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git's –end-of-options Flag

https://nesbitt.io/2026/07/21/end-of-options.html
38•Erenay09•1d ago•6 comments

Terence Tao's ChatGPT conversation about the Jacobian Conjecture counterexample

https://chatgpt.com/share/6a5fdc7a-d6f8-83e8-bbea-8deb42cfed56
705•gmays•11h ago•425 comments

Quality non-fiction books are the antithesis of AI slop

https://resobscura.substack.com/p/quality-non-fiction-books-are-the
235•benbreen•14h ago•92 comments

GigaToken: ~1000x faster Language model tokenization

https://github.com/marcelroed/gigatoken/
414•syrusakbary•11h ago•82 comments

Show HN: Bento - An entire PowerPoint in one HTML file (edit+view+data+collab)

https://bento.page/slides/
716•starfallg•13h ago•161 comments

Medici family mystery may be solved after more than 400 years

https://www.cnn.com/2026/07/15/science/medici-family-mystery-dna-malaria
98•effects•6h ago•23 comments

Everyone should know SIMD

https://mitchellh.com/writing/everyone-should-know-simd
319•WadeGrimridge•10h ago•101 comments

Are AI labs pelicanmaxxing?

https://dylancastillo.co/posts/pelicanmaxxing.html
434•dcastm•11h ago•167 comments

ascdraw: Editor for ASCII/UTF-8 diagrams (in 144FPS)

https://github.com/exlee/ascdraw
15•xlii•2d ago•5 comments

Restructuring GitHub's bug bounty program

https://github.blog/security/next-chapter-restructuring-githubs-bug-bounty-program/
18•soheilpro•2h ago•9 comments

Show HN: Cactus Hybrid: We taught Gemma 4 to know when it's wrong

https://github.com/cactus-compute/cactus-hybrid
93•HenryNdubuaku•10h ago•14 comments

John C. Dvorak has died

https://twitter.com/na_announce/status/2079952538040672302
650•coleca•9h ago•207 comments

Malleable Computing, Emacs, and You

http://yummymelon.com/devnull/malleable-computing-emacs-and-you.html
82•kickingvegas•7h ago•23 comments

So Reddit has decided that plain HTML is unsafe

https://www.cole-k.com/2026/07/21/reddit/
339•montroser•16h ago•341 comments

Fairphone 6 wide camera experimental Linux support

https://nondescriptpointer.com/articles/fairphone-6-wide-camera-linux/
89•helonaut•8h ago•10 comments

Making

https://beej.us/blog/data/ai-making/
307•erikschoster•13h ago•117 comments

Petals: Run LLMs at home, BitTorrent-style

https://petals.dev/
79•snorbleck•3h ago•26 comments

The startup's Postgres survival guide

https://hatchet.run/blog/postgres-survival-guide
349•abelanger•16h ago•175 comments

Codeberg Bans Cryptocurrency Projects

https://codeberg.org/Codeberg/org/pulls/1254
181•intunderflow•3h ago•218 comments

Nobody knows what a used GPU cluster is worth

https://ciphertalk.substack.com/p/nobody-knows-what-a-used-gpu-cluster
194•rbanffy•1w ago•177 comments

What Rose Petals Teach Us about Induction

https://www.oranlooney.com/post/rose-petals/
27•olooney•4d ago•2 comments

Businesses with ugly AI menu redesigns

https://blog.fiddery.com/businesses-with-ugly-ai-menu-redesigns/
213•speckx•15h ago•161 comments

Any text-to-SQL benchmark should address difficulties of real-world data stores

https://cacm.acm.org/blogcacm/if-you-think-you-can-do-real-world-text-to-sql/
42•shenli3514•6h ago•13 comments

Clarity didn't work, trying mysterianism (2012)

https://gwern.net/doc/fiction/science-fiction/2012-10-03-yvain-thewhisperingearring.html
58•dboon•9h ago•22 comments

Back to Kagi

https://blog.melashri.net/micro/back-to-kagi/
226•speckx•15h ago•172 comments

Launch HN: Unlayer (YC W22) – Add email and document builders to your app

https://unlayer.com
47•adeelraza•12h ago•33 comments

Ghost Cut – or why Cut and Paste is broken everywhere

https://ishmael.textualize.io/blog/ghost-cut/
143•willm•14h ago•97 comments

Honey Bee Colony Monitoring via Audio IoT Sensors, Tensorgrams and RNNs

https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.20386
8•StatsAreFun•2h ago•0 comments

Taking OCaml and Eio for a Spin

https://mattjhall.co.uk/posts/taking-ocaml-eio-for-a-spin.html
46•mattjhall•2d ago•6 comments

All 253 Patterns from Christopher Alexander's a Pattern Language Summarized

https://claytondorge.com/patterns-list
41•toomuchtodo•6h ago•5 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."