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How Bluesky draws its logo on screenshots

https://timmarinin.net/2026/bluesky-screenshots/
203•gavide•3h ago•145 comments

Quake Shareware, a CD-ROM just a little too full

https://fabiensanglard.net/quake_shareware_cd/index.html
136•shdon•3h ago•60 comments

Fairphone 6 and PostmarketOS working main camera

https://catcrafts.net/posts/fairphone-6-postmarketos-working-main-camera
77•pizzaiolo•3h ago•18 comments

GPT-5.6 Sol Pricing Cut by 50%

https://openrouter.ai/openai/gpt-5.6-sol
96•Topfi•4h ago•38 comments

A Preview of DuckDB v2.0

https://duckdb.org/2026/08/17/duckdb-20-highlights
529•ibotty•11h ago•95 comments

GPU Offload in Rust: Portable, Safe, and Fast

https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.13759
157•linggen•7h ago•36 comments

Incident with Github.com

https://www.githubstatus.com/incidents/zkxwbgr0cnmx
527•SpyCoder77•11h ago•911 comments

AI-Generated GitHub Copilot “Autofix” Allowed Compromise of Snowflake's Jira

https://www.wiz.io/blog/red-agent-snowflake-copilot-cicd-bug
314•galnagli•11h ago•125 comments

The Road to MS-DOS 2.0

https://nemanjatrifunovic.substack.com/p/the-road-to-ms-dos-2
17•whobre•5d ago•2 comments

Olo (Color)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olo_(color)
311•inigyou•5d ago•64 comments

GPT 5.6 Sol is the best "vision" model OpenAI ever released

https://blog.roboflow.com/openai-gpt-5-6/
300•plurby•13h ago•152 comments

Judge sets framework for Nine PBS to retrieve archival data

https://current.org/2026/08/judge-sets-framework-for-nine-pbs-to-retrieve-archival-data/
132•qingcharles•9h ago•53 comments

How do functions like alloca allocate memory from the stack?

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20260817-40/?p=112617
26•ingve•4h ago•5 comments

AI;DR (AI; Didn't Read)

https://www.rickmanelius.com/p/aidr-ai-didnt-read
575•mooreds•5h ago•362 comments

Sun Clock

https://sunclock.net/
167•Gecko4072•8h ago•55 comments

PM Carney announces largest clean energy investment in North American history

https://www.pm.gc.ca/en/news/news-releases/2026/08/17/prime-minister-carney-announces-largest-cle...
37•garbawarb•1h ago•6 comments

How to disable or avoid intrusive AI

https://www.librarian.net/notoai/
252•ColinWright•11h ago•155 comments

Puppy PPE

http://amosdudley.com/weblog/Designing-PPE-for-Hilde
15•ChadNauseam•2h ago•3 comments

Launch HN: Speko (YC S26) – OpenRouter for Voice AI

https://speko.ai/
90•abdik•9h ago•51 comments

Intriguing stories in computer science

https://inventwithpython.com/blog/intriguing-stories-in-cs.html
31•gregsadetsky•5d ago•4 comments

A particle made of force: physicists say they've found mysterious 'glueball'

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-02498-1
100•Brajeshwar•5d ago•16 comments

Israel creates fake think tank in likely attempt to dupe AI chatbots

https://responsiblestatecraft.org/israel-influence-chatgpt/
47•DeepLogin•4h ago•13 comments

Repair Cafe – Fix Your Broken Items

https://www.repaircafe.org/
7•rglover•1h ago•2 comments

Ask HN: Alternatives to GitHub

491•dhruv3006•11h ago•313 comments

Roboflow Playground: Try and Compare 30 Computer Vision Models

https://blog.roboflow.com/roboflow-playground/
42•Bluestein•6h ago•3 comments

GitHub degradation affects Cursor Origin, its new Git platform

https://status.cursor.com/incidents/l9h9vrd726jv
28•KGC3D•5h ago•6 comments

A digestion of the proof of Sendov's conjecture

https://terrytao.wordpress.com/2026/08/12/a-digestion-of-the-proof-of-sendovs-conjecture/
3•surprisetalk•3d ago•0 comments

scScript for Linux

https://scapplications.com/
13•OptionOfT•3h ago•4 comments

A simple fix for LLM tail latency

https://engineering.myhoai.com/posts/a-simple-fix-for-llm-tail-latency/
36•oskrim•3d ago•14 comments

The oldest bar in every state

https://www.businessinsider.com/oldest-bar-every-state
67•NaOH•4d ago•34 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."