frontpage.
newsnewestaskshowjobs

Made with ♥ by @iamnishanth

Open Source @Github

fp.

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•11mo ago

Comments

johnnyfived•11mo 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
[flagged]
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."

I ported Mac OS X to the Nintendo Wii

https://bryankeller.github.io/2026/04/08/porting-mac-os-x-nintendo-wii.html
1149•blkhp19•8h ago•207 comments

USB for Software Developers: An introduction to writing userspace USB drivers

https://werwolv.net/posts/usb_for_sw_devs/
140•WerWolv•4h ago•22 comments

Git commands I run before reading any code

https://piechowski.io/post/git-commands-before-reading-code/
1733•grepsedawk•15h ago•378 comments

Understanding the Kalman filter with a simple radar example

https://kalmanfilter.net
189•alex_be•6h ago•28 comments

Muse Spark: Scaling towards personal superintelligence

https://ai.meta.com/blog/introducing-muse-spark-msl/?_fb_noscript=1
243•chabons•7h ago•276 comments

They're made out of meat (1991)

http://www.terrybisson.com/theyre-made-out-of-meat-2/
380•surprisetalk•12h ago•105 comments

Expanding Swift's IDE Support

https://swift.org/blog/expanding-swift-ide-support/
67•frizlab•4h ago•33 comments

Pgit: I Imported the Linux Kernel into PostgreSQL

https://oseifert.ch/blog/linux-kernel-pgit
58•ImGajeed76•3d ago•7 comments

Škoda DuoBell: A bicycle bell that penetrates noise-cancelling headphones

https://www.skoda-storyboard.com/en/skoda-world/skoda-duobell-a-bicycle-bell-that-outsmarts-even-...
501•ra•15h ago•530 comments

ML promises to be profoundly weird

https://aphyr.com/posts/411-the-future-of-everything-is-lies-i-guess
342•pabs3•10h ago•385 comments

John Deere to pay $99M in right-to-repair settlement

https://www.thedrive.com/news/john-deere-to-pay-99-million-in-monumental-right-to-repair-settlement
127•CharlesW•3h ago•31 comments

MegaTrain: Full Precision Training of 100B+ Parameter LLMs on a Single GPU

https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.05091
248•chrsw•11h ago•47 comments

Show HN: Is Hormuz open yet?

https://www.ishormuzopenyet.com/
193•anonfunction•2h ago•65 comments

Understanding Traceroute

https://tech.stonecharioteer.com/posts/2026/traceroute/
74•stonecharioteer•2d ago•10 comments

What does ⍋⍋ even mean? (2023)

https://blog.wilsonb.com/posts/2023-08-04-what-does-grade-grade-even-mean.html
32•tosh•3d ago•14 comments

Who is Satoshi Nakamoto? My quest to unmask Bitcoin's creator

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/08/business/bitcoin-satoshi-nakamoto-identity-adam-back.html
267•jfirebaugh•19h ago•186 comments

Show HN: Orange Juice – Small UX improvements that make HN easier to read

http://oj-hn.com/
77•latchkey•5h ago•105 comments

Show HN: Tired of logic in useEffect, I built a class-based React state manager

https://thales.me/posts/why-i-built-snapstate/
9•thalesfp•2h ago•11 comments

Exposing and Understanding Scrolling Transfer Functions (2012) [pdf]

https://direction.bordeaux.inria.fr/~roussel/publications/2012-UIST-scrolling-tf.pdf
6•t23414321•2d ago•0 comments

I've been waiting over a month for Anthropic to respond to my billing issue

https://nickvecchioni.github.io/thoughts/2026/04/08/anthropic-support-doesnt-exist/
247•nickvec•6h ago•124 comments

Ask HN: Any interesting niche hobbies?

230•e-topy•3d ago•358 comments

We moved Railway's frontend off Next.js. Builds went from 10+ mins to under 2

https://blog.railway.com/p/moving-railways-frontend-off-nextjs
172•bundie•18h ago•157 comments

Microsoft terminates VeraCrypt account, halting Windows updates

https://www.404media.co/microsoft-abruptly-terminates-veracrypt-account-halting-windows-updates/
445•donohoe•9h ago•178 comments

US cities are axing Flock Safety surveillance technology

https://www.cnet.com/home/security/when-flock-comes-to-town-why-cities-are-axing-the-controversia...
610•giuliomagnifico•11h ago•354 comments

Show HN: Skrun – Deploy any agent skill as an API

https://github.com/skrun-dev/skrun
39•frizull•11h ago•9 comments

Teardown of unreleased LG Rollable shows why rollable phones aren't a thing

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026/04/teardown-of-unreleased-lg-rollable-shows-why-rollable-pho...
74•DamnInteresting•1d ago•35 comments

Audio Reactive LED Strips Are Diabolically Hard

https://scottlawsonbc.com/post/audio-led
190•surprisetalk•1d ago•56 comments

Veracrypt project update

https://sourceforge.net/p/veracrypt/discussion/general/thread/9620d7a4b3/
1115•super256•16h ago•422 comments

Union types in C# 15

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/dotnet/csharp-15-union-types/
162•0x00C0FFEE•3d ago•150 comments

Show HN: Unicode Steganography

https://steganography.patrickvuscan.com
45•PatrickVuscan•1d ago•11 comments