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MartyPC is a cross-platform emulator of early PCs written in Rust

https://martypc.net/
77•boilerupnc•3h ago•15 comments

The Golden Rule for Becoming a Better Writer

https://nappertime.com/the-golden-rule-of-becoming-a-better-writer/
57•andsoitis•3h ago•28 comments

The End of an Athlon

http://www.os2museum.com/wp/the-end-of-an-athlon/
13•userbinator•1h ago•0 comments

JIT Compiling Code in 5μs

https://malisper.me/jit-compiling-code-in-5-us/
5•zX41ZdbW•46m ago•0 comments

I Dream of Quieter Computing

https://henry.codes/writing/i-dream-of-quieter-computing/
48•Sir_Twist•4h ago•16 comments

The Art and Beauty of Blade Runner (2015)

https://nappertime.com/the-art-of-and-beauty-of-blade-runner/
54•cocacola1•5h ago•13 comments

Why your local LLM feels dumber than it is

https://forum.level1techs.com/t/why-your-local-llm-feels-dumber-than-it-is/253917
282•felineflock•12h ago•93 comments

Scrap (2006)

https://twitter.com/moxie/status/2091218652133732491
364•tosh•12h ago•194 comments

Wi-Fi 8 is the first wireless upgrade in years that isn't chasing speed

https://www.xda-developers.com/wi-fi-8-first-wireless-upgrade-years-isnt-chasing-speed-home-netwo...
8•taubek•9m ago•0 comments

ElevenLabs, TwelveLabs, ThirteenLabs

https://quantumi.sh/public/labs.html
365•jemoka•15h ago•113 comments

Hister – A private, full content search index that you control

https://hister.org/
307•auraham•4d ago•77 comments

NanoGPT Speedrun Frontier

https://www.primeintellect.ai/research/nanogpt-speedrun
85•stared•8h ago•25 comments

RF Cafe

https://www.rfcafe.com/
188•gregsadetsky•4d ago•32 comments

typ.ing

https://typ.ing/
242•bookofjoe•4d ago•73 comments

I set a trap for a book-marketing scammer (2025)

https://rwwgreene.substack.com/p/i-set-a-trap-for-a-book-marketing
30•rznicolet•12h ago•17 comments

How a Texas student blew the whistle on a rogue AI hacking attempt

https://www.reuters.com/world/how-texas-student-blew-whistle-rogue-ai-hacking-attempt-2026-08-20/
149•olalonde•1d ago•48 comments

Thinking in Python

https://thinkinginpython.com/
128•pjacotg•12h ago•24 comments

Canada will match US tariffs 'dollar for dollar' as trade talks break down

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cvgvyy4x2mvo
600•tartoran•1d ago•1387 comments

A Friendly Introduction to Racket

https://geometridae.bearblog.dev/a-friendly-introduction-to-racket/
220•signa11•16h ago•115 comments

NetBSD and my life (2005)

https://mail-index.netbsd.org/netbsd-advocacy/2005/09/10/0000.html
112•gnyeki•11h ago•28 comments

ATProto spaces: A new extension to ATProto that enables non-public data

https://atproto.com/blog/atproto-spaces-alpha
134•grappler•2d ago•18 comments

Show HN: Public Muscriptor Instance (latest, most powerful Audio-to-MIDI model)

https://www.pianoify.net/
34•jardy•1d ago•7 comments

A week of using Codex more than Claude

https://allaboutcoding.ghinda.com/a-week-of-using-codex-more-than-claude/
180•speckx•1d ago•196 comments

Munder Difflin – Agent harness to run an office of your clones

https://munderdiffl.in/
275•simonpure•21h ago•118 comments

Reading Maps – Journeys from fiction drawn on the real world

https://readingmaps.com/
28•hakkikonu•12h ago•3 comments

New MCP Roadmap

https://blog.modelcontextprotocol.io/posts/mcp-roadmap/
194•pentagrama•17h ago•130 comments

Autolith: A programming agent with a live runtime

https://www.lambda-symbolics.com/autolith
121•vismit2000•2d ago•48 comments

Figmimic – A bookmarklet to copy any webpage into Figma as editable layers

https://marcua.net/minitools/figmimic/
85•speckx•12h ago•12 comments

What's in a PowerPoint File?

https://editide.com/blog/what-is-a-pptx-file/
80•danielochoa0620•3d ago•40 comments

Z80 – The 1970s Microprocessor Still Alive (2021)

https://www.computer.org/csdl/magazine/mi/2021/06/09623402/1yJTvlRLmhi
133•asdefghyk•21h ago•63 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•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."