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GPT-6 Astra

https://openai.com/index/gpt-6-astra/
1806•kibae•15h ago•1584 comments

Carbon-aware electricity pricing, measured daily on 38 grids

https://carbonawarepricing.com/
28•High-Five•1h ago•4 comments

.name Termination

https://neil.fraser.name/news/2026/09/03/
1820•pavel_lishin•18h ago•449 comments

Authorization terminology is a mess: Let's fix it

https://idpro.org/authorization-terminology-is-a-mess-lets-fix-it/
44•andychiare•2d ago•18 comments

The Raspberry Pi Interactive Timeline · 2006–2026

https://raspberry.tips/en/raspberrypi-infos/raspberry-pi-history-timeline
14•mariuz•1h ago•4 comments

Qwen 3.8 27B available on Cerebras at 1500 tokens/s

https://inference-docs.cerebras.ai/models/overview
558•altertable•15h ago•183 comments

Hackers Had a Live Feed of Every ID Verification Company Scanned for over a Year

http://www.techdirt.com/2026/09/03/hackers-had-a-live-feed-of-every-id-this-verification-company-...
129•beardyw•3h ago•38 comments

The largest electric aircraft just flew [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nM86DBOqgPM
327•feb•2d ago•226 comments

Artificial beaver dams saw juvenile coho salmon survival rates go from 8% to 60%

https://www.discoverwildlife.com/animal-facts/artificial-beaver-dams-california
256•speckx•17h ago•79 comments

How an MIT research project became the Julia programming language

https://news.mit.edu/2026/how-mit-research-project-became-global-programming-language-0831
95•theanonymousone•4d ago•27 comments

Project Xanadu: Even More Hindsight (2025)

https://gwern.net/xanadu
79•andsoitis•8h ago•17 comments

Porting my 1993 Amiga game to Godot, with an LLM reading the 68000 assembly

https://babyloniantwins.com/blog/porting-a-1993-amiga-game-to-godot/
296•rabahs•19h ago•95 comments

Go grandmaster Shin defeats AI KataGo with a two-stone handicap

https://www.kedglobal.com/artificial-intelligence/newsView/ked202607210007
312•gmays•1d ago•110 comments

Move in C++ without a std:move

https://andreasfertig.com/blog/2026/09/move-in-cpp-without-a-stdmove/
45•dalvrosa•2d ago•58 comments

Which tools do Claude, Codex and Cursor choose? We measured 17k runs to find out

https://armature.tech/blog/which-tools-coding-agents-install
223•screm•12h ago•100 comments

K2 Horizon: A connected fleet of six open models

https://ifm.ai/blog/k2/
299•karimf•18h ago•97 comments

GPS glitched across the US by as much as 33 feet

https://www.sciencealert.com/gps-glitched-across-the-us-by-as-much-as-33-feet-scientists-have-nev...
176•thread_id•1d ago•106 comments

Welcome to the Porcelain Insulator Collector's World of Mud

https://www.insulators.info/porcelain/
6•ripe•2d ago•2 comments

Ask HN: Who is using MCP in production?

71•sukit•22h ago•89 comments

From Hookswitch to Grave

https://computer.rip/2026-06-14-hookswitch-to-grave.html
27•Sniffnoy•7h ago•2 comments

Xanadu was waiting for agents

https://zed.dev/blog/agentic-xanadu
121•nsm•2d ago•50 comments

Show HN: Reactor Atlas

https://reactoratlas.com
26•fedecaccia•21h ago•14 comments

Virtual Threads for a scripting language in Java 8 without Loom

https://jactl.io/blog/2026/08/28/jactl-virtual-threads
30•jaccomo•2d ago•3 comments

In defense of two-state theme toggles

https://joshcollinsworth.com/blog/in-defense-of-two-state-theme-toggles
10•surprisetalk•2d ago•13 comments

Any Human Ever – One life, drawn at random from all who have ever lived

https://anyhumanever.com/
587•thinkingemote•19h ago•277 comments

Unusual Suspects

https://neal.fun/unusual-suspects/
159•beeperboy95•1d ago•27 comments

Grep beats LSP? Why coding agents ignore your fancier tools

https://www.agentconnect.md/blog/grep-beat-lsp-harness/
76•kaonashi-tyc-01•6h ago•51 comments

The browser's main thread is expensive

https://kciter.so/posts/the-expensive-main-thread/en/
408•kciter•2d ago•141 comments

The asteroid currently hitting front end web development

https://nolanlawson.com/2026/08/23/the-asteroid-currently-hitting-frontend-web-development/
154•codechicago277•14h ago•176 comments

Tasklet (YC P26) Is Hiring a Customer Success Engineer

https://tasklet.ai/careers/customer-success-engineer
1•mayop100•12h ago
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."