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12 Days of Shell

https://12days.cmdchallenge.com
109•zoidb•2h ago•26 comments

The "confident idiot" problem: Why AI needs hard rules, not vibe checks

https://steerlabs.substack.com/p/confident-idiot-problem
19•steerlabs•3d ago•9 comments

Show HN: Web app that lets you send email time capsules

https://resurf.me
18•walrussama•1h ago•7 comments

Bad Dye Job

https://daringfireball.net/2025/12/bad_dye_job
59•mpweiher•1h ago•14 comments

Turtletoy

https://turtletoy.net/
227•ustad•4d ago•41 comments

Jujutsu Worktrees Are Convenient

https://shaddy.dev/notes/jj-worktrees/
59•nvader•4d ago•33 comments

Emacs is my new window manager

https://www.howardism.org/Technical/Emacs/new-window-manager.html
124•gpi•2d ago•46 comments

Nango (YC W23) is hiring back-end engineers and dev-rels (remote)

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

GitHub Actions Has a Package Manager, and It Might Be the Worst

https://nesbitt.io/2025/12/06/github-actions-package-manager.html
191•robin_reala•4h ago•111 comments

Damn Small Linux

https://www.damnsmalllinux.org/
131•grubbs•11h ago•35 comments

I failed to recreate the 1996 Space Jam website with Claude

https://j0nah.com/i-failed-to-recreate-the-1996-space-jam-website-with-claude/
471•thecr0w•19h ago•381 comments

Client-side GPU load balancing with Redis and Lua

https://galileo.ai/blog/how-we-boosted-gpu-utilization-by-40-with-redis-lua
10•lneiman•5d ago•3 comments

Bag of words, have mercy on us

https://www.experimental-history.com/p/bag-of-words-have-mercy-on-us
218•ntnbr•14h ago•231 comments

Optimize for Momentum

http://muratbuffalo.blogspot.com/2025/12/optimize-for-momentum.html
10•zdw•5d ago•0 comments

Show HN: Lockenv – Simple encrypted secrets storage for Git

https://github.com/illarion/lockenv
39•shoemann•5h ago•9 comments

Dollar-stores overcharge customers while promising low prices

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/dec/03/customers-pay-more-rising-dollar-store-costs
413•bookofjoe•22h ago•558 comments

Google Titans architecture, helping AI have long-term memory

https://research.google/blog/titans-miras-helping-ai-have-long-term-memory/
526•Alifatisk•1d ago•173 comments

Show HN: ReadyKit – Superfast SaaS Starter with Multi-Tenant Workspaces

https://readykit.dev/
76•level09•1w ago•13 comments

The fuck off contact page

https://www.nicchan.me/blog/the-f-off-contact-page/
272•OuterVale•4h ago•106 comments

The C++ standard for the F-35 Fighter Jet [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gv4sDL9Ljww
281•AareyBaba•18h ago•329 comments

Mechanical power generation using Earth's ambient radiation

https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.adw6833
140•defrost•15h ago•42 comments

I wasted years of my life in crypto

https://twitter.com/kenchangh/status/1994854381267947640
320•Anon84•1d ago•476 comments

An Interactive Guide to the Fourier Transform

https://betterexplained.com/articles/an-interactive-guide-to-the-fourier-transform/
217•pykello•6d ago•39 comments

Solving Rush Hour, the Puzzle (2018)

https://www.michaelfogleman.com/rush/
40•xeonmc•1w ago•5 comments

Removing juries: 'A move towards an authoritarian state'

https://www.theguardian.com/law/2025/dec/07/authoritarian-state-trial-by-jury-uk
3•binning•11m ago•0 comments

CATL expects oceanic electric ships in 3 years

https://cleantechnica.com/2025/12/05/catl-expects-oceanic-electric-ships-in-3-years/
130•thelastgallon•1d ago•176 comments

The Anatomy of a macOS App

https://eclecticlight.co/2025/12/04/the-anatomy-of-a-macos-app/
252•elashri•1d ago•77 comments

How I block all online ads

https://troubled.engineer/posts/no-ads/
242•StrLght•14h ago•210 comments

Einstein: NewtonOS running on other operating systems

https://github.com/pguyot/Einstein
32•fanf2•3h ago•3 comments

Scala 3 slowed us down?

https://kmaliszewski9.github.io/scala/2025/12/07/scala3-slowdown.html
238•kmaliszewski•21h ago•137 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•7mo ago

Comments

johnnyfived•7mo 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•7mo ago
I just came to bring the calculator for all the hate you're going to receive. Popcorn.
chmod775•7mo 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•7mo 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•7mo 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•7mo 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•7mo 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•7mo 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•7mo ago
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johnnyfived•7mo ago
And counting
Mountain_Skies•7mo 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•7mo 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."