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A domain can now say it is for sale, in DNS

https://specification.website/spec/foundations/for-sale-dns/
87•shaunpud•2h ago•44 comments

DeepMind's WeatherNext model achieves breakthrough forecasting cyclones

https://deepmind.google/blog/weathernext-ai-model-achieves-breakthrough-in-forecasting-cyclones/
206•bhavansig•6h ago•61 comments

Gateway 2000's hilariously bad ads in the 90s (Part II)

https://buttondown.com/suchbadtechads/archive/gateway-2000-part-2/
27•rfarley04•3h ago•25 comments

Voyager 1 FDS Computer Emulator

https://zaneham.github.io/voyager-fds-emulator/
22•rahen•2h ago•4 comments

Don't use your phone while you poop

https://nate.spot/no-phone-while-poop/
95•ExMachina73•1h ago•107 comments

A physicist rigged his pet hamster’s wheel to upload to Strava

https://www.runnersworld.com/news/a73355106/hamster-wheel-strava-running/
342•aanet•2d ago•79 comments

Hardware backdoors in some x86 CPUs

https://github.com/xoreaxeaxeax/rosenbridge
239•epestr•8h ago•73 comments

Gentoo bugzilla closed due AI bot scraper overload

https://social.treehouse.systems/@mgorny/117058483039362779
46•happosai•1h ago•11 comments

BYOC Is Not Just 'Deploy into Their Cloud'

https://omnistrate.com/blog/byoc-anywhere-the-spectrum-of-bring-your-own-cloud-deployments
19•kkgupta•4d ago•2 comments

DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731

https://arcprize.org/results/deepseek-v4-flash-0731
709•tosh•21h ago•429 comments

U.S. Department of Energy Launches the Genesis Open Models Initiative

https://genesisopenmodels.anl.gov/
296•moelf•17h ago•114 comments

What happens if an entire class of workers loses faith in their careers

https://www.noemamag.com/why-is-everyone-in-tech-so-sad/
843•RickJWagner•1d ago•938 comments

US Military's cyber command unit grapples with cluster of deaths by suicide

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-08-06/us-military-s-cyber-command-unit-grapples-with...
54•rbanffy•5h ago•72 comments

k-Coloring is Faster than Computing the Chromatic Number

https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.25973
36•matt_d•1w ago•4 comments

Microsoft Edge is about to lock out older ad blockers, just like Chrome did

https://www.theverge.com/tech/976880/microsoft-edge-extensions-ad-blockers-mv2-mv3
85•eternalreturn•5h ago•65 comments

Assembly Hall of Shame

https://github.com/xoreaxeaxeax/asm-hall-of-shame
383•piotrgrabowski•21h ago•94 comments

Europe's free satellite service just made it easier to track wildfires

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026/08/europes-free-satellite-service-just-made-it-easier-to-tra...
104•01-_-•5h ago•9 comments

ao486: x86-compatible Verilog core implementing all features of a 486 SX (2014)

https://github.com/alfikpl/ao486
50•csmantle•6d ago•7 comments

Sensitive Info Goes into 'No Reply' Emails Constantly. This Guy Sees It All

https://www.wired.com/story/sensitive-info-goes-into-no-reply-emails-constantly-this-guy-sees-it-...
15•sbulaev•1h ago•3 comments

Ancient Library – 1,060 Greek/Latin texts, click any word to parse it

https://ancientlibrary.net/
232•aagha•20h ago•73 comments

Show HN: Rotating torus in terminal (but with kitty graphics protocol)

https://andreadimatteo.com/torus-v0-5.html
12•deotman•6d ago•2 comments

NASA figured out how to keep its Voyager 2 probe running for another year

https://www.space.com/space-exploration/voyager/nasa-figured-out-how-to-keep-its-48-year-old-voya...
316•wglb•13h ago•67 comments

Lost my phone at the office. Claude suggested tracking Bluetooth signal strength

https://twitter.com/un1c0rnioz/status/2084686552299634805
64•ilamont•19h ago•49 comments

2027 memory capacity is reportedly sold out

https://www.ign.com/articles/ramageddon-continues-another-year-as-2027-memory-capacity-is-reporte...
439•inigyou•1d ago•420 comments

SupererDuperer

https://www.shirtpocket.com/blog/supererduperer
141•zdw•1w ago•29 comments

Managing AI Coding Costs at Scale

https://www.databricks.com/blog/managing-ai-coding-costs-scale
280•moonikakiss•21h ago•230 comments

From One Seed to a Thousand Leaves – Merkle's Authentication Tree

https://0xkrt26.github.io/math_behind_security/2026/08/03/merkle-tree.html
36•denismenace•4d ago•3 comments

Timeline of the OpenAI accidental attack against Hugging Face

https://simonwillison.net/2026/Aug/7/openai-timeline/
130•882542F3884314B•4h ago•145 comments

The Nixpkgs core team has disbanded

https://discourse.nixos.org/t/the-nixpkgs-core-team-has-disbanded/79413
354•Meleagris•14h ago•177 comments

Carl's Required Reading

https://carlkolon.com/reading/
212•cckolon•6d ago•26 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."