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A domain can now say it is for sale, in DNS

https://specification.website/spec/foundations/for-sale-dns/
137•shaunpud•3h ago•60 comments

DeepMind's WeatherNext model achieves breakthrough forecasting cyclones

https://deepmind.google/blog/weathernext-ai-model-achieves-breakthrough-in-forecasting-cyclones/
241•bhavansig•7h ago•71 comments

Gateway 2000's hilariously bad ads in the 90s (Part II)

https://buttondown.com/suchbadtechads/archive/gateway-2000-part-2/
52•rfarley04•4h ago•39 comments

Timeline of the OpenAI accidental attack against Hugging Face

https://simonwillison.net/2026/Aug/7/openai-timeline/
138•882542F3884314B•5h ago•157 comments

Voyager 1 FDS Computer Emulator

https://zaneham.github.io/voyager-fds-emulator/
33•rahen•3h ago•8 comments

Triton: DirectX 11 Driver for QEMU

https://blog.getutm.app/2026/introducing-triton-directx-11-driver-for-qemu/
24•electricant•3h ago•0 comments

BYOC Is Not Just 'Deploy into Their Cloud'

https://omnistrate.com/blog/byoc-anywhere-the-spectrum-of-bring-your-own-cloud-deployments
37•kkgupta•4d ago•7 comments

Gentoo bugzilla closed due AI bot scraper overload

https://social.treehouse.systems/@mgorny/117058483039362779
80•happosai•2h ago•34 comments

US Military's cyber command unit grapples with cluster of deaths by suicide

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-08-06/us-military-s-cyber-command-unit-grapples-with...
89•rbanffy•6h ago•119 comments

A physicist rigged his pet hamster’s wheel to upload to Strava

https://www.runnersworld.com/news/a73355106/hamster-wheel-strava-running/
350•aanet•2d ago•84 comments

Hardware backdoors in some x86 CPUs

https://github.com/xoreaxeaxeax/rosenbridge
251•epestr•9h ago•81 comments

DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731

https://arcprize.org/results/deepseek-v4-flash-0731
714•tosh•22h ago•431 comments

From your doorbell to your home network

https://adepts.of0x.cc/eufy-doorbell-hacking/
14•mmoogle•3d ago•0 comments

U.S. Department of Energy Launches the Genesis Open Models Initiative

https://genesisopenmodels.anl.gov/
309•moelf•18h ago•122 comments

No one can afford to make Myst games anymore

https://www.wired.com/story/no-one-can-afford-to-make-myst-games-anymore/
40•littlexsparkee•2d ago•59 comments

What happens if an entire class of workers loses faith in their careers

https://www.noemamag.com/why-is-everyone-in-tech-so-sad/
862•RickJWagner•1d ago•983 comments

k-Coloring is Faster than Computing the Chromatic Number

https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.25973
45•matt_d•1w ago•7 comments

Assembly Hall of Shame

https://github.com/xoreaxeaxeax/asm-hall-of-shame
387•piotrgrabowski•22h ago•95 comments

ao486: x86-compatible Verilog core implementing all features of a 486 SX (2014)

https://github.com/alfikpl/ao486
54•csmantle•6d ago•8 comments

Microsoft Edge is about to lock out older ad blockers, just like Chrome did

https://www.theverge.com/tech/976880/microsoft-edge-extensions-ad-blockers-mv2-mv3
112•eternalreturn•6h ago•105 comments

Europe's free satellite service just made it easier to track wildfires

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026/08/europes-free-satellite-service-just-made-it-easier-to-tra...
111•01-_-•6h ago•9 comments

Show HN: Rotating torus in terminal (but with kitty graphics protocol)

https://andreadimatteo.com/torus-v0-5.html
17•deotman•6d ago•3 comments

Ancient Library – 1,060 Greek/Latin texts, click any word to parse it

https://ancientlibrary.net/
236•aagha•21h ago•75 comments

Lost my phone at the office. Claude suggested tracking Bluetooth signal strength

https://twitter.com/un1c0rnioz/status/2084686552299634805
79•ilamont•20h ago•60 comments

Sensitive Info Goes into 'No Reply' Emails Constantly. This Guy Sees It All

https://www.wired.com/story/sensitive-info-goes-into-no-reply-emails-constantly-this-guy-sees-it-...
28•sbulaev•2h ago•6 comments

As a Windows user, it's a surreal way to install a program

https://unsung.aresluna.org/as-a-windows-user-its-a-very-surreal-way-to-install-a-program/
149•allenc•4d ago•133 comments

2027 memory capacity is reportedly sold out

https://www.ign.com/articles/ramageddon-continues-another-year-as-2027-memory-capacity-is-reporte...
448•inigyou•1d ago•430 comments

NASA figured out how to keep its Voyager 2 probe running for another year

https://www.space.com/space-exploration/voyager/nasa-figured-out-how-to-keep-its-48-year-old-voya...
322•wglb•14h ago•72 comments

SupererDuperer

https://www.shirtpocket.com/blog/supererduperer
146•zdw•1w ago•29 comments

Managing AI Coding Costs at Scale

https://www.databricks.com/blog/managing-ai-coding-costs-scale
283•moonikakiss•22h ago•237 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."