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The other Sean Byrne doesn't exist

https://conic.al/writing/the-other-sean-byrne-doesnt-exist/
131•rdl•4h ago•57 comments

Qwen 3.8 27B

https://huggingface.co/Qwen/Qwen3.8-27B-FP8
1128•erdaltoprak•18h ago•689 comments

Going Dark, and the era of law enforcement hacking

https://blog.cryptographyengineering.com/2026/08/14/everything-is-about-to-go-dark/
334•vslira•12h ago•147 comments

In 1962, Egypt's Missile Program Lost Its Key Scientist Without a Trace

https://www.popularmechanics.com/military/a73358518/nazi-rocket-scientist-disappearance/
29•bookofjoe•2d ago•4 comments

Coin-sized device can hack a Boeing 737

https://www.wired.com/story/this-coin-sized-device-can-hack-a-boeing-737/
69•_tk_•2d ago•34 comments

Magnitude 7.7 Earthquake – 68 km NNW of Ende, Indonesia

https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/us6000tkt2/executive
190•Bender•7h ago•45 comments

Google is making private AI practical with homomorphic encryption

https://blog.google/security/how-google-is-making-private-ai-practical-with-homomorphic-encryption/
381•u1hcw9nx•17h ago•220 comments

eigendrum

https://eigendrum.com/#p=circle
146•bookofjoe•10h ago•36 comments

Understanding WCAG 2.2 as ePub and PDF

https://doeken.org/wcag-ebook
7•doekenorg•2d ago•1 comments

RustDesk now supports true unattended remote access on Wayland

https://rustdesk.com/blog/unattended-remote-access-wayland/
290•rustdesk•16h ago•120 comments

Firefox is now the last major browser that still supports uBlock Origin

https://www.pcworld.com/article/3212428/firefox-is-now-the-last-major-browser-that-still-supports...
961•DemiGuru•14h ago•367 comments

Show HN: Silent Shark – tactical map-based WWII submarine sim

https://silentshark.app/
21•epaga•2d ago•3 comments

Show HN: ThoughtDAG – An editable context graph for LLM conversations

https://chenxiachan.github.io/thoughtdag/
24•chatchan•4h ago•2 comments

AI by Hand

https://www.byhand.ai/
298•sans_souse•17h ago•23 comments

Simplifying and Refactoring Introductory Calculus (2018)

https://arxiv.org/abs/1811.03459
84•E-Reverance•8h ago•38 comments

Unearthing a 31 year old Easter egg in Ecco the Dolphin

https://32bits.substack.com/p/under-the-microscope-ecco-the-dolphin-98c
79•bbayles•2d ago•18 comments

Maximizing the value of your Claude Code sessions

https://claude.com/blog/maximizing-the-value-of-your-claude-code-sessions
213•twapi•16h ago•122 comments

The Ploopy A+ Trackball Is Here

https://blog.ploopy.co/the-aplus-is-finally-here-499
101•big_toast•8h ago•48 comments

This Hi-Fi Tape Recorder Changed Radio Forever

https://spectrum.ieee.org/magnetophon-laugh-track
45•Jimmc414•3d ago•9 comments

Super Mario Derivations

https://fzakaria.com/2026/08/05/super-mario-derivations
99•domenkozar•1w ago•14 comments

I turned my RSS feeds into an e-ink newspaper to stop reading on my phone

https://heyjonny.dev/posts/rss-to-eink-newspaper/
184•speckx•18h ago•73 comments

Introducing Toast 1

https://www.mixedbread.com/blog/toast-1
201•mplappert•18h ago•61 comments

GLM-5.3: Frontier coding with emergent cyber capabilities

https://z.ai/blog/glm-5.3
1090•pella•1d ago•528 comments

Racket v9.3

https://blog.racket-lang.org/2026/08/racket-v9-3.html
83•privong•14h ago•5 comments

Ultraviolet Bird Photography

https://uvbirds.com/
145•EndXA•1w ago•24 comments

Show HN: Deltix – AI Driven Testing

https://app.deltix.ai
29•oneounceman•6h ago•9 comments

Why does Opus 5 feel worse to work with?

https://mun-logadan.github.io/why-does-opus-5-feel-worse/
865•numeri•22h ago•782 comments

Show HN: A website for exploring historical photographs of my city

https://yesterdays.maprva.org/
21•uneekname•2d ago•8 comments

Turbo Pascal on CP/M, MSX-DOS and MS-DOS

http://pascal.hansotten.com/delphi/turbo-pascal-on-cpm-msx-dos-and-ms-dos/
93•rbanffy•2d ago•39 comments

Show HN: Mole – Deep research agent for your terminal

https://github.com/lajosdeme/mole
70•lajosdeme•14h ago•10 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."