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Python's pre-declared constants are kinda weird

https://sebsite.pw/w/20260801-pythonconstants.html
76•rbanffy•1h ago•21 comments

FDA authorizes first wearable device that monitors ketone and blood sugar levels

https://www.fda.gov/news-events/press-announcements/fda-authorizes-first-wearable-device-continuo...
198•sunnynagra•4h ago•120 comments

Apple introduces M6 and M5 Ultra

https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2026/08/apple-introduces-m6-and-m5-ultra-for-a-big-leap-in-perform...
888•interpol_p•10h ago•840 comments

OpenAI Jalapeño: Better than Nvidia Blackwell

https://newsletter.semianalysis.com/p/openai-jalapeno-better-than-nvidia
265•bmulholland•9h ago•184 comments

New Mac Studio with M5 Max and M5 Ultra

https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2026/08/apple-introduces-new-mac-studio-with-m5-max-and-m5-ultra/
677•interpol_p•10h ago•415 comments

Black hole singularity is a surface not a point

https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.21590
158•raattgift•6h ago•117 comments

Show HN: TeXbrain, a LaTeX editor that runs pdfTeX in the browser via WASM

https://github.com/swimmingbrain/texbrain
12•swimmingbrain•1h ago•2 comments

When str.lower() is a security vulnerability in Python – Seth Larson

https://sethmlarson.dev/when-str-lower-is-a-security-vulnerability
34•rbanffy•2h ago•20 comments

C2PA Cameras Do Not Survive Contact with Reality

https://www.da.vidbuchanan.co.uk/blog/android-c2pa.html
52•Retr0id•3h ago•18 comments

Show HN: I made a Raspberry with Qwen my local car AI

https://github.com/ThinkOffApp/CarWatch
81•petruspennanen•7h ago•16 comments

New Mac mini, featuring M6 and M5 Pro

https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2026/08/apple-unveils-a-more-powerful-mac-mini-featuring-the-all-n...
404•runako•10h ago•232 comments

XCancel also down, at least for time being

101•orange999•1h ago•16 comments

Nitter project received cease and desist

https://github.com/zedeus/nitter/issues/1442
523•Banditoz•6h ago•360 comments

Bomb fishing is wreaking havoc on Indonesia's coral reefs

https://e360.yale.edu/digest/bomb-fishing-coral-reefs
243•speckx•8h ago•132 comments

Dolly Parton has died

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2026/aug/25/dolly-parton-country-singer-dead
1063•helsinkiandrew•5h ago•161 comments

Run OpenBSD on DigitalOcean for $4/month

https://nil.wallyjones.com/run-openbsd-on-digitalocean-for-4month/
100•speckx•5h ago•43 comments

Building a backyard office, the build and cost breakdown

https://www.imkylelambert.com/articles/building-a-backyard-office-the-build-and-cost-breakdown
237•surprisetalk•8h ago•174 comments

Clara (YC P26) is hiring a growth engineer to bring AI doctors to market

https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/clara-2/jobs/8snci6k-founding-full-stack-growth-engineer
1•gfavvas•5h ago

A brief history of federal lift ticket regulation

https://zakpodmore.substack.com/p/a-brief-history-of-federal-lift-ticket
13•CGMthrowaway•3h ago•0 comments

Show HN: LatticeDB – Like SQLite but for graph databases

https://github.com/jeffhajewski/latticedb
90•smiths1999•6h ago•30 comments

My Friend Aaron

https://rorz.io/writing/my-friend-aaron
394•sarreph•6h ago•103 comments

Tooltips need a delay, and then they need to skip it

https://blog.master.dev/tooltips-need-a-delay-and-then-they-need-to-skip-it/
98•ibobev•6h ago•19 comments

Don't Wordle

https://dontwordle.com/
289•Hbruz0•11h ago•112 comments

Firefox 157 will include JPEG XL by default on all platforms

https://groups.google.com/a/mozilla.org/g/dev-platform/c/3YMV4MS34KA?pli=1
237•yboris•5h ago•51 comments

Show HN: I built self-hosted deployment automation tool for Windows and IIS

https://fdeploy.com/
7•dt3ft•15h ago•1 comments

Starbase, LA

https://www.spacex.com/sites/starbase-la
195•bilsbie•6h ago•350 comments

Tracking Costco gas prices

https://www.jack.bio/blog/costco-gas-tracking
61•lafond•1d ago•66 comments

Visualizing Binary Files

https://movq.de/blog/postings/2026-08-05/0/POSTING-en.html
69•zdw•1d ago•14 comments

Fuzzing the Gleam Compiler

https://www.kurz.net/posts/fuzzing-gleam-compiler
47•crowdhailer•6h ago•4 comments

Behaviorally fingerprinting Ox Alpha's provenance

https://www.ctgt.ai/research/behaviorally-fingerprinting-ox-alphas-provenance
25•cgorlla•7h ago•14 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."