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The End of an Athlon

http://www.os2museum.com/wp/the-end-of-an-athlon/
104•userbinator•5h ago•29 comments

To become a better writer, read as much as you can

https://nappertime.com/the-golden-rule-of-becoming-a-better-writer/
175•andsoitis•7h ago•116 comments

JIT Compiling Code in 5μs

https://malisper.me/jit-compiling-code-in-5-us/
75•zX41ZdbW•4h ago•37 comments

MartyPC is a cross-platform emulator of early PCs written in Rust

https://martypc.net/
123•boilerupnc•7h ago•40 comments

Fast and Hard Code

https://lucumr.pocoo.org/2026/8/22/fast-hard-code/
42•tosh•5h ago•7 comments

Why your local LLM feels dumber than it is

https://forum.level1techs.com/t/why-your-local-llm-feels-dumber-than-it-is/253917
366•felineflock•16h ago•135 comments

The Art and Beauty of Blade Runner (2015)

https://nappertime.com/the-art-of-and-beauty-of-blade-runner/
92•cocacola1•10h ago•36 comments

Scrap (2006)

https://twitter.com/moxie/status/2091218652133732491
376•tosh•16h ago•197 comments

ElevenLabs, TwelveLabs, ThirteenLabs

https://quantumi.sh/public/labs.html
407•jemoka•20h ago•122 comments

Hister – A private, full content search index that you control

https://hister.org/
366•auraham•4d ago•83 comments

Thinking in Python

https://thinkinginpython.com/
187•pjacotg•16h ago•36 comments

typ.ing

https://typ.ing/
280•bookofjoe•4d ago•91 comments

NanoGPT Speedrun Frontier

https://www.primeintellect.ai/research/nanogpt-speedrun
106•stared•12h ago•27 comments

RF Cafe

https://www.rfcafe.com/
206•gregsadetsky•4d ago•37 comments

New MCP Roadmap

https://blog.modelcontextprotocol.io/posts/mcp-roadmap/
217•pentagrama•21h ago•133 comments

Doomscrolling at work wastes time, but the real cost is what happens after

https://stories.tamu.edu/news/2026/08/13/doomscrolling-at-work-wastes-time-but-the-real-cost-is-w...
13•giuliomagnifico•1h ago•5 comments

I set a trap for a book-marketing scammer (2025)

https://rwwgreene.substack.com/p/i-set-a-trap-for-a-book-marketing
49•rznicolet•16h ago•33 comments

How a Texas student blew the whistle on a rogue AI hacking attempt

https://www.reuters.com/world/how-texas-student-blew-whistle-rogue-ai-hacking-attempt-2026-08-20/
165•olalonde•1d ago•76 comments

A Friendly Introduction to Racket

https://geometridae.bearblog.dev/a-friendly-introduction-to-racket/
235•signa11•20h ago•130 comments

A week of using Codex more than Claude

https://allaboutcoding.ghinda.com/a-week-of-using-codex-more-than-claude/
202•speckx•1d ago•228 comments

NetBSD and my life (2005)

https://mail-index.netbsd.org/netbsd-advocacy/2005/09/10/0000.html
129•gnyeki•15h ago•29 comments

The Sloppification of Peptides

https://henryaj.substack.com/p/the-sloppification-of-peptides
17•henryaj•1h ago•0 comments

I Dream of Quieter Computing

https://henry.codes/writing/i-dream-of-quieter-computing/
80•Sir_Twist•8h ago•67 comments

ATProto spaces: A new extension to ATProto that enables non-public data

https://atproto.com/blog/atproto-spaces-alpha
146•grappler•2d ago•18 comments

Mathematicians will probably become obsolete before anyone else [pdf]

https://olli.unt.edu/handouts/fall24/tk-writing-sample.pdf
64•tiahura•10h ago•33 comments

Canada now 'at war' with United States over trade, Prime Minister says

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/article-canada-us-trade-deal-tariffs-mark-carney-donald-tr...
6•Fellwaa•1h ago•1 comments

Munder Difflin – Agent harness to run an office of your clones

https://munderdiffl.in/
285•simonpure•1d ago•123 comments

Show HN: Public Muscriptor Instance (latest, most powerful Audio-to-MIDI model)

https://www.pianoify.net/
47•jardy•1d ago•8 comments

Figmimic – A bookmarklet to copy any webpage into Figma as editable layers

https://marcua.net/minitools/figmimic/
101•speckx•16h ago•14 comments

Wi-Fi 8 is the first wireless upgrade in years that isn't chasing speed

https://www.xda-developers.com/wi-fi-8-first-wireless-upgrade-years-isnt-chasing-speed-home-netwo...
113•taubek•4h ago•90 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."