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iPhone Duo

https://www.apple.com/iphone-duo/
971•thecosmicfrog•9h ago•1759 comments

Show HN: What if the speed of light was 5 km/h?

https://rivendell.dmitrybrant.com/relativity/
31•dmitrybrant•1h ago•21 comments

Shopify acquires Tailwind

https://tailwindcss.com/blog/tailwind-is-joining-shopify
921•EdwinHoksberg•13h ago•367 comments

What do Visa and Mastercard do? An intro to card networks

https://tautology.town/2026/06/01/card-networks.html
409•evakhoury•1d ago•237 comments

Growing proof that autonomous cars save lives

https://spectrum.ieee.org/are-self-driving-cars-safe
251•bookofjoe•10h ago•448 comments

AirPods 5

https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2026/09/apple-introduces-airpods-5-with-best-in-class-open-ear-act...
396•awad•9h ago•317 comments

No Man's Sky Cosmos

https://www.nomanssky.com/cosmos-update/
314•Limb•11h ago•333 comments

Show HN: Compute polynomials twice as fast

https://thomasahle.com/fast-polynomials/
25•thomasahle•18h ago•8 comments

iPhone 18 Pro and iPhone 18 Pro Max

https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2026/09/apple-debuts-iphone-18-pro-and-iphone-18-pro-max/
300•meetpateltech•9h ago•320 comments

GPT-6 Astra, looped transformers, and hidden reasoning

https://magazine.sebastianraschka.com/p/gpt-6-astra-looped-transformers-and
362•ModelForge•12h ago•128 comments

Factoring RSA 260

https://cognition.com/blog/factoring-rsa-260
49•samyok•7h ago•7 comments

Apple Watch Series 12

https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2026/09/introducing-apple-watch-series-12-with-the-all-new-health-...
229•Lealen•9h ago•274 comments

Automattic's board forces CEO Matt Mullenweg into leave of absence

https://techcrunch.com/2026/09/09/automattics-board-forces-ceo-matt-mullenweg-into-leave-of-absence/
83•LeoPanthera•3h ago•120 comments

A Stupid Idea for AI Alignment We Came with by Looking at Specification Gaming

https://slimemoldtimemold.com/2026/08/05/a-stupid-idea-for-ai-alignment-we-came-up-with-by-lookin...
8•cpeterso•1h ago•0 comments

Desert Ant Labs: local, fast models that run on device

https://desertant.com/blog/introducing-desert-ant-labs/
410•willwhitedc•15h ago•93 comments

Qwen 3.8 follows GPT-5.5 Pro reasoning prefills

https://gist.github.com/wsxiaoys/e0286dc6bb624ff5fdf49e7f4c528ba3
186•wsxiaoys•9h ago•75 comments

GNU Radio in the browser

https://gnuradioworld.com/
180•kristianpaul•11h ago•23 comments

Rivian's gambit for full autonomy

https://spectrum.ieee.org/rivian-self-driving
41•1970-01-01•1d ago•64 comments

Seismic Isolation

https://www.ligo.caltech.edu/page/vibration-isolation
9•pillars•3d ago•0 comments

How I advertise malicious software on Google Ads

https://xlii.space/eng/malicious-software-on-google-ads/
366•xlii•15h ago•222 comments

The UN challenges five centuries of cartography

https://www.not-ship.com/united-nations-map/
56•speckx•10h ago•73 comments

Be Using Rootless Containers

https://blog.miguelgrinberg.com/post/you-should-be-using-rootless-containers
6•ibobev•1d ago•1 comments

The Kuycon P20 – 28" 4500x3000px 3:2 monitor

https://taoofmac.com/space/reviews/2026/09/06/1800
27•zdw•3d ago•18 comments

Planet Labs' open satellite feed

https://tech.marksblogg.com/planet-labs-open-satellite-feed.html
151•marklit•11h ago•27 comments

Understanding the recent DDoS attack against Read the Docs

https://about.readthedocs.com/blog/2026/09/2026-ddos-attack/
165•davidfischer•11h ago•55 comments

Blizzard Workers Win Historic Union Contract

https://www.gamespot.com/articles/blizzard-workers-win-historic-union-contract-that-could-set-a-n...
123•dbg31415•4h ago•38 comments

Use Vsock with Libzmq

https://blog.remijouan.net/posts/libzmq-vsock-pyzmq/
31•remijouannet•2d ago•3 comments

Bespoke: A programming language for people who say please

https://blog.hofstede.it/bespoke-a-programming-language-for-people-who-say-please/
140•birdculture•3d ago•31 comments

Electrostatic Cathode Ray Tube Project 1 (2014)

https://labguysworld.com/Project_ESCRTs_001.htm
16•userbinator•1d ago•4 comments

Claude, change the “Add to Cart” button to blue

https://opusfived.dev/
1047•matthieu_bl•17h ago•406 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."