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Dutch governments builds alternative for Microsoft based on NixOS

https://www.dawo.community/en/
261•fjfaase•3h ago•107 comments

The Mafia may be keeping fentanyl out of Italy

https://economist.com/europe/2026/09/24/the-mafia-may-be-keeping-fentanyl-out-of-italy
25•runeks•48m ago•6 comments

Ink and Switch Interactive Homepage

https://www.inkandswitch.com/
32•iFreilicht•1h ago•3 comments

Pentium II at 600Mhz with Voodoo 3 Emulated on 86Box with M6 Mac Mini

https://nyaa.sh/reviews/mac-mini-m6-emulation
78•hugh4life•3h ago•27 comments

F-Droid 2.0

https://f-droid.org/2026/09/24/f-droid-2.0-a-new-chapter-for-android-freedom.html
1265•daveoc64•19h ago•364 comments

CVE-2025-13032: Entering and Breaking the Avast Antivirus Sandbox Part 2

https://www.safateam.com/intelligence-hub/research/technical-articles/cve-2025-13032-entering-and...
56•safateam•4h ago•14 comments

Special Projects (2016)

https://openai.com/index/special-projects/
26•vinhnx•2h ago•8 comments

Show HN: Make cursed fonts like Times New Bastard

https://bastardica.mitpit.com
717•MitPitt•1d ago•95 comments

Show HN: Whiteboard (YC W26) – An open-source IDE for thoughtful software design

https://github.com/devdotfast/whiteboard
323•sidharthkmenon•17h ago•119 comments

Why is the liver so weirdly regenerative?

https://dynomight.substack.com/p/liver
423•jbotz•18h ago•218 comments

Uproar in France over award-winning author accused of using AI

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/ck7v4y45893go
13•harscoat•19m ago•8 comments

2DWillNeverDie

https://2dwillneverdie.com/
254•surprisetalk•2d ago•56 comments

Oracle on the hook to pay data centre investors even if site has no electricity

https://www.ft.com/content/a96bf05a-a299-4d6a-a753-b298dd0f4016
18•Betelbuddy•48m ago•9 comments

What About Rails?

https://jardo.dev/what-about-rails
71•jrochkind1•8h ago•30 comments

Fearless SIMD v1.0

https://linebender.org/blog/fearless-simd-1-0/
267•verdagon•2d ago•37 comments

Rails World 2026 Opening Keynote [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vDjW_dRyKXY
344•an0malous•1d ago•374 comments

Toyota is taking the Corolla electric

https://electrek.co/2026/09/23/toyota-best-selling-corolla-electric/
341•cisc•1d ago•613 comments

My weird new hobby: Wandering around Tokyo on Google Maps

https://ahmedhossamdev.com/writing/my-weird-new-hobby-wandering-around-tokyo/
345•ahmedhossamdev•2d ago•157 comments

Amiga Screens: A Primer

https://www.datagubbe.se/amscr/
10•msephton•3h ago•1 comments

Opus 5.5 is good at explainer videos

https://launchvideo.io
284•iacguy•14h ago•143 comments

Using LLMs to trace alchemical knowledge and decode 17th century letters

https://resobscura.substack.com/p/ai-labs-need-to-start-funding-historical
137•benbreen•15h ago•30 comments

Two-tier encryption in the UK

https://macanorak.com/two-tier-encryption-in-the-uk/
465•ReturnoftheHack•1d ago•410 comments

Google’s Project Suncatcher to put ML infrastructure in space

https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/models-and-research/google-research/google-project-suncatch...
191•xnx•21h ago•384 comments

Writing Parquet files using Haskell

https://www.datahaskell.org/blog/2026/09/18/writing-parquet-files-using-haskell.html
69•cosmic_quanta•2d ago•18 comments

Book review: Is parallel programming hard, and, if so, what can you do about it?

https://ahelwer.ca/post/2026-09-21-concurrency-textbook/
127•ahelwer•3d ago•57 comments

Sourcehut account takeover via build logs (XSS in ansi2html)

https://blog.arusekk.pl/posts/srht-account-takeover/
125•arusekk•15h ago•23 comments

The Bayeux Tapestry: Woven by the Victors

https://www.historytoday.com/archive/out-margins/bayeux-tapestry-woven-victors
36•prismatic•1d ago•17 comments

The Board Game of the Alpha Nerds (2014)

https://grantland.com/features/diplomacy-the-board-game-of-the-alpha-nerds/
90•neonate•14h ago•48 comments

Nokia Design Archive (2025)

https://repo.aalto.fi/index.php?name=SO_b66a9391-dcf8-4399-8e87-611f84c3fc4c
236•pillars•1d ago•128 comments

California is chasing wealth that has feet

https://blog.landeconomics.org/p/california-is-chasing-wealth-that
251•idbnstra•14h ago•671 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."