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I spent $266 and four AI models to own my tablet. GLM-5.3 finished it in a day

https://ericpardee.github.io/fire-hd-ownership/
397•dr_pardee•4h ago•167 comments

A website for debloated open source alternatives

https://debloat.dev/
72•ryanvogel•2h ago•34 comments

How Complex Systems Fail (1998)

https://how.complexsystems.fail/
130•shortcrct•3h ago•36 comments

Why Sal Khan't: On Learning by Making but Teaching by Telling

https://punyamishra.com/2026/04/16/why-sal-khant-on-learning-by-making-but-teaching-by-telling/
57•the-mitr•3h ago•20 comments

Malware infects Android-based automotive head unit firmware

https://securelist.com/android-head-unit-malware/121106/
169•campuscodi•6h ago•81 comments

My favorite nonfiction books about cults, scams, and schemes

https://bookdna.com/best-books/nonfiction-about-cults-scams-and-schemes
127•bwb•5h ago•38 comments

GLM-5.3 (open-weight) beat Anthropic/OpenAI models – for 1/5 the cost

https://reinvently.co.uk/tools/ed-o-meter/
212•ed-is-ai•2h ago•89 comments

What Is a Harness?

https://earendil.com/posts/what-is-a-harness/
157•tosh•4h ago•93 comments

Coconut Oil Jet Fuel Matches Kerosene's Efficiency in Engine Tests

https://studyfinds.com/coconut-oil-jet-fuel-matches-kerosenes-efficiency-in-engine-tests/
75•mdp2021•3h ago•69 comments

Slovakia finds Russian backdoor in traffic speed cameras

https://risky.biz/risky-bulletin-slovakia-finds-russian-backdoor-in-traffic-speed-cameras/
248•dredmorbius•4h ago•90 comments

To become a better writer, read as much as you can

https://nappertime.com/the-golden-rule-of-becoming-a-better-writer/
384•andsoitis•15h ago•239 comments

Wi-Fi 8 is the first wireless upgrade in years that isn't chasing speed

https://www.xda-developers.com/wi-fi-8-first-wireless-upgrade-years-isnt-chasing-speed-home-netwo...
222•taubek•12h ago•160 comments

Things I want in a modern relational query language

https://sporks.space/2026/08/19/things-i-want-in-a-modern-relational-query-language/
58•zdw•1d ago•44 comments

Explain it to me like I'm ten

https://timharford.com/2026/08/explain-it-to-me-like-im-ten/
4•bookofjoe•57m ago•0 comments

The End of an Athlon

http://www.os2museum.com/wp/the-end-of-an-athlon/
167•userbinator•13h ago•74 comments

Dutch regulator fines Uber $966M for automating driver suspensions

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/aug/21/netherlands-fines-uber-automated-driver-suspen...
18•geoffbp•1h ago•15 comments

Why your local LLM feels dumber than it is

https://forum.level1techs.com/t/why-your-local-llm-feels-dumber-than-it-is/253917
458•felineflock•1d ago•185 comments

Over 170k Nonprofits Lost All Their Data. Is Microsoft to Blame?

https://slate.com/technology/2026/08/microsoft-software-nonprofit-data-delete.html
5•tchalla•9m ago•0 comments

I gave Qwen 3.8 27B a reverse-engineering job and it finished in 30 minutes

https://www.xda-developers.com/qwen-3-8-27b-reverse-engineering-job-frontier-model/
253•raybb•9h ago•113 comments

MartyPC is a cross-platform emulator of early PCs written in Rust

https://martypc.net/
185•boilerupnc•15h ago•63 comments

JIT Compiling Code in 5μs

https://malisper.me/jit-compiling-code-in-5-us/
142•zX41ZdbW•13h ago•91 comments

The Art and Beauty of Blade Runner (2015)

https://nappertime.com/the-art-of-and-beauty-of-blade-runner/
164•cocacola1•18h ago•98 comments

I Dream of Quieter Computing

https://henry.codes/writing/i-dream-of-quieter-computing/
104•Sir_Twist•16h ago•107 comments

Hister – A private, full content search index that you control

https://hister.org/
459•auraham•4d ago•98 comments

Amiga-Inspired AROS Goes Bare Metal on Raspberry Pi

https://hackaday.com/2026/08/23/amiga-inspired-aros-goes-bare-metal-on-raspberry-pi/
40•mdp2021•4h ago•6 comments

Show HN: Live 3D satellite tracker and the declassified Pentagon UFO archive

https://skylens.yantraai.app/
57•skylensspace•9h ago•28 comments

I set a trap for a book-marketing scammer (2025)

https://rwwgreene.substack.com/p/i-set-a-trap-for-a-book-marketing
74•rznicolet•1d ago•48 comments

ElevenLabs, TwelveLabs, ThirteenLabs

https://quantumi.sh/public/labs.html
470•jemoka•1d ago•141 comments

Scrap (2006)

https://twitter.com/moxie/status/2091218652133732491
404•tosh•1d ago•220 comments

typ.ing

https://typ.ing/
346•bookofjoe•5d ago•111 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."