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VS Code inserting 'Co-Authored-by Copilot' into commits regardless of usage

https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/pull/310226
373•indrora•2h ago•177 comments

Six Years Perfecting Maps on WatchOS

https://www.david-smith.org/blog/2026/04/29/maps-on-watchos/
61•valzevul•1h ago•9 comments

Dav2d

https://code.videolan.org/videolan/dav2d
264•dabinat•5h ago•89 comments

This Month in Ladybird - April 2026

https://ladybird.org/newsletter/2026-04-30/
48•richardboegli•1h ago•11 comments

Neanderthals ran 'fat factories' 125,000 years ago

https://www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/news/2025/07/neanderthals-ran-fat-factories-125000-years-ago
39•andsoitis•1h ago•8 comments

The agent harness belongs outside the sandbox

https://www.mendral.com/blog/agent-harness-belongs-outside-sandbox
19•shad42•1h ago•11 comments

Do_not_track

https://donottrack.sh/
132•RubyGuy•4h ago•52 comments

Inventions for battery reuse and recycling increase seven-fold in last decade

https://www.epo.org/en/news-events/news/inventions-battery-reuse-and-recycling-increase-more-seve...
125•JeanKage•2d ago•6 comments

Show HN: State of the Art of Coding Models, According to Hacker News Commenters

https://hnup.date/hn-sota
14•yunusabd•1h ago•6 comments

Clojurists Together – Q2 2026 Open Source Funding Announcement

https://www.clojuriststogether.org/news/q2-2026-funding-announcement/
7•dragandj•58m ago•0 comments

Little Magazines Are Back

https://wsjfreeexpression.substack.com/p/little-magazines-are-back
54•prismatic•2d ago•10 comments

NetHack 5.0.0

https://nethack.org/v500/release.html
316•rsaarelm•4h ago•87 comments

Why does it take so long to release black fan versions?

https://www.noctua.at/en/expertise/blog/how-can-it-take-so-long-to-release-black-fan-versions
674•buildbot•17h ago•279 comments

A Physics Engine with Incremental Rollback for Multiplayer Games

https://easel.games/blog/2026-rollback-physics
13•BSTRhino•22h ago•5 comments

California to begin ticketing driverless cars that violate traffic laws

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/clypjx3rg2go
184•geox•4h ago•202 comments

How fast is a macOS VM, and how small could it be?

https://eclecticlight.co/2026/05/02/how-fast-is-a-macos-vm-and-how-small-could-it-be/
213•moosia•13h ago•77 comments

Barman – Backup and Recovery Manager for PostgreSQL

https://github.com/EnterpriseDB/barman
128•nateb2022•3d ago•22 comments

Flue is a TypeScript framework for building the next generation of agents

https://flueframework.com/
70•momentmaker•5h ago•38 comments

Roblox shares plummet 18% as child safety measures weigh on bookings

https://www.cnbc.com/2026/05/01/roblox-rblx-stock-child-safety-earnings.html
151•1vuio0pswjnm7•5h ago•84 comments

Welcome to Hell Developer

https://noahclements.com/Wahoo-Bolt-Hidden-Debug-Mode/
39•denysvitali•5h ago•18 comments

Refusal in Language Models Is Mediated by a Single Direction

https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.11717
82•fagnerbrack•9h ago•30 comments

Modern C++ Programming: Busato

https://github.com/federico-busato/Modern-CPP-Programming
38•KnuthIsGod•5h ago•2 comments

Uber wants to turn its drivers into a sensor grid for self-driving companies

https://techcrunch.com/2026/05/01/uber-wants-to-turn-its-millions-of-drivers-into-a-sensor-grid-f...
111•nickvec•6h ago•122 comments

The USB Situation

https://randsinrepose.com/archives/the-usb-situation/
71•herbertl•3d ago•79 comments

Using group theory to explore the space of positional encodings for attention

https://blog.janestreet.com/using-group-theory-to-explore-positional-encodings-attention/
3•jxmorris12•1d ago•0 comments

Why are there both TMP and TEMP environment variables? (2015)

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20150417-00/?p=44213
183•ankitg12•14h ago•84 comments

Open Design: Use Your Coding Agent as a Design Engine

https://github.com/nexu-io/open-design
154•steveharing1•10h ago•80 comments

Dotcl: Common Lisp Implementation on .NET

https://github.com/dotcl/dotcl
141•reikonomusha•2d ago•32 comments

Show HN: Pollen – distributed WASM runtime, no control plane, single binary

https://github.com/sambigeara/pollen
99•sambigeara•2d ago•42 comments

America's Expanding Domestic Surveillance

https://www.wsj.com/articles/americas-expanding-domestic-surveillance-08b73187
189•Brajeshwar•7h ago•112 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."