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France confirms data breach at government agency that manages citizens' IDs

https://techcrunch.com/2026/04/22/france-confirms-data-breach-at-government-agency-that-manages-c...
247•robtherobber•1h ago•84 comments

Bitwarden CLI Compromised in Ongoing Checkmarx Supply Chain Campaign

https://socket.dev/blog/bitwarden-cli-compromised
340•tosh•3h ago•162 comments

'Hairdryer used to trick weather sensor' to win $34,000 Polymarket bet

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2026/04/23/hairdryer-used-trick-weather-sensor-34000-polymar...
72•zdw•45m ago•61 comments

MeshCore development team splits over trademark dispute and AI-generated code

https://blog.meshcore.io/2026/04/23/the-split
17•wielebny•51m ago•7 comments

Incident with Multple GitHub Services

https://www.githubstatus.com/incidents/myrbk7jvvs6p
71•bwannasek•1h ago•45 comments

A DIY Watch You Can Actually Wear

https://www.hackster.io/news/a-diy-watch-you-can-actually-wear-8f91c2dac682
51•sarusso•2d ago•23 comments

I am building a cloud

https://crawshaw.io/blog/building-a-cloud
828•bumbledraven•13h ago•425 comments

Show HN: Honker – Postgres NOTIFY/LISTEN Semantics for SQLite

https://github.com/russellromney/honker
164•russellthehippo•5h ago•25 comments

Alberta startup sells no-tech tractors for half price

https://wheelfront.com/this-alberta-startup-sells-no-tech-tractors-for-half-price/
2054•Kaibeezy•1d ago•701 comments

Your hex editor should color-code bytes

https://simonomi.dev/blog/color-code-your-bytes/
393•tobr•2d ago•114 comments

To Protect and Swerve: NYPD Cop Has 547 Speeding Tickets

https://nyc.streetsblog.org/2026/04/23/to-protect-and-swerve-nypd-cop-has-527-speeding-tickets-ye...
127•greedo•2h ago•81 comments

The Ferrari of Espresso Machines Is Fueling a Hot Resale Market

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/20/dining/la-marzocco-espresso-machine.html
17•mitchbob•2d ago•9 comments

Apple fixes bug that cops used to extract deleted chat messages from iPhones

https://techcrunch.com/2026/04/22/apple-fixes-bug-that-cops-used-to-extract-deleted-chat-messages...
786•cdrnsf•21h ago•177 comments

Investigation uncovers two sophisticated telecom surveillance campaigns

https://techcrunch.com/2026/04/23/surveillance-vendors-caught-abusing-access-to-telcos-to-track-p...
319•mentalgear•5h ago•112 comments

Writing a C Compiler, in Zig (2025)

https://ar-ms.me/thoughts/c-compiler-1-zig/
92•tosh•8h ago•30 comments

We found a stable Firefox identifier linking all your private Tor identities

https://fingerprint.com/blog/firefox-tor-indexeddb-privacy-vulnerability/
857•danpinto•1d ago•257 comments

Jiga (YC W21) Is Hiring

https://jiga.io/about-us/
1•grmmph•5h ago

A Renaissance gambling dispute spawned probability theory

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-a-renaissance-gambling-dispute-spawned-probability...
66•sohkamyung•2d ago•9 comments

Arch Linux Now Has a Bit-for-Bit Reproducible Docker Image

https://antiz.fr/blog/archlinux-now-has-a-reproducible-docker-image/
224•maxloh•15h ago•76 comments

Isopods of the world

https://isopod.site/
105•debesyla•2d ago•42 comments

5x5 Pixel font for tiny screens

https://maurycyz.com/projects/mcufont/
759•zdw•4d ago•151 comments

Our newsroom AI policy

https://arstechnica.com/staff/2026/04/our-newsroom-ai-policy/
157•zdw•12h ago•105 comments

Raylib v6.0

https://github.com/raysan5/raylib/releases/tag/6.0
155•rydgel•5h ago•21 comments

A History of Erasures Learning to Write Like Leylâ Erbil

https://thepointmag.com/criticism/a-history-of-erasures/
21•lermontov•3d ago•0 comments

A True Life Hack: What Physical 'Life Force' Turns Biology's Wheels?

https://www.quantamagazine.org/what-physical-life-force-turns-biologys-wheels-20260420/
165•Prof_Sigmund•2d ago•35 comments

An amateur historian's favorite books about the Silk Road

https://bookdna.com/best-books/silk-road
71•bwb•2d ago•29 comments

Website streamed live directly from a model

https://flipbook.page/
398•sethbannon•23h ago•105 comments

The end of responsive images

https://piccalil.li/blog/the-end-of-responsive-images/
23•OuterVale•4h ago•15 comments

Over-editing refers to a model modifying code beyond what is necessary

https://nrehiew.github.io/blog/minimal_editing/
406•pella•23h ago•234 comments

Palantir Employees Are Starting to Wonder If They're the Bad Guys

https://www.wired.com/story/palantir-employees-are-starting-to-wonder-if-theyre-the-bad-guys/
7•pavel_lishin•16m ago•0 comments
Open in hackernews

Building my npx business card

https://ashley.dev/posts/turning-feedback-into-features/
8•edent•11mo ago

Comments

steele•11mo ago
Ooh, free real estate, let's colonize and gentrify package management
aabhay•11mo ago
Lmao, gentrify cracked me up
neilv•11mo ago
Do these npx business cards run arbitrary code on your computer?
cypherpunks01•11mo 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•11mo 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•11mo ago
Yeah, this seems like a very smart but inherently flawed idea.
cypherpunks01•11mo 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•11mo ago
May as well just release an executable tbh.
theamk•11mo 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•11mo 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•11mo 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."