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A Kantian Critique of "Sorry" by Justin Bieber

https://decodingvibes.com/blog/a-kantian-critique-of-sorry-by-justin-bieber/
45•altmanaltman•1h ago•5 comments

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

https://munderdiffl.in/
124•simonpure•4h ago•43 comments

The New MCP Roadmap

https://blog.modelcontextprotocol.io/posts/mcp-roadmap/
11•pentagrama•53m ago•6 comments

Z80–The 1970s Microprocessor Still Alive

https://www.computer.org/csdl/magazine/mi/2021/06/09623402/1yJTvlRLmhi
56•asdefghyk•4h ago•24 comments

A formal degree and algorithmic problem-solving is the answer. Always has been

https://zaksa.zip/blog/formal-education-is-the-answer/
12•zaksa•2h ago•8 comments

Hook, hold, harvest and hide: Meta's alleged strategy laid out in first week

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/aug/22/meta-trial-children-privacy
89•sbulaev•2h ago•21 comments

Rust Glancer: Rust LSP using 100x less RAM

https://rust-glancer.github.io/blog/hello-world/
322•matklad•18h ago•66 comments

Felony Bench

https://www.felonybench.com/
769•colinprince•23h ago•302 comments

Kobo can run apps now

https://bandarlabs.github.io/Cobalt/
597•thepoet•21h ago•193 comments

Canada suspends trade negotiations with USA and match tariffs dollar for dollar

https://www.pm.gc.ca/en/news/statements/2026/08/21/statement-prime-minister-carney-canada-us-trad...
512•backlit4034•3h ago•427 comments

Felony charges for citizen deleting phone data at US Border

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/21/us/politics/samuel-tunick-deleted-phone-felony.html
893•floathub•1d ago•1066 comments

I accidentally logged hundreds of thousands of phone calls to military bases

https://lina.sh/blog/hijacking-e164-arpa
598•gavide•1d ago•77 comments

There's no reason for software to be slow anymore

https://danluu.com/perf-opt/
528•Jach•13h ago•381 comments

Stop Making TUIs

https://sockpuppet.org/blog/2026/08/20/stop-making-tuis/
240•underdeserver•1d ago•321 comments

Kagi added a setting for removing paywalled links from search results

https://kagi.com/changelog#11296
1182•speckx•1d ago•371 comments

Zig’s io.threaded is neat

https://matklad.github.io/2026/08/06/neat-io-threaded.html
107•chilipepperhott•23h ago•62 comments

OTel isn’t going well

https://matduggan.com/otel-isnt-going-well-and-i-made-a-spreadsheet-about-it/
164•hn_acker•20h ago•67 comments

Three important steps in my maturation process

https://thomasdullien.github.io/posts/2026-08-21-three-important-steps-in-my-maturation-process/
181•tdullien•15h ago•81 comments

Scientists release biggest 2D map of the universe

https://newscenter.lbl.gov/2026/08/10/scientists-release-biggest-2d-map-of-the-universe/
223•NKosmatos•19h ago•61 comments

How Thailand Resisted Colonization

https://worksinprogress.co/issue/how-thailand-resisted-colonization/
66•karakoram•19h ago•19 comments

AI boosted homework scores, then exam scores dropped: study

https://www.economist.com/graphic-detail/2026/08/18/does-ai-stop-children-from-learning
336•dash2•3d ago•341 comments

Optimizing meshoptimizer to process billions of triangles in minutes (2025)

https://zeux.io/2025/09/30/billions-of-triangles-in-minutes/
54•corysama•20h ago•0 comments

Claudette: Make Claude stop talking like a BuzzFeed article

https://github.com/adnanakil/nobuzz/blob/main/README.md
315•aakil•23h ago•199 comments

I'm becoming AI-blind

https://cymerys.com/w/im-becoming-ai-blind
425•rcymerys•1d ago•429 comments

Galactic Compass 2: now with new augmented reality mode

https://interconnected.org/home/2026/08/21/galactic
21•bobbiechen•20h ago•3 comments

People of ACM – Russ Cox

https://www.acm.org/articles/people-of-acm/2026/russ-cox
148•signa11•5d ago•15 comments

Everyone says assembly is untyped—everyone is wrong

https://www.gingerbill.org/article/2026/08/20/designing-odins-inline-asm/
113•adamrezich•1d ago•50 comments

New Worlds: We are living in the future of J.G. Ballard or William Gibson

https://precastreinforced.co.uk/2026/08/16/new-worlds/
263•speckx•1d ago•169 comments

Early-life stress leaves a 'scar' inside brain cells in mice

https://medicine.washu.edu/news/how-early-life-stress-leaves-a-scar-inside-brain-cells/
106•gmays•1d ago•50 comments

A revisit of remote Spectre attacks on Cloudflare Workers

https://blog.cloudflare.com/revisiting-spectre-attacks-on-workers/
69•albertpedersen•2d ago•3 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."