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Parley: Federated, decentralised chat that speaks plain IRC

https://git.mills.io/prologic/parley
55•davidcollantes•1h ago•16 comments

AI companies in race to demonstrate their model most threatening to humanity

https://thecivilian.co.nz/2026/09/27/ai-companies-in-fierce-arms-race-to-demonstrate-their-model-...
61•ljewalsh•3h ago•12 comments

Owed a billion dollars in Nvidia stock

https://colo.to/nvidia-stock-narrative.html
777•Eric_Gullichsen•9h ago•323 comments

Footguns with Postgres "at time zone 'UTC'"

https://bookofrevenue.com/blog/6ab81e9a97a13f0001f7e4e1/postgres-at-time-zone-u-does-not-do-what-...
51•birdculture•1d ago•27 comments

Thinking fast and slow in AI: The role of metacognition (2021)

https://arxiv.org/abs/2110.01834
118•teleforce•8h ago•39 comments

Ember-1

https://fireworks.ai/blog/ember-1
489•gmays•18h ago•223 comments

When did Google get so weird?

https://sancho.bearblog.dev/google-weird/
1394•sancho-panza•15h ago•752 comments

SpaceX's Starship launching to orbit for first time ever today

https://www.space.com/space-exploration/launches-spacecraft/spacexs-starship-megarocket-launching...
76•geox•2h ago•18 comments

37,500 border drawings: a map of the world as people remember it

https://www.habibicode.org/thedrawnworld
22•nicocarsui•3h ago•8 comments

Nissan's third generation e-POWER powertrain

https://www.nissan-global.com/EN/INNOVATION/TECHNOLOGY/ARCHIVE/E_POWER_GEN3/
82•mroche•9h ago•99 comments

Prompting Claude Opus 5.5

https://platform.claude.com/docs/en/build-with-claude/prompt-engineering/prompting-claude-opus-5-5
126•Michelangelo11•4h ago•121 comments

Functional Mechanical Sympathy [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jSHmDnUZCm8
42•surprisetalk•2d ago•3 comments

Malleable software: Restoring user agency in a world of locked-down apps (2025)

https://www.inkandswitch.com/essay/malleable-software/
106•evakhoury•16h ago•50 comments

Three Days in August: What a DDoS Attack Exposed in Our Network

https://nine.ch/en/blog/ddos-attack-august-2026-postmortem/
8•nine_ch•2h ago•6 comments

Made by Mechanical Means

https://felixrieseberg.com/made-by-mechanical-means/
37•cocoflunchy•4h ago•8 comments

Self-Hosting on the Dark Web

https://david.alvarezrosa.com/posts/self-hosting-on-the-dark-web/
225•mooreds•15h ago•84 comments

Alan Kay's answer to “Did the ENIAC have a BIOS”?

https://www.quora.com/Did-the-ENIAC-have-a-BIOS/answer/Alan-Kay-11
144•midnightfish•16h ago•42 comments

Guitar amp and effects pedal built on the Waveshare ESP32-S3-Touch-AMOLED-2.06

https://github.com/dashersw/coyopedal
96•arbayi•2d ago•50 comments

Lunar Terminator Paradox

https://notes.secretsauce.net/notes/2026/09/27_lunar-terminator-paradox.html
89•dima55•14h ago•56 comments

Don't couple your Go code to GitHub

https://iain.rocks/blog/dont-couple-your-go-code-to-github
258•birdculture•18h ago•120 comments

The state of SIMD in Rust in 2026

https://shnatsel.github.io/state-of-simd-rust-2026/
166•verdagon•2d ago•40 comments

Show HN: Lofi Cities – Pixel-art city nights with browser-generated lofi

https://loficities.com/
265•safaelmali•17h ago•112 comments

Deterministic Concurrency [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=25x0UuSCKuU
49•surprisetalk•2d ago•5 comments

In an $80 motel room, a discovery to shed light on the origins of life

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/26/science/motel-science-discovery.html
256•danso•21h ago•96 comments

Imp is a full port of DSPy to the BEAM

https://github.com/deepfates/imp
81•mpweiher•16h ago•7 comments

Replacing the old battery on rechargeable bike lights

https://jvns.ca/blog/2026/09/27/replacing-the-old-battery-on-rechargeable-bike-lights/
177•surprisetalk•22h ago•100 comments

What I did at Recurse Center

https://thill.me/2026/09/11/what-i-did-at-rc.html
109•bingden•16h ago•36 comments

Reading’s Bayeux Tapestry

https://diamondgeezer.blogspot.com/2026/09/readings-bayeux-tapestry.html
53•zeristor•2d ago•22 comments

Previously unheard recordings of John Coltrane, captured by Frank Tiberi

https://www.jazzwise.com/content/news/john-coltrane-centenary-celebrations-see-impulse-records-re...
96•gregsadetsky•2d ago•33 comments

Oral history of John Chowning, inventor of FM synthesis [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e1Xn3030IvM
82•Rochus•17h ago•28 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."