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1-Bit Hokusai's "The Great Wave" (2023)

https://www.hypertalking.com/2023/05/08/1-bit-pixel-art-of-hokusais-the-great-wave-off-kanagawa/
368•stephen-hill•3d ago•65 comments

The Free Universal Construction Kit

https://fffff.at/free-universal-construction-kit/
63•robinhouston•3d ago•13 comments

New 10 GbE USB adapters are cooler, smaller, cheaper

https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2026/new-10-gbe-usb-adapters-cooler-smaller-cheaper/
451•calcifer•13h ago•268 comments

Hokusai and Tesselations

https://dl.ndl.go.jp/pid/1899550/1/11/
18•srean•1h ago•4 comments

Martin Galway's music source files from 1980's Commodore 64 games

https://github.com/MartinGalway/C64_music
122•ingve•8h ago•16 comments

Google plans to invest up to $40B in Anthropic

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-04-24/google-plans-to-invest-up-to-40-billion-in-ant...
761•elffjs•1d ago•732 comments

Desmond Morris, 98, Dies; Zoologist Saw Links Between Humans and Apes

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/20/science/desmond-morris-dead.html
56•bookofjoe•2d ago•5 comments

Framework Laptop 13 Pro: Major Upgrades and Linux Front and Center

https://boilingsteam.com/framework-laptop-13-pro-announced/
66•ekianjo•2h ago•19 comments

Discret 11, the French TV encryption of the 80s

https://fabiensanglard.net/discret11/
84•adunk•7h ago•11 comments

A Collection of Chronic Medical Conditions Common in Autistic and ADHD Adults [pdf] (2023)

https://allbrainsbelong.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/CLINICIAN-GUIDE-Everything-is-Connected-to...
50•AndrewDucker•5h ago•30 comments

GPT 5.5 biosafety bounty

https://openai.com/index/gpt-5-5-bio-bug-bounty/
77•Murfalo•4h ago•68 comments

A web-based RDP client built with Go WebAssembly and grdp

https://github.com/nakagami/grdpwasm
83•mariuz•7h ago•34 comments

Insights into firewood use by early Middle Pleistocene hominins

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0277379126001824
30•wslh•2d ago•6 comments

Lambda Calculus Benchmark for AI

https://victortaelin.github.io/lambench/
98•marvinborner•7h ago•31 comments

Which one is more important: more parameters or more computation? (2021)

https://parl.ai/projects/params_vs_compute/
19•jxmorris12•1d ago•1 comments

HEALPix

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HEALPix
33•hyperific•5h ago•5 comments

Niri 26.04: Scrollable-tiling Wayland compositor

https://github.com/niri-wm/niri/releases/tag/v26.04
135•nickjj•2h ago•37 comments

Plain text has been around for decades and it’s here to stay

https://unsung.aresluna.org/plain-text-has-been-around-for-decades-and-its-here-to-stay/
223•rbanffy•17h ago•112 comments

Replace IBM Quantum back end with /dev/urandom

https://github.com/yuvadm/quantumslop/blob/25ad2e76ae58baa96f6219742459407db9dd17f5/URANDOM_DEMO.md
284•pigeons•17h ago•41 comments

Sabotaging projects by overthinking, scope creep, and structural diffing

https://kevinlynagh.com/newsletter/2026_04_overthinking/
492•alcazar•1d ago•121 comments

A 3D Body from Eight Questions – No Photo, No GPU

https://clad.you/blog/posts/questionnaire-mlp/
121•arkadiuss•3d ago•23 comments

Paraloid B-72

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paraloid_B-72
253•Ariarule•3d ago•49 comments

Only One Side Will Be the True Successor to MS-DOS – Windows 2.x

https://blisscast.wordpress.com/2026/04/21/windows-2-gui-wonderland-12a/
49•keepamovin•7h ago•35 comments

The mail sent to a video game publisher

https://www.gamefile.news/p/panic-mail-arco-despelote-time-flies-thank-goodness-teeth
113•colinprince•4d ago•3 comments

My audio interface has SSH enabled by default

https://hhh.hn/rodecaster-duo-fw/
297•hhh•23h ago•88 comments

What's missing in the 'agentic' story: a well-defined user agent role

https://www.mnot.net/blog/2026/04/24/agents_as_collective_bargains
51•ingve•3h ago•45 comments

Humpback whales are forming super-groups

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20260416-the-humpback-super-groups-swarming-the-seas
186•andsoitis•3d ago•99 comments

Iliad fragment found in Roman-era mummy

https://www.thehistoryblog.com/archives/75877
235•wise_blood•3d ago•81 comments

What Async Promised and What It Delivered

https://causality.blog/essays/what-async-promised/
72•zdw•3d ago•45 comments

Show HN: A Karpathy-style LLM wiki your agents maintain (Markdown and Git)

https://github.com/nex-crm/wuphf
198•najmuzzaman•10h ago•92 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."