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Zerostack – A Unix-inspired coding agent written in pure Rust

https://crates.io/crates/zerostack/1.0.0
413•gidellav•12h ago•179 comments

Mozilla to UK regulators: VPNs are essential privacy and security tools

https://blog.mozilla.org/netpolicy/2026/05/15/mozilla-to-uk-regulators-vpns-are-essential-privacy...
238•WithinReason•4h ago•72 comments

A nicer voltmeter clock

https://lcamtuf.substack.com/p/a-nicer-voltmeter-clock
201•surprisetalk•12h ago•25 comments

Hosting a website on an 8-bit microcontroller

https://maurycyz.com/projects/mcusite/
141•zdw•9h ago•12 comments

Colossus: The Forbin Project

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colossus:_The_Forbin_Project
110•doener•2d ago•31 comments

Playing Atari ST Music on the Amiga with Zero CPU

https://arnaud-carre.github.io/2026-05-15-ym-fast-emu/
45•z303•3h ago•9 comments

OpenAI and Government of Malta partner to roll out ChatGPT Plus to all citizens

https://openai.com/index/malta-chatgpt-plus-partnership/
201•bookofjoe•14h ago•235 comments

Moving away from Tailwind, and learning to structure my CSS

https://jvns.ca/blog/2026/05/15/moving-away-from-tailwind--and-learning-to-structure-my-css-/
558•mpweiher•1d ago•319 comments

SANA-WM, a 2.6B open-source world model for 1-minute 720p video

https://nvlabs.github.io/Sana/WM/
347•mjgil•22h ago•136 comments

Prolog Basics Explained with Pokémon

https://unplannedobsolescence.com/blog/prolog-basics-pokemon/
12•birdculture•1d ago•0 comments

Roman Letters

https://romanletters.org/
28•diodorus•2d ago•4 comments

Illusions of understanding in the sciences

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s42113-026-00271-1
49•sebg•2d ago•20 comments

We've made the world too complicated

https://user8.bearblog.dev/the-world-is-too-complicated/
308•James72689•1d ago•288 comments

The Third Hard Problem

https://mmapped.blog/posts/48-the-third-hard-problem
85•surprisetalk•2d ago•44 comments

Accelerando (2005)

https://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/fiction/accelerando/accelerando.html
300•eamag•23h ago•168 comments

C++26 Shipped a SIMD Library Nobody Asked For

https://lucisqr.substack.com/p/c26-shipped-a-simd-library-nobody
143•signa11•2d ago•99 comments

MCP Hello Page

https://www.hybridlogic.co.uk/blog/2026/05/mcp-hello-page
102•Dachande663•12h ago•35 comments

Frontier AI has broken the open CTF format

https://kabir.au/blog/the-ctf-scene-is-dead
386•frays•1d ago•391 comments

δ-mem: Efficient Online Memory for Large Language Models

https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.12357
219•44za12•1d ago•57 comments

Unknowable Math Can Help Hide Secrets

https://www.quantamagazine.org/how-unknowable-math-can-help-hide-secrets-20260511/
53•Xcelerate•3d ago•11 comments

Halt and Catch Fire

https://unstack.io/halt-and-catch-fire
143•ScottWRobinson•16h ago•75 comments

Why did Clovis toolmakers choose difficult quartz crystal?

https://phys.org/news/2026-04-clovis-toolmakers-difficult-quartz-crystal.html
26•PaulHoule•2d ago•15 comments

Twilight of the Velocipede: Typesetting Races Before the Age of Linotype

https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/twilight-of-the-velocipede/
15•benbreen•13h ago•0 comments

Self-Distillation Enables Continual Learning [pdf]

https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.19897
66•teleforce•9h ago•16 comments

A molecule with half-Möbius topology

https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.aea3321
99•bryanrasmussen•4d ago•7 comments

3D Gaussian Splatting in a Weekend

https://bfeldman.me/3dgs-weekend/
97•b__feldman•3d ago•10 comments

Show HN: Rocksky – Music scrobbling and discovery on the AT Protocol

https://tangled.org/rocksky.app/rocksky
83•tsiry•18h ago•38 comments

I believe there are entire companies right now under AI psychosis

https://twitter.com/mitchellh/status/2055380239711457578
1988•reasonableklout•1d ago•1165 comments

Content-defined chunking added to Bazel

https://www.buildbuddy.io/blog/content-defined-chunking/
53•siggi•3d ago•5 comments

Greek Alphabet Cards

https://labs.randomquark.com/alphabet_cards/
129•ricochet11•23h ago•59 comments
Open in hackernews

Building my npx business card

https://ashley.dev/posts/turning-feedback-into-features/
8•edent•1y ago

Comments

steele•12mo ago
Ooh, free real estate, let's colonize and gentrify package management
aabhay•12mo ago
Lmao, gentrify cracked me up
neilv•12mo ago
Do these npx business cards run arbitrary code on your computer?
cypherpunks01•12mo 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•12mo 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•12mo ago
Yeah, this seems like a very smart but inherently flawed idea.
cypherpunks01•12mo 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•12mo ago
May as well just release an executable tbh.
theamk•12mo 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•12mo 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•12mo 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."