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A Physicist Rigged His Pet Hamster’s Wheel to Upload to Strava

https://www.runnersworld.com/news/a73355106/hamster-wheel-strava-running/
132•aanet•2d ago•21 comments

DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731

https://arcprize.org/results/deepseek-v4-flash-0731
587•tosh•13h ago•351 comments

Hardware backdoors in some x86 CPUs

https://github.com/xoreaxeaxeax/rosenbridge
8•epestr•42m ago•1 comments

U.S. Department of Energy Launches the Genesis Open Models Initiative

https://genesisopenmodels.anl.gov/
207•moelf•9h ago•68 comments

Assembly Hall of Shame

https://github.com/xoreaxeaxeax/asm-hall-of-shame
321•piotrgrabowski•13h ago•80 comments

What happens if an entire class of workers loses faith in their careers

https://www.noemamag.com/why-is-everyone-in-tech-so-sad/
583•RickJWagner•19h ago•667 comments

NASA figured out how to keep its Voyager 2 probe running for another year

https://www.space.com/space-exploration/voyager/nasa-figured-out-how-to-keep-its-48-year-old-voya...
207•wglb•5h ago•35 comments

Ancient Library – 1,060 Greek/Latin texts, click any word to parse it

https://ancientlibrary.net/
196•aagha•12h ago•58 comments

SupererDuperer

https://www.shirtpocket.com/blog/supererduperer
86•zdw•6d ago•16 comments

The Nixpkgs core team has disbanded

https://discourse.nixos.org/t/the-nixpkgs-core-team-has-disbanded/79413
271•Meleagris•6h ago•125 comments

Managing AI Coding Costs at Scale

https://www.databricks.com/blog/managing-ai-coding-costs-scale
221•moonikakiss•13h ago•195 comments

How the 'fecal revolution' changed Earth's ecosystems

https://phys.org/news/2026-08-fecal-revolution-earth-ecosystems.html
10•the-mitr•3d ago•0 comments

2027 memory capacity is reportedly sold out

https://www.ign.com/articles/ramageddon-continues-another-year-as-2027-memory-capacity-is-reporte...
334•inigyou•23h ago•305 comments

Workers Drilling in Romania Broke into a Cave Sealed for 5.5M Years

https://travelandtannins.com/workers-drilling-in-romania-broke-into-a-cave-sealed-for-5-5-million...
55•yk•3d ago•23 comments

From One Seed to a Thousand Leaves – Merkle's Authentication Tree

https://0xkrt26.github.io/math_behind_security/2026/08/03/merkle-tree.html
9•denismenace•3d ago•0 comments

An all-sky map of half a million supermassive black holes

https://www.sdss.org/black-hole-mapper-release-20/
161•MarcoDewey•16h ago•37 comments

Responding to the next frontier of critical cyber capabilities

https://openai.com/index/responding-next-frontier-critical-cyber-capabilities/
178•artninja1988•15h ago•174 comments

Oracle bans AI-generated code from OpenJDK

https://app.dealroom.co/news/feed/oracle-bans-ai-generated-code-from-openjdk-despite-ellison-s-cl...
449•delduca•14h ago•308 comments

Carl's Required Reading

https://carlkolon.com/reading/
154•cckolon•6d ago•20 comments

Radical Study Suggests Life on Earth Arose Twice

https://www.sciencealert.com/radical-study-suggests-life-on-earth-arose-from-non-living-matter-twice
136•jnord•19h ago•96 comments

Making Postgres 300x faster for analytics: batching, operator fusion, and SIMD

https://malisper.me/how-we-made-postgres-hundreds-of-times-faster-the-query-engine/
275•poly2it•20h ago•136 comments

Water system controllers don't belong on the internet, says ex-NSA chief

https://www.theregister.com/security/2026/08/07/water-system-controllers-dont-belong-on-the-inter...
180•Bender•10h ago•115 comments

Psychological Warfare in Reverse Engineering (2015)

https://github.com/xoreaxeaxeax/repsych
65•theanonymousone•12h ago•3 comments

Kitesurf: Agent-first browser that runs in V8 isolates

https://blog.cloudflare.com/kitesurf/
185•m3h•21h ago•49 comments

Games at the press of a button: The Rip-O-Bot (1989)

https://blog.gingerbeardman.com/2026/08/02/games-at-the-press-of-a-button-the-rip-o-bot/
31•msephton•5d ago•9 comments

Mythos social engineering AISI INC-2026-07-28-01

https://web.archive.org/web/20260731053721/http://github.com/ancaferro/myNetwork/pull/3
50•dnnehgf•4h ago•17 comments

Guarded Methods in OCaml (2025)

https://xvw.lol/en/articles/oop-refl.html
63•birdculture•4d ago•5 comments

As a Windows user, it's a surreal way to install a program

https://unsung.aresluna.org/as-a-windows-user-its-a-very-surreal-way-to-install-a-program/
119•allenc•4d ago•82 comments

New Mexico court orders Meta to pay $567m over harms to children’s mental health

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/aug/06/new-mexico-court-meta
755•boplicity•1d ago•405 comments

Möbius-Strip Crosswords

https://quuxplusone.github.io/blog/2026/08/04/mobius-crossword/
68•ibobev•16h ago•10 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."