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The f*** off contact page

https://www.nicchan.me/blog/the-f-off-contact-page/
125•OuterVale•1h ago•44 comments

Turtletoy

https://turtletoy.net/
190•ustad•4d ago•29 comments

Jujutsu Worktrees Are Convenient

https://shaddy.dev/notes/jj-worktrees/
23•nvader•4d ago•3 comments

Emacs is my new window manager

https://www.howardism.org/Technical/Emacs/new-window-manager.html
81•gpi•2d ago•29 comments

Damn Small Linux

https://www.damnsmalllinux.org/
100•grubbs•8h ago•25 comments

GitHub Actions Has a Package Manager, and It Might Be the Worst

https://nesbitt.io/2025/12/06/github-actions-package-manager.html
83•robin_reala•1h ago•48 comments

I failed to recreate the 1996 Space Jam website with Claude

https://j0nah.com/i-failed-to-recreate-the-1996-space-jam-website-with-claude/
444•thecr0w•16h ago•364 comments

Show HN: Lockenv – Simple encrypted secrets storage for Git

https://github.com/illarion/lockenv
17•shoemann•2h ago•5 comments

Bag of words, have mercy on us

https://www.experimental-history.com/p/bag-of-words-have-mercy-on-us
188•ntnbr•11h ago•189 comments

Show HN: ReadyKit – Superfast SaaS Starter with Multi-Tenant Workspaces

https://readykit.dev/
50•level09•1w ago•9 comments

Dollar-stores overcharge customers while promising low prices

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/dec/03/customers-pay-more-rising-dollar-store-costs
383•bookofjoe•19h ago•530 comments

Truemetrics (YC S23) Is Hiring

https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/truemetrics/jobs/1EHTSyT-python-software-engineer-analystic...
1•Jan-Truemetrics•3h ago

Google Titans architecture, helping AI have long-term memory

https://research.google/blog/titans-miras-helping-ai-have-long-term-memory/
501•Alifatisk•21h ago•163 comments

The C++ standard for the F-35 Fighter Jet [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gv4sDL9Ljww
268•AareyBaba•16h ago•293 comments

Mechanical power generation using Earth's ambient radiation

https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.adw6833
123•defrost•12h ago•40 comments

An Interactive Guide to the Fourier Transform

https://betterexplained.com/articles/an-interactive-guide-to-the-fourier-transform/
203•pykello•6d ago•34 comments

I wasted years of my life in crypto

https://twitter.com/kenchangh/status/1994854381267947640
242•Anon84•21h ago•359 comments

Solving Rush Hour, the Puzzle (2018)

https://www.michaelfogleman.com/rush/
26•xeonmc•1w ago•2 comments

Uninitialized garbage on ia64 can be deadly (2004)

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20040119-00/?p=41003
71•HeliumHydride•3d ago•46 comments

The Anatomy of a macOS App

https://eclecticlight.co/2025/12/04/the-anatomy-of-a-macos-app/
238•elashri•21h ago•71 comments

Migrating Burningboard.net Mastodon Instance to a Multi-Jail FreeBSD Setup

https://blog.hofstede.it/migrating-burningboardnet-mastodon-instance-to-a-multi-jail-freebsd-setu...
10•todsacerdoti•1h ago•0 comments

CATL expects oceanic electric ships in 3 years

https://cleantechnica.com/2025/12/05/catl-expects-oceanic-electric-ships-in-3-years/
115•thelastgallon•1d ago•140 comments

Einstein: NewtonOS running on other operating systems

https://github.com/pguyot/Einstein
4•fanf2•32m ago•0 comments

How I block all online ads

https://troubled.engineer/posts/no-ads/
204•StrLght•11h ago•173 comments

Scala 3 slowed us down?

https://kmaliszewski9.github.io/scala/2025/12/07/scala3-slowdown.html
229•kmaliszewski•19h ago•132 comments

Applets Are Officially Gone, but Java in the Browser Is Better

https://frequal.com/java/AppletsGoneButJavaInTheBrowserBetterThanEver.html
43•pjmlp•1h ago•65 comments

Nested Learning: A new ML paradigm for continual learning

https://research.google/blog/introducing-nested-learning-a-new-ml-paradigm-for-continual-learning/
126•themgt•19h ago•4 comments

Palantir Could Be the Most Overvalued Company That Ever Existed

https://247wallst.com/investing/2025/11/25/palantir-could-be-the-most-overvalued-company-that-eve...
94•Anon84•5h ago•48 comments

Show HN: PVAC FHE over hypergraphs with LPN security

https://github.com/octra-labs/pvac_hfhe_cpp
4•0x0ffh_local•6d ago•0 comments

Work disincentives hit the near-poor hardest (2022)

https://www.niskanencenter.org/work-disincentives-hit-the-near-poor-hardest-why-and-what-to-do-ab...
87•folump•5d ago•66 comments
Open in hackernews

Building my npx business card

https://ashley.dev/posts/turning-feedback-into-features/
8•edent•6mo ago

Comments

steele•6mo ago
Ooh, free real estate, let's colonize and gentrify package management
aabhay•6mo ago
Lmao, gentrify cracked me up
neilv•6mo ago
Do these npx business cards run arbitrary code on your computer?
cypherpunks01•6mo 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•6mo 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•6mo ago
Yeah, this seems like a very smart but inherently flawed idea.
cypherpunks01•6mo 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•6mo ago
May as well just release an executable tbh.
theamk•6mo 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•6mo 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•6mo 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."