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Valve releases Steam Controller CAD files under Creative Commons license

https://www.digitalfoundry.net/news/2026/05/valve-releases-steam-controller-cad-files-under-creat...
1032•haunter•9h ago•340 comments

Appearing productive in the workplace

https://nooneshappy.com/article/appearing-productive-in-the-workplace/
685•diebillionaires•8h ago•268 comments

How I made $350K from an open-source JavaScript library using dual licensing

https://www.paritydeals.com/blog/monetize-open-source-dual-licensing/
6•sachinneravath•29m ago•2 comments

Vibe coding and agentic engineering are getting closer than I'd like

https://simonwillison.net/2026/May/6/vibe-coding-and-agentic-engineering/
379•e12e•10h ago•404 comments

From Supabase to Clerk to Better Auth

https://blog.val.town/better-auth
201•stevekrouse•7h ago•123 comments

The bottleneck was never the code

https://www.thetypicalset.com/blog/thoughts-on-coding-agents
499•Anon84•2d ago•326 comments

The Old Guard: Confronting America's Gerontocratic Crisis

https://harpers.org/archive/2026/05/the-old-guard-samuel-moyn-gerontocracy/
9•Caiero•1h ago•2 comments

Google Cloud fraud defense, the next evolution of reCAPTCHA

https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/identity-security/introducing-google-cloud-fraud-defense-t...
200•unforgivenpasta•7h ago•196 comments

Iran hit more U.S. military targets than has been reported, satellite images

https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/2026/05/06/iran-us-bases-satellite-images/
54•SanjayMehta•59m ago•19 comments

Learning the Integral of a Diffusion Model

https://sander.ai/2026/05/06/flow-maps.html
91•benanne•6h ago•17 comments

Building my own Vi text editor in BASIC

https://leetusman.com/nosebook/yvi
20•zeech•1d ago•7 comments

Show HN: Hallucinopedia

http://halupedia.com/
143•bstrama•8h ago•146 comments

Community firmware for the Xteink X4 e-paper reader

https://github.com/crosspoint-reader/crosspoint-reader
43•dmos62•1d ago•17 comments

Show HN: Tilde.run – Agent sandbox with a transactional, versioned filesystem

https://tilde.run/
124•ozkatz•9h ago•91 comments

Inkscape 1.4.4

https://inkscape.org/doc/release_notes/1.4.4/Inkscape_1.4.4.html
204•s1291•5h ago•54 comments

A Theory of Deep Learning

https://elonlit.com/scrivings/a-theory-of-deep-learning/
121•elonlit•1d ago•26 comments

Show HN: PHP-fts – Full-text search engine in pure PHP, no extensions

https://github.com/olivier-ls/php-fts
29•asmodios•4h ago•7 comments

How do I inform Windows that I'm writing a binary file?

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20260504-00/?p=112296
9•ingve•1d ago•9 comments

Ted Turner has died

https://www.cnn.com/2026/05/06/us/ted-turner-death
215•pseudolus•10h ago•182 comments

Programming Still Sucks

https://www.stvn.sh/writing/programming-still-sucks-fqffhyp
66•jeromechoo•6h ago•15 comments

Show HN: I built an open-source email builder, alternative to Beefree/Unlayer

https://play.templatical.com
96•oahmadov•8h ago•22 comments

They don't look like me

https://niccolorastrelli.com/they-dont-look-like-me
13•cainxinth•47m ago•2 comments

Higher usage limits for Claude and a compute deal with SpaceX

https://www.anthropic.com/news/higher-limits-spacex
376•meetpateltech•8h ago•322 comments

Setting up a Sun Ray server on OpenIndiana Hipster 2025.10

https://catstret.ch/202605/srss-hipster202510/
123•jandeboevrie•14h ago•45 comments

SoundOff: Low-Cost Passive Ultrasound Tags

https://yibo-fu.com/SoundOff-Low-cost-Passive-Ultrasound-Tags-for-Non-invasive-and-Non
29•jonbaer•8h ago•1 comments

What makes a good smartphone camera?

https://cadence.moe/blog/2026-05-05-what-makes-a-good-smartphone-camera
75•zdw•1d ago•52 comments

Virtual violin produces realistic sounds

https://news.mit.edu/2026/mit-engineers-virtual-violin-produces-realistic-sounds-0429
75•gmays•3d ago•61 comments

Apple is enforcing an old App Store rule against a new kind of software

https://adaptivesoftware.substack.com/p/the-wrapper-and-the-code
57•iristenteije•3h ago•21 comments

Agents can now create Cloudflare accounts, buy domains, and deploy

https://blog.cloudflare.com/agents-stripe-projects/
622•rolph•22h ago•353 comments

Mickey Mouse is watching you: Disneyland deploys facial recognition

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/apr/28/disneyland-entrance-facial-recognition
40•Cider9986•4h ago•11 comments
Open in hackernews

Building my npx business card

https://ashley.dev/posts/turning-feedback-into-features/
8•edent•11mo ago

Comments

steele•11mo ago
Ooh, free real estate, let's colonize and gentrify package management
aabhay•11mo ago
Lmao, gentrify cracked me up
neilv•11mo ago
Do these npx business cards run arbitrary code on your computer?
cypherpunks01•11mo 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•11mo 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•11mo ago
Yeah, this seems like a very smart but inherently flawed idea.
cypherpunks01•11mo 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•11mo ago
May as well just release an executable tbh.
theamk•11mo 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•11mo 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•11mo 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."