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https://jdan.github.io/98.css/#status-bar
169•lopespm•2h ago•25 comments

Writing by hand is good for your brain

https://nealstephenson.substack.com/p/writing-by-hand-is-good-for-your
946•dwwoelfel•10h ago•472 comments

Show HN: Echo – Fable-level results at 1/3 the cost using open-weight models

214•adam_rida•5h ago•103 comments

The Visual 6502

http://visual6502.org/JSSim/index.html
19•infiniteregrets•1h ago•8 comments

A Taxonomy of Omnicidal Futures Involving Artificial Intelligence

https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.09369
40•amelius•2h ago•26 comments

The Beam Engine

https://glinscott.github.io/beam-engine/
142•glinscott•1d ago•48 comments

What happened to TheNumbers.com

https://stephenfollows.com/p/what-just-happened-to-thenumberscom-should-worry-us-all
285•nickthegreek•8h ago•121 comments

What else do people draw on gradient.horse?

https://rybakov.com/blog/what_else_do_people_draw_on_gradient-copy.horse/
44•spython•5d ago•8 comments

A24 Is Copyright Striking Backrooms Artwork Older Than the Movie

https://www.thegamer.com/the-backrooms-a24-copyright-strike-artwork/
72•josephcsible•6d ago•20 comments

Startup founders urge U.S. government not to shut off Chinese open weight AI

https://www.politico.com/news/2026/07/22/startup-founders-urge-trump-not-to-shut-off-chinese-open...
706•theanonymousone•9h ago•638 comments

Building on ATProto

https://lukekanies.com/writing/building-on-atproto/
123•speckx•6h ago•59 comments

Why Software Factories Fail (or: harness engineering is not enough)

https://github.com/humanlayer/advanced-context-engineering-for-coding-agents/blob/main/wsff.md
166•dhorthy•9h ago•137 comments

Software rendering in 500 lines of bare C++

https://haqr.eu/tinyrenderer/
240•mpweiher•10h ago•46 comments

Learn OpenGL, extensive tutorial resource for learning Modern OpenGL

https://learnopengl.com/
173•ibobev•10h ago•97 comments

Show HN: Palmier Pro – Open-source macOS video editor built for AI

https://github.com/palmier-io/palmier-pro
117•harrisontin•9h ago•18 comments

DARPA, U.S. Air Force fly AI-controlled F-16

https://www.darpa.mil/news/2026/darpa-us-air-force-fly-ai-controlled-f-16
172•r2sk5t•11h ago•194 comments

Interview with Matheus Moreira about Lone Lisp and Linux Kernel

https://alexalejandre.com/interviews/interview-with-matheus-moreira/
30•veqq•6d ago•5 comments

Astronomers may have found the first exomoon

https://www.eso.org/public/news/eso2610/
190•MarcoDewey•11h ago•76 comments

A solid-state “atomic channel” for separating rare earth elements

https://pme.uchicago.edu/news-events/news/cleaner-route-purifying-rare-earth-elements
68•MarcoDewey•6h ago•16 comments

Converting Files into Minecraft Worlds

https://wuemeli.com/blog/sulfur-part-1/
48•wuemeli•3d ago•14 comments

Launch HN: Screenpipe (YC S26) – Record how you work and turn that into agents

56•louis030195•8h ago•49 comments

The arguments against open source AI are bad

https://tombedor.dev/arguments-against-open-source-ai-are-very-bad/
195•jjfoooo4•8h ago•139 comments

Show HN: Claude-thermos keeps your Claude session warm for you

https://github.com/izeigerman/claude-thermos
65•s0ck_r4w•8h ago•50 comments

Show HN: OneCLI – OSS credential gateway that keeps secrets out of AI agents

https://github.com/onecli/onecli
80•Jonathanfishner•9h ago•27 comments

Learn WebGPU for C++

https://eliemichel.github.io/LearnWebGPU/
81•ibobev•10h ago•11 comments

Escape Analysis in Go: Stack vs. Heap Allocations Explained

https://blog.jetbrains.com/go/2026/07/20/escape-analysis/
36•ingve•2d ago•9 comments

OpenAI’s accidental attack against Hugging Face is science fiction that happened

https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jul/22/openai-cyberattack/
368•abhisek•23h ago•305 comments

Fields Medals 2026

https://www.mathunion.org/imu-awards/fields-medal/fields-medals-2026
134•nill0•10h ago•66 comments

Meta Garbage Collection: Using OCaml's GC to GC Rust

https://soteria-tools.com/blog/meta-garbage-collection
47•annieversary•3d ago•0 comments

Show HN: Trifle – Open-source analytics that stores answers, not events

https://trifle.io/
36•iluzone•1d ago•6 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."