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Show HN: Minimalist editor that lives in browser, stores everything in the URL

https://github.com/antonmedv/textarea
127•medv•2h ago•52 comments

Spaced Repetition for Efficient Learning

https://gwern.net/spaced-repetition
42•tsenturk•1h ago•3 comments

Fabrice Bellard: Biography (2009) [pdf]

https://www.ipaidia.gr/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/117-2020-fabrice-bellard.pdf
122•lioeters•3h ago•36 comments

Show HN: Vibium – Browser automation for AI and humans, by Selenium's creator

https://github.com/VibiumDev/vibium
147•hugs•4h ago•63 comments

Nvidia buying AI chip startup Groq for about $20B in cash

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/12/24/nvidia-buying-ai-chip-startup-groq-for-about-20-billion-biggest-d...
116•nickrubin•56m ago•46 comments

Qntm's Power Tower Toy

https://qntm.org/files/knuth/knuth.html
23•ravenical•4d ago•9 comments

When Compilers Surprise You

https://xania.org/202512/24-cunning-clang
176•brewmarche•8h ago•78 comments

Keystone (YC S25) is hiring engineer #1 to automate coding

https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/keystone/jobs/J3t9XeM-founding-engineer
1•pablo24602•57m ago

A faster path to container images in Bazel

https://www.tweag.io/blog/2025-12-18-rules_img/
46•malt3•6d ago•17 comments

My 2026 Open Social Web Predictions

https://www.timothychambers.net/2025/12/23/my-open-social-web-predictions.html
61•todsacerdoti•5h ago•56 comments

Fabrice Bellard Releases MicroQuickJS

https://github.com/bellard/mquickjs/blob/main/README.md
1323•Aissen•1d ago•508 comments

Some Epstein file redactions are being undone

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/dec/23/epstein-unredacted-files-social-media
917•vinni2•1d ago•709 comments

Beijing is enforcing tough rules to ensure chatbots don’t misbehave

https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/china-is-worried-ai-threatens-party-ruleand-is-trying-to-tame-it-bfdc...
48•bookofjoe•1h ago•9 comments

X-ray: a Python library for finding bad redactions in PDF documents

https://github.com/freelawproject/x-ray
658•rendx•1d ago•113 comments

I'm returning my Framework 16

https://yorickpeterse.com/articles/im-returning-my-framework-16/
104•YorickPeterse•9h ago•168 comments

The e-scooter isn't new – London was zooming around on Autopeds a century ago

https://www.ianvisits.co.uk/articles/the-e-scooter-isnt-new-london-was-zooming-around-on-autopeds...
124•zeristor•13h ago•97 comments

Avoid Mini-Frameworks

https://laike9m.com/blog/avoid-mini-frameworks,171/
98•laike9m•9h ago•75 comments

Researchers achieved 1,270 Wh/L in an anode-free lithium metal battery

https://postech.ac.kr/eng/research/research_results.do?mode=view&articleNo=43617&title=Anode-Free...
91•giuliomagnifico•3h ago•44 comments

Litex: Formal math for everyone – set theory examples with Lean comparison

https://litexlang.com/doc/How_Litex_Works/Litex_vs_Lean_Set_Theory_Examples
11•litexlang•5d ago•2 comments

Your inbox is a bandit problem

https://parentheticallyspeaking.org/articles/bandit-inbox/
58•zdw•2d ago•55 comments

Making a game on a custom bytecode VM in 7 days and 3kB

https://laurent.le-brun.eu/blog/making-a-game-on-a-custom-bytecode-vm-in-7-days-and-3kb
63•laurentlb•5d ago•11 comments

Google's year in review: areas with research breakthroughs in 2025

https://blog.google/technology/ai/2025-research-breakthroughs/
158•Anon84•12h ago•117 comments

Looking for Decent Conversation?

68•kmstout•2h ago•8 comments

Fabrication Techniques Using Myco-Materials

https://encyclopedia.pub/entry/27602
11•andsoitis•2d ago•2 comments

Lessons from the PG&E outage

https://waymo.com/blog/2025/12/autonomously-navigating-the-real-world
127•scoofy•19h ago•106 comments

map::operator[] should be nodiscard

https://quuxplusone.github.io/blog/2025/12/18/nodiscard-operator-bracket/
58•jandeboevrie•5d ago•53 comments

Games’ affordance of childlike wonder and reduced burnout risk in young adults

https://games.jmir.org/2025/1/e84219/
124•azalemeth•8h ago•109 comments

The Port I couldn't Ship

https://ammil.industries/the-port-i-couldnt-ship/
87•cjlm•6d ago•44 comments

Unifi Travel Router

https://blog.ui.com/article/travel-in-style-unifi-style-unifi-travel-router
436•flurdy•21h ago•377 comments

AMD entered the CPU market with reverse-engineered Intel 8080 clone 50 years ago

https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/cpus/amd-first-entered-the-cpu-market-with-reverse-eng...
141•ksec•7h ago•71 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•8mo ago

Comments

johnnyfived•8mo 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•8mo ago
I just came to bring the calculator for all the hate you're going to receive. Popcorn.
chmod775•8mo 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•8mo 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•8mo 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•8mo 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•8mo 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•8mo 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•8mo ago
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johnnyfived•8mo ago
And counting
Mountain_Skies•8mo 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•8mo 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."