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Congressional lawmakers 47% pts better at picking stocks

https://www.nber.org/papers/w34524
204•mhb•1h ago•149 comments

You Can't Fool the Optimizer

https://xania.org/202512/03-more-adding-integers
111•HeliumHydride•2h ago•49 comments

A Look at Rust from 2012

https://purplesyringa.moe/blog/a-look-at-rust-from-2012/
73•todsacerdoti•1w ago•6 comments

Anthropic acquires Bun

https://bun.com/blog/bun-joins-anthropic
1996•ryanvogel•21h ago•954 comments

Helldivers 2 devs slash install size from 154GB to 23GB

https://www.tomshardware.com/video-games/pc-gaming/helldivers-2-install-size-slashed-from-154gb-t...
124•doener•1h ago•59 comments

Zig quits GitHub, says Microsoft's AI obsession has ruined the service

https://www.theregister.com/2025/12/02/zig_quits_github_microsoft_ai_obsession/
589•Brajeshwar•7h ago•314 comments

IBM CEO says there is 'no way' spending on AI data centers will pay off

https://www.businessinsider.com/ibm-ceo-big-tech-ai-capex-data-center-spending-2025-12
689•nabla9•21h ago•780 comments

Interview with RollerCoaster Tycoon's Creator, Chris Sawyer (2024)

https://medium.com/atari-club/interview-with-rollercoaster-tycoons-creator-chris-sawyer-684a0efb0f13
194•areoform•10h ago•35 comments

The "Mad Men" in 4K on HBO Max Debacle

http://fxrant.blogspot.com/2025/12/the-mad-men-in-4k-on-hbo-max-debacle.html
199•tosh•3h ago•75 comments

Super fast aggregations in PostgreSQL 19

https://www.cybertec-postgresql.com/en/super-fast-aggregations-in-postgresql-19/
140•jnord•1w ago•14 comments

Mission Critical Advanced Scheduling (ALAP/ASAP) System

https://github.com/rodmena-limited/scriptplan
20•rodmena•5d ago•2 comments

AI agents break rules under everyday pressure

https://spectrum.ieee.org/ai-agents-safety
212•pseudolus•6d ago•108 comments

Paged Out

https://pagedout.institute
501•varjag•18h ago•53 comments

The Writing Is on the Wall for Handwriting Recognition

https://newsletter.dancohen.org/archive/the-writing-is-on-the-wall-for-handwriting-recognition/
101•speckx•6d ago•48 comments

Researchers Find Microbe Capable of Producing Oxygen from Martian Soil

https://scienceclock.com/microbe-that-could-turn-martian-dust-into-oxygen/
61•ashishgupta2209•8h ago•28 comments

Optimizations in C++ compilers: a practical journey

https://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=3372264
9•fanf2•4d ago•0 comments

OpenAI declares 'code red' as Google catches up in AI race

https://www.theverge.com/news/836212/openai-code-red-chatgpt
737•goplayoutside•1d ago•823 comments

I designed and printed a custom nose guard to help my dog with DLE

https://snoutcover.com/billie-story
562•ragswag•3d ago•67 comments

Trying Out C++26 Executors

https://mropert.github.io/2025/11/21/trying_out_stdexec/
40•ingve•5d ago•22 comments

Quad9 DOH HTTP/1.1 Retirement, December 15, 2025

https://quad9.net/news/blog/doh-http-1-1-retirement/
82•pickledoyster•9h ago•27 comments

India scraps order to pre-install state-run cyber safety app on smartphones

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/clydg2re4d1o
85•wolpoli•4h ago•13 comments

Mapping Every Dollar of America's $5T Healthcare System

https://healthisotherpeople.substack.com/p/an-abominable-creature
7•brandonb•28m ago•0 comments

Anthropic reportedly preparing for $300B IPO

https://vechron.com/2025/12/anthropic-hires-wilson-sonsini-ipo-2026-openai-race/
25•GeorgeWoff25•5h ago•20 comments

Learning music with Strudel

https://terryds.notion.site/Learning-Music-with-Strudel-2ac98431b24180deb890cc7de667ea92
527•terryds•1w ago•125 comments

Qwen3-VL can scan two-hour videos and pinpoint nearly every detail

https://the-decoder.com/qwen3-vl-can-scan-two-hour-videos-and-pinpoint-nearly-every-detail/
237•thm•3d ago•71 comments

Zig's new plan for asynchronous programs

https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/1046084/4c048ee008e1c70e/
313•messe•1d ago•224 comments

Understanding ECDSA

https://avidthinker.github.io/2025/11/28/understanding-ecdsa/
82•avidthinker•10h ago•20 comments

Counter Galois Onion: Improved encryption for Tor circuit traffic

https://blog.torproject.org/introducing-cgo/
96•wrayjustin•1w ago•30 comments

All about automotive lidar

https://mainstreetautonomy.com/blog/2025-08-29-all-about-automotive-lidar/
190•dllu•1d ago•71 comments

What, if anything, is universal to music cognition? (2024)

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41562-023-01800-9
31•Hooke•1w ago•22 comments
Open in hackernews

Building my npx business card

https://ashley.dev/posts/turning-feedback-into-features/
8•edent•6mo ago

Comments

steele•6mo ago
Ooh, free real estate, let's colonize and gentrify package management
aabhay•6mo ago
Lmao, gentrify cracked me up
neilv•6mo ago
Do these npx business cards run arbitrary code on your computer?
cypherpunks01•6mo 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•6mo 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•6mo ago
Yeah, this seems like a very smart but inherently flawed idea.
cypherpunks01•6mo 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•6mo ago
May as well just release an executable tbh.
theamk•6mo 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•6mo 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•6mo 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."