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Yandex bot traffic down 99% after data center attack

https://radar.cloudflare.com/bots/as13238?dateRange=7d#bot-traffic
44•rooftopzen•36m ago•5 comments

Type-safe HTML templating in Zig

https://lalinsky.com/2026/10/11/type-safe-html-templating-in-zig.html
17•lukaslalinsky•28m ago•1 comments

Fingerprints are the new cookies

https://royfish.dev/fingerprints-are-the-new-cookies
221•royfish•6h ago•102 comments

Total Annihilation, rebuilt for modern computers

https://nanolathe.gg
430•jttnr•11h ago•184 comments

Whatever became of holography? (2011)

https://www.americanscientist.org/article/whatever-became-of-holography
100•cainxinth•5h ago•48 comments

Calculus with Julia

https://jverzani.github.io/CalculusWithJuliaNotes.jl/
54•subset•1d ago•1 comments

Cartographers of North Korea (2019)

https://cartographers-nk.wonyoung.so/
222•edent•9h ago•39 comments

Doory – Open-Source Canva

https://github.com/shaongitbd/doory
54•acley•4h ago•18 comments

The gap in shared understanding of LLM capability is widening

https://twitter.com/karpathy/status/2109361546505966046
360•albertzeyer•9h ago•524 comments

No portable way to detect string-to-float conversion errors in standard C

https://sebsite.pw/w/20261009-strtod.html
17•signa11•1d ago•6 comments

Terence Tao: Math 2.0 [pdf]

https://teorth.github.io/tao-web/slides/math-2-0-caltech-2026.pdf
363•Anon84•16h ago•402 comments

Illustration Beyond Proof

https://terrytao.wordpress.com/2026/10/11/illustration-beyond-proof/
51•smilelamp•6h ago•0 comments

Google is illegaly cutting forest to build data centers

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/oct/06/google-datacentres-finland-temporary-halt-envi...
308•heyimada•6h ago•80 comments

Vectorized CLZ and CTZ

https://purplesyringa.moe/blog/vectorized-clz-and-ctz/
29•zX41ZdbW•1d ago•3 comments

Chapter 1 of "Ways of Seeing" by John Berger (1972)

https://www.ways-of-seeing.com/ch1
96•rafael859•11h ago•15 comments

Local Indexing to reduce tool calling and token usage

https://tedhaley.ca/pensieve/
49•TedHaley•5h ago•12 comments

Passkeys are a trap

https://nonfunctional.substack.com/p/passkeys-are-a-trap-do-not-use-them
427•laurex•7h ago•232 comments

So, You’d Like To Sell Your Print Issues Of The Onion?

https://theonion.com/archivehunt/
294•mooreds•9h ago•42 comments

Recursive self-improvement through collective intelligence

https://pub.sakana.ai/mass/
90•hardmaru•7h ago•47 comments

I guess I'm using WebP now?

https://anderegg.ca/2026/10/08/i-guess-im-using-webp-now
95•Brajeshwar•2d ago•98 comments

NYC's "Click to Cancel" rule is now in effect

https://www.nyc.gov/main/click-to-cancel
420•gregsadetsky•11h ago•199 comments

Programmable pigments: Photochromic nanoparticle inks for rewritable tattoos

https://www.cell.com/matter-light/fulltext/S3117-5848(26)00119-5
36•Bluestein•20h ago•4 comments

Tattoos you can turn on and off

https://www.livescience.com/technology/cool-chemistry-trick-allows-new-tattoos-to-turn-on-and-off
43•MortyDev•8h ago•14 comments

Show HN: BetterWispr – Free, open-source dictation for Mac

https://betterwispr.com/
181•kartik017•17h ago•104 comments

apsw: Another Python SQLite Wrapper

https://github.com/rogerbinns/apsw
75•tosh•12h ago•17 comments

HashiCorp archives the Boundary open source repo

https://github.com/hashicorp/boundary
62•vmatsiiako•5h ago•11 comments

Shredding JSON columns gave Logfire up to 1000x faster queries

https://pydantic.dev/articles/dynamic-shredding-2026-01-26
15•acossta•7h ago•8 comments

ClickHouse C – Talk to ClickHouse using its native binary protocol

https://github.com/ClickHouse/clickhouse-c
26•saisrirampur•6h ago•1 comments

Valen's Memory Safety: A New Kind of Borrow Checking

https://verdagon.dev/blog/valen-group-borrowing
153•verdagon•17h ago•80 comments

Safe SIMD in Rust, even on the inside

https://shnatsel.github.io/safe-simd-in-rust-even-on-the-inside/
53•ravenical•1d ago•3 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."