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Hybrid Reasoning Agents: LLM agents that think in latent space, act through text

https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.18861
43•allinonai•1h ago•18 comments

Someone behind the software

https://karrisaarinen.com/posts/someone-behind-the-software/
240•tosh•5h ago•94 comments

Free Pascal compiler now supports dynamic packages

https://www.getlazarus.org/dynamic/
72•sysrpl•3h ago•13 comments

RepRapMicron

https://github.com/VikOlliver/RepRapMicron/wiki
296•RobotToaster•8h ago•46 comments

There's never been a better time to go into math (by: 3blue1brown) [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LKrwhjOI8Nc
43•mdp2021•22h ago•5 comments

PalmOS Lemmings

https://github.com/ardiri/palmos-lemmings
63•memalign•3h ago•16 comments

Dogs seem to agree with humans that 'bouba' is round and 'kiki' is spiky

https://www.sciencealert.com/dogs-seem-to-agree-with-humans-that-bouba-is-round-and-kiki-is-spiky
61•gmays•20h ago•43 comments

"I'm on a war footing": Terry Tao and the crisis in math

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/10/16/us/math-ai-terence-tao.html
25•vinipolicena•2d ago•13 comments

One parser, two bugs, many routers: Exploiting Broadcom WiFi across eCos, Linux

https://quentinkaiser.be/security/2026/10/16/one-parser-two-bugs/
22•zoobab•2d ago•4 comments

DeepSeek search and fetch – $0.75 per 1000 successful requests

https://api-docs.deepseek.com/guides/search/
503•fagnerbrack•15h ago•247 comments

Java sealed classes and exhaustive pattern matching

https://neilmadden.blog/2026/04/24/java-sealed-classes-and-exhaustive-pattern-matching/
116•hnisjafx40•7h ago•90 comments

SIGSALY: Churchill's top secret hotline to the president

https://www.iwm.org.uk/history/iwm/cwr/telephone
89•stmw•3d ago•29 comments

The Intel 8087 chip: floating-point addition and subtraction

https://www.righto.com/2026/10/8087-addition-subtraction-microcode.html
75•pwg•5h ago•21 comments

Developing for Debugging (2025)

https://www.davepacheco.net/blog/2025/developing-for-debugging-dns-propagation/
15•mpweiher•1d ago•0 comments

Show HN: The Zelda timeline to catch up before the Ocarina of Time remake

https://legendofhyrule.com/
146•jsomau•8h ago•82 comments

I built a programming language that LLMs can't use

https://blog.picheta.me/post/killswitch-lang/
17•dom96•23h ago•17 comments

Namecheap just seized and disabled all my domains

https://www.reddit.com/r/sysadmin/comments/1x8cycd/namecheap_just_seized_and_disabled_all_my_doma...
292•sashk•4h ago•145 comments

16-bit fully functional DIY magnetic core memory

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OJ1WYyO2jdY
6•oliculipolicula•3d ago•0 comments

Beyond Tetris: The other games of Alexey Pajitnov [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QH_LPimUJMs
48•zdw•22h ago•0 comments

I electrified my push scooter with a power drill

https://eddieabbondanz.io/post/shop/drill-powered-scooter/
88•speckx•4d ago•37 comments

Open MicroManipulator – A sub-micrometer 3D motion control plattform

https://github.com/0x23/MicroManipulatorStepper
162•_Microft•10h ago•13 comments

Florida's HOAs and condo associations are making the housing crisis worse

https://hoaspy.com/hoa/fl/florida-hoa-housing-crisis.html
125•lovewins•3h ago•218 comments

Types of types: Haskell's Kind system

https://thunk.blog/posts/types-of-types-haskell-kind-system/
88•Thom2503•4d ago•71 comments

How the Elizabeth Holmes documentary “You Can See Everything” is deceiving

https://www.readtheprofile.com/p/elizabeth-holmes-documentary-you-can-see-everything
341•MaysonL•18h ago•468 comments

Netflix vmaf: Perceptual video quality assessment based on multi-method fusion

https://github.com/Netflix/vmaf
5•tosh•1h ago•2 comments

Show HN: Ranet3 – High performance policy routed IPsec mesh SD-WAN

https://ranet3.com/
22•StepBroBD•7h ago•5 comments

Parser Combinators

https://t3.at/blog/2026-10-17-parser-combinators/
206•schindlabua•13h ago•77 comments

Show HN: Sphinx – A hook that quizzes you on your AI's code before shipping

https://sphinx-six-theta.vercel.app/
234•critiquebrowser•17h ago•76 comments

Mitos editor is a fork of Helix

https://mitos.computer/
51•ambigious7777•4h ago•49 comments

Teal – A statically-typed dialect of Lua

https://teal-language.org/
144•Lyngbakr•2d ago•63 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."