Can a newbie really vibe code an app? I tried Cursor and Replit to find out

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.
GitHub

Efficient XML-to-dict conversion backed by Rust.

quick-xmltodict is a Rust-backed XML-to-dict conversion package designed to be fast and efficient. It has a single function, parse, that takes an XML string and returns a Python dictionary. You should ...
Software Engineering Institute

SEI Parser Demystifies Firmware to Fight Vulnerabilities

Software based on the Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI) standard makes up the firmware of most modern desktop computers and servers. This software is largely invisible to users, critical to ...
CMU School of Computer Science

Databases in 2025: A Year in Review

The world tried to kill Andy off but he had to stay alive to to talk about what happened with databases in 2025.
The Register on MSN

Popular Python libraries used in Hugging Face models subject to poisoned metadata attack

The open-source libraries were created by Salesforce, Nvidia, and Apple with a Swiss group Vulnerabilities in popular AI and ...
GitHub

A pure Python HTML5 parser that just works. No C extensions to compile. No system dependencies to install. No complex API to learn.

Just... Python 🐍 — Pure Python, zero dependencies — no C extensions or system libraries, easy to debug, and works anywhere Python runs, including PyPy and ...
GCN

Nationwide internet blackout imposed amid escalating unrest and mass demonstrations in Iran

Iran is currently experiencing one of the most unstable moments in its recent history, driven by a deep economic collapse ...