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There's no reason for software to be slow anymore

https://danluu.com/perf-opt/
16•Jach•45m ago•4 comments

Kobo can run apps now

https://bandarlabs.github.io/Cobalt/
440•thepoet•9h ago•148 comments

Felony Bench

https://www.felonybench.com/
526•colinprince•10h ago•226 comments

Rust Glancer: Rust LSP using 100x less RAM

https://rust-glancer.github.io/blog/hello-world/
26•matklad•5h ago•16 comments

Three important steps in my maturation process

https://thomasdullien.github.io/posts/2026-08-21-three-important-steps-in-my-maturation-process/
53•tdullien•3h ago•10 comments

Scientists release biggest 2D map of the universe

https://newscenter.lbl.gov/2026/08/10/scientists-release-biggest-2d-map-of-the-universe/
150•NKosmatos•7h ago•48 comments

Show HN: OzBrain, a shared brain for knowledge between agents and your team

https://ozbrain.com
38•dariusmonsef•2h ago•12 comments

Kagi added a setting for removing paywalled links from search results

https://kagi.com/changelog#11296
1015•speckx•11h ago•341 comments

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

https://lina.sh/blog/hijacking-e164-arpa
450•gavide•12h ago•50 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
566•floathub•13h ago•739 comments

HN: The Good Parts (2016)

https://danluu.com/hn-comments/
17•adletbalzhanov•1h ago•6 comments

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

https://grapheneos.social/@GrapheneOS/117136278553665985
7•Cider9986•49m ago•1 comments

People of ACM – Russ Cox

https://www.acm.org/articles/people-of-acm/2026/russ-cox
93•signa11•4d ago•11 comments

DeepSeek-v4-flash-vision-exp

https://api-docs.deepseek.com/guides/vision/
465•dares2573•15h ago•143 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
235•dash2•2d ago•290 comments

SalesPatriot (YC W25) Is Hiring Forward Deployed Engineers

https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/salespatriot/jobs/M46X6YX-forward-deployed-engineer
1•maciejSz•4h ago

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

https://nari-labs.com/blog/qwen3-tts-speed-cost-frontier/
106•toebee•10h ago•28 comments

Autolith: A programming agent with a live runtime

https://www.lambda-symbolics.com/autolith
24•vismit2000•1d ago•2 comments

I ran Photoshop on a £0.60 computer chip

https://pointinthecloud.com/2026-08-19-144600.html
120•colinprince•10h ago•29 comments

Claudette: Make Claude stop talking like a BuzzFeed article

https://github.com/adnanakil/nobuzz/blob/main/README.md
203•aakil•11h ago•144 comments

Everyone says assembly is untyped—everyone is wrong

https://www.gingerbill.org/article/2026/08/20/designing-odins-inline-asm/
39•adamrezich•1d ago•14 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/
206•speckx•12h ago•146 comments

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

https://waymo.com/blog/2026/08/look-under-our-trunk/
95•ra7•1d ago•50 comments

Tumble Forth – from assembly to OS with C compiler (2023)

https://tumbleforth.hardcoded.net/
56•vicek22•6h ago•8 comments

OTel isn't going well (and I made a spreadsheet about it)

https://matduggan.com/otel-isnt-going-well-and-i-made-a-spreadsheet-about-it/
19•hn_acker•8h ago•4 comments

GitHub, autoscaling, and the component substitution fallacy

https://surfingcomplexity.blog/2026/08/19/github-autoscaling-and-the-component-substitution-fallacy/
28•jonemi•1d ago•0 comments

Show HN: Rex, a parallel functional language for scientific workflows

https://github.com/peterkelly/rex
9•peterkelly•4d ago•0 comments

I'm becoming AI-blind

https://cymerys.com/w/im-becoming-ai-blind
269•rcymerys•14h ago•281 comments

The coolest anti-surveillance tools at Defcon [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-2uAsJ5EPAw
160•neom•3d ago•11 comments

Kodak's "pre-invented" lunar orbiter camera; or, the fate of SAMOS readout

https://invertingvision.com/2026/08/10/kodaks-pre-invented-lunar-orbiter-camera-or-the-fate-of-sa...
55•cainxinth•11h 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."