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The end of Microsoft Research's AI Frontiers group

https://hunch.net/?p=13764006
129•srean•1h ago•62 comments

What I run on my $10 USD OpenStick homelab

https://blog.bosscher.ch/posts/openstick/
76•LaurensBER•1h ago•17 comments

Show HN: Coldframe, a honeypot that poses as a supermarket fridge controller

https://github.com/hedgerow-dev/coldframe
101•hedgerow-dev•2h ago•25 comments

Apple’s grey list: Words and phrases your iPhone won’t help you spell

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/nov/06/struggling-to-spell-male-chauvinist-pig-apple-...
104•user_7832•2h ago•71 comments

MaxxBench – "Nice DeepSWE score. But is it true?"

https://maxxbench.unlap.ai/research/why-maxxbench/
77•antiuniverse•2h ago•15 comments

The $8 Linux Computer (2022)

http://thelittleengineerthatcould.blogspot.com/2022/12/the-8-linux-computer.html
161•zenincognito•5h ago•66 comments

Five memorable books about programming (2008)

https://prog21.dadgum.com/19.html
31•andsoitis•2h ago•10 comments

Need for Speed Underground 2 online in the browser

https://nfsu2.xyz/
615•fluxusars•10h ago•180 comments

How Long Can Life Wait?

https://mceglowski.substack.com/p/how-long-can-life-wait
77•Ariarule•3h ago•32 comments

The Typo Generation Is Damaging Literature

https://www.metropolitanreview.org/p/the-typo-generation-is-damaging-literature
18•bryanrasmussen•2d ago•12 comments

Every Mac comes with an (undocumented) family member classifier

https://8rank.ai/game/apple-intelligence-personal-knowledge-graph
479•infwhispers•10h ago•279 comments

Every processor die anyone has photographed and given away

https://sheets.works/data-viz/cpu-dies
35•user_7832•3h ago•6 comments

Libghostty 1.0

https://mitchellh.com/writing/libghostty-1-0
963•mfiguiere•20h ago•164 comments

Text.js: Build full-stack React apps that render inside console.log

https://textjs.org/
59•nateb2022•3d ago•28 comments

Running a law firm on Free software

https://decoded.legal/blog/2026/11/running-a-law-firm-on-free-software-2026-edition/
180•DeepLogin•10h ago•83 comments

They don't make 'em like that any more: Borland Turbo Pascal 7

https://kevinboone.me/tpwin.html
128•andsoitis•3h ago•78 comments

Show HN: We compressed a 31B video+audio diffusion model to 14B, 6 steps, INT8

https://github.com/Video-Rebirth/hyperflow-h3-flash
29•jiant•4h ago•9 comments

Every Windows 11 app should kill Electron, and Discord just showed why

https://www.windowslatest.com/2026/11/06/every-windows-11-app-should-kill-electron-and-discord-ju...
81•thunderbong•8h ago•110 comments

A barbarian tribe's mythic origin story is true, ancient DNA reveals

https://www.science.org/content/article/barbarian-tribe-s-mythic-origin-story-true-ancient-dna-re...
175•benbreen•14h ago•162 comments

Asahi Linux Progress Linux 7.3

https://asahilinux.org/2026/11/progress-report-7-3/
244•ackyshake•14h ago•211 comments

British Library Legal deposit and web archiving

https://www.bl.uk/services/legal-deposit/web-archiving
49•robtherobber•4d ago•25 comments

Terry Pratchett's Study

https://www.sussi.dk/terry-pratchetts-study
21•ColinWright•3h ago•3 comments

Optimising the Rail Cube

https://owenlacey.dev/railcube-optimisation/post
18•owenlacey•3d ago•1 comments

The Components of Agent Memory

https://www.anthropic.com/research/components-of-agent-memory
131•geoffbp•13h ago•67 comments

Tasfer: a text editor drawn on a 2D canvas

https://www.hamza.se/blog/tasfer
49•hamza512b•3d ago•21 comments

Ask HN: How did you convince family and friends to join your XMPP/Matrix server?

59•mtlynch•4h ago•50 comments

The Gordon Gekko Effect: The Role of Culture in the Financial Industry [pdf] (2016)

https://www.newyorkfed.org/medialibrary/media/research/epr/2016/epr_2016_gordon-gekko-effect_lo.pdf
32•tylerdane•5h ago•20 comments

A Jev that can ask Opus for help gives Opus accuracy at 4x lower cost

https://hightouch.com/blog/llm-judges-identity-resolution
566•theanomaly•23h ago•139 comments

ToothPaste

https://brisk4t.github.io/blog/toothpaste/
83•speckx•4d ago•17 comments

ZeBridge – PostgreSQL replicas on devices, synchronized over NATS

https://github.com/ndrean/ZeBridge
16•ndrean•4d ago•1 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."