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Codex CLI installs a persistent, self-updating background daemon by default

https://github.com/openai/codex/issues/48195
253•whimblepop•1h ago•152 comments

GLM-Legal

https://z.ai/blog/glm-legal
309•ilreb•4h ago•170 comments

A Modern Web App in C

https://prophitt.me/writing/a-modern-web-app-in-c
234•prophittcorey•4h ago•94 comments

AI coding agents generate more code, but not more software

https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/10/ai-coding-agents-generate-more-code-but-not-more-software/
188•gumby•3h ago•150 comments

Launch HN: Agent37 (YC F26) – Low-cost agent sandboxes for running agents

60•vishnukool•3h ago•43 comments

Hackers activate automatic defrosting accross European supermarket fridges

https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/cyber-security/unprecedented-cyberattack-cripples-supe...
227•Zeekaas•8h ago•383 comments

Turn a WiFi 7 Router into a 320Msps Software Defined Radio Receiver

https://github.com/h0m3us3r/w1700k-sdr
170•djfergus•7h ago•48 comments

Citroen revives the 2CV for an electric age

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c620r33plgppo
198•scrlk•8h ago•223 comments

Muse Wonder

https://research.meta.ai/blog/muse-wonder
388•meetpateltech•3h ago•187 comments

Writing a Demoscene Intro for the ZX Spectrum

https://www.markround.com/blog/2026/zx-spectrum-intro
5•zdw•42m ago•0 comments

The Making Of Super Mario 64 – full Giles Goddard interview (2001)

https://pixelatron.com/blog/the-making-of-super-mario-64-full-giles-goddard-interview-ngc/
188•gregsadetsky•2d ago•73 comments

Kevin Kelly's 2016 AI Predictions, 10 Years Later

https://taylor.town/kk-ai-2026
83•surprisetalk•5h ago•17 comments

Thinking will become a hobby

https://www.spinellis.gr/blog/20261008/?li261008
130•pranitha_m•3h ago•154 comments

'AI' Is Not a Tool by Rich Hickey

https://gist.github.com/svieira/619d60dea942a8d4498cba3bb6b11c02
51•svieira•2h ago•20 comments

Publishers Killed the Paperback, Then Blamed Readers

https://jacobin.com/2026/10/books-publishing-reading-mass-market-paperback
49•PaulHoule•1h ago•29 comments

Secret of Orange Cats Revealed After 60-Year Search

https://www.sciencealert.com/secret-of-orange-cats-finally-revealed-after-60-year-search
188•bookofjoe•1d ago•161 comments

Introducing OpenFatigue

https://openfatigue.ai/
87•ajcp•1h ago•16 comments

Show HN: PS2 games statically recompiled to WebAssembly

https://github.com/snuri00/ps2-web-recomp
234•deadxwarrior•13h ago•122 comments

Fingerprints are the new cookies

https://royfish.dev/fingerprints-are-the-new-cookies
675•royfish•21h ago•325 comments

My Reddit AMA on the Law of Web Scraping

https://blog.ericgoldman.org/archives/2026/10/my-reddit-ama-on-the-law-of-web-scraping.htm
38•speckx•2h ago•5 comments

Feds Got Warrants to Use Fake Cell Towers to Hunt Down Don Lemon's Producer

https://www.wired.com/story/feds-got-warrants-to-use-fake-cell-towers-to-hunt-down-don-lemons-pro...
96•rndsignals•3h ago•50 comments

The gap in shared understanding of LLM capability is widening

https://twitter.com/karpathy/status/2109361546505966046
662•albertzeyer•1d ago•961 comments

Type-safe HTML templating in Zig

https://lalinsky.com/2026/10/11/type-safe-html-templating-in-zig.html
216•lukaslalinsky•15h ago•78 comments

Fridges in French supermarkets hit by cyber attack

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/crq5nzxv9q4yo
134•cataflam•5h ago•85 comments

I Found a $90k Remote Code Execution Vulnerability in Google

https://simonkoeck.com/writeups/google-devsite-flask-session-pickle-rce
142•soeckly•12h ago•65 comments

Total Annihilation, rebuilt for modern computers

https://nanolathe.gg
653•jttnr•1d ago•247 comments

Reverse engineer anything with agents, from app behavior down to native binaries

https://github.com/morluto/rea
50•taytus•3h ago•10 comments

Calculus with Julia

https://jverzani.github.io/CalculusWithJuliaNotes.jl/
242•subset•2d ago•46 comments

(Post-Quantum) Cryptographic Right Answers

https://words.filippo.io/right-answers/
61•gavide•7h ago•9 comments

Terence Tao: Math 2.0 [pdf]

https://teorth.github.io/tao-web/slides/math-2-0-caltech-2026.pdf
503•Anon84•1d ago•500 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."