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Show HN: To Honor Sir Patrick Stewart, Enjoy the TNG Episode Guessing Game

https://tng.episodle.com/
72•francisofascii•2h ago•21 comments

Cloudflare Turnstile solver library (no headless browser required)

https://github.com/chris124567/cfsolve
102•costco•2d ago•30 comments

My favourite PowerMac is a Nintendo Wii

https://virtuallyfun.com/2026/10/29/my-favourite-powermac-is-a-nintendo-wii/
254•DHowett•9h ago•67 comments

Backdoor in Claude Code for VS Code extension on the Cursor Marketplace

https://phorion.io/blog/offical-claude-code-vsx-compromise/
789•_chall•19h ago•493 comments

Northflank Breached

https://status.northflank.com
368•js4ever•11h ago•276 comments

Breaking the open web won't stop the bad bots

https://www.techpolicy.press/breaking-the-open-web-wont-stop-the-bad-bots/
201•raybb•3d ago•84 comments

The $6.3B Binance hack was pulled off in just 20 minutes

https://www.wired.com/story/the-dollar63-billion-binance-hack-was-pulled-off-in-just-20-minutes/
331•domhudson•13h ago•223 comments

Jules Verne's Lost Novel

https://blue-continuum.com/verne-paris
84•dnetesn•6h ago•19 comments

Show HN: A working Nintendo in ~1GB of Qwen weights

https://github.com/dbreunig/nesformer
197•dbreunig•9h ago•113 comments

The oldest ice disappears and the Stone Age emerges from it

https://www.sciencenorway.no/archaeology-climate-culture/the-oldest-ice-is-disappearing-the-stone...
95•dxs•6h ago•35 comments

sanstun: A sans-IO, parallel-friendly WireGuard implementation in Rust

https://www.firezone.dev/blog/introducing-sanstun
65•wh33zle•4h ago•14 comments

Infinite Mac: BeOS

https://blog.persistent.info/2026/10/infinite-mac-beos.html
109•ecliptik•6h ago•41 comments

Florilegium: Procedural Flowers in LaTeX

https://github.com/kevinraymond/florilegium
223•nanna•10h ago•36 comments

The federated code forge

https://tangled.org/blog/forge/
237•zlliang•10h ago•78 comments

Through Captain Jean-Luc Picard, Patrick Stewart taught us the measure of a man

https://www.bostonglobe.com/2026/10/29/metro/patrick-stewart-picard-star-trek-the-next-generation/
225•apress•6h ago•131 comments

Azure's Weakest Link – Five Full Cross-Tenant Compromises

https://www.binarysecurity.no/posts/2026/10/one-root-case
269•swq115•16h ago•53 comments

Trapped in the Technologist Factory

https://ideolalia.com/essays/trapped-in-the-technologist-factory.html
7•luu•2d ago•1 comments

Show HN: I rebuilt Kubernetes for ESP32 microcontrollers

https://github.com/arterialist/kube32
6•Arterialist•1d ago•1 comments

Cisco gives engineer unlimited AI tokens to rewrite legacy code

https://fortune.com/2026/10/30/cisco-president-jeetu-patel-gen-z-27-year-old-unlimited-ai-tokens-...
114•taubek•12h ago•129 comments

Turning a solar power system into its own backup

https://arstechnica.com/science/2026/10/turning-a-solar-power-system-into-its-own-backup/
33•PaulHoule•1d ago•12 comments

Linode Security Incident

https://status.linode.com/incidents/nt58zhx3pmgm
153•lacoolj•4h ago•83 comments

Building an AI-native engineering org

https://twitter.com/sgondala2/status/2115832070274723875
110•sgondala_ycapp•1d ago•149 comments

Wonderful Weather: Floods and Foreboding in 17th-Century Britain

https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/wonderful-weather/
9•Thevet•2d ago•0 comments

Tree-mounted machines connect to web app to let users knock on wood remotely

https://www.designboom.com/technology/tree-mounted-machines-web-app-users-knock-on-wood-remotely/
66•surprisetalk•3d ago•28 comments

Sleep framework: A new way for LLMs to retain knowledge in continual learning

https://research.google/blog/the-sleep-framework-a-new-way-for-llms-to-retain-knowledge-in-contin...
173•acossta•2d ago•17 comments

AO3 Down for Maintenance

https://www.otwstatus.org
94•idlewords•5h ago•22 comments

AI isn't replacing SREs, it's deskilling them

https://newsletter.signoz.io/p/ai-isnt-replacing-sres-its-deskilling
514•dorianniemiec•10h ago•386 comments

A Pickpocket's Guide to New York

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2026/11/02/a-pickpockets-guide-to-new-york
56•prismatic•6h ago•7 comments

How do you take a picture of a black hole?

https://www.quantamagazine.org/how-do-you-take-a-picture-of-a-black-hole-20261029/
88•dverlaeckt80•16h ago•65 comments

Bunny CDN Security Incident

https://status.bunny.net/incidents/p6gf1by9kr7m
205•SondreDag•7h ago•40 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."