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US strikes $1.2B deal to pay German firm to halt offshore wind projects

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c1e1vg0gjl5o
94•defrost•47m ago•52 comments

New Mexico court orders Meta to pay $567m over harms to children’s mental health

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/aug/06/new-mexico-court-meta
335•boplicity•11h ago•223 comments

AMD acquires Taalas to boost inference performance by etching models in silicon

https://www.theregister.com/systems/2026/08/06/amd-acquires-ai-chip-startup-taalas-to-boost-infer...
704•itvision•14h ago•534 comments

Parsers don't have to be complicated

https://bkaradzic.github.io/posts/scanner/
49•signa11•1w ago•36 comments

Taste Is All That's Left

https://notashelf.dev/posts/taste-is-all-thats-left
457•tsak•18h ago•333 comments

Interviewing Engineers in the AI Era: Lessons from a Year of Rebuilding

https://www.coinbase.com/blog/interviewing-engineers-in-the-ai-era-lessons-from-a-year-of-rebuilding
22•dukebartnik•3d ago•8 comments

Atomic Clocks

https://www.nist.gov/atomic-clocks/how-do-atomic-clocks-work
82•teleforce•6d ago•44 comments

Scientists discover Kelvin-Helmholtz Instability on the surface of the Sun

https://nso.edu/press-release/nsf-inouye-solar-telescope-enables-major-discovery-of-a-hidden-sola...
240•neversaydie•1d ago•52 comments

A quine in Piet – a GIF image that prints itself [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GwMtzhjCzyc
15•surprisetalk•3d ago•1 comments

Bioengineered chewing gum may offer a way to fight HPV and other microbes

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2026/08/260803080917.htm
138•Audiophilip•13h ago•41 comments

São Paulo resident transforms degraded area into urban forest

https://saopaulosecreto.com/en/tiquatira-linear-park-en/
157•rmason•5d ago•63 comments

I stopped trusting USB-C cable labels and started testing them

https://www.makeuseof.com/i-stopped-trusting-usb-c-cable-labels-started-testing-with-meter-instead/
200•baranul•4d ago•160 comments

Improving GPT‑5.6 Sol in ChatGPT, expanding GPT‑5.6 Luna access for free users

https://openai.com/index/improving-gpt-5-6-sol-in-chatgpt/
249•tedsanders•18h ago•193 comments

GitHub Actions and Pages are experiencing degraded availability

https://www.githubstatus.com/incidents/qcvjkzcs7j74
413•Footkerchief•19h ago•337 comments

Launch HN: ProvenMetal (YC S26) delivers circuit boards in days instead of weeks

https://provenmetal.com
207•willcarkner•19h ago•145 comments

Welcoming the Nepalese Government to Have I Been Pwned

https://www.troyhunt.com/welcoming-the-nepalese-government-to-have-i-been-pwned/
165•gnabgib•13h ago•26 comments

The BBC Tetris Companion

https://www.leadedsolder.com/2026/07/28/bbc-bridge-companion-part-1-overview.html
15•zdw•1w ago•2 comments

What is a product?

https://roge.onwrite.app/what-is-a-product
68•rogix•13h ago•43 comments

Reverse Jevons Paradox

https://mht.wtf/post/jevons/
35•martinhath•3d ago•32 comments

Herdr is joining Y Combinator. The runtime stays open

https://herdr.dev/blog/herdr-is-joining-y-combinator/
220•collinmanderson•16h ago•153 comments

Humans missed 1 in 3 threats approving AI agent commands across 40k game runs

https://scalex.dev/blog/ai-agent-permissions-stats/
307•Wirbelwind•23h ago•218 comments

My phone detects going on a run as “someone snatching my phone and running off”

https://mastodon.gamedev.place/@rygorous/117047697255584965
148•luu•16h ago•257 comments

Why Estonians invite strangers into their back gardens each summer

https://www.bbc.com/travel/article/20260731-why-estonians-invite-strangers-into-their-backyards-e...
86•koolhead17•3d ago•38 comments

STV: A full-motion video codec for the Atari ST

https://medium.com/@jonas.eschenburg/stv-a-video-codec-for-the-atari-st-6e46355c50e4
66•indyjo•1w ago•7 comments

Mario Meets Pareto

https://www.mayerowitz.io/blog/mario-meets-pareto
1055•theanonymousone•23h ago•160 comments

Learn how chips are made with this Rollercoaster Tycoon-inspired animation

https://laurentiugabriel.github.io/ChipTycoon/
168•laurentiurad•1w ago•53 comments

Framework discloses data breach via Metabase 0-day

https://community.frame.work/t/framework-data-breach-discussion/83939
94•RobinHirst11•5h ago•31 comments

New Orleans is testing Carbyne’s AI-powered Emergency Call Triage software

https://www.shreveporttimes.com/story/news/local/louisiana/2026/07/28/is-new-orleans-using-ai-to-...
60•champagnepapi•10h ago•90 comments

Inside vLLM: Anatomy of a High-Throughput LLM Inference System (2025)

https://www.aleksagordic.com/blog/vllm
116•sebg•13h ago•6 comments

Spin audit of SQD/QSCI quantum-chemistry benchmarks on iron–sulfur clusters

https://zenodo.org/records/21359923
13•purestatelabs•12h ago•1 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."