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Peter Salus has died

https://www.tuhs.org/pipermail/tuhs/2026-May/033750.html
84•speckx•1h ago•8 comments

The last six months in LLMs in five minutes

https://simonwillison.net/2026/May/19/5-minute-llms/
114•yakkomajuri•3h ago•41 comments

Click (2016)

https://clickclickclick.click/
237•andrewzeno•5h ago•57 comments

Regex Chess: A 2-ply minimax chess engine in 84,688 regular expressions

https://nicholas.carlini.com/writing/2025/regex-chess.html
60•surprisetalk•4d ago•10 comments

Anyone on the Internet Can Ring Your Doorbell

https://www.abgeo.dev/blog/anyone-can-ring-your-doorbell
38•jrdres•2d ago•13 comments

Anthropic acquires Stainless

https://www.anthropic.com/news/anthropic-acquires-stainless
397•tomeraberbach•11h ago•273 comments

Pope Leo XIV’s first encyclical Magnifica humanitas to be published May 25

https://www.vaticannews.va/en/pope/news/2026-05/pope-leo-xiv-first-encyclical-magnifica-humanitas...
154•cucho•5h ago•93 comments

We stopped AI bot spam in our GitHub repo using Git's –author flag

https://archestra.ai/blog/only-responsible-ai
443•ildari•13h ago•200 comments

War game exposed U.S. vulnerability to low-tech warfare

https://nsarchive.gwu.edu/news/2024-11-01/rigged-war-game-exposed-us-vulnerability-low-tech-warfare
23•KnuthIsGod•2h ago•13 comments

Hyperpolyglot Lisp: Common Lisp, Racket, Clojure, Emacs Lisp

https://hyperpolyglot.org/lisp
145•veqq•9h ago•34 comments

PyTorch Landscape

https://pytorch.landscape2.io
3•salamo•22m ago•0 comments

The Quiet Renovation at Bitwarden

https://blog.ppb1701.com/the-quiet-renovation-at-bitwarden
589•DaSHacka•2d ago•262 comments

Show HN: Files.md – Open-source alternative to Obsidian

https://github.com/zakirullin/files.md
590•zakirullin•15h ago•293 comments

We let AIs run radio stations

https://andonlabs.com/blog/andon-fm
210•lukaspetersson•10h ago•177 comments

When can the C++ compiler devirtualize a call?

https://quuxplusone.github.io/blog/2021/02/15/devirtualization/
34•lionkor•1d ago•6 comments

Show HN: Number Gacha, a gacha game distilled to its essence

https://isabisabel.com/gacha/
94•babel16•5d ago•37 comments

Project Glasswing: what Mythos showed us

https://blog.cloudflare.com/cyber-frontier-models/
303•Fysi•15h ago•116 comments

Earth's Radio Bubble: Every signal we've ever sent into space

https://www.thescientificdrop.com/2026/05/earths-radio-bubble-every-signal-weve.html
52•jonbaer•20h ago•29 comments

Elon Musk has lost his lawsuit against Sam Altman and OpenAI

https://techcrunch.com/2026/05/18/elon-musk-has-lost-his-lawsuit-against-sam-altman-and-openai/
862•nycdatasci•11h ago•434 comments

Apple Silicon costs more than OpenRouter

https://twitter.com/rohan_sood15/status/2056585919805714777
8•rohansood15•50m ago•0 comments

Agora-1: The Multi-Agent World Model

https://odyssey.ml/introducing-agora-1
93•olivercameron•10h ago•17 comments

Why is it called Kent House?

https://diamondgeezer.blogspot.com/2026/05/kent-house.html
5•susam•2d ago•1 comments

Peter Neumann has died

https://www.tuhs.org/pipermail/tuhs/2026-May/033748.html
3•pabs3•1h ago•0 comments

Two computers, one monitor, zero fiddling (2025)

https://alexplescan.com/posts/2025/08/16/kvm/
189•ankitg12•3d ago•106 comments

Coding on Paper

https://wickstrom.tech/2026-05-16-coding-on-paper.html
62•owickstrom•1d ago•18 comments

Alignment pretraining: AI discourse creates self-fulfilling (mis)alignment

https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.10160
38•anigbrowl•7h ago•14 comments

Sieve – scans Cursor/Claude chat history for leaked API keys

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/sieve-secret-scanner/id6767409365?mt=12
3•helpful_human•1h ago•0 comments

The FBI Wants to Buy Nationwide Access to License Plate Readers

https://www.404media.co/the-fbi-wants-to-buy-nationwide-access-to-license-plate-readers/
255•cdrnsf•9h ago•102 comments

The Futility of Lava Lamps: What Random Means

https://loup-vaillant.fr/articles/lava-lamps-and-randomness
55•birdculture•2d ago•43 comments

The Fil-C Optimized Calling Convention

https://fil-c.org/calling_convention
120•pizlonator•2d ago•23 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•12mo 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•12mo 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."