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430k-year-old well-preserved wooden tools are the oldest ever found

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/26/science/archaeology-neanderthals-tools.html
154•bookofjoe•3h ago•95 comments

SoundCloud Data Breach Now on HaveIBeenPwned

https://haveibeenpwned.com/Breach/SoundCloud
40•gnabgib•1h ago•13 comments

Xfwl4 – The Roadmap for a Xfce Wayland Compositor

https://alexxcons.github.io/blogpost_15.html
201•pantalaimon•5h ago•135 comments

OpenSSL: Stack buffer overflow in CMS AuthEnvelopedData parsing

https://openssl-library.org/news/vulnerabilities/#CVE-2025-15467
37•MagerValp•1h ago•15 comments

I made my own Git

https://tonystr.net/blog/git_immitation
263•TonyStr•7h ago•113 comments

A simulation where life unfolds in real time

https://soupof.life
57•maybe-tomorrow•6d ago•22 comments

Cloudflare claimed they implemented Matrix on Cloudflare workers. They didn't

https://tech.lgbt/@JadedBlueEyes/115967791152135761
331•JadedBlueEyes•3h ago•126 comments

Flexible use of a multi-purpose tool by a cow

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2025.11.059
21•PlaceboGazebo•5d ago•4 comments

Heathrow scraps liquid container limit

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c1evvx89559o
558•robotsliketea•3d ago•719 comments

Artie (YC S23) Is Hiring a Founding Recruiter

https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/artie/jobs/MX163y2-founding-recruiter
1•j-cheong•1h ago

A first look at Aperture by Tailscale (private alpha)

https://tailscale.com/blog/aperture-private-alpha
43•geoffeg•2h ago•10 comments

Two Twisty Shapes Resolve a Centuries-Old Topology Puzzle

https://www.quantamagazine.org/two-twisty-shapes-resolve-a-centuries-old-topology-puzzle-20260120/
34•tzury•22h ago•1 comments

Snow Simulation Toy

https://potch.me/2026/snow-simulation-toy.html
134•surprisetalk•1w ago•37 comments

Amazon to shut down Go and Fresh stores

https://www.cnn.com/2026/01/27/food/amazon-fresh-go-closures
199•gmays•2h ago•169 comments

TikTok users can't upload anti-ICE videos. The company blames tech issues

https://www.cnn.com/2026/01/26/tech/tiktok-ice-censorship-glitch-cec
856•kotaKat•5h ago•612 comments

Show HN: LemonSlice – Upgrade your voice agents to real-time video

15•lcolucci•53m ago•11 comments

Velox: A Port of Tauri to Swift by Miguel de Icaza

https://github.com/velox-apps/velox
152•wahnfrieden•1w ago•65 comments

The Enchiridion by Epictetus

https://www.gutenberg.org/files/45109/45109-h/45109-h.htm
71•atropoles•4d ago•29 comments

U.S. government has lost more than 10k STEM PhDs since Trump took office

https://www.science.org/content/article/u-s-government-has-lost-more-10-000-stem-ph-d-s-trump-too...
16•j_maffe•13m ago•1 comments

Management as AI superpower: Thriving in a world of agentic AI

https://www.oneusefulthing.org/p/management-as-ai-superpower
43•swolpers•1h ago•55 comments

A list of fun destinations for telnet

https://telnet.org/htm/places.htm
254•tokyobreakfast•15h ago•84 comments

The age of Pump and Dump software

https://tautvilas.medium.com/software-pump-and-dump-c8a9a73d313b
153•brisky•4h ago•57 comments

Handling Long Branches

https://maskray.me/blog/2026-01-25-handling-long-branches
23•ingve•1d ago•3 comments

Kimi Released Kimi K2.5, Open-Source Visual SOTA-Agentic Model

https://www.kimi.com/blog/kimi-k2-5.html
409•nekofneko•13h ago•187 comments

Apple introduces new AirTag with longer range and improved findability

https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2026/01/apple-introduces-new-airtag-with-expanded-range-and-improv...
575•meetpateltech•1d ago•686 comments

ChatGPT Containers can now run bash, pip/npm install packages and download files

https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jan/26/chatgpt-containers/
427•simonw•23h ago•301 comments

A few random notes from Claude coding quite a bit last few weeks

https://twitter.com/karpathy/status/2015883857489522876
45•bigwheels•21h ago•56 comments

The hidden engineering of runways

https://practical.engineering/blog/2026/1/20/the-hidden-engineering-of-runways
398•crescit_eundo•1w ago•96 comments

The Universal Pattern Popping Up in Math, Physics and Biology (2013)

https://www.quantamagazine.org/in-mysterious-pattern-math-and-nature-converge-20130205/
127•kerim-ca•4d ago•46 comments

We Do Not Support Opt-Out Forms (2025)

https://consciousdigital.org/why-we-do-not-support-opt-out-forms/
66•mefengl•9h ago•28 comments
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."