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“Math 2.0” will need to value mathematical progress more holistically

https://mathstodon.xyz/@tao/117395269325940185
441•ent101•8h ago•422 comments

Beauty in DVD Menus

https://vale.rocks/posts/dvd-menus
14•speckx•51m ago•0 comments

The Slow Formation of Durable Software

https://newsletter.dancohen.org/archive/the-slow-formation-of-durable-software/
92•benbreen•1d ago•23 comments

I gave Opus 5.5 one prompt and six hours to visualize Invisible Cities

https://quesma.com/blog/invisible-cities-one-shot/
137•stared•2h ago•68 comments

Telnet BBS Guide

https://www.telnetbbsguide.com/
36•kmstout•1h ago•11 comments

Claude Haiku 5.5

https://www.anthropic.com/claude-haiku-5-5
956•sfkgtbor•20h ago•449 comments

OpenAI Withdraws 3 Math Papers

https://github.com/openai/math/blob/main/history.md
197•theemathas•6h ago•147 comments

The 15-year search for a band that charted once and vanished

https://shahidhussain.com/writing/search-for-salvage/
233•shahidhussain•3d ago•87 comments

Time Travel in Braid (2015)

https://qntm.org/braid
28•Ariarule•3d ago•4 comments

Living off-grid: Hundred Rabbits

https://100r.ca/site/home.html
290•Muhammad523•2d ago•108 comments

Margaret Hamilton has died

https://news.mit.edu/2026/margaret-hamilton-computing-pioneer-dies-1007
1850•muglug•16h ago•204 comments

GPT‑6 and Intelligent UI for everyone

https://openai.com/index/gpt-6-for-everyone/
694•joshuawright11•20h ago•403 comments

Anne Carson wins Nobel Prize in literature 2026

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2026/oct/08/wins-the-nobel-prize-in-literature-2026
64•sonabinu•2h ago•3 comments

How did Rosalind Franklin miss the helix in her iconic DNA image? She didn't

https://www.science.org/content/article/how-did-rosalind-franklin-miss-helix-her-iconic-dna-image...
234•pavel_lishin•2d ago•83 comments

'Jonathan' is the oldest land animal on Earth

https://www.404media.co/oldest-living-land-animal-jonathan-the-tortoise/
204•gumby•18h ago•113 comments

The Mathocalypse

https://scottaaronson.blog/?p=10169
303•6bitquant•18h ago•315 comments

Cleo (Mathematician)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cleo_(mathematician)
201•djoldman•1d ago•39 comments

Show HN: Bigwords.page – Turn any screen into a sign. The URL is the app

https://bigwords.page/
578•SpeakingOfBrad•22h ago•144 comments

Float and integer arithmetic follow two different paradigms

https://blog.pkh.me/p/49-float-and-integer-arithmetic-follow-two-different-paradigms.html
9•ibobev•3d ago•1 comments

Bloody Cavemen

https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v48/n18/edmund-gordon/bloody-cavemen
25•Thevet•1d ago•3 comments

Dat-ecosystem: high level applications built on top of P2P protocols

https://dat-ecosystem.org/
30•janandonly•7h ago•13 comments

In Vienna and Beijing, the first (thorium) nuclear clocks begin to tick

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/10/07/science/first-nuclear-clocks-thorium-229.html
129•gumby•20h ago•40 comments

Sharing AI progress in mathematics

https://openai.com/index/sharing-ai-progress-in-mathematics/
1295•OfficialTurkey•1d ago•1473 comments

New repository settings for configuring pull request access

https://github.blog/changelog/2026-02-13-new-repository-settings-for-configuring-pull-request-acc...
32•Bluestein•2d ago•21 comments

Docker Agent

https://github.com/docker/docker-agent
270•saikatsg•20h ago•124 comments

Classic PC demoscene productions running natively in the browser

https://treylorswift.github.io/demoscene-recomp/web/
122•adunk•7h ago•106 comments

Push ifs up and fors down: The idiom, its algebra, and its limits

https://debasishg.github.io/blog/push-ifs-up-fors-down/
165•speckx•19h ago•75 comments

Animated ASCII Art for Web Pages

https://ascii.rest/
405•turrini•23h ago•72 comments

AHM Statement on OpenAI's October 6 Release of Mathematical Documents

https://www.ahmath.org/statements
25•kkoncevicius•4h ago•25 comments

Why were Victorian elites so effective?

https://worksinprogress.co/issue/the-seven-vices-of-highly-effective-victorians/
198•karakoram•23h ago•327 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."