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ASCII characters are not pixels: a deep dive into ASCII rendering

https://alexharri.com/blog/ascii-rendering
440•alexharri•6h ago•57 comments

We Put Claude Code in Rollercoaster Tycoon

https://labs.ramp.com/rct
119•iamwil•5d ago•45 comments

An Elizabethan mansion's secrets for staying warm

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20260116-an-elizabethan-mansions-secrets-for-staying-warm
10•Tachyooon•46m ago•4 comments

Why There's No Single Best Way to Store Information

https://www.quantamagazine.org/why-theres-no-single-best-way-to-store-information-20260116/
11•7777777phil•1h ago•0 comments

The 600-year-old origins of the word 'hello'

https://www.bbc.com/culture/article/20260113-hello-hiya-aloha-what-our-greetings-reveal
63•1659447091•5h ago•30 comments

The Dilbert Afterlife

https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/the-dilbert-afterlife
276•rendall•1d ago•175 comments

Map To Poster – Create Art of your favourite city

https://github.com/originalankur/maptoposter
135•originalankur•7h ago•48 comments

ClickHouse acquires Langfuse

https://langfuse.com/blog/joining-clickhouse
152•tin7in•8h ago•68 comments

East Germany balloon escape

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East_Germany_balloon_escape
616•robertvc•1d ago•260 comments

Show HN: Streaming gigabyte medical images from S3 without downloading them

https://github.com/PABannier/WSIStreamer
100•el_pa_b•8h ago•31 comments

Escaping the trap of US tech dependence

https://disconnect.blog/escaping-the-trap-of-us-tech-dependence/
36•laurex•1h ago•21 comments

Cloudflare acquires Astro

https://astro.build/blog/joining-cloudflare/
900•todotask2•1d ago•378 comments

Counterfactual evaluation for recommendation systems

https://eugeneyan.com/writing/counterfactual-evaluation/
9•kurinikku•12h ago•0 comments

The recurring dream of replacing developers

https://www.caimito.net/en/blog/2025/12/07/the-recurring-dream-of-replacing-developers.html
86•glimshe•3h ago•74 comments

US electricity demand surged in 2025 – solar handled 61% of it

https://electrek.co/2026/01/16/us-electricity-demand-surged-in-2025-solar-handled-61-percent/
243•doener•7h ago•220 comments

The Resonant Computing Manifesto

https://resonantcomputing.org/
10•sinak•56m ago•0 comments

Italy investigates Activision Blizzard for pushing in-game purchases

https://techcrunch.com/2026/01/16/italy-investigates-activision-blizzard-for-pushing-in-game-purc...
65•7777777phil•3h ago•22 comments

The 'untouchable hacker god' behind Finland's biggest crime

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/jan/17/vastaamo-hack-finland-therapy-notes
98•c420•10h ago•96 comments

Cursor's latest “browser experiment” implied success without evidence

https://embedding-shapes.github.io/cursor-implied-success-without-evidence/
650•embedding-shape•1d ago•284 comments

Show HN: I built a tool to assist AI agents to know when a PR is good to go

https://dsifry.github.io/goodtogo/
6•dsifry•7h ago•4 comments

16 Best Practices for Reducing Dependabot Noise

https://nesbitt.io/2026/01/10/16-best-practices-for-reducing-dependabot-noise.html
10•zdw•5d ago•9 comments

High-Level Is the Goal

https://bvisness.me/high-level/
207•tobr•2d ago•96 comments

An explanation of cheating in Doom2 Deathmatch (1999)

https://www.doom2.net/doom2/cheating.html
5•Lammy•7h ago•1 comments

6-Day and IP Address Certificates Are Generally Available

https://letsencrypt.org/2026/01/15/6day-and-ip-general-availability
450•jaas•1d ago•250 comments

Sergei Fedorov's Escape from Soviet Union Helped Save Red Wings (2020)

https://www.freep.com/story/sports/nhl/red-wings/2026/01/12/sergei-fedorov-detroit-red-wings-russ...
27•rmason•4d ago•1 comments

PCs refuse to shut down after Microsoft patch

https://www.theregister.com/2026/01/16/patch_tuesday_secure_launch_bug_no_shutdown/
147•smurda•6h ago•159 comments

FLUX.2 [Klein]: Towards Interactive Visual Intelligence

https://bfl.ai/blog/flux2-klein-towards-interactive-visual-intelligence
189•GaggiX•17h ago•53 comments

Architecture for Disposable Systems

https://tuananh.net/2026/01/15/architecture-for-disposable-systems/
42•tuananh•6h ago•24 comments

LLM Structured Outputs Handbook

https://nanonets.com/cookbooks/structured-llm-outputs
326•vitaelabitur•2d ago•54 comments

Drone Hacking Part 1: Dumping Firmware and Bruteforcing ECC

https://neodyme.io/en/blog/drone_hacking_part_1/
116•tripdout•15h ago•22 comments
Open in hackernews

Building my npx business card

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

Comments

steele•8mo ago
Ooh, free real estate, let's colonize and gentrify package management
aabhay•8mo ago
Lmao, gentrify cracked me up
neilv•8mo ago
Do these npx business cards run arbitrary code on your computer?
cypherpunks01•8mo 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•8mo 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•8mo ago
Yeah, this seems like a very smart but inherently flawed idea.
cypherpunks01•8mo 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•8mo ago
May as well just release an executable tbh.
theamk•8mo 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•8mo 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•8mo 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."