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LLMs consistently pick resumes they generate over ones by humans or other models

https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.00462
121•laurex•1h ago•65 comments

Uber wants to turn its drivers into a sensor grid for AV companies

https://techcrunch.com/2026/05/01/uber-wants-to-turn-its-millions-of-drivers-into-a-sensor-grid-f...
11•nickvec•53m ago•5 comments

How fast is a macOS VM, and how small could it be?

https://eclecticlight.co/2026/05/02/how-fast-is-a-macos-vm-and-how-small-could-it-be/
156•moosia•7h ago•55 comments

Barman – Backup and Recovery Manager for PostgreSQL

https://github.com/EnterpriseDB/barman
48•nateb2022•3d ago•6 comments

Why does it take so long to release black fan versions?

https://www.noctua.at/en/expertise/blog/how-can-it-take-so-long-to-release-black-fan-versions
518•buildbot•11h ago•239 comments

Why IPv6 is so complicated

https://github.com/becarpenter/book6/blob/main/01.%20Introduction%20and%20Foreword/Why%20IPv6%20i...
13•speckx•2d ago•4 comments

Zugzwang

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zugzwang
28•Qem•57m ago•9 comments

Why are there both TMP and TEMP environment variables? (2015)

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20150417-00/?p=44213
127•ankitg12•8h ago•68 comments

Refusal in Language Models Is Mediated by a Single Direction

https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.11717
25•fagnerbrack•3h ago•6 comments

Craig Venter of Human Genome Project Dies at 79

https://www.economist.com/obituary/2026/05/01/craig-venter-raced-to-decode-the-human-genome
37•bookofjoe•4h ago•7 comments

Show HN: DAC – open-source dashboard as code tool for agents and humans

https://github.com/bruin-data/dac
73•karakanb•3d ago•17 comments

Open Design: Use Your Coding Agent as a Design Engine

https://github.com/nexu-io/open-design
101•steveharing1•4h ago•64 comments

Dotcl: Common Lisp Implementation on .NET

https://github.com/dotcl/dotcl
103•reikonomusha•1d ago•16 comments

Ti-84 Evo

https://education.ti.com/en/products/calculators/graphing-calculators/ti-84-evo
526•thatxliner•20h ago•429 comments

Show HN: Pollen – distributed WASM runtime, no control plane, single binary

https://github.com/sambigeara/pollen
55•sambigeara•2d ago•25 comments

New US phone network for Christians to block porn and gender-related content

https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/05/01/1136739/a-new-t-mobile-network-for-christians-aims-to...
13•thinkingemote•44m ago•8 comments

Artemis II Photo Timeline

https://artemistimeline.com/#artemis-ii-walkout-nhq202604010003
289•geerlingguy•2d ago•24 comments

Show HN: Mljar Studio – local AI data analyst that saves analysis as notebooks

https://mljar.com/
47•pplonski86•6h ago•10 comments

New research suggests people can communicate and practice skills while dreaming

https://www.newyorker.com/culture/annals-of-inquiry/its-possible-to-learn-in-our-sleep-should-we
404•XzetaU8•22h ago•239 comments

America's Expanding Domestic Surveillance

https://www.wsj.com/articles/americas-expanding-domestic-surveillance-08b73187
19•Brajeshwar•1h ago•0 comments

To Restore an Island Paradise, Add Fungi

https://e360.yale.edu/digest/atoll-islands-sea-level-rise-fungi
110•Brajeshwar•3d ago•30 comments

Show HN: Browser-based light pollution simulator using real photometric data

https://iesna.eu/?wasm=skyglow_demo
31•holg•7h ago•10 comments

DeepSeek V4–almost on the frontier, a fraction of the price

https://simonwillison.net/2026/Apr/24/deepseek-v4/
330•indigodaddy•23h ago•200 comments

SFO Gate Explorer

https://www.flysfo.com/passengers/services/gate-explorer
25•CaliforniaKarl•1d ago•27 comments

Show HN: Filling PDF forms with AI using client-side tool calling

https://copilot.simplepdf.com/?share=a7d00ad073c75a75d493228e6ff7b11eb3f2d945b6175913e87898ec96ca...
39•nip•7h ago•17 comments

An unknown Sega Saturn project has come to light after 29 years

https://32bits.substack.com/p/under-the-microscope-pyramid-unreleased
58•bbayles•3h ago•1 comments

CollectWise (YC F24) Is Hiring

https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/collectwise/jobs/rEWfZ6R-senior-forward-deployed-engineer
1•OBrien_1107•11h ago

Show HN: Large Scale Article Extract of Newspapers 1730s-1960s

https://snewpapers.com/
36•brettnbutter•7h ago•16 comments

Ask.com has closed

https://www.ask.com/
374•supermdguy•12h ago•198 comments

I'm Peter Roberts, immigration attorney who does work for YC and startups. AMA

180•proberts•1d ago•230 comments
Open in hackernews

Building my npx business card

https://ashley.dev/posts/turning-feedback-into-features/
8•edent•11mo ago

Comments

steele•11mo ago
Ooh, free real estate, let's colonize and gentrify package management
aabhay•11mo ago
Lmao, gentrify cracked me up
neilv•11mo ago
Do these npx business cards run arbitrary code on your computer?
cypherpunks01•11mo 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•11mo 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•11mo ago
Yeah, this seems like a very smart but inherently flawed idea.
cypherpunks01•11mo 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•11mo ago
May as well just release an executable tbh.
theamk•11mo 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•11mo 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•11mo 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."