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Asus Bike Booster

https://www.asus.com/accessories/bike-booster/asus-oxiis/oxiis-intelligent-bike-booster/
257•wiradikusuma•3d ago•147 comments

The quirky personal homepages of programming language creators

https://breck.lol/plMakers.html
43•cjlm•1h ago•13 comments

Asynchronous I/O in DuckDB: Work, Thread, Work

https://duckdb.org/2026/07/31/asynchronous-io
99•pdet•5d ago•7 comments

Semaglutide linked to lower predicted dementia risk

https://alz-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/dad2.70432
393•randycupertino•14h ago•275 comments

Patterns and problems in emerging multi-agent systems

https://www.anthropic.com/research/multiagent-systems
33•maxutility•3h ago•8 comments

Cultivating a state of mind where new ideas are born (2023)

https://www.henrikkarlsson.xyz/p/good-ideas
128•felixbraun•9h ago•32 comments

Show HN: Mic Drop, a real-time multiplayer karaoke game

https://www.micdrop.gg/
41•johnsillings•5h ago•16 comments

Guiding Ships with Moire Patterns

https://tinkerings.org/2018/03/28/guiding-ships-with-moire-patterns/
24•Eridanus2•4h ago•7 comments

Software Engineering fundamentals matter more

https://rhonabwy.com/2026/08/15/software-engineering-fundamentals-matter-more-than-ever/
66•ingve•7h ago•12 comments

At-home test for infected ticks could improve Lyme Disease diagnosis

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/innovation/the-first-at-home-test-for-infected-ticks-could-improve...
244•gmays•15h ago•85 comments

Numba in the Browser: Unlocking a New Scientific Python Stack in JupyterLite

https://notebook.link/blog/numba-in-the-browser/
23•xalfotis•3d ago•5 comments

Super El Niño Keeps Growing as New Forecasts Reach Record Territory Ahead Winter

https://www.severe-weather.eu/long-range-2/super-el-nino-growth-accelerating-to-record-strength-f...
153•dgellow•10h ago•93 comments

AI in drug discovery – what it is, where we stand and the path forward

https://www.science.org/content/blog-post/so-how-ai-drug-discovery-doing-really
123•AnodicElegy•10h ago•62 comments

Zapping Rocks Unlocks Stimulated Geologic Hydrogen

https://spectrum.ieee.org/stimulated-geologic-hydrogen
12•adm4•3h ago•3 comments

RISC-V: They Should Have Known Better

https://dmitry.gr/?r=06.%20Thoughts&proj=12.%20RV
273•dmitrygr•1d ago•331 comments

Tea5767-Radio-Tuner

https://github.com/turtushig22-blip/tea5767-radio-tuner
35•turtushig22•6h ago•2 comments

Targeted marine cloud brightening weakens subsequent El Niño

https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.adx3012
9•musha68k•2h ago•0 comments

Abdominal fat predicts heart disease risk better than BMI

https://www.acc.org/about-acc/press-releases/2026/08/11/14/59/abdominal-fat-predicts-heart-diseas...
219•theanonymousone•8h ago•159 comments

A fortuitous decade as an indie software developer

https://lapcatsoftware.com/articles/2026/8/3.html
63•frizlab•5d ago•9 comments

Tracking down a Zsh history data loss bug

https://michael.stapelberg.ch/posts/2026-08-09-zsh-history-truncation-bug/
58•ingve•8h ago•18 comments

AI has access to a vastly larger working memory than the human brain

https://davidepiffer.com/p/ai-isnt-outthinking-mathematicians
460•rzk•11h ago•397 comments

A spectre is haunting Unicode

https://www.dampfkraft.com/ghost-characters.html
204•sensanaty•15h ago•70 comments

Program with Paint Brushes, Not Pencils

https://blog.pickcode.io/program-with-paint-brushes-not-pencils/
6•skadamat•4d ago•1 comments

SugarTrack – an offline Android logbook for blood sugar (no account, no cloud)

https://sugartrack-beta.vercel.app/
36•hunzaboy•7h ago•13 comments

Show HN: Bribes.fyi – Compare bribes statistics department wise

https://bribes.fyi/compare
32•neverenderr•7h ago•13 comments

Show HN: Fixing optical computing jitter via fluid dynamics in GPU registers

https://github.com/PJHkorea/photonic-mesh-fng-router
3•PJHkorea•1w ago•2 comments

AI-Assisted GPU Porting of a 250k Line Legacy Weather Simulation Code

https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.13122
19•Jimmc414•7h ago•2 comments

Voltair (YC W26) Is Hiring a Test Flight Engineer

https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/voltair/jobs/sSOD2Ox-flight-test-engineer
1•wweissbluth•11h ago

Tess's Android Wayland Compositor

https://github.com/wmww/tawc
59•schmorptron•11h ago•5 comments

ProofRun – a local verification receipt for AI coding agents

https://github.com/yebiguo/ProofRun
5•yebiguo•2h ago•0 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."