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Feds Target AI Critics as "Foreign Agents"

https://www.kenklippenstein.com/p/feds-think-ai-critics-are-foreign
108•nmeagent•3h ago•74 comments

Linux support is coming to Snapdragon X2 Series

https://www.qualcomm.com/news/onq/2026/09/snapdragon-summit-agentic-ai-pcs-linux
213•aaronday•5h ago•107 comments

Claude discovers a novel enzyme system with CRISPR-like repeats

https://www.anthropic.com/news/claude-discovers-novel-enzyme-system
547•raahelb•9h ago•576 comments

Meta VR Glasses

https://www.meta.com/vr-glasses/
286•polymorph1sm•3h ago•252 comments

ArXiv receives multiyear commitments to support it as an independent nonprofit

https://blog.arxiv.org/2026/09/23/arxiv-receives-multiyear-investment/
84•JohnHammersley•4h ago•11 comments

VSCode's SSH Agent Is Bananas (2025)

https://fly.io/blog/vscode-ssh-wtf/
146•Rapzid•6h ago•95 comments

Virtio-nvgpu: Near-native Nvidia GPU access inside a KVM guest

https://github.com/nestrilabs/virtio-nvgpu
22•WanjohiRyan•2h ago•16 comments

The "Windows XP Box" (2003)

https://www.mini-itx.com/projects/windowsxpbox/
75•doubletwoyou•2d ago•12 comments

Mercury 2.5 LLM hits 770 tokens per second

https://artificialanalysis.ai/models/mercury-2-5
68•Retro_Dev•5h ago•38 comments

Fixing the Portobello Police Station Clock

https://pointinthecloud.com/2026-04-11-211700.html
388•avidly•12h ago•92 comments

We just shipped support for the ugliest part of HTTP: Vary

https://blog.cloudflare.com/vary-support/
100•thisisfatih•5h ago•19 comments

Italian parliament votes for return to nuclear energy

https://apnews.com/article/italy-nuclear-chernobyl-4891b6b7c7791ae84db6b0bf0f7cf567
625•geox•10h ago•406 comments

FLAWED's Flaws and What This Means for Industry Research

https://suhacker.ai/p/flaweds-flaws-and-what-this-means-for-industry-research/
13•tob_scott_a•2h ago•2 comments

The mystery animal on an ancient god's head

https://signoregalilei.com/2026/09/13/the-mystery-animal-on-an-ancient-gods-head/
70•surprisetalk•1d ago•19 comments

Australia says OpenAI agent hacked into government website

https://www.channelnewsasia.com/world/australia-openai-agent-breach-government-portal-6406411
43•doppp•2h ago•28 comments

Making Tailscale Faster

https://tailscale.com/blog/making-tailscale-faster
99•yarapavan•9h ago•41 comments

A brief history of Windows scroll bar shortcuts

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20260922-00/?p=112719/
120•tybulewicz•9h ago•60 comments

Solving for faster SHA-1 collision detection

https://sam.dev/blog/faster-sha1-collision-detection
7•srijs•2d ago•0 comments

Show HN: Combinators in Array Languages

https://blog.softwarewrighter.com/2026/09/21/rabbit-hole-sage-y-combinator/
9•softwarewright•2d ago•0 comments

LensVLM: Compressing long context as images, expanding only relevant pages

https://huggingface.co/apple/LensVLM-9B
61•victormustar•9h ago•7 comments

Tokens too cheap to meter

https://jyn.dev/tokens-too-cheap-to-meter/
252•teoruiz•18h ago•186 comments

Gemini 3.8 text-to-speech

https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/models-and-research/gemini-models/gemini-3-8-text-to-speech/
269•swolpers•12h ago•124 comments

The Curious Power of Punctuation

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2026/09/28/on-the-mark-louis-menand-book-review
35•pepys•1d ago•7 comments

Show HN: An open-source manufacturing ERP/MES/QMS

https://carbon.ms/self-hosted
12•barbinbrad•2h ago•9 comments

Radicle: Disclosure of Vulnerability in the Network Protocol

https://radicle.dev/2026/09/23/disclosure-of-vulnerability-in-network-protocol
128•lostmsu•12h ago•50 comments

Augustofaces: Pareidolia Fine Art

https://augusto.at/augustosfaces/
20•luu•1d ago•3 comments

Swap, ZRAM, Zswap and Hibernate on NixOS

https://blog.matthewbrunelle.com/swap-zram-zswap-and-hibernate-on-nixos/
47•speckx•9h ago•14 comments

I don't want the details

https://michaelheap.com/i-dont-want-the-details/
375•mooreds•14h ago•202 comments

A refined phylochronology of the second plague pandemic in Western Eurasia

https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2534899123
17•Thevet•3d ago•0 comments

Z80 REPL (2018)

https://abagames.github.io/z80-repl/index.html
149•adunk•16h ago•18 comments
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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."