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Writing by hand is good for your brain

https://nealstephenson.substack.com/p/writing-by-hand-is-good-for-your
821•dwwoelfel•7h ago•414 comments

Couple pay >$800k for a gene-editing therapy for their daughter. She died.

https://www.science.org/content/article/exclusive-death-girl-chinese-gene-editing-trial-was-never...
90•Shortness8•1h ago•33 comments

Show HN: Echo – Fable-level results at 1/3 the cost using open-weight models

135•adam_rida•2h ago•61 comments

The Beam Engine

https://glinscott.github.io/beam-engine/
59•glinscott•1d ago•24 comments

Namecheap Gave My Account to an Unverified Third Party Just Because They Asked

106•Thrashed•58m ago•13 comments

What happened to TheNumbers.com

https://stephenfollows.com/p/what-just-happened-to-thenumberscom-should-worry-us-all
226•nickthegreek•5h ago•103 comments

Startup founders urge U.S. government not to shut off Chinese open weight AI

https://www.politico.com/news/2026/07/22/startup-founders-urge-trump-not-to-shut-off-chinese-open...
609•theanonymousone•6h ago•577 comments

Building on ATProto

https://lukekanies.com/writing/building-on-atproto/
96•speckx•3h ago•41 comments

Software rendering in 500 lines of bare C++

https://haqr.eu/tinyrenderer/
213•mpweiher•7h ago•39 comments

A solid-state “atomic channel” for separating rare earth elements

https://pme.uchicago.edu/news-events/news/cleaner-route-purifying-rare-earth-elements
54•MarcoDewey•3h ago•6 comments

Learn OpenGL, extensive tutorial resource for learning Modern OpenGL

https://learnopengl.com/
151•ibobev•7h ago•81 comments

Show HN: Palmier Pro – Open-source macOS video editor built for AI

https://github.com/palmier-io/palmier-pro
97•harrisontin•6h ago•16 comments

Astronomers may have found the first exomoon

https://www.eso.org/public/news/eso2610/
183•MarcoDewey•8h ago•70 comments

Converting Files into Minecraft Worlds

https://wuemeli.com/blog/sulfur-part-1/
38•wuemeli•3d ago•9 comments

DARPA, U.S. Air Force fly AI-controlled F-16

https://www.darpa.mil/news/2026/darpa-us-air-force-fly-ai-controlled-f-16
138•r2sk5t•8h ago•153 comments

Launch HN: Screenpipe (YC S26) – Record how you work and turn that into agents

46•louis030195•5h ago•47 comments

Geekbench 7

https://www.geekbench.com/blog/2026/07/geekbench-7/
39•ilreb•3h ago•31 comments

The arguments against open source AI are bad

https://tombedor.dev/arguments-against-open-source-ai-are-very-bad/
154•jjfoooo4•5h ago•110 comments

JEP 540: Simple JSON API (Now in Incubator)

https://openjdk.org/jeps/540
87•theanonymousone•6h ago•64 comments

Escape Analysis in Go: Stack vs. Heap Allocations Explained

https://blog.jetbrains.com/go/2026/07/20/escape-analysis/
21•ingve•2d ago•4 comments

Show HN: Claude-thermos – keeps your Claude session warm for you

https://github.com/izeigerman/claude-thermos
49•s0ck_r4w•4h ago•39 comments

Learn WebGPU for C++

https://eliemichel.github.io/LearnWebGPU/
70•ibobev•7h ago•10 comments

Show HN: Trifle – Open-source analytics that stores answers, not events

https://trifle.io/
28•iluzone•1d ago•2 comments

Fields Medals 2026

https://www.mathunion.org/imu-awards/fields-medal/fields-medals-2026
104•nill0•7h ago•45 comments

AI Companies Are Trying to Hide a Staggering Amount of Debt

https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/ai-companies-hide-debt-off-balance-sheet
534•technewssss•8h ago•253 comments

Show HN: OneCLI – OSS credential gateway that keeps secrets out of AI agents

https://github.com/onecli/onecli
63•Jonathanfishner•6h ago•24 comments

Hitchcock and Herrmann: The Friendship and Film Scores That Changed Cinema

https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v48/n13/jonathan-coe/where-was-the-drum-kit
6•mitchbob•3d ago•1 comments

Emacs Is a Lispboard

https://en.andros.dev/blog/06bfd107/emacs-is-a-lispboard/
82•andros•8h ago•31 comments

Meta Garbage Collection: Using OCaml's GC to GC Rust

https://soteria-tools.com/blog/meta-garbage-collection
30•annieversary•3d ago•0 comments

Hybrid-Electric Aicraft Engine Targeting 30% Fuel Efficiency

https://www.rtx.com/news/news-center/2026/07/21/rtxs-pratt-whitney-canada-advances-hybrid-electri...
79•r2sk5t•7h ago•72 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."