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The struggle of resizing windows on macOS Tahoe

https://noheger.at/blog/2026/01/11/the-struggle-of-resizing-windows-on-macos-tahoe/
1626•happosai•12h ago•666 comments

CLI agents make self-hosting on a home server easier and fun

https://fulghum.io/self-hosting
510•websku•11h ago•332 comments

JRR Tolkien reads from The Hobbit for 30 Minutes (1952)

https://www.openculture.com/2026/01/j-r-r-tolkien-reads-from-the-hobbit-for-30-minutes-1952.html
69•bookofjoe•4d ago•11 comments

Himalayas bare and rocky after reduced winter snowfall, scientists warn

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/clyndv7zd20o
102•koolhead17•6h ago•53 comments

39c3: In-house electronics manufacturing from scratch: How hard can it be? [video]

https://media.ccc.de/v/39c3-in-house-electronics-manufacturing-from-scratch-how-hard-can-it-be
75•fried-gluttony•2d ago•20 comments

This game is a single 13 KiB file that runs on Windows, Linux and in the Browser

https://iczelia.net/posts/snake-polyglot/
184•snoofydude•11h ago•51 comments

Don't fall into the anti-AI hype

https://antirez.com/news/158
968•todsacerdoti•22h ago•1136 comments

iCloud Photos Downloader

https://github.com/icloud-photos-downloader/icloud_photos_downloader
423•reconnecting•13h ago•188 comments

I'm making a game engine based on dynamic signed distance fields (SDFs) [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=il-TXbn5iMA
303•imagiro•3d ago•39 comments

Gadget Exposed a Spy Camera [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1reman2waLs
50•rib3ye•9h ago•22 comments

Sampling at negative temperature

https://cavendishlabs.org/blog/negative-temperature/
161•ag8•13h ago•48 comments

Uncrossy

https://uncrossy.com/
62•dgacmu•7h ago•20 comments

Conbini Wars – map of Japanese convenience store ratios

https://conbini.kikkia.dev/
22•zdw•5d ago•2 comments

The next two years of software engineering

https://addyosmani.com/blog/next-two-years/
124•napolux•11h ago•75 comments

FUSE is All You Need – Giving agents access to anything via filesystems

https://jakobemmerling.de/posts/fuse-is-all-you-need/
126•jakobem•12h ago•49 comments

Perfectly Replicating Coca Cola [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TDkH3EbWTYc
204•HansVanEijsden•3d ago•137 comments

Xfce is great

https://rubenerd.com/xfce-is-great/
178•mikece•4h ago•120 comments

Insights into Claude Opus 4.5 from Pokémon

https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/u6Lacc7wx4yYkBQ3r/insights-into-claude-opus-4-5-from-pokemon
74•surprisetalk•5d ago•13 comments

Garbage collection is contrarian

https://trynova.dev/blog/garbage-collection-is-contrarian
42•aapoalas•2d ago•1 comments

Ask HN: What are you working on? (January 2026)

188•david927•16h ago•595 comments

Elo – A data expression language which compiles to JavaScript, Ruby, and SQL

https://elo-lang.org/
78•ravenical•4d ago•18 comments

Show HN: An LLM-optimized programming language

https://github.com/ImJasonH/ImJasonH/blob/main/articles/llm-programming-language.md
32•ImJasonH•6h ago•17 comments

Poison Fountain

https://rnsaffn.com/poison3/
195•atomic128•16h ago•118 comments

A set of Idiomatic prod-grade katas for experienced devs transitioning to Go

https://github.com/MedUnes/go-kata
126•medunes•4d ago•20 comments

Erich von Däniken has died

https://daniken.com/en/startseite-english/
79•Kaibeezy•13h ago•120 comments

Show HN: Engineering Schizophrenia: Trusting yourself through Byzantine faults

73•rescrv•11h ago•10 comments

Moving Scratch generation to Python on browser

https://kushaldas.in/posts/introducing-ektupy.html
37•kushaldas•3d ago•12 comments

Code and Let Live

https://fly.io/blog/code-and-let-live/
453•usrme•2d ago•172 comments

Quake 1 Single-Player Map Design Theories (2001)

https://www.quaddicted.com/webarchive//teamshambler.planetquake.gamespy.com/theories1.html
62•Lammy•1d ago•11 comments

Which programming languages are most token-efficient?

https://martinalderson.com/posts/which-programming-languages-are-most-token-efficient/
87•tehnub•7h ago•61 comments
Open in hackernews

Building my npx business card

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

Comments

steele•7mo ago
Ooh, free real estate, let's colonize and gentrify package management
aabhay•7mo ago
Lmao, gentrify cracked me up
neilv•7mo ago
Do these npx business cards run arbitrary code on your computer?
cypherpunks01•7mo 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•7mo 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•7mo ago
Yeah, this seems like a very smart but inherently flawed idea.
cypherpunks01•7mo 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•7mo ago
May as well just release an executable tbh.
theamk•7mo 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•7mo 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•7mo 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."