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Localsend: An open-source cross-platform alternative to AirDrop

https://github.com/localsend/localsend
346•bilsbie•3h ago•142 comments

Microsoft VibeVoice: Open-Source Frontier Voice AI

https://github.com/microsoft/VibeVoice
149•tosh•3h ago•97 comments

Show HN: Live Sun and Moon Dashboard with NASA Footage

https://www.lumara-space.app/
48•beeswaxpat•1h ago•9 comments

Deep under Antarctic ice, a long-predicted cosmic whisper breaks through

https://phys.org/news/2026-04-deep-antarctic-ice-cosmic-strange.html
32•rbanffy•1d ago•8 comments

OpenAI CEO's Identity Verification Company Announced Fake Bruno Mars Partnership

https://www.vice.com/en/article/openai-ceo-identity-verification-company-fake-bruno-mars-partners...
150•BoggleOhYeah•1h ago•61 comments

Talkie: a 13B vintage language model from 1930

https://talkie-lm.com/introducing-talkie
515•jekude•17h ago•212 comments

UAE Leaves OPEC and OPEC+

https://www.reuters.com/markets/commodities/uae-says-it-quits-opec-opec-statement-2026-04-28/
156•TechTechTech•2h ago•43 comments

I Spent My Sabbatical Building a Power Meter for Sledgehammers

https://leblancfg.com/intensity-pad-founder-story.html
33•alin23•1d ago•31 comments

The predictable failure of the QDay Prize

https://algassert.com/post/2601
36•firefly284•1d ago•3 comments

Period tracking app has been yapping about your flow to Meta

https://femtechdesigndesk.substack.com/p/your-period-tracking-app-has-been
161•campuscodi•3h ago•118 comments

The World's Most Complex Machine

https://worksinprogress.co/issue/the-worlds-most-complex-machine/
207•mellosouls•3d ago•122 comments

Is my blue your blue? (2024)

https://ismy.blue/
649•theogravity•19h ago•427 comments

WASM is not quite a stack machine

https://purplesyringa.moe/blog/wasm-is-not-quite-a-stack-machine/
112•signa11•10h ago•37 comments

UAE to leave OPEC in blow to oil cartel

https://www.ft.com/content/8c354f2d-3e66-47f1-aad4-9b4aa30e386d
166•bazzmt•2h ago•135 comments

Voice Modems

https://computer.rip/2026-04-26-voice-modems.html
27•K7PJP•1d ago•1 comments

GTFOBins

https://gtfobins.org/
312•StefanBatory•8h ago•77 comments

Pgrx: Build Postgres Extensions with Rust

https://github.com/pgcentralfoundation/pgrx
151•luu•3d ago•14 comments

GitHub Copilot code review will start consuming GitHub Actions minutes

https://github.blog/changelog/2026-04-27-github-copilot-code-review-will-start-consuming-github-a...
80•whtsky•6h ago•82 comments

An Update on GitHub Availability

https://github.blog/news-insights/company-news/an-update-on-github-availability/
215•salkahfi•5h ago•175 comments

Mo RAM, Mo Problems (2025)

https://fabiensanglard.net/curse/
180•blfr•2d ago•33 comments

In Kannauj, perfumers have been making monsoon-infused mitti attar for centuries

https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/smell-of-rain-kannauj-perfume-mitti-attar-india
42•bcaulfield•1d ago•6 comments

Tiled Words 6 Month Update

https://paulmakeswebsites.com/writing/six-months-of-tiled-words/
49•paulhebert•1d ago•21 comments

Can You Find the Comet?

https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap260427.html
102•ColinWright•1d ago•62 comments

Meetings are forcing functions

https://www.mooreds.com/wordpress/archives/3734
162•zdw•2d ago•100 comments

Microsoft and OpenAI end their exclusive and revenue-sharing deal

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-04-27/microsoft-to-stop-sharing-revenue-with-main-ai...
944•helsinkiandrew•1d ago•804 comments

Easyduino: Open Source PCB Devboards for KiCad

https://github.com/Hanqaqa/Easyduino
239•Hanqaqa•21h ago•40 comments

High Performance Git

https://gitperf.com/
198•gnabgib•14h ago•72 comments

Networking changes coming in macOS 27

https://eclecticlight.co/2026/04/23/networking-changes-coming-in-macos-27/
250•pvtmert•23h ago•219 comments

How I leared what a decoupling capacitor is for, the hard way

https://nbelakovski.substack.com/p/how-i-learned-what-a-decoupling-capacitor
132•actinium226•2d ago•70 comments

The quiet resurgence of RF engineering

https://atempleton.bearblog.dev/quiet-resurgence-of-rf-engineering/
224•merlinq•2d ago•128 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."