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2026 Eclipse Webcams

https://jonty.github.io/2026_eclipse_webcams/
231•zoenolan•2h ago•54 comments

Why Tiny JPEGs Look Different in Chrome

https://guillaumetech.github.io/posts/jpg-scaling-chrome/
26•gutechh•25m ago•0 comments

What sort of maths are LLMs good at?

https://gowers.wordpress.com/2026/08/12/what-sort-of-maths-are-llms-good-at/
160•ColinWright•4h ago•68 comments

LinkedIn CringeBot 3000

https://www.cringebot3000.com/
427•theanonymousone•7h ago•179 comments

Show HN: Woxi - Open-source Mathematica / Wolfram Language reimplementation

https://woxi.ad-si.com
147•adius•4h ago•16 comments

Obituary: AmigaDOS developer Dr. Tim King has passed away

https://amiga-news.de/en/news/AN-2026-08-00070-EN.html
7•doener•17m ago•0 comments

Automatic1111 for Apple metal, 40% speed up sd1.5

https://therad.ninja/from-8-10-seconds-to-3-7-teaching-automatic1111-to-speak-metal-on-an-m3-pro/
10•dmikey831•45m ago•0 comments

AI is removing the middle class of software engineering

https://blog.florianherrengt.com/ai-removing-middle-class-software-engineering.html
23•florianherrengt•1h ago•6 comments

Delphi 13 Community Edition Is Now Available

https://blogs.embarcadero.com/delphi-13-community-edition-is-now-available/
72•layer8•3h ago•55 comments

Bigos (Polish Hunter's Stew) Recipe Builder

https://chefsbinge.com/bigos-recipe-builder/
29•doublepg23•5d ago•9 comments

High-Res Photo Shows Sand-Capped Butte Rising from Mars Plain of Polygons

https://petapixel.com/2026/08/04/amazing-high-res-photo-shows-a-butte-rising-from-mars/
84•bookofjoe•6d ago•7 comments

Qwen 3.8-27B goes openweight in 2 days

https://huggingface.co/Qwen/Qwen3.8-27B
7•nateb2022•26m ago•3 comments

My Agent Setup

https://chad.cm/posts/2026-8-11-my-agent-setup
6•carimura•30m ago•2 comments

Facebook is paying controversial creators to produce rage-bait content

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-08-06/ragebait-how-facebook-is-paying-controversial-creators/106...
358•robtherobber•4h ago•225 comments

The hardest working font in Manhattan (2025)

https://aresluna.org/the-hardest-working-font-in-manhattan/
300•dcminter•5d ago•46 comments

Compression is prediction

https://ngrok.com/blog/compression-is-prediction
611•nikolay•18h ago•252 comments

The Ultimate Horse

https://worksinprogress.co/issue/the-ultimate-horse/
11•Petiver•18h ago•0 comments

Worms: The Future of Yesterday's Worms Today

https://worm.net/
111•doener•5d ago•40 comments

I built a jellyfish laboratory in my backyard [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MILwxfQBm6Q
27•surprisetalk•1w ago•2 comments

Only 2.6% of the most visited websites have fully valid HTML

https://validatehtml.com/html-error-statistics
6•theo_dcrx•42m ago•5 comments

Show HN: Meteor shower, planet alignment, eclipse kit

https://lifesprites.com/share/0ACA25
3•jmtrevarton•47m ago•3 comments

Shade Map

https://shademap.app
5•fredley•1h ago•1 comments

YC startups are abandoning .com

https://www.orangecrumbs.com/stories/yc-domains
9•oyster143•1h ago•1 comments

Launch HN: Discovered Materials (YC P26) – AI agents to discover new materials

https://discoveredmaterials.com/research/
39•advaith08•6h ago•12 comments

Bb: The IDE that builds itself

https://getbb.app/
8•williswee•1h ago•2 comments

WorldClaw Agentic 3D open-world generation at scale

https://tencent-hunyuan.github.io/Hunyuan3D-WorldClaw/
262•EwanG•16h ago•80 comments

Show HN: KidScreen, a finite YouTube shelf chosen by parents

https://kidscreen.app
9•Tintly•2h ago•6 comments

U of Michigan drops first-semester grades to ‘curb mental health crisis’

https://www.wsj.com/us-news/education/university-of-michigan-grades-mental-health-1a5701d4
109•cwwc•22h ago•270 comments

Stealing Reasoning Traces from Proprietary LLM APIs

https://stolen-thoughts.com/
665•quantumgarbage•1d ago•295 comments

The Human Is the Loop

https://brentfitzgerald.com/posts/the-human-is-the-loop/
157•burnto•12h ago•73 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."