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An OpenAI model has disproved a central conjecture in discrete geometry

https://openai.com/index/model-disproves-discrete-geometry-conjecture/
824•tedsanders•8h ago•618 comments

GitHub confirms breach of 3,800 repos via malicious VSCode extension

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/github-confirms-breach-of-3-800-repos-via-maliciou...
601•Timofeibu•13h ago•220 comments

Show HN: I reverse engineered Apple's video wallpapers

https://github.com/kageroumado/phosphene
110•kageroumado•3h ago•31 comments

DOS Zone

https://dos.zone/
129•rglover•4h ago•25 comments

The Letter S, by Donald Knuth (1980) [pdf]

https://gwern.net/doc/design/typography/1980-knuth.pdf
66•bambax•3h ago•6 comments

Colorado Amended SB051 (Age Verification Bill) to Exclude Open Source Projects

https://legiscan.com/CO/bill/SB051/2026
155•ki4jgt•7h ago•45 comments

Flipper One Tech Specs

https://docs.flipper.net/one/general/tech-specs
288•gregsadetsky•9h ago•104 comments

Your Most Improbable Life

https://kevinkelly.substack.com/p/your-most-improbable-life
57•jger15•2d ago•26 comments

How fast is N tokens per second really?

https://mikeveerman.github.io/tokenspeed/
325•hexagr•3d ago•76 comments

Haskell Foundation 2026 Update

https://discourse.haskell.org/t/haskell-foundation-2026-update/14136
13•azhenley•1h ago•3 comments

Archaeologists find Egyptian mummy buried with the 'Iliad'

https://www.openculture.com/2026/05/archaeologists-discover-ancient-egyptian-mummy-buried-with-pa...
66•diodorus•5d ago•37 comments

Saying goodbye to asm.js

https://spidermonkey.dev/blog/2026/05/20/saying-goodbye-to-asmjs.html
334•eqrion•15h ago•137 comments

Intuit to lay off over 3k employees to refocus on AI

https://techcrunch.com/2026/05/20/intuit-to-lay-off-over-3000-employees-to-refocus-on-ai/
71•wapasta•3h ago•44 comments

Why is Inkwell stuck in review

https://www.manton.org/2026/05/19/why-is-inkwell-stuck-in.html
119•speckx•10h ago•38 comments

OpenAI to confidentially file for IPO as soon as Friday

https://www.cnbc.com/2026/05/20/openai-ipo-filing.html
24•doppp•1h ago•0 comments

Qian Xuesen: The missile genius America lost and China gained (2025)

https://www.usni.org/magazines/naval-history/2025/december/missile-genius-america-lost-and-china-...
130•thnaks•9h ago•69 comments

Google's AI is being manipulated. The search giant is quietly fighting back

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20260519-google-tackles-attempts-to-hack-its-ai-results
268•tigerlily•16h ago•179 comments

SpaceX S-1

https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1181412/000162828026036936/spaceexplorationtechnologi.htm
267•cachecow•6h ago•200 comments

New features in GCC 16: Improved error messages and SARIF output

https://developers.redhat.com/articles/2026/04/28/gcc-16-improved-error-messages-sarif-output
5•siteshwar•2d ago•0 comments

What is Demand Coop and why tech workers should join one

https://cahootzcoops.com/blog/what-is-a-demand-coop
37•DeonRob•2h ago•40 comments

Show HN: CPU-only transcription for YouTube, TikTok, X, Instagram videos

https://github.com/kouhxp/yapsnap
38•mrkn1•6h ago•14 comments

Incident Report: May 19, 2026 – GCP Account Suspension

https://blog.railway.com/p/incident-report-may-19-2026-gcp-account-outage
396•0xedb•19h ago•238 comments

SBCL: the ultimate assembly code breadboard (2014)

https://pvk.ca/Blog/2014/03/15/sbcl-the-ultimate-assembly-code-breadboard/
132•yacin•12h ago•7 comments

Google Declaring War on the Web

https://tante.cc/2026/05/20/on-google-declaring-war-on-the-web/
392•cdrnsf•6h ago•265 comments

Sharla Boehm, the programmer whose code underpins the Internet

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-programmer-whose-code-underpins-the-internet/
108•dxs•2d ago•25 comments

Reviving old scanners with an in-browser Linux VM bridged to WebUSB over USB/IP

https://yes-we-scan.app/details
17•gmac•2d ago•5 comments

Meta blocks human rights accounts from reaching audiences in Saudi Arabia, UAE

https://www.alqst.org/ar/posts/1190
950•giuliomagnifico•14h ago•411 comments

A Markdown-based test suite

https://blogsystem5.substack.com/p/markdown-based-test-suite
6•zdw•2d ago•0 comments

Qwen3.7-Max: The Agent Frontier

https://qwen.ai/blog?id=qwen3.7
635•kevinsimper•17h ago•252 comments

PopuLoRA: Co-Evolving LLM Populations for Reasoning Self- Play

https://vmax.ai/team/populora-co-evolving-llm-populations-for-reasoning-self-play
34•AMavorParker•6h ago•6 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."