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'VPNs are lawful technical tools,' says EU Court in landmark copyright ruling

https://remysharp.com/links/2026-07-23-35890312
193•speckx•1h ago•58 comments

Why Is Everyone Trying to Build a Solid-State Battery?

https://www.construction-physics.com/p/why-is-everyone-trying-to-build-a
39•crescit_eundo•1h ago•27 comments

RFC 8890 – The Internet is for End Users (2020)

https://mnot.net/blog/2020/for_the_users
31•notarobot123•1h ago•11 comments

Europe's fires are just the start

https://economist.com/leaders/2026/07/28/europes-fires-are-just-the-start
9•andsoitis•25m ago•0 comments

Why Don't People Use Formal Methods?

https://www.hillelwayne.com/post/why-dont-people-use-formal-methods/
37•Thom2503•1h ago•25 comments

Gpiozero Flow

https://bennuttall.com/blog/2026/07/gpiozero-flow/
92•benn_88•3h ago•28 comments

Ron Gilbert started production on Thimbleweed Park 2

https://www.grumpygamer.com/twp2_announce/
123•alberto-m•6h ago•45 comments

Launch HN: Prized (YC S26) – Let non-engineer staff build secure internal tools

https://prized.dev
10•marinoseliades•51m ago•1 comments

I made a game where you build a CPU from logic gates

https://select.supply/game/chipbuilder
32•laurentiurad•2h ago•20 comments

How Old Is Ann?

https://quuxplusone.github.io/blog/2026/07/29/how-old-is-ann/
28•ibobev•2h ago•15 comments

Mbodi AI (YC P25) Is Hiring Robotics/Research Engineers

https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/mbodi-ai/jobs
1•chitianhao•2h ago

AI's top startups are barely publishing their research

https://www.science.org/content/article/ai-s-top-startups-are-barely-publishing-their-research
559•YeGoblynQueenne•16h ago•292 comments

Agent-Manager: A Tmux TUI for Running Claude Code, Codex and OpenCode

https://github.com/YoanWai/agent-manager
59•yoanwaidev•4h ago•40 comments

The coolest use for the Vision Pro

https://christianselig.com/2026/07/vision-pro-house/
767•robbiet480•17h ago•289 comments

Carolina Cloud pays SOFR on unused prepaid credits

https://docs.carolinacloud.io/organizations/prepaid-interest/
50•bojangleslover•4h ago•31 comments

3D Pinball for Windows (1995)

https://98.js.org/programs/pinball/space-cadet.html
15•mushstory•2h ago•4 comments

Go LLM SDK for streaming, tool-calling AI backends (plus frontend React lib)

https://github.com/grafana/ai-sdk
22•matryer•2h ago•5 comments

The Glass Famine

https://edconway.substack.com/p/the-glass-famine
56•baud147258•3d ago•22 comments

LLM Honeypot

https://llm2human.pages.dev/
342•8thom•15h ago•94 comments

CosmosEscape: Taking over Every Database in Azure Cosmos DB

https://www.wiz.io/blog/cosmosescape-taking-over-every-database-in-azure-cosmos-db
14•uvuv•2h ago•5 comments

Google will expand age checks on Android worldwide till the end of the year

https://android-developers.googleblog.com/2026/07/google-play-age-signals-api-safer-experiences.html
194•dmantis•4h ago•225 comments

Are We Stuck with Lean?

https://mathoverflow.net/questions/513742/are-we-stuck-with-lean
16•jjgreen•2h ago•2 comments

GCC steering committee announces AI policy

https://lwn.net/Articles/1086041/
145•arto•2h ago•157 comments

The first watch featuring computer functions

https://by.seiko-design.com/140th/en/topic/58.html
52•stefanv•4d ago•24 comments

Azulejo

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Azulejo
98•Amorymeltzer•1d ago•33 comments

The Productivity Mirage

https://frantic.im/mirage/
306•msephton•15h ago•135 comments

You can't solve computer use by ignoring the interface

https://steelmanlabs.com/blog/computer-use-is-far-from-solved
18•mpavlov•2h ago•1 comments

ChatGPT, Roblox to Fall Under Strictest EU Rules for Platforms

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-07-29/chatgpt-roblox-to-fall-under-strictest-eu-rule...
43•ch_sm•2h ago•29 comments

Anatomy of a Frontier Lab Agent Intrusion: A Timeline of the July 2026 Incident

https://huggingface.co/blog/agent-intrusion-technical-timeline
434•artninja1988•1d ago•234 comments

The Alice and Bob After Dinner Speech (1984)

https://hex.ooo/library/alicebob.html
3•kamma4434•3d ago•1 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."