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99% of My Website Traffic Is Bots

https://patronview.com/news/99-percent-of-my-website-traffic-is-bots/
169•petercooper•1h ago•147 comments

Show HN: Wyzer Programming Language

https://github.com/Wyzer-Lang/wyzer
81•v0id_isgood•3h ago•37 comments

Iceberg Collapses and Flips over in Ilulissat, Greenland (July 25, 2026) [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UufMqwyO7pY
94•Bender•1h ago•29 comments

New Mexico court orders Meta to pay $567m over harms to children’s mental health

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/aug/06/new-mexico-court-meta
532•boplicity•16h ago•292 comments

AMD acquires Taalas to boost inference performance by etching models in silicon

https://www.theregister.com/systems/2026/08/06/amd-acquires-ai-chip-startup-taalas-to-boost-infer...
788•itvision•19h ago•601 comments

Show HN: textlog – A quiet, text-only microblogging platform, open-source, no JS

https://textlog.cc/about
48•stagas•5h ago•12 comments

Making Postgres 300x faster for analytics: batching, operator fusion, and SIMD

https://malisper.me/how-we-made-postgres-hundreds-of-times-faster-the-query-engine/
69•poly2it•5h ago•25 comments

Thoroughly Understanding C++ ABI

https://ykiko.me/en/articles/692886292/
32•rramadass•5d ago•28 comments

Kitesurf: Agent-first browser that runs in V8 isolates

https://blog.cloudflare.com/kitesurf/
60•m3h•5h ago•16 comments

Petri Nets as a Music Sequencer

https://blog.stackdump.com/posts/petri-net-sequencer
14•m_kos•3d ago•0 comments

Taste Is All That's Left

https://notashelf.dev/posts/taste-is-all-thats-left
581•tsak•23h ago•445 comments

USA Today Co., partners with Palantir to analyze audience data

https://www.niemanlab.org/2026/08/americas-largest-newspaper-chain-usa-today-co-partners-with-pal...
104•cdrnsf•2h ago•44 comments

U.S. economy lost 23,000 jobs in July, a sudden reversal

https://www.nbcnews.com/business/economy/july-2026-jobs-report-rcna591138
295•ceejayoz•3h ago•286 comments

São Paulo resident transforms degraded area into urban forest

https://saopaulosecreto.com/en/tiquatira-linear-park-en/
246•rmason•5d ago•102 comments

Bioengineered chewing gum may offer a way to fight HPV and other microbes

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2026/08/260803080917.htm
180•Audiophilip•19h ago•53 comments

Scientists discover Kelvin-Helmholtz Instability on the surface of the Sun

https://nso.edu/press-release/nsf-inouye-solar-telescope-enables-major-discovery-of-a-hidden-sola...
279•neversaydie•2d ago•55 comments

TypeStax: A type scale generator with vintage audio hardware interface

https://www.typestax.com/
31•jasim•1w ago•7 comments

Software is about people, not code (2020)

https://letterstoanewdeveloper.com/2020/01/27/software-is-about-people-not-code/
30•venamresm__•1h ago•27 comments

Why Are There Statues of Beavers on Top of This Oxford Street Shop?

https://londonist.com/london/history/oxford-street-beavers
6•bookofjoe•3d ago•0 comments

A quine in Piet – a GIF image that prints itself [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GwMtzhjCzyc
59•surprisetalk•4d ago•4 comments

GitHub Actions and Pages are experiencing degraded availability

https://www.githubstatus.com/incidents/qcvjkzcs7j74
462•Footkerchief•1d ago•381 comments

Improving GPT‑5.6 Sol in ChatGPT, expanding GPT‑5.6 Luna access for free users

https://openai.com/index/improving-gpt-5-6-sol-in-chatgpt/
284•tedsanders•23h ago•232 comments

US strikes $1.2B deal to pay German firm to halt offshore wind projects

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c1e1vg0gjl5o
752•defrost•5h ago•726 comments

Welcoming the Nepalese Government to Have I Been Pwned

https://www.troyhunt.com/welcoming-the-nepalese-government-to-have-i-been-pwned/
195•gnabgib•18h ago•31 comments

Launch HN: ProvenMetal (YC S26) delivers circuit boards in days instead of weeks

https://provenmetal.com
216•willcarkner•1d ago•152 comments

The BBC Tetris Companion

https://www.leadedsolder.com/2026/07/28/bbc-bridge-companion-part-1-overview.html
54•zdw•1w ago•6 comments

Why Estonians invite strangers into their back gardens each summer

https://www.bbc.com/travel/article/20260731-why-estonians-invite-strangers-into-their-backyards-e...
129•koolhead17•3d ago•46 comments

Herdr is joining Y Combinator. The runtime stays open

https://herdr.dev/blog/herdr-is-joining-y-combinator/
255•collinmanderson•21h ago•179 comments

Mario Meets Pareto

https://www.mayerowitz.io/blog/mario-meets-pareto
1111•theanonymousone•1d ago•164 comments

My phone detects going on a run as “someone snatching my phone and running off”

https://mastodon.gamedev.place/@rygorous/117047697255584965
183•luu•21h ago•316 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."