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The end of Microsoft Research's AI Frontiers group

https://hunch.net/?p=13764006
405•srean•8h ago•237 comments

What I run on my $10 USD OpenStick homelab

https://blog.bosscher.ch/posts/openstick/
371•LaurensBER•8h ago•89 comments

Apple’s grey list: Words and phrases your iPhone won’t help you spell

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/nov/06/struggling-to-spell-male-chauvinist-pig-apple-...
382•user_7832•9h ago•255 comments

Making any integer with four 2s (2025)

https://eli.thegreenplace.net/2025/making-any-integer-with-four-2s/
68•germanrabbit•4h ago•15 comments

Claude Code's "Don't Ask Again" exposes passwords in 1,122 public GitHub files

https://apiiro.com/blog/coding-agents-leaking-secrets-github-dont-ask-again
201•shmulc•6h ago•141 comments

GitHub New pull request overview page in public preview

https://github.blog/changelog/2026-11-05-new-pull-request-overview-page-in-public-preview/
75•xiaoyu2006•3h ago•57 comments

Uranium cubes reveal why the German nuclear project failed

https://arstechnica.com/science/2026/11/uranium-cubes-reveal-why-the-german-nuclear-project-failed/
75•rbanffy•2d ago•36 comments

Need for Speed Underground 2 online in the browser

https://nfsu2.xyz/
835•fluxusars•17h ago•231 comments

Show HN: Coldframe, a honeypot that poses as a supermarket fridge controller

https://github.com/hedgerow-dev/coldframe
196•hedgerow-dev•9h ago•42 comments

MaxxBench – "Nice DeepSWE score. But is it true?"

https://maxxbench.unlap.ai/research/why-maxxbench/
210•antiuniverse•9h ago•64 comments

Every Mac comes with an (undocumented) family member classifier

https://8rank.ai/game/apple-intelligence-personal-knowledge-graph
618•infwhispers•17h ago•349 comments

Commodore PET – The Worlds First Personal Computer

https://www.commodore.ca/commodore-products/commodore-pet-the-worlds-first-personal-computer/
22•andsoitis•3h ago•4 comments

Turning every radio into a radar

https://tiaminetworks.com/turning-every-radio-into-a-radar/
34•hasley•4d ago•6 comments

Study solved a 150-year-old mystery into the identity of the extinct giant crane

https://www.bournemouth.ac.uk/news/2026-10-28/study-has-solved-150-year-old-mystery-identity-exti...
17•gmays•3d ago•0 comments

Every Windows 11 app should kill Electron, and Discord just showed why

https://www.windowslatest.com/2026/11/06/every-windows-11-app-should-kill-electron-and-discord-ju...
230•thunderbong•15h ago•218 comments

Five memorable books about programming (2008)

https://prog21.dadgum.com/19.html
91•andsoitis•9h ago•57 comments

Cancer at Sea

https://biographic.com/cancer-at-sea/
18•bryanrasmussen•13h ago•1 comments

Show HN: Where Were We

https://wherewerewe.app/
28•zkiihne•5h ago•11 comments

Retro Song Bird: Plug in any Game Boy cartridge to hear the soundtrack

https://www.retrosongbird.com/
42•hentrep•11h ago•11 comments

Amsterdam School

https://architecture-history.org/schools/AMSTERDAM%20SCHOOL.html
3•bondarchuk•4d ago•0 comments

The $8 Linux Computer (2022)

http://thelittleengineerthatcould.blogspot.com/2022/12/the-8-linux-computer.html
205•zenincognito•12h ago•86 comments

IRA Velinsky – Commodore's Industrial Designer

https://www.commodore.ca/commodore-history/ira-velinsky-commodores-amazing-industrial-designer/
16•erickhill•4h ago•0 comments

Show HN: An offline desktop companion to help maintain a healthy blink rhythm

https://eyesrhythm.com/
28•prnysoni•5h ago•12 comments

GeoWorks, Microsoft Windows' Upstart '90s Competitor (2016)

https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/the-history-of-geoworks-microsoft-windows-upstart-90s-compe...
45•andsoitis•9h ago•20 comments

Every processor die anyone has photographed and given away

https://sheets.works/data-viz/cpu-dies
87•user_7832•10h ago•17 comments

Text.js: Build full-stack React apps that render inside console.log

https://textjs.org/
85•nateb2022•3d ago•48 comments

Asahi Linux Progress Linux 7.3

https://asahilinux.org/2026/11/progress-report-7-3/
330•ackyshake•21h ago•262 comments

Terry Pratchett's Study

https://www.sussi.dk/terry-pratchetts-study
110•ColinWright•10h ago•31 comments

Running a law firm on Free software

https://decoded.legal/blog/2026/11/running-a-law-firm-on-free-software-2026-edition/
240•DeepLogin•17h ago•118 comments

A barbarian tribe's mythic origin story is true, ancient DNA reveals

https://www.science.org/content/article/barbarian-tribe-s-mythic-origin-story-true-ancient-dna-re...
214•benbreen•22h ago•188 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."