I'm not a programmer, but I tried four vibe coding tools to see if I could build anything at all on my own. Here's what I did and did not accomplish.

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Barbara Babbage Stanley passed away on October 9, 2025, at the age of 83. Beloved mother of Jennifer Pias, of Saratoga Springs, New York, and grandmother of Zachary Spahr of Washington DC, Sophie Hage ...

We did an informal poll around the Hackaday bunker and decided that, for most of us, our favorite programming language is solder. However, [Stephen Cass] over at IEEE Spectrum released their annual ...

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Hedge funds will go to great lengths in pursuit of profits, whether it is by counting cars in satellite photos of parking lots or shipping gold across the Atlantic. Building a compiler—a piece of ...