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Isar Aerospace reaches orbit and deploys payloads on second flight

https://isaraerospace.com/press/history-for-european-spaceflight-isar-aerospace-reaches-orbit-and...
247•mpweiher•4h ago•49 comments

I Changed My License

https://bergie.iki.fi/blog/eupl/
51•jllyhill•1h ago•47 comments

Cloud in a Bottle: making self-hosting accessible to everyone

https://cloudinabottle.org/blog/launch-post
446•zplizzi•11h ago•218 comments

The revolt of the reader

https://bcantrill.dtrace.org/2026/09/05/the-revolt-of-the-reader/
396•chmaynard•14h ago•165 comments

Music Theory for Programmers

https://runjs.app/blog/music-theory-for-programmers
170•birdculture•3d ago•83 comments

Pigeon, a signed Pass for what a sub-agent may do

https://github.com/pigeonlabsHQ/pigeon
6•pigeonlabshq•1h ago•4 comments

M-DISC – DVD/Blu-ray compatible discs that may last up to 1000 years

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M-DISC
24•gurjeet•4d ago•8 comments

IBM Quantum Nighthawk R2

https://www.ibm.com/quantum/blog/nighthawk-r2
22•fuglede_•3d ago•8 comments

The ColorChecker, photography's most important 24 squares, turns 50

https://www.dpreview.com/news/the-colorchecker-photographys-most-important-24-squares-turns-50/
74•sohkamyung•4d ago•11 comments

AI, Tools and Transformation

https://www.ben-evans.com/benedictevans/2026/9/3/ai-tools-and-transformation
76•firexcy•9h ago•30 comments

AMD Based FreeBSD Desktop Reloaded

https://vermaden.wordpress.com/2026/09/06/amd-based-freebsd-desktop-reloaded/
61•vermaden•9h ago•7 comments

You Don't Have a Right to Safe Drinking Water, US Court Rules

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2026/09/drinking-water-mississippi-lawsuit/
154•vrganj•2h ago•92 comments

Discovery of a new OpenAI agent message board

https://collusion.wiki/
2197•moultano•1d ago•1552 comments

OpenBSD Stories: Strange Medieval Devices

http://miod.online.fr/software/openbsd/stories/smd.html
71•zdw•3d ago•14 comments

Learn Programming with OCaml

https://usr.lmf.cnrs.fr/lpo/
264•elvis70•19h ago•100 comments

Chrome again exempts Google from user site data settings

https://lapcatsoftware.com/articles/2026/9/1.html
440•ExMachina73•12h ago•66 comments

Show HN: Keen Bean – Mac meeting notes that draft the spec while you talk

https://keenbean.app/
5•SavvyMonkey•1h ago•0 comments

The "$60 Gaming PC" – AMD BC-250 (2025)

https://devquasar.com/hardware/the-60-gaming-pc-amd-bc-250/
350•networked•22h ago•103 comments

The Empire of Information

https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/data-empire-roopika-risam-information-organize-control-dominate/
5•Petiver•3d ago•0 comments

A Computer History Time Capsule

https://blog.archive.org/2026/08/27/a-computer-history-time-capsule/
12•mooreds•4d ago•0 comments

LLMs as a Cognitive Virus

https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.03344
291•canjobear•15h ago•205 comments

Private German rocket makes history, reaches orbit from European soil

https://www.space.com/space-exploration/launches-spacecraft/isar-aerospace-second-launch-norway-a...
638•bookmtn•15h ago•342 comments

Nitter has more working instances than before the takedowns

https://codeberg.org/mv12star/shitter/wiki/Instances
687•Cider9986•1d ago•357 comments

Topologist's Map of the World

https://www.futilitycloset.com/2026/09/01/small-world-20/
103•beardyw•4d ago•25 comments

Visualizing Rust's Vtables: How dyn Trait Works In Memory

https://sofiabelen.github.io/projects/visualizing-rusts-vtables-how-dyn-trait-works-in-memory/
180•torutofu•22h ago•38 comments

GPT-6 Astra on robot arms

https://openai.robocurve.org/gpt-6-astra/
204•Anon84•9h ago•153 comments

RecurseCenter.return()

https://mm-dev.rocks/series/recursecenter.return/
53•evakhoury•4d ago•8 comments

How Swiss tables work in Go built-in map

https://victoriametrics.com/blog/go-swiss-table-map/index.html
83•valyala•2d ago•6 comments

"We Have to Assume That the Internet Will Go Offline in the Next Few Years"

https://www.trendingtopics.eu/emad-mostaque-ai-internet-outlook-english/
16•gumby•3h ago•8 comments

Delidded Intel I9-14900KS CT Scan

https://www.lttlabs.com/articles/2026/09/02/delidded-intel-i9-14900ks
109•willx86•3d 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."