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Things to know when you get cancer

https://jjmaxwell4.com/writing/things-to-know-when-you-get-cancer/
1312•jjmaxwell4•13h ago•322 comments

Wanted to download an ISO, ended up writing a kernel exploit

https://blog.dfb.sh/blog/eap770-root-for-two-zeros/
56•0xdeafbeef•1d ago•21 comments

OpenCode 2.0

https://anoma.ly/notes/opencode-2-0/
596•gmays•12h ago•227 comments

Creating a Garmin "MCP"

https://jackantico.io/garmin-mcp
25•ricotico060•1d ago•24 comments

Tiny Little Office

https://tinylittleoffice.com/
409•donohoe•10h ago•62 comments

Show HN: Indigene – Native plants for where you stand

https://indigene.app/
17•olivierlacan•2d ago•2 comments

LFM2.5-24B-A2B: Built for fast on-device agents

https://www.liquid.ai/blog/lfm2-5-24b-a2b
203•gmays•9h ago•44 comments

Do dentists know what they're doing?

https://mapwriting.substack.com/p/dentists
676•doitLP•3d ago•496 comments

Catch a Bird – I made it for my own sanity

https://catchabird.com
153•eduardsik•3d ago•39 comments

Americans' social activity has steeply declined in the past 30 years

https://www.dataforprogress.org/blog/2026/9/29/americans-social-activity-has-steeply-declined-in-...
389•hubraumhugo•16h ago•364 comments

The Toftwood Male Voice Choir: A Mystery Pressed in Vinyl

https://ei3lh.eu/2026/10/11/the-toftwood-male-voice-choir-a-mystery-pressed-in-vinyl/
36•austinallegro•3d ago•1 comments

Sticky alpine flower confirms Darwin's 150-year-old carnivorous plant prediction

https://phys.org/news/2026-08-sticky-alpine-darwin-year-carnivorous.html
25•maxall4•2d ago•6 comments

It took me nine years to hack my Xbox 360

https://kennedn.com/blog/posts/glitching/
79•kennedn•1d ago•20 comments

Donaldson Futuro House in Idyllwild, California, USA

https://www.wowhaus.co.uk/2026/10/12/donaldson-futuro-house-in-idyllwild-california-usa/
44•rmason•1d ago•15 comments

Aidlc: Adaptive workflow steering rules for AI coding agents

https://github.com/awslabs/aidlc-workflows
5•pramodbiligiri•1h ago•0 comments

Better HTTP/1 connection reuse in Go 1.27

https://go.dev/blog/http-connection-reuse
250•allddd•16h ago•36 comments

The Double Headed Stack Allocator

https://blog.demofox.org/2026/10/03/the-double-headed-stack-allocator/
62•g0xA52A2A•7h ago•17 comments

The First Social Network: In rural Argentina residents send messages w AM radio

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2026/10/19/the-first-social-network
7•bookofjoe•1d ago•1 comments

David Rudnick on "borderline impossible" process of designing Arsenal typeface

https://www.itsnicethat.com/features/david-rudnick-johnnie-campbell-arsenal-rocastle-typeface-gra...
21•droidjj•2d ago•7 comments

AI was great until it was not

https://thetheorygirlie.substack.com/p/ai-was-great-until-it-was-not
12•JohnHammersley•49m ago•0 comments

Your C is not standard C

https://sebsite.pw/w/20261012-notstdc.html
84•dverlaeckt80•1d ago•49 comments

Show HN: Flipflop, Iroh-powered persistent tunnels for filesharing

https://github.com/andunieee/flipflop
32•andunie•4h ago•10 comments

Show HN: Ito – Build Terminal UIs in Lua

https://uji.sh/ito/
17•cat-whisperer•10h ago•5 comments

Why is every rationalist blog post way too long?

https://alexwennerberg.com/blog/2026-10-13-long.html
345•epestr•1d ago•292 comments

We’re releasing Jev 1.14.0 along with experimental features for dreamers

https://typesafe.ai/blog/jev-1-14
283•emschwartz•11h ago•91 comments

Show HN: Petal, open-source CoScreen/ScreenHero finally free

https://petal.live/
162•thedracle•14h ago•38 comments

Containment and monitoring failures are to blame for AI hacking reports: experts

https://www.csoonline.com/article/4234854/ai-agents-arent-going-rogue-frontier-labs-are-skipping-...
898•latexr•15h ago•525 comments

How Amazon pushes up prices all across the Internet

https://www.not-ship.com/how-amazon-pushes-up-prices-all-across-the-internet/
822•sighborg•23h ago•637 comments

Ask HN: CAD for wood working with LLM support?

72•reacharavindh•2d ago•62 comments

Phloem: Git history grown like a slime mold

https://phloem.stemdeck.app/
114•thclpr•2d ago•22 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."