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Bun's experimental Rust rewrite hits 99.8% test compatibility on Linux x64 glibc

https://twitter.com/jarredsumner/status/2053047748191232310
429•heldrida•16h ago•414 comments

Internet Archive Switzerland

https://blog.archive.org/2026/05/06/internet-archive-switzerland-expanding-a-global-mission-to-pr...
539•hggh•14h ago•77 comments

The Serial TTL connector we deserve

https://kohlschuetter.github.io/blog/posts/2026/05/07/serial-ttl-connector/
51•kohlschuetter•2d ago•38 comments

I’ve banned query strings

https://chrismorgan.info/no-query-strings
269•susam•9h ago•153 comments

Rust but Lisp

https://github.com/ThatXliner/rust-but-lisp
82•thatxliner•4h ago•41 comments

Local privilege escalation via execve()

https://www.freebsd.org/security/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-26:13.exec.asc
90•Deeg9rie9usi•5h ago•57 comments

Show HN: I made a Clojure-like language in Go, boots in 7ms

https://github.com/nooga/let-go
95•marcingas•8h ago•30 comments

Zed Editor Theme-Builder

https://zed.dev/theme-builder
159•cuechan•8h ago•46 comments

Making your own programming language is easier than you think (but also harder)

https://lisyarus.github.io/blog/posts/making-your-own-programming-language.html
52•ibobev•2d ago•18 comments

CPanel's Black Week: 3 New Vulnerabilities Patched After Attack on 44k Servers

https://www.copahost.com/blog/cpanels-black-week-three-new-vulnerabilities-patched-after-ransomwa...
110•ggallas•9h ago•60 comments

Distributing Mac software is increasing my cortisol levels

https://blog.kronis.dev/blog/apple-is-increasing-my-cortisol-levels
210•LorenDB•11h ago•146 comments

I'm writing a history of Visual Basic, Chapter 1 is up

https://evilgeniuslabs.ca/blog/visual-basic-history-chapter-1-launch
20•speckx•3d ago•11 comments

The first microcomputer: The transfluxor-powered Arma Micro Computer from 1962

https://www.righto.com/2024/02/the-first-microcomputer-transfluxor.html
19•rsecora•3d ago•0 comments

Production engineering when trading billions of dollars a day [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zR9PpXWsKFQ
96•abstrus•1d ago•24 comments

LLMs corrupt your documents when you delegate

https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.15597
360•rbanffy•17h ago•138 comments

A recent experience with ChatGPT 5.5 Pro

https://gowers.wordpress.com/2026/05/08/a-recent-experience-with-chatgpt-5-5-pro/
608•_alternator_•23h ago•428 comments

Surfel-based global illumination on the web

https://juretriglav.si/surfel-based-global-illumination-on-the-web/
16•vmg12•7h ago•0 comments

Meta's embrace of A.I. is making its employees miserable

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/08/technology/meta-ai-employees-miserable.html
302•JumpCrisscross•7h ago•267 comments

The hypocrisy of cyberlibertarianism

https://matduggan.com/the-intolerable-hypocrisy-of-cyberlibertarianism/
265•ColinWright•12h ago•222 comments

EU Parliamentary Research Service calls VPNs "a loophole that needs closing"

https://cyberinsider.com/eu-calls-vpns-a-loophole-that-needs-closing-in-age-verification-push/
402•muse900•20h ago•279 comments

Using Claude Code: The unreasonable effectiveness of HTML

https://twitter.com/trq212/status/2052809885763747935
421•pretext•21h ago•238 comments

France Moves to Break Encrypted Messaging

https://reclaimthenet.org/france-moves-to-break-encrypted-messaging
83•Cider9986•4h ago•43 comments

The Trail of Jeremiah

https://theamericanscholar.org/on-the-trail-of-jeremiah/
3•samclemens•3d ago•0 comments

Getting arrested in Japan

https://sundaicity.com/blogs/getting-arrested-in-japan
148•bane•4h ago•161 comments

OpenAI’s WebRTC problem

https://moq.dev/blog/webrtc-is-the-problem/
471•atgctg•2d ago•141 comments

Mythical Man Month

https://martinfowler.com/bliki/MythicalManMonth.html
351•ingve•2d ago•195 comments

PipeDream on the Acorn Archimedes

https://stonetools.ghost.io/pipedream-archimedes/
74•msephton•11h ago•36 comments

Forking the Web

https://dillo-browser.org/lab/web-fork/
108•wrxd•14h ago•117 comments

I caught the car

https://undecidability.net/senior/
39•holden_nelson•5h ago•37 comments

Random tie knots (2014)

https://tieknots.how/
12•surprisetalk•3d ago•1 comments
Open in hackernews

Building my npx business card

https://ashley.dev/posts/turning-feedback-into-features/
8•edent•11mo ago

Comments

steele•11mo ago
Ooh, free real estate, let's colonize and gentrify package management
aabhay•11mo ago
Lmao, gentrify cracked me up
neilv•11mo ago
Do these npx business cards run arbitrary code on your computer?
cypherpunks01•11mo 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•11mo 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•11mo ago
Yeah, this seems like a very smart but inherently flawed idea.
cypherpunks01•11mo 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•11mo ago
May as well just release an executable tbh.
theamk•11mo 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•11mo 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•11mo 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."