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323•solarist•5h ago•87 comments

Backdoors in official Claude Code extensions

https://cyberplace.social/@GossiTheDog/117528831681803563
604•dsr_•3h ago•176 comments

Azure's Weakest Link – Five Full Cross-Tenant Compromises

https://www.binarysecurity.no/posts/2026/10/one-root-case
110•swq115•4h ago•10 comments

US Reps Lead Democratic Resolution Opposing A.I. Bubble Bailout for Big Tech

https://progressives.house.gov/2026/10/reps-casar-waters-lead-democratic-resolution-opposing-a-i-...
202•DeepLogin•2h ago•119 comments

Binance-hacker-1029 – $5.6B stolen from Binance

https://arkm.com/explorer/entity/21a94755-f604-45e5-9501-6542e23005e8
1581•Tiberium•16h ago•1051 comments

We're releasing the weights of Mistral Large 4

https://mistral.ai/news/mistral-large-4-oss/
1599•kuberwastaken•1d ago•418 comments

Anthropic hacked to deliver remote access trojan

https://doublepulsar.com/anthropic-hacked-to-deliver-remote-access-trojan-to-claude-developer-lap...
352•bashtoni•3h ago•71 comments

The $6.3B Binance Hack Was Pulled Off in Just 20 Minutes

https://www.wired.com/story/the-dollar63-billion-binance-hack-was-pulled-off-in-just-20-minutes/
62•domhudson•1h ago•23 comments

How Do You Take a Picture of a Black Hole?

https://www.quantamagazine.org/how-do-you-take-a-picture-of-a-black-hole-20261029/
48•dverlaeckt80•4h ago•38 comments

Finding Panics with Call Graph Analyzer

https://tweedegolf.nl/en/blog/242/finding-panics-with-call-graph-analyzer/
20•ndr•2d ago•0 comments

Massie, Khanna, and Others Introduce the "Epstein Files Transparency Act II"

https://massie.house.gov/news/documentsingle.aspx?DocumentID=395849
34•surprisetalk•19m ago•3 comments

Gilgamesh by Simon Armitage review – an ancient epic is brilliantly translated

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2026/oct/20/gilgamesh-by-simon-armitage-review-an-ancient-epic-...
106•benbreen•2d ago•30 comments

Why a program doesn't work when run from a batch file, but works when clicked

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20261026-00/?p=112797/
60•ibobev•3d ago•26 comments

American views of higher ed decline, once again

https://bryanalexander.org/horizon-scanning/american-views-of-higher-ed-decline-once-again/
9•surprisetalk•1h ago•0 comments

Commodore 1600 VICmodem

https://dfarq.homeip.net/commodore-1600-vicmodem/
16•ibobev•3d ago•6 comments

Herdr has released native app

https://github.com/herdrdev/herdr-app
279•cherioo•13h ago•182 comments

Lighthouses, War and a Puffling

https://adcochrane.wordpress.com/2026/10/29/lighthouses-war-and-a-puffling-the-isle-of-may/
7•aways•16h ago•0 comments

I'm so bad at billiards that I ended up in the hyperbolic plane [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kL9BTbIGxLg
183•surprisetalk•2d ago•31 comments

We ran AI agent swarms in Minecraft and Mindustry

https://labs.ycombinator.com/projects/games/index.html
341•sandslash•16h ago•137 comments

Wasmer (YC S19) Is Hiring OS/Hypervisor Experts in Europe

https://www.workatastartup.com/jobs/98722
1•syrusakbary•7h ago

Astroterm: A Planetarium for Your Terminal

https://github.com/da-luce/astroterm
185•nvmdbljstm•2d ago•21 comments

Official Claude Code extension compromise

https://phorion.io/blog/offical-claude-code-vsx-compromise/
53•_chall•7h ago•8 comments

Artificial Analysis v5 and the benchmarker's dilemma

https://www.interconnects.ai/p/artificial-analysis-v5-and-the-benchmarkers
42•6thbit•2d ago•31 comments

H.264 Is Magic (2016)

https://sidbala.com/h-264-is-magic/
475•ea016•22h ago•155 comments

Cuis: The Modern Smalltalk-80

https://cuis.st/
154•theanonymousone•3d ago•19 comments

A tiny world model running games on a Raspberry Pi Pico 2 W

https://github.com/SheepSeb/tinyworldformer
247•airinei•17h ago•16 comments

Show HN: I Turned DOOM into a Transformer

https://github.com/mottopanikeiku/doomformer
114•falperc•14h ago•35 comments

Just Noting That Your Candy Corn Is Made of Bug Secretions

https://www.theatlantic.com/science/2026/10/candy-corn-bug-shellac/689213/
9•fortran77•53m ago•16 comments

LLM Voice

https://martinfowler.com/bliki/LLM-Voice.html
529•ibobev•23h ago•282 comments

Cormac McCarthy's Library

https://cormacmccarthy.lib.utk.edu/
83•maitland•13h ago•32 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."