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Mea Culpa – Dark Hours

https://blog.terrygodier.com/2026/08/09/mea-culpa-dark-hours.html
281•satvikpendem•3h ago•127 comments

Criminal Deception in Silicon Valley

https://pubsonline.informs.org/doi/full/10.1287/orsc.2024.19981
19•iamnothere•1h ago•2 comments

Show HN: A Project Oberon System version running on RISC-V instead of RISC-5

https://github.com/rochus-keller/OberonSystem/tree/op2-rv32
59•Rochus•4h ago•15 comments

Cool URIs Don't Change (1998)

https://www.w3.org/Provider/Style/URI
22•Klaster_1•2h ago•2 comments

John C. Lilly on solid state intelligence and the elimination of man (1978)

https://kibotronics.net/unlisted/lilly-machines/
35•Kiboneu•3h ago•14 comments

Silicon Valley misreads science fiction and undermines democracy

https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/09/historian-jill-lepore-says-the-tech-industry-is-led-by-bad-read...
89•evo_9•1h ago•60 comments

Honey, I shrunk the embeddings: Matryoshka vs. PCA

https://dylancastillo.co/posts/matryoshka-vs-pca
54•dcastm•6d ago•9 comments

Show HN: Vibez – Open-Source Rust Based Digital Audio Workstation (DAW)

https://alexanderwanyoike.github.io/vibez/
10•mercutio93•1h ago•3 comments

There Are Magic Hexagons of Every Order

https://gukov.dev/math/2026/08/02/new-magic-hexagons.html
142•gukoff•9h ago•19 comments

Every fast write moves work somewhere else

https://www.shayon.dev/post/2026/220/every-fast-write-moves-work-somewhere-else/
8•shayonj•1h ago•1 comments

Windows 11's built-in Weather app wastes more than 1 GB of RAM

https://www.notebookcheck.net/Windows-11-s-built-in-Weather-app-wastes-more-than-1-GB-of-RAM.1364...
36•akyuu•1h ago•19 comments

My server is a phone now

https://seg6.space/posts/phone-server/
448•seg6•18h ago•209 comments

The Alpha 21264 CPU: NT's Greatest RISC (1998)

https://halfhill.com/byte/1998-12_alpha.html
55•Lammy•6h ago•37 comments

Microsoft Word for Windows 1.1a, Native X64 Port

https://github.com/jmarshall23/msword
131•BruceEel•11h ago•57 comments

I Wanted to Own the Harness. Then Codex Desktop Won

https://jorypestorious.com/blog/portable-agent-factory/
10•calmhive•2h ago•8 comments

Os8088: A powerful Mac-like OS for the IBM XT, 286, 386

https://os8088.com/
222•jggonz•17h ago•146 comments

Tom Stanton's supersonic trebuchet breaks sound barrier with gravity alone

https://www.techeblog.com/tom-stanton-supersonic-trebuchet/
46•Thorondor•1h ago•12 comments

The Grid That Doubles the Strength of the Ground

https://practical.engineering/blog/2026/8/4/the-grid-that-doubles-the-strength-of-the-ground
99•michaefe•4d ago•27 comments

Human vs. AI – Diff-based line-level provenance for text under agentic editing

https://github.com/eighttrigrams/us-vs-them
3•eighttrigrams•1h ago•0 comments

Dithered QR Codes

https://www.andrewt.net/dithered-qr-codes/wtf/
328•jmusall•17h ago•35 comments

Uber SubmitQueue: a high-performance speculative merge queue

https://github.com/uber/submitqueue/
63•handfuloflight•1w ago•47 comments

Taxi drivers rarely die of Alzheimer's

https://theconversation.com/taxi-drivers-rarely-die-of-alzheimers-how-complex-mental-maps-and-spa...
24•jader201•1h ago•15 comments

Improving Heuristics for A* Pathfinding

https://www.redblobgames.com/pathfinding/heuristics/differential.html
324•bobbiechen•1w ago•37 comments

A partial digestion of the HRT counterexample

https://terrytao.wordpress.com/2026/08/06/a-partial-digestion-of-the-hrt-counterexample/
6•ijustlovemath•2h ago•1 comments

Willoughbyland: England's Forgotten South American Colony

https://www.historytoday.com/archive/history-matters/willoughbyland-englands-forgotten-south-amer...
6•benbreen•1w ago•1 comments

Show HN: Today's cities on a globe of Earth's tectonic past and future

https://douwe.com/projects/tectonic_globe
4•dosinga•2h ago•0 comments

We replaced Redis with MySQL for inventory reservations and it scaled

https://shopify.engineering/scaling-inventory-reservations
302•adletbalzhanov•18h ago•203 comments

Show HN: Airy – Free, fast, and simple voice content creation

https://airy.so
22•login588•7h ago•12 comments

Reviving a four year old reMarkable 2

https://oskrim.github.io/hardware/2026/08/09/remarkable-over-ssh.html
83•tremguy•5h ago•66 comments

Stylized GGX Shading

https://alexandrelamure.github.io/graphics-posts/stylized-ggx-shading.html
55•ibobev•5d ago•0 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."