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First, make me care

https://gwern.net/blog/2026/make-me-care
339•andsoitis•7h ago•110 comments

Scientists identify brain waves that define the limits of 'you'

https://www.sciencealert.com/scientists-identify-brain-waves-that-define-the-limits-of-you
43•mikhael•2h ago•1 comments

A macOS app that blurs your screen when you slouch

https://github.com/tldev/posturr
476•dnw•10h ago•162 comments

Clawdbot - open source personal AI assistant

https://github.com/clawdbot/clawdbot
99•KuzeyAbi•1h ago•54 comments

Case study: Creative math – How AI fakes proofs

https://tomaszmachnik.pl/case-study-math-en.html
38•musculus•3h ago•18 comments

Show HN: A small programming language where everything is pass-by-value

https://github.com/Jcparkyn/herd
45•jcparkyn•3h ago•18 comments

Guix for Development

https://dthompson.us/posts/guix-for-development.html
32•clircle•5d ago•6 comments

Doom has been ported to an earbud

https://doombuds.com
352•arin-s•14h ago•108 comments

Spanish track was fractured before high-speed train disaster, report finds

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c1m77dmxlvlo
143•Rygian•7h ago•121 comments

Show HN: FaceTime-style calls with an AI Companion (Live2D and long-term memory)

https://thebeni.ai/
20•summerlee9611•3h ago•6 comments

Show HN: An interactive map of US lighthouses and navigational aids

https://www.lighthouses.app/
41•idd2•8h ago•11 comments

Using PostgreSQL as a Dead Letter Queue for Event-Driven Systems

https://www.diljitpr.net/blog-post-postgresql-dlq
165•tanelpoder•10h ago•56 comments

Oneplus phone update introduces hardware anti-rollback

https://consumerrights.wiki/w/Oneplus_phone_update_introduces_hardware_anti-rollback
355•validatori•5h ago•168 comments

The '3.5% rule': How a small minority can change the world (2019)

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20190513-it-only-takes-35-of-people-to-change-the-world
198•choult•4h ago•144 comments

Web-based image editor modeled after Deluxe Paint

https://github.com/steffest/DPaint-js
183•bananaboy•13h ago•16 comments

Bitwise conversion of doubles using only FP multiplication and addition (2020)

https://dougallj.wordpress.com/2020/05/10/bitwise-conversion-of-doubles-using-only-floating-point...
21•vitaut•11h ago•1 comments

The behavioral cost of personalized pricing

https://digitalseams.com/blog/the-behavioral-cost-of-personalized-pricing
66•bobbiechen•7h ago•37 comments

Turbopack: Building faster by building less

https://nextjs.org/blog/turbopack-incremental-computation
19•feross•5d ago•13 comments

I was right about ATProto key management

https://notes.nora.codes/atproto-again/
113•todsacerdoti•6h ago•70 comments

Infinite pancakes, anyone?

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/20/science/infinite-pancake-math-puzzle.html
23•cainxinth•3d ago•4 comments

ICE using Palantir tool that feeds on Medicaid data

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/01/report-ice-using-palantir-tool-feeds-medicaid-data
922•JKCalhoun•8h ago•552 comments

Introduction to PostgreSQL Indexes

https://dlt.github.io/blog/posts/introduction-to-postgresql-indexes/
293•dlt•18h ago•14 comments

The future of software engineering is SRE

https://swizec.com/blog/the-future-of-software-engineering-is-sre/
14•Swizec•4h ago•4 comments

Show HN: Bonsplit – Tabs and splits for native macOS apps

https://bonsplit.alasdairmonk.com
208•sgottit•14h ago•26 comments

Hackable personal news reader in bash pipes

https://github.com/haron/news.sh
26•haron•5d ago•6 comments

A flawed paper in management science has been cited more than 6k times

https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2026/01/22/aking/
633•timr•17h ago•331 comments

Show HN: Netfence – Like Envoy for eBPF Filters

https://github.com/danthegoodman1/netfence
43•dangoodmanUT•11h ago•6 comments

Optimizing GPU Programs from Java Using Babylon and Hat

https://openjdk.org/projects/babylon/articles/hat-matmul/hat-matmul
28•pjmlp•5d ago•2 comments

Show HN: TUI for managing XDG default applications

https://github.com/mitjafelicijan/xdgctl
115•mitjafelicijan•15h ago•39 comments

Nango (YC W23, Dev Infrastructure) Is Hiring Remotely

https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/Nango
1•bastienbeurier•14h ago
Open in hackernews

Building my npx business card

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

Comments

steele•8mo ago
Ooh, free real estate, let's colonize and gentrify package management
aabhay•8mo ago
Lmao, gentrify cracked me up
neilv•8mo ago
Do these npx business cards run arbitrary code on your computer?
cypherpunks01•8mo 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•8mo 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•8mo ago
Yeah, this seems like a very smart but inherently flawed idea.
cypherpunks01•8mo 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•8mo ago
May as well just release an executable tbh.
theamk•8mo 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•8mo 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•8mo 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."