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Beam: Reflection's 501B open-weight model

https://reflection.ai/blog/introducing-beam
344•Philpax•8h ago•102 comments

Example.com just launched the biggest redesign in decades

https://www.debugbear.com/blog/example-dot-com-redesign-history
112•jgx0•4h ago•67 comments

Find the flattest route between any two points in SF

https://flattensf.com/
133•ishan0102•5h ago•41 comments

Dust: Pretraining Transformers Without Backpropagation

https://qlabs.sh/research/dust
121•E-Reverance•6h ago•21 comments

AI tutoring with Khanmigo in a two-year school experiment

https://edworkingpapers.com/ai26-1551
44•bryan0•3h ago•30 comments

Friendship ended with Deno, now Node is my best friend

https://dbushell.com/2026/10/03/deno-to-node/
86•ibobev•4h ago•26 comments

ChatGPT is adding real cartoonists' signatures to fake New Yorker cartoons

https://www.niemanlab.org/2026/10/chatgpt-is-adding-real-cartoonists-signatures-to-fake-new-yorke...
323•rdmuser•4h ago•217 comments

Opus 5.5 agents discover two room-temperature magnetic semiconductor candidates

https://www.vals.ai/blogs/room-temperature-magnetic-semiconductors
237•outlier99•6h ago•171 comments

An Algorithmic Failure Beneath the Secret Ballot

https://blog.citp.princeton.edu/2026/08/03/an-algorithmic-failure-beneath-the-secret-ballot/
39•leecoursey•2d ago•12 comments

Samon: Designing a Zen Garden Raking Puzzle

https://gwern.net/doc/design/2026-10-03-gwern-samon.html
26•networked•3h ago•7 comments

Web Search API

https://developers.cloudflare.com/changelog/post/2026-10-02-introducing-web-search-api/
496•tosh•16h ago•227 comments

Competitive Programmer's Handbook (2018) [pdf]

https://cses.fi/book/book.pdf
140•vinhnx•2d ago•32 comments

Worth Building

https://armstr.ng/writing/worth-building
48•colinarms•4h ago•38 comments

Anthropic reported diary entry to police, woman faces felony charge

https://www.techspot.com/news/114091-florida-woman-used-claude-diary-anthropic-reported-shoot.html
587•emptybits•21h ago•483 comments

Ephemeral Testing

https://lemire.me/blog/2026/10/05/ephemeral-testing/
37•ibobev•4h ago•13 comments

DEDA – Tracking Dots Extraction, Decoding and Anonymisation Toolkit

https://github.com/dfd-tud/deda
35•greyface-•1d ago•4 comments

Testing 12 different Zigbee temperature/humidity sensors

https://smarthomescene.com/reviews/best-selling-zigbee-temperature-sensors-tested/
52•walrus01•1d ago•13 comments

Global Solar Atlas: summary of solar power potential globally

https://globalsolaratlas.info/
18•stratts•4h ago•13 comments

Photopea creator weighs in on Photosuite project

https://github.com/eolix/photosuite/issues/77
31•montag•2h ago•13 comments

Using Blu-ray M-Disk as backup of last resort

https://smyck.net/2026/10/03/holocron-the-backup-of-last-resort/
74•hukl•1d ago•73 comments

Show HN: Photoc – Command-line tools for photographers

https://github.com/ahmetomerv/photoc
5•ahmetomer•2d ago•2 comments

Texas city demands $2M for public records on Flock usage

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/10/texas-city-demands-2m-for-public-records-on-flock-usage/
129•01-_-•5h ago•20 comments

Making a GTK application in Haskell, part 1

https://floreal.tech/blog/2026/making-a-gtk-app-in-haskell-part-1/
137•Vosporos•13h ago•36 comments

Learning Jazz Pianist Style with Cross-Attention Conditioning

https://almostimplemented.github.io/jazz-pianist-style/
29•ishan0102•4h ago•4 comments

Better Space-Time Trade-Offs for LSM-Tree Based Key-Value Stores [pdf]

https://nivdayan.github.io/dostoevsky.pdf
23•ibobev•5h ago•0 comments

Apple and a hacker's future

https://stratechery.com/2026/apple-and-a-hackers-future/
226•maguay•17h ago•198 comments

The lamps in my house

https://arslan.io/2026/10/05/the-lamps-in-my-house/
146•farslan•13h ago•71 comments

High Diesel Prices Bankrupted 16 Trucking Companies in Just 30 Days

https://www.thedrive.com/news/high-diesel-prices-bankrupted-16-trucking-companies-in-just-30-days
53•speckx•3h ago•29 comments

Unruly Folded Sheets

https://literaryreview.co.uk/unruly-folded-sheets
5•Thevet•1d ago•0 comments

Qualcomm licenses patents on Huawei’s LogicFolding chip tech

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-10-05/qualcomm-licenses-patents-on-huawei-s-logicfol...
180•0xedb•19h ago•120 comments
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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."