Show HN: Round 1 of a vibe-coder ladder, judged by an LLM that only sees the UI
Round 1 · Notebook · 12 September 2026 Two entries, one winner, all the receipts. The task, secret until 17:00 CET, was a personal notes app in one HTML file: multiple notes in Markdown with a live preview, persistence across reload, search, delete. Here is what happened, how it was judged, and exactly how the winner got there.
- ▪Round 1 · Notebook · 12 September 2026 Two entries, one winner, all the receipts.
- ▪The task, secret until 17:00 CET, was a personal notes app in one HTML file: multiple notes in Markdown with a live preview, persistence across reload, search, delete.
- ▪Here is what happened, how it was judged, and exactly how the winner got there.
Hacker News (AI / LLM) files mainly under ai. We currently carry 5,195 of its stories.
Story provenance
Source · retrieval · rights · ranking — open for full record
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Story provenance
Attribution is not the same as permission. This drawer separates discovery metadata, excerpts, WeSearch-generated summaries, reuse status, and whether the publisher receives the visit. Nothing here claims a legal grant the publisher has not made.
Record
| Original publisher | VIBELADDER |
| Canonical URL | https://vibeladder.dev/results/r1.html |
| Publication time | Wed, 16 Sep 2026 16:04:36 +0000 |
| Retrieval time | 2026-09-16T16:13:41.654Z |
| Last seen | 2026-09-16T16:13:41.654Z |
| Headline source | Publisher (no WeSearch rewrite) |
| Excerpt source | publisher body |
| Excerpt method | First ~120 words (~800 chars) of extracted publisher body, fair-use limited. |
| Summary | WeSearch · cerebras-chat (WeSearch summarizer) |
| Summary source text | contentText |
| Citation coverage | Summary is a WeSearch-generated derivative; primary citation is the original publisher URL. |
| Cluster | ZbMCOnBBFooA · 1 stories |
| Cluster logic | Grouped by semantic title/content similarity across sources within a rolling window. Same-publisher template collisions are excluded from coverage comparison. |
| Ranking reason | Story pages are not engagement-ranked. Hub feeds use recency, with optional source-diversified chronological ordering (cap consecutive stories per source). No personalized ranking. |
| Publisher visit | Yes — open original |
| Substitutes article? | No — link-out required for full text |
Rights status (four layers)
WeSearch handling by dimension
| Indexing | May the item be indexed (stored, ranked, made findable)? | Allowed |
| Snippet | May a short excerpt of the publisher's text be shown? | Allowed |
| AI summary | May WeSearch generate its own short summary of the article? | Limited |
| Retrieval / RAG | May the content be exposed for third-party retrieval-augmented generation? | Not asserted |
| Model training | May the content be used to train AI models? | Not asserted |
| Commercial reuse | May the content be reused commercially? | Not permitted |
Basis: Derived from the published RSS/Atom feed. Contact: [email protected]. Reviewed: 2026-07-24.
Opening excerpt (first ~120 words) tap to expand
Round 1 · Notebook · 12 September 2026 Two entries, one winner, all the receipts. The first round of Season 1 ran on Saturday. The task, secret until 17:00 CET, was a personal notes app in one HTML file: multiple notes in Markdown with a live preview, persistence across reload, search, delete. Ninety minutes, any AI. Here is what happened, how it was judged, and exactly how the winner got there. 20seats claimed 6opened the task 2submitted 2passed the smoke test Result #EntrantToolRatingEntry 1@P1s0Claude, plus a ChatGPT session1192open the app [email protected] Sol, Build agent1008open the app Both entries passed all five items of the functional checklist.
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Excerpt limited to ~120 words for fair-use compliance. The full article is at VIBELADDER.
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