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Google Has Removed MV2 Extensions from the Chrome Web Store, Including UBO

https://webiterate.dev/google-removed-extensions-ublock-origin-108/
558•twapi•5h ago•424 comments

Run macOS Software on Linux

https://www.darlinghq.org/
111•Bluestein•3h ago•32 comments

I turned my security cameras into an automatic bird identification system

https://jasontucker.blog/how-i-turned-my-security-cameras-into-an-automatic-bird-identification-s...
367•speckx•9h ago•95 comments

'Mad honey' that can stop your heart is being sold online

https://phys.org/news/2026-08-mad-honey-heart-sold-online.html
143•samizdis•3d ago•91 comments

Carmack: Has early Scratch experience led to fulfilling careers?

https://twitter.com/ID_AA_Carmack/status/2094450188911845827
35•ilamont•2h ago•24 comments

Playa Phone

https://playaphone.com/
505•cutoff•11h ago•186 comments

A walkable ASCII cyberpunk city in one HTML file [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3YtygAx_C6A
215•keithcarolus•8h ago•30 comments

Terence Tao explains 6 essential mathematical concepts [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OOMx2BHHWtE
220•matthewsinclair•1d ago•26 comments

Lion-man – the oldest confirmed statue ever discovered

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lion-man
55•gurjeet•2d ago•25 comments

Develop Cross-Platform CLI and GUI Tools with Tcl/Tk

https://cgicoffee.com/blog/2026/04/tcl-tk-develop-cross-platform-cli-gui-tools-tutorial-guide
44•aryonoco•3h ago•29 comments

Dwarf Fortress is getting the mother of all magic updates

https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/dwarf-fortress-is-getting-the-mother-of-all-magic-updates-extend...
309•Tomte•4d ago•110 comments

Show HN: Laser Graffiti

https://laser.consti.de
128•con•2d ago•26 comments

Apple caught off guard by AI demand for Mac Mini and Mac Studio

https://www.macrumors.com/2026/08/30/apple-unexpected-mac-mini-and-studio-demand/
302•thm•13h ago•349 comments

2004 RuneScape fit a multiplayer RPG into 56k dial-up

https://jkm.dev/posts/how-2004-runescape-fit-a-multiplayer-rpg-into-56k-dialup/
11•fagnerbrack•1h ago•2 comments

Smartphone LED detects hidden cameras with AI

https://www.chosun.com/english/industry-en/2026/08/30/SBFXUIJQYZEARKP5T4FBAY25HQ/
146•geox•1d ago•39 comments

Cheap GPS jammers are filling the world with navigation dead zones

https://www.wsj.com/tech/gps-jammers-dead-zones-e76f3261
70•vinnyglennon•1d ago•81 comments

Autonomous (YC F25) is hiring engineers

1•dkobran•5h ago

RavynOS: Pre-alpha open-source OS based on Darwin, FreeBSD, Apple open-source

https://ravynos.com/
171•Bluestein•10h ago•105 comments

Borges Labyrinth in Venice reopens to the public

https://www.wallpaper.com/design-interiors/labirinto-borges-venice-reopening
8•gone35•3d ago•0 comments

I think the military commissary's freezers were hacked

https://signalandsilence.substack.com/p/i-think-someone-hacked-the-commissary
257•jcurbo•14h ago•153 comments

ChatGPT Work Tool and Skill Reference

https://codex-tool-reference.simonw.chatgpt.site/
184•ijidak•12h ago•51 comments

Snakes and Ladders

https://entropicthoughts.com/snakes-and-ladders
17•surprisetalk•5d ago•6 comments

Evidence of Fraud in an Influential Study About Procrastination

https://datacolada.org/138
74•Anon84•2h ago•65 comments

Internet centralization and the original sin of NAT

https://dreamstation.systems/personal/ntppost.html
184•robinpie•1d ago•144 comments

Visualizing Combos in Judo in R

https://www.r-bloggers.com/2025/05/the-dynamics-of-the-gentle-way-exploring-judo-attack-combinati...
10•asaiacai•5d ago•0 comments

Launch HN: Almanac (YC S26) – AI that knows your company

https://usealmanac.com/
49•kushagrchitkar•10h ago•43 comments

Claude × retrocomputing: emulating a QIC-117 tape drive

https://dmitrybrant.com/2026/08/23/claude-x-retrocomputing-emulating-a-qic-117-tape-drive
22•zdw•1w ago•13 comments

The safest job from AI may be writing

http://muratbuffalo.blogspot.com/2026/08/the-safest-job-from-ai-may-be-writing.html
112•ilreb•8h ago•154 comments

No country for mediocre mathematicians

https://garvvee.substack.com/p/no-country-for-mediocre-mathematicians
158•reasonableklout•1d ago•92 comments

Launch HN: Hebbian Robotics (YC S26) – Build scalable robotics data pipelines

https://github.com/Hebbian-Robotics/hflow
42•kstonekuan•11h ago•11 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."