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Qwen 3.8 Max Preview

https://www.qwencloud.com/pricing/token-plan
161•lebovic•4h ago•86 comments

What I learned selling 2,500 MIDI recorders: Hardware is not so hard

https://chipweinberger.com/articles/20260719-hardware-is-not-so-hard
98•chipweinberger•2h ago•50 comments

Minecraft: Java Edition now uses SDL3

https://www.minecraft.net/en-us/article/minecraft-26-3-snapshot-4
28•ObviouslyFlamer•1h ago•6 comments

Blender 5.2 LTS

https://www.blender.org/download/releases/5-2/
111•makizar•4d ago•44 comments

I burned all my tokens researching how to save tokens

https://quesma.com/blog/custom-deep-research-pipeline/
30•bkotrys•1h ago•6 comments

Transcribe.cpp

https://workshop.cjpais.com/projects/transcribe-cpp
595•sebjones•12h ago•127 comments

The death and rebirth of my home server

https://sgt.hootr.club/blog/home-server-rebirth/
32•steinuil•2h ago•11 comments

OpenAI reduces Codex Model Context Size from 372k to 272k

https://github.com/openai/codex/pull/33972/files
77•AmazingTurtle•5h ago•34 comments

Qwen3.8 is launching and going open-weight soon

https://twitter.com/Alibaba_Qwen/status/2078759124914098291
291•nh43215rgb•4h ago•150 comments

Speech Recognition and TTS in less than 500kb

https://github.com/moonshine-ai/moonshine/tree/main/micro
482•petewarden•4d ago•67 comments

The Mighty Big Array of Finn Jensen LA8YB

https://la0by.darc.de/LA8YB_EME_MBA.htm
19•kalehmann•5h ago•4 comments

The Kimi K3 Moment

https://stephen.bochinski.dev/blog/2026/07/18/the-kimi-k3-moment/
486•sbochins•19h ago•492 comments

Codex Resets

https://codex-resets.com/
222•denysvitali•14h ago•150 comments

I joined the IndieWeb, here's what I learned

https://en.andros.dev/blog/0b8e451e/i-joined-the-indieweb-heres-what-i-learned/
11•andros•2h ago•5 comments

Better and Cheaper Than IPTV

https://github.com/stupside/castor
242•xonery•12h ago•68 comments

Mathematicians still don't know the fastest way to multiply numbers

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/mathematicians-still-dont-know-the-fastest-way-to-mult...
141•beardyw•5d ago•86 comments

Hardcore IndieWeb: Run your own website 100% independently for only $0.01/day

https://www.neatnik.net/hardcore-indieweb
193•cdrnsf•15h ago•163 comments

Scrying the AMD GFX1250 LLVM Tea Leaves

https://chipsandcheese.com/p/scrying-the-amd-gfx1250-llvm-tea
39•mfiguiere•8h ago•0 comments

Restoring and Demoing 1960s Vintage Computers at the Computer History Museum [pdf]

https://ibm-1401.info/pictures/Proc-MIW-2017-Garner-1401PDP1.pdf
22•rbanffy•1w ago•3 comments

Searchable field-level encryption on Supabase with CipherStash

https://supabase.com/blog/searchable-field-level-encryption-with-cipherstash
42•dandraper•4d ago•36 comments

Classic Amiga titles, free to download

https://amigafreeware.downer.tech/
139•doener•15h ago•19 comments

Half a Second – a book about the XZ backdoor

https://www.half-second.com/
41•zvr•4h ago•35 comments

Using self-hosted Umami for iOS app analytics

https://hjerpbakk.com/blog/2026/07/14/umami-for-apps
28•Sankra•5d ago•3 comments

A Visual Catalog of Retro Macintosh Software

https://www.marciot.com/mac68k-visual-catalog/
59•zdw•1w ago•6 comments

Making Software: How to make a font

https://www.makingsoftware.com/chapters/how-to-make-a-font
57•Garbage•5d ago•10 comments

Goodbye, and Thanks for All the Bikesheds

https://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=3818307
239•Ygg2•20h ago•223 comments

The Art of Insight in Science and Engineering – Mastering Complexity(2014) [pdf]

https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/res-6-011-the-art-of-insight-in-science-and-engineering-mastering-com...
17•nill0•6h ago•1 comments

NYC may require landlords and realtors to disclose the use of AI in listings

https://petapixel.com/2026/07/16/mayor-mamdani-says-landlords-cant-secretly-use-ai-images-to-adve...
507•gnabgib•15h ago•220 comments

AI Mania Is Eviscerating Global Decision-Making

https://ludic.mataroa.blog/blog/ai-mania-is-eviscerating-global-decision-making/#fnref:3
282•subset•12h ago•127 comments

How the Elite See Rome

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/2026/08/rome-elite-tourism-imago-artis/687621/
33•bookofjoe•5d ago•33 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."