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Show HN: TRELLIS.2 image-to-3D running on Mac Silicon – no Nvidia GPU needed

https://github.com/shivampkumar/trellis-mac
63•shivampkumar•2h ago•7 comments

A Brief History of Fish Sauce

https://www.legalnomads.com/fish-sauce/
95•vinhnx•18h ago•42 comments

Vercel April 2026 security incident

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/vercel-confirms-breach-as-hackers-claim-to-be-sell...
570•colesantiago•12h ago•328 comments

The insider trading suspicions looming over Trump's presidency

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cge0grppe3po
109•blondie9x•1h ago•29 comments

The Bromine Chokepoint

https://warontherocks.com/cogs-of-war/the-bromine-chokepoint-how-strife-in-the-middle-east-could-...
165•crescit_eundo•9h ago•76 comments

Mechanical Keyboard Sounds - A listening Museum

https://sheets.works/data-viz/keyboard-sounds
36•akashwadhwani35•4d ago•4 comments

Turtle WoW classic server announces shutdown after Blizzard wins injunction

https://www.pcgamer.com/games/world-of-warcraft/turtle-wow-classic-server-announces-shutdown-afte...
137•Brajeshwar•11h ago•111 comments

Swiss AI Initiative (2023)

https://www.swiss-ai.org
24•doener•4h ago•6 comments

Changes in the system prompt between Claude Opus 4.6 and 4.7

https://simonwillison.net/2026/Apr/18/opus-system-prompt/
231•pretext•16h ago•131 comments

Ex-CEO, ex-CFO of bankrupt AI company charged with fraud

https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/ex-ceo-ex-cfo-bankrupt-ai-company-charged-with-fraud-202...
131•1vuio0pswjnm7•4h ago•55 comments

2,100 Swiss municipalities showing which provider handles their official email

https://mxmap.ch/
77•doener•4h ago•20 comments

Show HN: A lightweight way to make agents talk without paying for API usage

https://juanpabloaj.com/2026/04/16/a-lightweight-way-to-make-agents-talk-without-paying-for-api-u...
10•juanpabloaj•2h ago•3 comments

Prove you are a robot: CAPTCHAs for agents

https://browser-use.com/posts/prove-you-are-a-robot
56•lukasec•4d ago•28 comments

Scientific datasets are riddled with copy-paste errors

https://www.sciencedetective.org/scientific-datasets-are-riddled-with-copy-paste-errors/
41•jruohonen•7h ago•5 comments

Six Levels of Dark Mode (2024)

https://cssence.com/2024/six-levels-of-dark-mode/
56•Akcium•8h ago•22 comments

Show HN: A working reference implementation of context engineering

https://github.com/outcomeops/context-engineering
31•linsys•2d ago•10 comments

I wrote a CHIP-8 emulator in my own programming language

https://github.com/navid-m/chip8emu
50•pizza_man•7h ago•13 comments

Stop trying to engineer your way out of listening to people

https://ashley.rolfmore.com/stop-trying-to-engineer-your-way-out-of-listening-to-people/
33•walterbell•6h ago•3 comments

Archive of BYTE magazine, starting with issue #1 in 1975

https://archive.org/details/byte-magazine-1975-09
543•DamnInteresting•2d ago•141 comments

The RAM shortage could last years

https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/914672/the-ram-shortage-could-last-years
211•omer_k•19h ago•223 comments

Recovering Windows Live Writer Files

https://benovermyer.com/blog/2026/04/recovering-windows-live-writer-files/
11•bovermyer•5d ago•2 comments

Interesting Map Geometry and Mathematics

https://www.markrjohnsongames.com/2026/04/11/ultima-ratio-regum-0-11-update-57-interesting-map-ge...
11•Hooke•1d ago•0 comments

The seven programming ur-languages (2022)

https://madhadron.com/programming/seven_ur_languages.html
295•helloplanets•19h ago•113 comments

Creating a Bootable Backup USB with Encryption (for Pop!OS Linux)

https://hajo.me/blog/2026/02/16/popos-linux-creating-bootable-backup-USB-with-encryption/
8•fxtentacle•2d ago•0 comments

Show HN: Faceoff – A terminal UI for following NHL games

https://www.vincentgregoire.com/faceoff/
103•vcf•9h ago•35 comments

Nanopass Framework: Clean Compiler Creation Language

https://nanopass.org/
124•NordStreamYacht•4d ago•27 comments

Claude Token Counter, now with model comparisons

https://simonwillison.net/2026/Apr/20/claude-token-counts/
5•twapi•2h ago•0 comments

SPEAKE(a)R: Turn Speakers to Microphones for Fun and Profit [pdf] (2017)

https://www.usenix.org/system/files/conference/woot17/woot17-paper-guri.pdf
165•Eridanus2•18h ago•68 comments

What are skiplists good for?

https://antithesis.com/blog/2026/skiptrees/
271•mfiguiere•2d ago•64 comments

Canada's PM calls economic ties with US a weakness that must be corrected

https://abcnews.com/Business/wireStory/canadas-prime-minister-economic-ties-us-weakness-corrected...
33•jmward01•2h ago•1 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•12mo ago

Comments

johnnyfived•12mo 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•11mo ago
I just came to bring the calculator for all the hate you're going to receive. Popcorn.
chmod775•11mo 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•11mo 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•11mo 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•11mo 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•11mo 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•11mo 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•11mo ago
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johnnyfived•11mo ago
And counting
Mountain_Skies•11mo 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•11mo 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."