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Show HN: Shitty – fast terminal. Memory-unsafe and faster than yours

https://github.com/pg83/shitty
62•pshirshov•1h ago•29 comments

Karpathy’s Pelican

https://twitter.com/karpathy/status/2083749667410727319
416•delichon•20h ago•329 comments

Autoregressive Language Model on the 6502 Processor

https://mattbeton.com/blog/bitnet-6502.html
48•nmstoker•2d ago•4 comments

The Computational Theory of Mind (2015)

https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/computational-mind/
20•cyanregiment•2h ago•8 comments

Show HN: Kakehashi – Experimental userspace to run macOS binaries on Linux ARM

https://github.com/wie-project/kakehashi
170•vlad_kalinkin•8h ago•34 comments

Note-Taking and Personal Knowledge Management

https://unattributed.cc/note-taking-and-personal-knowledge-management
117•surprisetalk•5d ago•31 comments

Why Book Corners won't sync contributions back to OpenStreetMap

https://www.andreagrandi.it/posts/why-book-corners-wont-sync-contributions-back-to-openstreetmap/
6•pizzaiolo•37m ago•2 comments

Read the Novels and Forget Everything Else

https://hedgehogreview.com/web-features/thr/posts/read-the-novels-and-forget-everything-else
45•samclemens•2d ago•16 comments

Developers are attached to tools because tools encode trust

https://stackoverflow.blog/2026/07/29/developers-are-attached-to-tools-because-tools-encode-trust/
141•HieronymusBosch•4d ago•67 comments

Show HN: Mu – Tools for Agents

https://github.com/micro/mu
22•asim•2h ago•5 comments

Show HN: Make your Framework 12 sound like a creaky door

https://github.com/ArcaEge/creakwork12
43•arcaege•4h ago•4 comments

Show HN: NixOS-DGX-Spark – Nix and NixOS on the DGX Spark

https://github.com/graham33/nixos-dgx-spark
90•graham33•7h ago•26 comments

TinyNES Review – A Super Niche NES Console

https://blog.lon.tv/2023/02/05/tinynes-review-a-super-niche-nes-console/
26•throwoutway•4h ago•4 comments

F*: A general-purpose proof-oriented programming language

https://fstar-lang.org/
150•ducktective•12h ago•65 comments

Twenty Years of RISC OS Open

https://www.riscosopen.org/news/articles/2026/06/20/twenty-years-of-risc-os-open
150•AlexeyBrin•12h ago•28 comments

Sharing an X11 Server Across Hosts with FamilyWild

https://dobrowolski.dev/article/sharing-an-x-server-across-hosts-with-familywild/
33•shirozuki•4h ago•9 comments

Californians' data deletion requests, DROP, become enforceable Aug. 1

https://www.nbcsandiego.com/nbc-7-responds-2/californians-data-deletion-requests-drop-become-enfo...
64•MilnerRoute•2h ago•25 comments

EU Age Verification Project Mandates Hardware-Bound Attestation

https://linuxiac.com/eu-age-verification-project-mandates-hardware-bound-attestation/
133•RobotToaster•4h ago•79 comments

Playing with Georgia

https://mighil.com/playing-with-georgia
3•surprisetalk•4d ago•1 comments

The Myth of Snow Leopard

https://www.rubenerd.au/the-myth-of-snow-leopard/
39•speckx•6h ago•35 comments

When transit passes were designed by hand (2022)

https://letterformarchive.org/news/milwaukee-transit-passes/
95•nate•2d ago•28 comments

'Crush this lady': how eBay harassment campaign led to $56M payout

https://www.ft.com/content/06ec1b03-d4af-40cf-b12a-4ba5a410f6d2
164•JumpCrisscross•5h ago•73 comments

Rooting, firmware analysis and persistent credentials of TP-Link TL-841N

https://blog.juni-mp4.com/posts/42/rooting-the-tplink-tl841n-pt1/
77•mindracer•8h ago•14 comments

Fasttracker II clone in C using SDL 2

https://16-bits.org/ft2.php
115•andsoitis•4d ago•42 comments

A tool for finding the causes of unstable Python tests

https://github.com/mgaitan/pytest-leak-finder
8•pomponchik•3d ago•0 comments

Folding Paper Globes

https://foldingglobes.com/globes
142•dango2506•4d ago•29 comments

Flock – Chilling Effects: Long Island's Emerging Open-Air Prison

https://www.11971.com/
21•mediaeater•3h ago•3 comments

Meshdiff – visually compare two STL versions in the browser, client-side

https://meshdiff.com/
175•projscope•13h ago•18 comments

Harvesting SSH Credentials: Insights from My Honeypot Network

https://uphillsecurity.com/articles/harvesting-ssh-credentials-insights-from-my-honeypot-network/
36•whatbackup•7h ago•29 comments

My personal AI benchmark: "Generate an SVG of a frog with a Habsburg jaw."

https://frogs.vaguespac.es/
90•thebigship•5h ago•43 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."