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Belgium stops decommissioning nuclear power plants

https://dpa-international.com/general-news/urn:newsml:dpa.com:20090101:260430-930-14717/
386•mpweiher•3h ago•313 comments

Meta in row after workers who saw smart glasses users having sex lose jobs

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c5y7yvgy0w6o
316•gorbachev•2h ago•222 comments

How an Oil Refinery Works

https://www.construction-physics.com/p/how-an-oil-refinery-works
90•chmaynard•1h ago•8 comments

I aggregated 28 US Government auction sites into one search

https://bidprowl.com
128•scarsam•3h ago•38 comments

You can beat the binary search

https://lemire.me/blog/2026/04/27/you-can-beat-the-binary-search/
68•vok•2d ago•33 comments

The FCC is about to ban 21% of its test labs today. I mapped them all

https://markready.io/blog/fcc-accredited-test-labs-complete-guide
94•chambertime•1h ago•43 comments

Granite 4.1: IBM's 8B Model Matching 32B MoE

https://firethering.com/granite-4-1-ibm-open-source-model-family/
207•steveharing1•5h ago•113 comments

Mozilla's Opposition to Chrome's Prompt API

https://github.com/mozilla/standards-positions/issues/1213
364•jaffathecake•8h ago•144 comments

The Zig project's rationale for their anti-AI contribution policy

https://simonwillison.net/2026/Apr/30/zig-anti-ai/
515•lumpa•13h ago•277 comments

Where the goblins came from

https://openai.com/index/where-the-goblins-came-from/
900•ilreb•12h ago•522 comments

Claude Code refuses requests or charges extra if your commits mention "OpenClaw"

https://twitter.com/theo/status/2049645973350363168
78•elmean•1h ago•29 comments

Noctua releases official 3D CAD models for its cooling fans

https://www.noctua.at/en/3d-cad-models
406•embedding-shape•2d ago•88 comments

Copy Fail

https://copy.fail/
1238•unsnap_biceps•21h ago•443 comments

My Stratum-0 Atomic Clock

https://coverclock.blogspot.com/2017/05/my-stratum-0-atomic-clock_9.html
39•g0xA52A2A•2d ago•10 comments

A Primer on Bézier Curves – So What Makes a Bézier Curve?

https://pomax.github.io/bezierinfo/
67•mostlyk•2d ago•15 comments

Craig Venter has died

https://www.jcvi.org/media-center/j-craig-venter-genomics-pioneer-and-founder-jcvi-and-diploid-ge...
290•rdl•13h ago•72 comments

GCC 16 has been released

https://gcc.gnu.org/gcc-16/changes.html
178•HeliumHydride•4h ago•30 comments

Japan Is Building Cardboard Suicide Drones

https://www.404media.co/japan-cardboard-drones-air-kamuy/
28•Brajeshwar•49m ago•8 comments

The Science Behind Honey's Eternal Shelf Life (2013)

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/the-science-behind-honeys-eternal-shelf-life-1218690/
18•downbad_•2h ago•11 comments

The More Young People Use AI, the More They Hate It

https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/920401/gen-z-ai
60•karakoram•1h ago•44 comments

"Parse, don't validate" through the years with C++

https://derekrodriguez.dev/parse-dont-validate-through-the-years-with-c-/
63•dwrodri•2d ago•29 comments

Show HN: I wrote a DOOM clone in my own programming language

https://spectrelang.org/log/devlog#cubedoom
23•pizza_man•2d ago•10 comments

Cursor Camp

https://neal.fun/cursor-camp/
1102•bpierre•1d ago•176 comments

DataCenter.FM – background noise app featuring the sound of the AI bubble

https://datacenter.fm/
96•louisbarclay•7h ago•20 comments

Biology is a Burrito: A text- and visual-based journey through a living cell

https://burrito.bio/essays/biology-is-a-burrito
166•the-mitr•12h ago•23 comments

Zed 1.0

https://zed.dev/blog/zed-1-0
2006•salkahfi•1d ago•649 comments

FastCGI: 30 years old and still the better protocol for reverse proxies

https://www.agwa.name/blog/post/fastcgi_is_the_better_protocol_for_reverse_proxies
397•agwa•23h ago•95 comments

London to Calcutta by Bus (2022)

https://www.amusingplanet.com/2022/08/london-to-calcutta-by-bus.html
104•CGMthrowaway•1d ago•31 comments

OpenTrafficMap

https://opentrafficmap.org/
345•moooo99•19h ago•91 comments

Monad Tutorials Timeline

https://wiki.haskell.org/Monad_tutorials_timeline
82•brudgers•11h ago•37 comments
Open in hackernews

Building my npx business card

https://ashley.dev/posts/turning-feedback-into-features/
8•edent•11mo ago

Comments

steele•11mo ago
Ooh, free real estate, let's colonize and gentrify package management
aabhay•11mo ago
Lmao, gentrify cracked me up
neilv•11mo ago
Do these npx business cards run arbitrary code on your computer?
cypherpunks01•11mo 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•11mo 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•11mo ago
Yeah, this seems like a very smart but inherently flawed idea.
cypherpunks01•11mo 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•11mo ago
May as well just release an executable tbh.
theamk•11mo 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•11mo 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•11mo 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."