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Keys Not Included: recovering the signing keys for US driver's license barcodes

https://ryan.science/blog/keys-not-included
121•Ryan5453•3h ago•46 comments

Nvidia announces native GPU programming in Rust

https://developer.nvidia.com/blog/introducing-cuda-rust-two-tracks-for-writing-gpu-kernels/
560•nonmaskable•19h ago•203 comments

Comparison of Malloc() Algorithms

https://egbert.net/blog/articles/comparison-of-arena-architecture-in-malloc.html
36•egberts1•1d ago•0 comments

Training a 4B model to produce 81% faster query plans than Postgres

https://rohanbansal.com/qorl
499•polyphilz•12h ago•104 comments

My temporary PHP fix from 2014 has nearly 20M installs. Today I'm deprecating it

https://jakeasmith.com/blog/http-build-url/
18•jakeasmith•1d ago•3 comments

Xiaomi Mimo 2.6 live post-training dashboard

https://mimo.xiaomi.com/rl/
393•krackers•10h ago•98 comments

Backups Aren't Simple

https://filipovski.net/2026/09/16/backups-arent-simple.html
190•afilipovski•10h ago•99 comments

A 32-year-old bug walks into a Telnet server

https://labs.watchtowr.com/a-32-year-old-bug-walks-into-a-telnet-server-gnu-inetutils-telnetd-cve...
42•paimapi•1d ago•11 comments

Developing provably correct Rust code with Verus

https://www.amazon.science/blog/developing-provably-correct-rust-code-with-verus
84•Betelbuddy•2d ago•11 comments

Small programming tricks

https://will-keleher.com/posts/small-programming-tricks-matter/
488•signa11•14h ago•212 comments

Breaking the 1.58-bit Barrier for Ternary LLMs

https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.16338
187•matt_d•9h ago•27 comments

The engineering behind the US Strategic Petroleum Reserve

https://johnjwang.com/post/2026/09/15/engineering-behind-us-strategic-petroleum-reserve
177•johnjwang•1d ago•69 comments

AWS says it can't restore some data from mideast facilities struck by Iran

https://www.wsj.com/world/middle-east/aws-says-it-cant-restore-some-data-from-mideast-facilities-...
346•berkeleyjunk•1d ago•274 comments

OpenSpec – A lightweight and configurable AI spec framework

https://openspec.dev/
121•etoxin•7h ago•50 comments

The Return of Sail Power: Cargo Ships Are Turning Back to the Wind

https://gcaptain.com/the-return-of-sail-power-cargo-ships-are-turning-back-to-the-wind/
70•gumby•6h ago•34 comments

Performance Improvements in .NET 11

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/dotnet/performance-improvements-in-net-11/
262•soheilpro•1d ago•46 comments

PCB is brought to you by Fable 5

https://a6mzero.com/posts/this-pcb-is-brought-to-you-by-fable-5/
70•jasonpeacock•2d ago•26 comments

Show HN: An e-ink frame that hears birds and draws them as 1800s illustrations

https://github.com/arnegiacomo/fugleramme
2137•arnemunthekaas•1d ago•243 comments

HarnessTax: How Much Does the Harness Matter for Coding Agents?

https://harnesstax.github.io/
100•matt_d•8h ago•33 comments

Reversing Factorio's RNG

https://gegell.github.io/posts/factorio-rng/
188•jheitmann•4d ago•23 comments

Japan's book scene is moving from bookstores to libraries

https://untranslatedjp.substack.com/p/japans-book-scene-is-quietly-moving
164•herbertl•4d ago•70 comments

Part-human part-mouse brain developed in science breakthrough

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c60m3k28j81mo
26•marc__1•5h ago•19 comments

Jev Ultrafast: A browser agent with a dynamic, indexed action space

https://github.com/browser-use/jev-ultrafast
21•rahimnathwani•3h ago•2 comments

Anecdotally, programmers dislike "reduce"

https://evanhahn.com/posts/2026-09-13-programmers-dislike-reduce/
136•vinhnx•3d ago•204 comments

Reverse-engineered Jev-like model

https://github.com/vinnylarouge/jevlike
112•rochansinha•12h ago•16 comments

Dream-RSI: Recursive Self-Improvement through Evolving Worlds

https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.14858
197•bananaflag•17h ago•49 comments

Monsanto's Cruel, and Dangerous, Monopolization on American Farming (2008)

https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2008/05/monsanto200805
58•kamaraju•4h ago•21 comments

Anatomy of a Texture

https://agentlien.github.io/texture/
88•Agentlien•16h ago•15 comments

DeepSeek-v4.1 Flash: Pushing the Limits of KV Cache Compression

https://zartbot.github.io/blog/model_arch/dsv41flash_arch/en.html
109•mfiguiere•5h ago•8 comments

Hackers Got Inside a Flock Camera

https://www.wired.com/story/hackers-flock-camera-data-shows-how-system-works/
517•driverdan•17h ago•236 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."