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Felony Bench

https://www.felonybench.com/
681•colinprince•17h ago•270 comments

Rust Glancer: Rust LSP using 100x less RAM

https://rust-glancer.github.io/blog/hello-world/
161•matklad•12h ago•34 comments

Kobo can run apps now

https://bandarlabs.github.io/Cobalt/
526•thepoet•16h ago•186 comments

There's no reason for software to be slow anymore

https://danluu.com/perf-opt/
363•Jach•7h ago•264 comments

Felony charges for citizen deleting phone data at US Border

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/21/us/politics/samuel-tunick-deleted-phone-felony.html
753•floathub•20h ago•879 comments

Canada will match US tariffs 'dollar for dollar' as trade talks break down

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cvgvyy4x2mvo
56•tartoran•2h ago•18 comments

Optimizing meshoptimizer to process billions of triangles in minutes (2025)

https://zeux.io/2025/09/30/billions-of-triangles-in-minutes/
17•corysama•14h ago•0 comments

I accidentally logged hundreds of thousands of phone calls to military bases

https://lina.sh/blog/hijacking-e164-arpa
532•gavide•19h ago•60 comments

Kagi added a setting for removing paywalled links from search results

https://kagi.com/changelog#11296
1105•speckx•18h ago•361 comments

Three important steps in my maturation process

https://thomasdullien.github.io/posts/2026-08-21-three-important-steps-in-my-maturation-process/
128•tdullien•9h ago•58 comments

OTel isn’t going well

https://matduggan.com/otel-isnt-going-well-and-i-made-a-spreadsheet-about-it/
102•hn_acker•14h ago•42 comments

Scientists release biggest 2D map of the universe

https://newscenter.lbl.gov/2026/08/10/scientists-release-biggest-2d-map-of-the-universe/
198•NKosmatos•13h ago•55 comments

Zig’s io.threaded is neat

https://matklad.github.io/2026/08/06/neat-io-threaded.html
57•chilipepperhott•17h ago•22 comments

AI boosted homework scores, then exam scores dropped: study

https://www.economist.com/graphic-detail/2026/08/18/does-ai-stop-children-from-learning
298•dash2•3d ago•314 comments

Stop Making TUIs

https://sockpuppet.org/blog/2026/08/20/stop-making-tuis/
111•underdeserver•1d ago•175 comments

People of ACM – Russ Cox

https://www.acm.org/articles/people-of-acm/2026/russ-cox
131•signa11•5d ago•13 comments

Initial focus for our partnership with Motorola is a regular non-folding device

https://grapheneos.social/@GrapheneOS/117136278553665985
107•Cider9986•7h ago•35 comments

Claudette: Make Claude stop talking like a BuzzFeed article

https://github.com/adnanakil/nobuzz/blob/main/README.md
258•aakil•17h ago•176 comments

Early-life stress leaves a 'scar' inside brain cells in mice

https://medicine.washu.edu/news/how-early-life-stress-leaves-a-scar-inside-brain-cells/
85•gmays•1d ago•32 comments

A revisit of remote Spectre attacks on Cloudflare Workers

https://blog.cloudflare.com/revisiting-spectre-attacks-on-workers/
47•albertpedersen•2d ago•0 comments

New Worlds: We are living in the future of J.G. Ballard or William Gibson

https://precastreinforced.co.uk/2026/08/16/new-worlds/
235•speckx•19h ago•165 comments

I'm becoming AI-blind

https://cymerys.com/w/im-becoming-ai-blind
351•rcymerys•20h ago•352 comments

ESP32 Firmware Development with Docker Sandboxes

https://www.docker.com/blog/reproducible-esp32-firmware-development-with-docker-and-docker-sandbo...
10•mfranzon•4d ago•4 comments

How we made a text-to-speech model respond in sub-50 ms

https://nari-labs.com/blog/qwen3-tts-speed-cost-frontier/
140•toebee•16h ago•34 comments

HN: The Good Parts (2016)

https://danluu.com/hn-comments/
43•adletbalzhanov•8h ago•8 comments

The coolest anti-surveillance tools at Defcon [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-2uAsJ5EPAw
193•neom•3d ago•28 comments

SalesPatriot (YC W25) Is Hiring Forward Deployed Engineers

https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/salespatriot/jobs/M46X6YX-forward-deployed-engineer
1•maciejSz•11h ago

A look under our trunk: what's in our compute

https://waymo.com/blog/2026/08/look-under-our-trunk/
121•ra7•1d ago•67 comments

Everyone says assembly is untyped—everyone is wrong

https://www.gingerbill.org/article/2026/08/20/designing-odins-inline-asm/
70•adamrezich•1d ago•26 comments

Ozone: The fault is not in our trees, but in ourselves

https://www.science.org/content/blog-post/fault-not-our-trees-ourselves
24•gumby•1d ago•1 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."