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•6mo ago

Comments

johnnyfived•6mo 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•6mo ago
I just came to bring the calculator for all the hate you're going to receive. Popcorn.
chmod775•6mo 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•6mo 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•6mo 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•6mo 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•6mo 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•6mo 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•6mo ago
[flagged]
johnnyfived•6mo ago
And counting
Mountain_Skies•6mo 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•6mo 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."

Terminal Latency on Windows

https://chadaustin.me/2024/02/windows-terminal-latency/
30•bariumbitmap•1h ago•5 comments

Cache-friendly, low-memory Lanczos algorithm in Rust

https://lukefleed.xyz/posts/cache-friendly-low-memory-lanczos/
43•lukefleed•2h ago•4 comments

Scaling HNSWs

https://antirez.com/news/156
29•cyndunlop•5h ago•1 comments

The 'Toy Story' You Remember

https://animationobsessive.substack.com/p/the-toy-story-you-remember
1041•ani_obsessive•15h ago•282 comments

The R47: A new physical RPN calculator

https://www.swissmicros.com/product/model-r47
108•dm319•4d ago•52 comments

iPhone Pocket

https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2025/11/introducing-iphone-pocket-a-beautiful-way-to-wear-and-carr...
307•soheilpro•8h ago•773 comments

The history of Casio watches

https://www.casio.com/us/watches/50th/Heritage/1970s/
22•qainsights•2d ago•11 comments

Show HN: Cactoide – Federated RSVP Platform

https://cactoide.org/
25•orbanlevi•2h ago•9 comments

We ran over 600 image generations to compare AI image models

https://latenitesoft.com/blog/evaluating-frontier-ai-image-generation-models/
20•kalleboo•1h ago•8 comments

Weave (YC W25) is hiring a founding ML engineer

https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/weave-3/jobs/ZPyeXzM-founding-ml-engineer
1•adchurch•2h ago

Pikaday: A friendly guide to front-end date pickers

https://pikaday.dbushell.com
18•mnemonet•4h ago•12 comments

How I fell in love with Erlang

https://boragonul.com/post/falling-in-love-with-erlang
313•asabil•1w ago•182 comments

Widespread distribution of bacteria containing PETases across global oceans

https://academic.oup.com/ismej/article/19/1/wraf121/8159680?login=false
93•PaulHoule•6h ago•51 comments

Firefox expands fingerprint protections

https://blog.mozilla.org/en/firefox/fingerprinting-protections/
133•ptrhvns•3h ago•61 comments

Drawing Text Isn't Simple: Benchmarking Console vs. Graphical Rendering

https://cv.co.hu/csabi/drawing-text-performance-graphical-vs-console.html
35•PaulHoule•4h ago•23 comments

Array Programming the Mandelbrot Set

https://jcmorrow.com/mandelbrot/
25•jcmorrow•4d ago•3 comments

Grebedoc – static site hosting for Git forges

https://grebedoc.dev
24•todsacerdoti•4h ago•2 comments

Show HN: Data Formulator 0.5 – interactive AI agents for data visualization

https://data-formulator.ai/
5•chenglong-hn•1h ago•1 comments

Advent of Code on the Z-Machine

https://entropicthoughts.com/advent-of-code-on-z-machine
77•todsacerdoti•7h ago•17 comments

FFmpeg to Google: Fund Us or Stop Sending Bugs

https://thenewstack.io/ffmpeg-to-google-fund-us-or-stop-sending-bugs/
18•CrankyBear•40m ago•1 comments

Welcome, the entire land - "Hello, world!" in hieroglyphics (2009)

https://optional.is/required/2009/12/03/welcome-the-entire-land/
75•andrelaszlo•8h ago•26 comments

Show HN: Gametje – A casual online gaming platform

https://gametje.com
75•jmpavlec•4h ago•27 comments

Why effort scales superlinearly with the perceived quality of creative work

https://markusstrasser.org/creative-work-landscapes.html
110•eatitraw•10h ago•88 comments

High speed X-ray video: jumping beans, wind-up toys and more

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xdpDd7dyU00
47•surprisetalk•4d ago•15 comments

DARPA and Texas Bet $1.4B on Unique Foundry -3D heterogeneous integration

https://spectrum.ieee.org/3d-heterogeneous-integration
52•pseudolus•7h ago•9 comments

Contributing to Open-Source Should Be Required, Like Jury Duty

https://www.joshbeckman.org/blog/practicing/contributing-to-opensource-should-be-required-like-ju...
42•bckmn•1h ago•43 comments

The Perplexing Appeal of the Telepathy Tapes

https://asteriskmag.com/issues/12-books/paradigm-shifted-the-perplexing-appeal-of-the-telepathy-t...
38•surprisetalk•5h ago•33 comments

Show HN: Tusk Drift – Open-source tool for automating API tests

https://github.com/Use-Tusk/drift-node-sdk
35•Marceltan•4h ago•15 comments

SoftBank sells its entire stake in Nvidia

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/11/11/softbank-sells-its-entire-stake-in-nvidia-for-5point83-billion.html
241•mfiguiere•11h ago•140 comments

Making a C64/C65 compatible computer: MEGAphone contact list and Dialer

https://c65gs.blogspot.com/2025/11/megaphone-contact-list-and-dialer.html
7•speckx•1w ago•0 comments