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The bottleneck might be the air in the room

https://blog.mikebowler.ca/2026/07/03/co2-and-decision-making/
57•gslin•59m ago•14 comments

2026 Unslop AI-Written Fiction Contest Results

https://www.hyperstitionai.com/unslop-results
15•networked•1h ago•10 comments

Agentic coding notes from Galapagos Island

https://danluu.com/ai-coding/#appendix-agentic-loops-and-writing-this-post
60•gm678•2h ago•20 comments

Performance per dollar is getting faster and cheaper

https://www.wafer.ai/blog/glm52-amd
213•latchkey•9h ago•66 comments

Leanstral 1.5: Proof abundance for all

https://mistral.ai/news/leanstral-1-5/
192•programLyrique•8h ago•43 comments

Giant trees have no trouble pumping water to top branches: new research

https://news.exeter.ac.uk/faculty-of-environment-science-and-economy/giant-trees-have-no-trouble-...
175•hhs•8h ago•89 comments

Mir Books – Books from the Soviet Era

https://mirtitles.org
37•clmul•3d ago•13 comments

Synthesis is harder than analysis

https://surfingcomplexity.blog/2026/07/03/synthesis-is-harder-than-analysis/
59•azhenley•4h ago•11 comments

MSI Center – How to gain SYSTEM privileges in seconds

https://mrbruh.com/msicenter/
71•MrBruh•6h ago•17 comments

Steam Controller Auto-Charge – pilot to magnetic charging puck using CV

https://github.com/FossPrime/Steam-Controller-Auto-Charge
118•zdw•8h ago•25 comments

SearXNG: A free internet metasearch engine

https://github.com/searxng/searxng
194•theanonymousone•11h ago•51 comments

FreeBSD ate my RAM

https://crocidb.com/post/freebsd-ate-my-ram/
124•theanonymousone•12h ago•43 comments

David Beazley – Programming Courses

https://www.dabeaz.com/courses.html
51•gregsadetsky•1h ago•14 comments

The firefighting system of the Van der Heyden brothers in 17th century Amsterdam

https://worksinprogress.co/issue/how-amsterdam-invented-the-fire-department/
76•zdw•8h ago•13 comments

Jamesob's guide to running SOTA LLMs locally

https://github.com/jamesob/local-llm
324•livestyle•16h ago•146 comments

Odin, Wikipedia and engagement farming

https://katamari64.se/posts/2026/odin-wikipedia/
118•stock_toaster•8h ago•151 comments

Show HN: Classify mechanical faults using Contrastive Language-Audio Pretraining

https://github.com/adam-s/car-diagnosis
10•dataviz1000•2d ago•0 comments

Soatok's Informal Guide to Threat Models

https://soatok.blog/2026/06/30/soatoks-informal-guide-to-threat-models/
72•zdw•6h ago•9 comments

Applied Category Theory Course (2018)

https://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/act_course/index.html
101•measurablefunc•10h ago•7 comments

New serious vulnerabilities spiked around release of Claude Mythos Preview

https://epoch.ai/data-insights/cve-severity-spike
90•cubefox•10h ago•30 comments

Gone but Not Forgotten: Recovering the Dead Web

https://blog.archive.org/2026/04/23/gone-but-not-forgotten-recovering-the-dead-web/
59•wslh•3d ago•13 comments

Maybe you should learn something

https://www.marginalia.nu/log/a_135_learn/
37•tylerdane•3h ago•18 comments

Study reveals what people see when they read lips

https://news.ku.edu/news/article/study-reveals-what-people-really-see-when-they-read-lips
6•giuliomagnifico•3d ago•0 comments

Costco is the anti-Amazon

https://phenomenalworld.org/analysis/the-anti-amazon/
386•bookofjoe•16h ago•366 comments

Show HN: A statically typed, cross-platform, easily bootstrappable build system

https://github.com/rochus-keller/BUSY/
29•Rochus•3d ago•10 comments

Infracost (YC W21) Is Hiring a Marketing Lead to Shift FinOps Left

https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/infracost/jobs/YTJcFwr-marketing-lead
1•akh•10h ago

Espionage Against the European Parliament

https://citizenlab.ca/research/member-of-committee-investigating-spyware-hacked-with-pegasus/
340•ledoge•10h ago•81 comments

Reverse-engineering Codemasters' BIGF archive format in Ruby

https://davidslv.uk/2026/06/30/reading-binary-in-ruby.html
10•davidslv•3d ago•3 comments

Hunting a 16-year-old SQLite WAL bug with TLA+

https://ubuntu.com/blog/hunting-a-16-year-old-sqlite-bug-with-tla-is-dqlite-affected
201•peterparker204•3d ago•22 comments

Factories are just rooms

https://interconnected.org/home/2026/07/03/factories
228•arbesman•16h ago•94 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."