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Astronauts told to return to ISS after sheltering over air leak repairs

https://www.bbc.com/news/live/c4g44ew3g1kt
315•janpot•6h ago•204 comments

Three of our worst VC stories

https://twitter.com/eastdakota/status/2062860530360959273
111•orgonon•2h ago•50 comments

pg_durable: Microsoft open sources in-database durable execution

https://github.com/microsoft/pg_durable
244•coffeemug•5h ago•62 comments

Hacker News, Sans AI

https://elijahpotter.dev/articles/hacker-news-sans-AI
47•chilipepperhott•1h ago•25 comments

Gemma 4 QAT models: Optimizing compression for mobile and laptop efficiency

https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/technology/developers-tools/quantization-aware-training-gem...
196•theanonymousone•5h ago•57 comments

My Agent Skill for Test-Driven Development

https://www.saturnci.com/my-agent-skill-for-test-driven-development.html
79•laxmena•1d ago•33 comments

New method turns ocean water into drinking water, without waste

https://www.rochester.edu/newscenter/what-is-desalination-definition-ocean-water-704732/
156•speckx•6h ago•75 comments

Mouseless – keyboard-driven control of macOS/Linux/Windows

https://mouseless.click
392•riddley•2d ago•174 comments

Transformers Are Inherently Succinct

https://openreview.net/pdf?id=Yxz92UuPLQ
46•brandonb•3h ago•18 comments

Gov.uk has replaced Stripe with Dutch provider Adyen

https://www.theregister.com/public-sector/2026/06/04/govuk-goes-dutch-on-payments-as-it-dumps-str...
226•toomuchtodo•4h ago•70 comments

Conventional Commits encourages focus on the wrong things

https://sumnerevans.com/posts/software-engineering/stop-using-conventional-commits/
220•jsve•6h ago•172 comments

Did Claude increase bugs in rsync?

https://alexispurslane.github.io/rsync-analysis/
201•logicprog•9h ago•204 comments

I tested every IP KVM in my Homelab

https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2026/i-tested-every-ip-kvm/
199•vquemener•7h ago•57 comments

Ask HN: What was your "oh shit" moment with GenAI?

62•andrehacker•22h ago•201 comments

"Maybe later" was a feature

https://arnorhs.dev/posts/2026-06-04/maybe-later-was-a-feature/
46•arnorhs•1d ago•8 comments

Cooldown Support for Ruby Bundler

https://blog.rubygems.org/2026/06/03/cooldown-let-new-gems-be-vetted.html
134•calyhre•2d ago•31 comments

Accidentally deleted subscriptions for chat integrations (Slack and MS Teams)

https://www.githubstatus.com/incidents/2nmfnbknhlnv
92•SparkyDogs•2h ago•39 comments

Inside FAISS: Billion-Scale Similarity Search

https://fremaconsulting.ch/blog/faiss
26•tohms•1d ago•0 comments

Launch HN: General Instinct (YC P26) – Frontier models on edge devices

36•guanming0717•5h ago•13 comments

India's surprise baby bust

https://www.economist.com/leaders/2026/06/04/indias-surprise-baby-bust-is-a-warning-to-the-world
85•hakonbogen•7h ago•419 comments

Tracing a powerful GNSS interference source over Europe

https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.03673
337•mimorigasaka•13h ago•182 comments

Mantine-datatable (and others) compromised – owner account suspended

https://github.com/icflorescu/mantine-datatable/discussions/813
49•justsomehuman•5h ago•20 comments

Redis 8.8: New array data structure, rate limiter, performance improvements

https://redis.io/blog/announcing-redis-8-8/
187•ksec•2d ago•86 comments

C++: The Documentary

https://herbsutter.com/2026/06/04/c-the-documentary-released-today/
348•ingve•17h ago•257 comments

Show HN: Lowfat – pluggable CLI filter that saved 91.8% of my LLM tokens

https://github.com/zdk/lowfat
92•zdkaster•12h ago•51 comments

Nango (YC W23, dev infra) is hiring staff back end engineers

https://nango.dev/careers
1•bastienbeurier•9h ago

Dutch gov't will only allow European company to operate DigiD platform

https://nltimes.nl/2026/06/05/dutch-govt-will-allow-european-company-operate-digid-platform
223•TechTechTech•7h ago•72 comments

Entanglement Builds Space-Time. Now "Magic" Gives It Gravity

https://www.quantamagazine.org/entanglement-builds-space-time-now-magic-gives-it-gravity-20260603/
160•rbanffy•13h ago•157 comments

Changing how we develop Ladybird

https://ladybird.org/posts/changing-how-we-develop-ladybird/
777•EdwinHoksberg•14h ago•498 comments

Let's celebrate work that is 100% human-made

https://www.human-made.work/
39•supryan•5h ago•32 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."