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Europe's next-generation weather satellite sends back first images

https://www.esa.int/Applications/Observing_the_Earth/Meteorological_missions/meteosat_third_gener...
172•saubeidl•2h ago•27 comments

Render Mermaid diagrams as SVGs or ASCII art

https://github.com/lukilabs/beautiful-mermaid
237•mellosouls•7h ago•38 comments

We can't send mail farther than 500 miles (2002)

https://web.mit.edu/jemorris/humor/500-miles
366•giancarlostoro•6h ago•40 comments

Apple to soon take up to 30% cut from all Patreon creators in iOS app

https://www.macrumors.com/2026/01/28/patreon-apple-tax/
369•pier25•13h ago•307 comments

Decompiling Xbox games using PDB debug info

https://i686.me/blog/csplit/
37•orange_redditor•2d ago•0 comments

Maine’s ‘Lobster Lady’ who fished for nearly a century dies aged 105

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jan/28/maine-lobster-lady-dies-aged-105
138•NaOH•7h ago•16 comments

The Chemistry of Tea [pdf]

https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Matthew-Harbowy/publication/216792045_Tea_Chemistry/links/09...
22•aabiji•5d ago•0 comments

Mecha Comet – Open Modular Linux Handheld Computer

https://mecha.so/comet
139•Realman78•3d ago•42 comments

Xmake: A cross-platform build utility based on Lua

https://xmake.io/
47•phmx•3d ago•16 comments

Airfoil (2024)

https://ciechanow.ski/airfoil/
460•brk•19h ago•51 comments

An Illustrated Guide to Hippo Castration (2014)

https://www.science.org/content/article/scienceshot-illustrated-guide-hippo-castration
60•joebig•4d ago•23 comments

Trinity large: An open 400B sparse MoE model

https://www.arcee.ai/blog/trinity-large
187•linolevan•1d ago•58 comments

Tesla ending Models S and X production

https://www.cnbc.com/2026/01/28/tesla-ending-model-s-x-production.html
303•keyboardJones•11h ago•531 comments

Android's desktop interface leaks

https://9to5google.com/2026/01/27/android-desktop-leak/
238•thunderbong•1d ago•316 comments

Show HN: A MitM proxy to see what your LLM tools are sending

https://github.com/jmuncor/sherlock
170•jmuncor•15h ago•85 comments

Mousefood – Build embedded terminal UIs for microcontrollers

https://github.com/ratatui/mousefood
205•orhunp_•16h ago•44 comments

Did a celebrated researcher obscure a baby's poisoning?

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2026/02/02/did-a-celebrated-researcher-obscure-a-fatal-poisoning
150•littlexsparkee•1d ago•53 comments

Questom (YC F25) is hiring an engineer

https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/questom/jobs/UBebsyO-founding-engineer
1•ritanshu•6h ago

OpenAI's Unit Economics

https://www.exponentialview.co/p/inside-openais-unit-economics-epoch-exponentialview
3•swolpers•1h ago•0 comments

Satellites encased in wood are in the works

https://www.economist.com/science-and-technology/2026/01/21/satellites-encased-in-wood-are-in-the...
56•andsoitis•3d ago•34 comments

How London became the rest of the world’s startup capital

https://www.economist.com/britain/2026/01/26/how-london-became-the-rest-of-the-worlds-startup-cap...
109•ellieh•1d ago•108 comments

In a genre where spoilers are devastating, how do we talk about puzzle games?

https://thinkygames.com/features/in-a-genre-where-information-is-sacred-and-spoilers-are-devastat...
68•tobr•5d ago•54 comments

The Only Moat Left Is Knowing Things

https://growtika.com/blog/authenticity-edge
22•Growtika•2h ago•12 comments

Oban, the job processing framework from Elixir, has come to Python

https://www.dimamik.com/posts/oban_py/
230•dimamik•17h ago•90 comments

Show HN: Externalized Properties, a modern Java configuration library

https://github.com/joel-jeremy/externalized-properties
3•jeyjeyemem•2d ago•1 comments

LM Studio 0.4

https://lmstudio.ai/blog/0.4.0
150•jiqiren•15h ago•80 comments

Computer History Museum Launches Digital Portal to Its Collection

https://computerhistory.org/press-releases/computer-history-museum-launches-digital-portal-to-its...
153•ChrisArchitect•16h ago•26 comments

Somebody used spoofed ADSB signals to raster the meme of JD Vance

https://alecmuffett.com/article/143548
484•wubin•12h ago•124 comments

Bf-Tree: modern read-write-optimized concurrent larger-than-memory range index

https://github.com/microsoft/bf-tree
85•SchwKatze•11h ago•16 comments

Spinning around: Please don’t – Common problems with spin locks

https://www.siliceum.com/en/blog/post/spinning-around/
125•bdash•17h ago•50 comments
Open in hackernews

Building my npx business card

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

Comments

steele•8mo ago
Ooh, free real estate, let's colonize and gentrify package management
aabhay•8mo ago
Lmao, gentrify cracked me up
neilv•8mo ago
Do these npx business cards run arbitrary code on your computer?
cypherpunks01•8mo 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•8mo 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•8mo ago
Yeah, this seems like a very smart but inherently flawed idea.
cypherpunks01•8mo 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•8mo ago
May as well just release an executable tbh.
theamk•8mo 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•8mo 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•8mo 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."