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Show HN: TitleArt – Make text like it's 1997

https://titleart.dvy.io/
66•davidbarker•2h ago•13 comments

PaperPilot – Zero-Cloud, Pure-Rust PDF Engine with WASM and MCP

https://github.com/KrushnaVardhanReddy/PaperPilot
42•vardhan1237•2h ago•5 comments

Dolly Parton's Imagination Library

https://imaginationlibrary.com/
480•jumploops•11h ago•87 comments

Behind the scenes at the NeXT Computer office

https://exhibits.stanford.edu/menuez/browse/next-computer-inc?per_page=96&sort=pub_year_isi+asc%2...
38•Austin_Conlon•2h ago•18 comments

Show HN: A Truly Modular Keyboard

https://github.com/notaroomba/keybytes
60•NotARoomba•1d ago•18 comments

Microsoft Decision-1: 9B Qwen Model Launch Explained

https://shattered.io/microsoft-decision-1-qwen3-5-9b-model-2026/
24•gmays•2h ago•6 comments

Overgrown, when plants invade your abandoned tabs

https://charliegerard.dev/blog/overgrown-extension/
215•speckx•3d ago•69 comments

Learning to Be Me (1990) [pdf]

https://gwern.net/doc/fiction/science-fiction/1995-egan.pdf
7•zahrevsky•12h ago•2 comments

Attention Is Not What You Need (2025)

https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.19428
63•westurner•5h ago•24 comments

Lula wins election after final votes tallied

https://www.reuters.com/live/brazil-election-live-lula-bolsonaro-face-off-presidential-runoff-202...
279•laurenth•5h ago•270 comments

The Fall of Scientific American

https://www.thenation.com/article/society/scientific-american-springer-nature-trump/
28•littlexsparkee•1d ago•7 comments

IBM CEO says open weight models are now good and cheap on-prem

https://www.theregister.com/systems/2026/10/22/ibm-ceo-says-open-weight-models-are-now-irresistib...
124•Betelbuddy•3h ago•78 comments

F-Zero X on Nintendo 3DS

https://hypnotize.works/gdx-3ds/postmortem/index.html
90•bpierre•6h ago•43 comments

Why I Am a Programmer

https://www.alfie.wtf/programming/why-i-am-a-programmer.html
183•jruohonen•10h ago•58 comments

The State of Context Engineering

https://www.dbreunig.com/2026/10/24/the-state-of-context-engineering.html
134•pchristensen•9h ago•36 comments

What goes into making an animated film?

https://www.disneyanimation.com/process/
122•embedding-shape•9h ago•51 comments

Iron Age salt-mining complex found beneath Hallstatt in Austria

https://archaeologymag.com/2026/09/iron-age-salt-mining-complex-beneath-hallstatt/
32•janandonly•3d ago•3 comments

Steal My Bitcoin CTF PoC

https://github.com/KillaBoi/StealMyBitcoin-PoC
60•davikr•5h ago•8 comments

Removing Next.js Got My Blog to 100 on Every Lighthouse Category

https://korindiehacker.bloffy.blog/en/removing-nextjs-got-my-blog-to-100-on-every-lighthouse-cate...
91•textlanes33•4h ago•46 comments

Show HN: ADRs for AI – Deliberation records for human–AI work, versioned in Git

https://adrs.systems
21•lumbroso•1d ago•14 comments

Show HN: Proc-CLI – An agent-friendly CLI tool for process and port management

https://proc-cli.com/
3•yazeedaloyoun•1h ago•0 comments

Who Cares Whether Academics Use AI to Write?

https://www.chronicle.com/article/who-cares-whether-academics-use-ai-to-write
3•Anon84•2d ago•3 comments

Amazon’s “digital pacifier” for toddlers

https://oligarchwatch.substack.com/p/amazons-digital-pacifier-for-toddlers
138•jumploops•4d ago•206 comments

iPhone Duo Teardown

https://www.ifixit.com/News/119895/iphone-duo-teardown
92•kripy•4h ago•52 comments

A 10-year-old CNN outperforms frontier LLMs for skin cancer diagnosis

https://lynchlab.net/llm-skin-cancer
503•sungam•12h ago•227 comments

We should be more ambitious with the software we build

https://danluu.com/ambitious/
772•ltratt•1d ago•699 comments

OpenAI and Anthropic cut their LLM prices by up to 80% within a few months. Why?

https://minimaxir.com/2026/10/cheap-llms/
233•minimaxir•8h ago•259 comments

Making the Buddha Head from Merv Whole Again

https://www.getty.edu/news/buddha-head-of-merv-turkmenistan-conservation/
34•laybak•2d ago•0 comments

Retired decorator's Pokémon cards sell for £1.5M

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cvp8gy1zwxxwo
28•HelloUsername•3d ago•20 comments

Where the Romans Fought (interactive map)

https://iosiflazaridis.github.io/battles-of-the-romans/
73•endorphine•10h ago•31 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."