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Docker is weird

https://codeandcake.dev/posts/2026-10-22-docker-is-weird
144•psxuaw•2h ago•62 comments

LLMs are making formal software verification feasible at a much larger scale

https://www.anthropic.com/research/formal-verification
134•johnbender•3h ago•67 comments

The foolishness of "natural language programming" (1978)

https://www.cs.utexas.edu/~EWD/transcriptions/EWD06xx/EWD667.html
35•xiaoyu2006•1h ago•29 comments

Quad9 (DNS Resolver) to Exit France

https://quad9.net/news/blog/au-revoir-france/
1016•farrokhi•11h ago•367 comments

OpenShell – A safe, private runtime for fleets of autonomous AI agents

https://github.com/NVIDIA/OpenShell
311•niemandhier•8h ago•162 comments

Woman faces six years in prison over Cash App account she never opened

https://www.techspot.com/news/114296-woman-spends-three-nights-jail-faces-six-years.html
524•oidar•13h ago•536 comments

Every AI model has the same "controversial" take on humans

https://www.modelcompare.ai/blog/ai-models-controversial-take-on-humans
254•rakannimer•10h ago•316 comments

AI compute is the new oil–and needs a new market

https://www.economist.com/finance-and-economics/2026/10/22/ai-compute-is-the-new-oil-and-needs-a-...
24•ijidak•2h ago•15 comments

Getting ready to operate GNU Taler in Germany

https://www.taler.net/en/news/2026-13.html
229•dewey•10h ago•85 comments

Run full iOS 16.5 firmware on Android Devices

https://github.com/oosexgang/hackios-xnu-kernel
331•aghuang•11h ago•127 comments

The Secret Life of Circuits is now in stock everywhere

https://blog.coredump.cx/p/the-secret-life-of-circuits-is-now
14•surprisetalk•2d ago•3 comments

Jailbreaking the Switch 2

https://pepsipu.com/blog/2026-10-switch2-jailbreak-ns2jb/
732•ledoge•18h ago•254 comments

What Is Gridifcation

https://musicalform.substack.com/p/what-is-gridifcation
408•gumby•3d ago•202 comments

Hedra is a 3D open world game I wrote from scratch while in highschool

https://github.com/maxilevi/project-hedra/tree/pre-ai
142•maxilevi•7h ago•29 comments

Mapping the Northern Sky

https://www.maps.com/star-map-charts-stars-and-constellations-of-northern-hemisphere/
17•tmseidman•2h ago•4 comments

eMudhra to exit global SSL/TLS certificate business

https://emudhra.com/en/press-release/emudhra-to-exit-global-ssl-tls-certificate-business
942•bo0tzz•12h ago•634 comments

Jank – The native Clojure dialect with seamless C++ interop

https://jank-lang.org/
15•giancarlostoro•2h ago•1 comments

Railpass

https://train.samismith.com/
52•CharlesW•4h ago•14 comments

Tell HN: I unknowingly broke the PHP RCE embargo. I am sorry.

393•petecooper•16h ago•164 comments

Xbox wants you to pay 24 to 40 cents per hour to stream games you bought

https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2026/10/xbox-wants-you-to-pay-24-to-40-cents-per-hour-to-stream-ga...
218•entryleveljobsc•14h ago•211 comments

Color Names

https://names.color.pizza
17•akkartik•2d ago•2 comments

AI and the Enclosure of the Scientific Commons

https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.27251
116•jrepinc•7h ago•70 comments

Speeding up code review with `small-change`

https://lethain.com/small-changes/
27•alexmolas•3d ago•14 comments

How to Design Flowers

https://www.asimov.press/p/flowers
19•surprisetalk•2d ago•2 comments

Dungeon Generation in the Gnomish Mines of NetHack

https://www.boristhebrave.com/2026/10/18/dungeon-generation-in-the-gnomish-mines-of-nethack/
128•ibobev•3d ago•16 comments

Faster than earcut: triangulating 3.7M map polygons in 489 ms

https://globus.software/blog/2026/10/16/cutting-map-polygons/
205•molind•16h ago•38 comments

Show HN: Uberblok – an interactive museum of ZFS internals

https://uberblok.storagebits.workers.dev/
83•storagebits•1d ago•22 comments

A farewell to Arc browser

https://arc.net/
232•suhdonghwi•10h ago•211 comments

What’s getting pwned right now

https://pwn.watch/
348•mrkd•12h ago•161 comments

Startup taps underwater volcano as energy source in “proof point” test

https://arstechnica.com/science/2026/10/startup-taps-underwater-volcano-as-energy-source-in-proof...
125•wffurr•3d ago•52 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."