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Amateur armed with ChatGPT solves an Erdős problem

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/amateur-armed-with-chatgpt-vibe-maths-a-60-year-old-pr...
187•pr337h4m•11h ago•122 comments

Why has there been so little progress on Alzheimer's disease?

https://freakonomics.com/podcast/why-has-there-been-so-little-progress-on-alzheimers-disease/
141•chiefalchemist•4h ago•66 comments

USB Cheat Sheet (2022)

https://fabiensanglard.net/usbcheat/index.html
216•gwerbret•7h ago•49 comments

Mahjong: A Visual Guide

https://themahjong.guide/
23•iamwil•2d ago•5 comments

Flickr: The first and last great photo platform

https://petapixel.com/2026/04/22/flickr-the-first-and-last-great-photo-platform/
93•Nrbelex•3d ago•50 comments

Tell HN: An app is silently installing itself on my iPhone every day

65•_-x-_•4h ago•48 comments

EU Age Control: The trojan horse for digital IDs

https://juraj.bednar.io/en/blog-en/2026/04/17/eu-age-control-the-trojan-horse-for-digital-ids/
35•gasull•1h ago•4 comments

OpenAI Privacy Filter

https://openai.com/index/introducing-openai-privacy-filter/
154•tanelpoder•3d ago•26 comments

The Free Universal Construction Kit

https://fffff.at/free-universal-construction-kit/
297•robinhouston•3d ago•59 comments

A Home Made PBX

https://wandel.ca/homepage/pbx.html
5•rickcarlino•59m ago•0 comments

1-Bit Hokusai's "The Great Wave" (2023)

https://www.hypertalking.com/2023/05/08/1-bit-pixel-art-of-hokusais-the-great-wave-off-kanagawa/
539•stephen-hill•3d ago•88 comments

Using coding assistance tools to revive projects you never were going to finish

https://blog.matthewbrunelle.com/its-ok-to-use-coding-assistance-tools-to-revive-the-projects-you...
234•speckx•12h ago•128 comments

The Joy of Folding Bikes

https://blog.korny.info/2026/04/19/the-joy-of-folding-bikes
123•pavel_lishin•3d ago•71 comments

America's Geothermal Breakthrough

https://oilprice.com/Alternative-Energy/Geothermal-Energy/Americas-Geothermal-Breakthrough-Could-...
98•sleepyguy•9h ago•105 comments

DeepSeek-V4 on Day 0: From Fast Inference to Verified RL with SGLang and Miles

https://www.lmsys.org/blog/2026-04-25-deepseek-v4/
26•mji•5h ago•1 comments

Reviving BrowserID in 2026

https://wakamoleguy.com/p/reviving-browserid-in-2026
9•wakamoleguy•2h ago•2 comments

Math Is Hard – OpenBSD Stories

http://miod.online.fr/software/openbsd/stories/vaxfp.html
69•signa11•2d ago•1 comments

The Super Nintendo Cartridges

https://fabiensanglard.net/snes_carts/
18•offbyone42•4h ago•1 comments

The Long Reply

https://ironicsans.ghost.io/the-long-reply/
25•NaOH•2d ago•0 comments

New 10 GbE USB adapters are cooler, smaller, cheaper

https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2026/new-10-gbe-usb-adapters-cooler-smaller-cheaper/
562•calcifer•23h ago•335 comments

Optimizing Datalog for the GPU

https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3669940.3707274
33•tosh•2d ago•3 comments

The George Business, by Roger Zelazny (1980)

https://www.eternal-flame.org/library/oldlibrary/georgebusiness.html
17•xeonmc•2d ago•0 comments

Simulacrum of Knowledge Work

https://blog.happyfellow.dev/simulacrum-of-knowledge-work/
120•thehappyfellow•11h ago•45 comments

What async promised and what it delivered

https://causality.blog/essays/what-async-promised/
182•zdw•3d ago•207 comments

Mine, an IDE for Coalton and Common Lisp

https://coalton-lang.github.io/mine/
83•varjag•11h ago•35 comments

Desmond Morris has died

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c51y797v200o
115•martey•5d ago•20 comments

How Hard Is It to Open a File?

https://blog.sebastianwick.net/posts/how-hard-is-it-to-open-a-file/
68•ffin•2d ago•11 comments

Martin Galway's music source files from 1980's Commodore 64 games

https://github.com/MartinGalway/C64_music
170•ingve•18h ago•26 comments

Discret 11, the French TV encryption of the 80s

https://fabiensanglard.net/discret11/
158•adunk•17h ago•29 comments

GPT‑5.5 Bio Bug Bounty

https://openai.com/index/gpt-5-5-bio-bug-bounty/
140•Murfalo•14h ago•100 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•12mo 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•12mo 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."