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Longest Straight Line Paths on Water or Land on the Earth (2018)

https://arxiv.org/abs/1804.07389
48•joebig•2h ago•10 comments

Arbitrary code execution in QubesOS via copy-to-VM error reporting backchannel

https://www.qubes-os.org/news/2026/08/29/qsb-118/
24•vntok•1h ago•5 comments

Spark: Sparklines in your shell

https://git.zx2c4.com/spark/about/
4•hskimse•28m ago•0 comments

Brits would quite like their private messages to stay private

https://www.theregister.com/security/2026/08/30/turns-out-brits-would-quite-like-their-private-me...
50•defrost•1h ago•19 comments

Xcena and Samsung's Near Memory Compute CXL Device

https://chipsandcheese.com/p/hot-chips-2026-xcena-and-samsungs
14•klelatti•2h ago•0 comments

RISC-V is now officially supported by CPython

https://blog.python.org/2026/08/riscv-now-officially-supported/
173•lumpa•5d ago•36 comments

Hy4 preview

https://www.tencent.com/tencent-releases-and-open-sources-tencent-hy4-preview/
304•shenli3514•14h ago•190 comments

Everyone Should Build Their Own Network Stack

https://blog.lyc8503.net/en/post/dn42-2-dnet/
3•uneven9434•38m ago•0 comments

FreeCORE TrueNAS Core – Continued

https://freecore.org/
102•sashk•8h ago•58 comments

Bug Blindness

https://danluu.com/bug-blind/
262•davidmckenna•10h ago•153 comments

California lawmakers unanimously pass Linux exemption from age-verification law

https://www.tomshardware.com/software/linux/california-lawmakers-unanimously-pass-linux-exemption...
306•shscs911•7h ago•133 comments

Tether: iMessage, SMS, etc. on Linux

https://zackbartel.com/blog/2026/08/tether/
466•zackb•6d ago•182 comments

Benjamin Franklin's Alter Egos Gave Him the Most Freedom

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/among-all-great-things-benjamin-franklin-invented-discover...
70•cisc•9h ago•28 comments

The Einstein-Szilard Refrigerator

https://invention.si.edu/invention-stories/einstein-szilard-refrigerator
31•EndXA•3d ago•5 comments

Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope

https://science.nasa.gov/mission/roman-space-telescope/
200•JumpCrisscross•18h ago•80 comments

Benchmarking Pocket-Scale Inference

https://artificialanalysis.ai/hardware-inference-stack/mobile-phones
47•sys42590•2d ago•4 comments

Creating Teensy ELF Executables for Linux (Or, "Size Is Everything") (1999)

https://www.muppetlabs.com/~breadbox/software/tiny/teensy.html
48•Bluestein•4d ago•11 comments

SQLite as a Document Database (2020)

https://dgl.cx/2020/06/sqlite-json-support
214•lioeters•5d ago•50 comments

Lawmakers added $1 to car insurance policies. That money paid for Flock cameras

https://www.texastribune.org/2026/08/28/texas-flock-cameras-auto-insurance-fee-mvcpa-grants/
309•DeepLogin•11h ago•172 comments

JupyterGIS 0.16: a grammar of graphics for maps, and collaborative story maps

https://blog.jupyter.org/jupytergis-0-16-new-visualization-capabilities-collaborative-story-maps-...
21•arjxn-py•5d ago•3 comments

EVE Online moves to Python 3

https://www.eveonline.com/news/view/the-move-to-python-3-begins
362•TylerJaacks•4d ago•197 comments

Nvidia's AI advantage is moving beyond the GPU

https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/29/nvidias-ai-advantage-is-moving-beyond-the-gpu/
5•01-_-•33m ago•0 comments

Functional State Machines in Rust: Typestate and Newtype Patterns

https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3830438.3830958
90•matt_d•15h ago•36 comments

Glacier Mice

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glacier_mice
303•ostacke•5d ago•59 comments

Calibrate Before You Accelerate: Bias Toward Action in a New Role

https://tucker.wales/writing/bias-towards-action/
162•tuckerwales•16h ago•65 comments

Open Oscar Server: open-source server compatible with AIM and ICQ clients

https://github.com/mk6i/open-oscar-server
39•gregsadetsky•9h ago•13 comments

Is it safe to call print in a Python signal handler?

https://iafisher.com/2026/08/sigprint
50•hellerve•3d ago•27 comments

Pop-2000, a lingua-franca POP-2 dialect

https://hitogata.neocities.org/POP-2000
16•surprisetalk•3d ago•1 comments

Orbs

https://ampcode.com/notes/orbs-explained
10•tosh•4d ago•3 comments

Samsung's Processing-in-Memory (PIM)

https://chipsandcheese.com/p/hot-chips-2026-samsungs-processing
265•ingve•1d ago•103 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."