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Local Wikipedia: Wikipedia, but only for things a half hour walk from you

https://edjefferson.com/localwiki/
381•sohkamyung•11h ago•101 comments

Docker is weird

https://codeandcake.dev/posts/2026-10-22-docker-is-weird
489•psxuaw•10h ago•223 comments

How does Fable 5.1 hide messages in images?

https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/WHEQps5PK8LrrcTAb/how-does-fable-5-1-hide-messages-in-images
87•gmays•12h ago•26 comments

The alien space of science: Coherent but cognitively unavailable directions

https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.01092
63•martincsweiss•20h ago•12 comments

The foolishness of "natural language programming" (1978)

https://www.cs.utexas.edu/~EWD/transcriptions/EWD06xx/EWD667.html
181•xiaoyu2006•9h ago•103 comments

The HTML-in-Canvas API origin trial

https://developer.chrome.com/blog/html-in-canvas-origin-trial
50•andrewstuart•14h ago•20 comments

Show HN: OnKey – I'm a bad singer, so I built an app to show where I'm off-key

https://github.com/dsmurrell/onkey
58•dsmurrell•19h ago•29 comments

I Did This Without Your Knowledge

https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/3375SZNGA5dKHQMie/i-did-this-without-your-knowledge
33•jmugan•4h ago•17 comments

This I Believe (1952)

https://www.awakin.org/v2/read/view.php?tid=468
89•ctoth•7h ago•33 comments

OpenShell – A safe, private runtime for fleets of autonomous AI agents

https://github.com/NVIDIA/OpenShell
398•niemandhier•16h ago•194 comments

Every AI model has the same "controversial" take on humans

https://www.modelcompare.ai/blog/ai-models-controversial-take-on-humans
425•rakannimer•17h ago•428 comments

Run full iOS 16.5 firmware on Android Devices

https://github.com/oosexgang/hackios-xnu-kernel
441•aghuang•18h ago•154 comments

A lost Schrödinger manuscript reveals a twist in quantum physics

https://www.sciencealert.com/a-lost-schrdinger-manuscript-reveals-a-surprising-twist-in-quantum-p...
48•ibobev•1d ago•27 comments

Getting ready to operate GNU Taler in Germany

https://www.taler.net/en/news/2026-13.html
296•dewey•17h ago•125 comments

Show HN: Making a smart TV dumb and then smart

https://github.com/anubhavmalhotra/r2d2-tv
20•animalhot•9h ago•2 comments

Hand-bent after 3D printing, Oberdoerfer and Krebs' Bend chair

https://www.designboom.com/design/hand-bent-3d-printing-oberdoerfer-krebs-digital-fabrication-ben...
5•surprisetalk•2d ago•0 comments

Quad9 to exit France

https://quad9.net/news/blog/au-revoir-france/
1215•farrokhi•19h ago•410 comments

I reverse engineered a board game

https://wuemeli.com/blog/reversing-hitster-game/
37•wuemeli•1d ago•7 comments

WorldTUI: I trained a 360M model to pretend to be a terminal

https://simedw.com/2026/10/21/world-model-terminal/
546•alphax314•1d ago•169 comments

Jank – The native Clojure dialect with seamless C++ interop

https://jank-lang.org/
103•giancarlostoro•10h ago•11 comments

LLMs are making formal software verification feasible at a much larger scale

https://www.anthropic.com/research/formal-verification
348•johnbender•11h ago•205 comments

Tell HN: I unknowingly broke the PHP RCE embargo. I am sorry.

559•petecooper•23h ago•220 comments

Xbox wants you to pay 24 to 40 cents per hour to stream games you bought

https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2026/10/xbox-wants-you-to-pay-24-to-40-cents-per-hour-to-stream-ga...
301•entryleveljobsc•22h ago•272 comments

Color Names

https://names.color.pizza
75•akkartik•2d ago•10 comments

Ask HN: If the models are so good, why doesn't OpenAI just start 100 companies?

156•ex-aws-dude•13h ago•136 comments

eMudhra to exit global SSL/TLS certificate business

https://emudhra.com/en/press-release/emudhra-to-exit-global-ssl-tls-certificate-business
1062•bo0tzz•20h ago•681 comments

Rule 30: one black cell

https://www.wolframcollatzmahler.com/rule30/index.html
16•amichail•11h ago•5 comments

Hedra is a 3D open world game I wrote from scratch while in highschool

https://github.com/maxilevi/project-hedra/tree/pre-ai
199•maxilevi•15h ago•40 comments

Railpass

https://train.samismith.com/
103•CharlesW•12h ago•26 comments

We have traits at home

https://www.axelmagn.com/blog/202610-zig-traits/
17•Ygg2•10h ago•4 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."