnnikaL•4d ago•32 comments

Why Are Viral Capsids Icosahedral?

https://www.asimov.press/p/viral-capsids
19•surprisetalk•3d ago•0 comments

Scientists discover a surprising way to quiet the anxious mind (2025)

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2025/10/251027023816.htm
31•carlos-menezes•1h ago•28 comments

Reviewing Large Changes with Jujutsu

https://ben.gesoff.uk/posts/reviewing-large-changes-with-jj/
35•bengesoff•4d ago•4 comments

Separating the Wayland compositor and window manager

https://isaacfreund.com/blog/river-window-management/
317•dpassens•22h ago•174 comments

The Accidental Room (2018)

https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/the-accidental-room/
44•blewboarwastake•2d ago•5 comments

The Linux Programming Interface as a university course text

https://man7.org/tlpi/academic/index.html
122•teleforce•13h ago•19 comments

The emergence of print-on-demand Amazon paperback books

https://www.alexerhardt.com/en/enshittification-amazon-paperback-books/
182•aerhardt•1d ago•143 comments

Glassworm is back: A new wave of invisible Unicode attacks hits repositories

https://www.aikido.dev/blog/glassworm-returns-unicode-attack-github-npm-vscode
282•robinhouston•1d ago•169 comments

//go:fix inline and the source-level inliner

https://go.dev/blog/inliner
172•commotionfever•4d ago•69 comments

How far can you go with IX Route Servers only?

https://blog.benjojo.co.uk/post/how-far-can-you-get-with-ix-route-servers
47•ingve•4d ago•3 comments

Bus travel from Lima to Rio de Janeiro

https://kenschutte.com/lima-to-rio-by-bus/
201•ks2048•4d ago•76 comments

Lies I was told about collaborative editing, Part 2: Why we don't use Yjs

https://www.moment.dev/blog/lies-i-was-told-pt-2
114•antics•3d ago•61 comments

What makes Intel Optane stand out (2023)

https://blog.zuthof.nl/2023/06/02/what-makes-intel-optane-stand-out/
213•walterbell•22h ago•149 comments

A Visual Introduction to Machine Learning (2015)

https://r2d3.us/visual-intro-to-machine-learning-part-1/
374•vismit2000•1d ago•31 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•10mo ago

Comments

johnnyfived•10mo 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•10mo ago
I just came to bring the calculator for all the hate you're going to receive. Popcorn.
chmod775•10mo 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•10mo 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•10mo 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•10mo 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•10mo 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•10mo 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•10mo ago
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johnnyfived•10mo ago
And counting
Mountain_Skies•10mo 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•10mo 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."