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Qwen 3.8 27B is excellent, but it defaults to overthinking things

https://simonwillison.net/2026/Aug/16/qwen-38-27b/
385•bilsbie•8h ago•172 comments

GIMP Development Update

https://www.gimp.org/news/2026/08/16/dev-update-august-2026/
78•lumpa•4h ago•26 comments

A third world engineer responds to “RISC-V: They should have known better”

https://rvembedded.com/blog_post/12/
483•Narishma•15h ago•251 comments

Linear Algebra Done Right – Sheldon Axler

https://linear.axler.net/
46•the-mitr•2h ago•22 comments

On A.I. regulation and messaging

https://twitter.com/DarioAmodei/status/2088758816376807762
13•jacquesm•6h ago•0 comments

Reticulum – Decentralized Mesh Network

https://reticulum.network/
107•sudo_cowsay•8h ago•23 comments

Anthropic's 'Watermark' Text Adulteration in Claude Is a Perversion of Writing

https://daringfireball.net/2026/08/anthropics_watermark_text_adulteration_in_claude_is_a_perversi...
188•ropbear•10h ago•184 comments

Claude: System Prompts

https://platform.claude.com/docs/en/release-notes/system-prompts
636•tosh•19h ago•252 comments

AGI-64 Brings Sierra Adventures to the Commodore 64

https://meanhamster.com/news/agi-64-brings-sierra-adventures-to-the-commodore-64
73•erickhill•6h ago•9 comments

Rhombus 1.1 is now available

https://blog.racket-lang.org/2026/08/rhombus-v1.1.html
70•spdegabrielle•7h ago•24 comments

Show HN: Vocal Slice – Cut audio by selecting text, fully on-device

https://vocalslice.com/
27•terranivium•6d ago•17 comments

Low-Tech Ceramic Water Filter

https://wiki.lowtechlab.org/wiki/Filtre_%C3%A0_eau_c%C3%A9ramique/en
168•Bluestein•5d ago•43 comments

Gakutensoku

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gakutensoku
9•benbreen•3d ago•0 comments

How do I permanently disable random Google Photos popup to backup photos? (2024)

https://support.google.com/photos/thread/256212140/how-do-i-permanently-disable-google-photos-pop...
95•dt3ft•3d ago•64 comments

Prolly: A content-addressed ordered map built on prolly trees

https://github.com/crabbuild/prolly
41•forhappy•7h ago•2 comments

SIMD in the 90s: Programming Intel's Pentium MMX

https://pikuma.com/blog/programming-intel-pentium-mmx-simd
112•ibobev•3d ago•47 comments

Applying a photosynthetic process to treat “dry eye”

https://www.science.org/content/blog-post/taking-tip-plants-eyes
40•gumby•7h ago•9 comments

Interview with Amit Patel, Creator of “Solar Realms Elite” (2013)

https://breakintochat.com/blog/2013/02/18/amit-patel-creator-of-solar-realms-elite/
48•bananaboy•1w ago•12 comments

$12B of US ratepayers' money wasted on a modeling mistake in PJM

https://newsletter.semianalysis.com/p/12b-of-us-ratepayers-money-wasted
35•_delirium•2h ago•14 comments

Design 3D-printable parts by talking

https://nurb.dev/
10•mkmk•2d ago•6 comments

Dancing with friends and enemies: boids' swarm intelligence (2012)

https://community.wolfram.com/groups/-/m/t/122095
40•surprisetalk•5d ago•5 comments

Strong gravitational lensing and microlensing of supernovae (2024)

https://infoscience.epfl.ch/entities/publication/644cad8a-6c9b-4b02-bcf3-b8b6e8c614c5
9•andsoitis•5h ago•1 comments

Protobuf has LSP support

https://buf.build/blog/protobuf-lsp
147•theanonymousone•13h ago•98 comments

The AI Credit Resale Economy

https://vectoral.com/blog/who-are-the-token-brokers
277•mlenhard•17h ago•113 comments

The Life and Death of Direct File [pdf]

https://www.ischool.berkeley.edu/sites/default/files/vinton_report_5.pdf
184•ronbenton•7h ago•90 comments

Tell HN: Cloudflare silently injects its analytics when you switch nameservers

462•stagas•14h ago•118 comments

MathCode, Mathematical Coding Agent

https://math-ai-org.github.io/mathcode/
87•homarp•13h ago•28 comments

Stripe will reportedly acquire OpenRouter for $7B+

https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/16/stripe-will-reportedly-acquire-ai-gateway-startup-openrouter-fo...
321•zacharyozer•11h ago•204 comments

Red queen hypothesis – A new way forward for self-improving AI

https://www.cst.cam.ac.uk/news/red-queen-hypothesis-new-way-forward-self-improving-ai
50•hardlianotion•12h ago•10 comments

Plastic mechanical computer from 1963: The Digi-Comp 1 [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-y8bGBE71yw
66•tobr•1d ago•17 comments
Open in hackernews

Building my npx business card

https://ashley.dev/posts/turning-feedback-into-features/
8•edent•1y ago

Comments

steele•1y ago
Ooh, free real estate, let's colonize and gentrify package management
aabhay•1y ago
Lmao, gentrify cracked me up
neilv•1y ago
Do these npx business cards run arbitrary code on your computer?
cypherpunks01•1y ago
npx

Run a command from a local or remote npm package

Description

This command allows you to run an arbitrary command from an npm package (either one installed locally, or fetched remotely), in a similar context as running it via npm run.

neilv•1y ago
Yes, then is a "command from an npm package" arbitrary code?

And what is this "similar context as running it via npm run"?

Would it be better to answer the question directly?

joshka•1y ago
Yeah, this seems like a very smart but inherently flawed idea.
cypherpunks01•1y ago
Yes I agree! OSS package management ecosystems are a great idea, but allowing submissions without any review or vetting is just asking for supply chain attacks.
Xss3•1y ago
May as well just release an executable tbh.
theamk•1y ago
Reminds me of JAPH [0] - a tiny Perl program that was used in email/newsgroup signature to give it personal touch.

[0] https://www.perlmonks.org/?node_id=412464

watusername•1y ago
Terminal business cards are a nice idea, but RCE business cards are just asking for trouble. Instead of npx, what happened to good'ol curl? Something like

$ curl ashley.dev

Some decades ago, we had finger (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finger_%28protocol%29) which is designed for this very use case. Sadly it's no longer installed by default with most distros:

$ finger @ashley.dev

queezey•1y ago
This would be a great advertisement for security consulting.

"I was just able to run arbitrary code on your computer. Here is a sample of your recent browser history. Let me tell you help you mitigate your security vulnerabilities."