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Switzerland. Block by block. At 1:1 scale

https://blocks.manifold3d.ch/
261•theanonymousone•4h ago•112 comments

Birdwatching rewires the brain and slows cognitive decline

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20261019-birdwatching-rewires-the-brain-and-slows-cognitive-de...
166•cisc•2d ago•55 comments

Anthropic S-1

https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/2130357/000162828026067168/anthropicpbc-sx1.htm
47•SiNTEx•7m ago•12 comments

Websites Should Be Printable

https://brennenputh.me/blog/printable-websites/
75•bagatelle•2h ago•61 comments

Show HN: TitleArt – Make text like it's 1997

https://titleart.dvy.io/
292•davidbarker•9h ago•51 comments

Tasks as Code: Move Your Tickets into the Repository

https://typemill.net/knowledge-hub/tasks-as-code
15•trendschau•1h ago•15 comments

One of the Greatest Inventions in the History of Human Transport

https://humantransit.org/2024/12/one-of-the-greatest-inventions-in-the-history-of-human-transport...
15•skadamat•3d ago•3 comments

Behind the scenes at the NeXT Computer office

https://exhibits.stanford.edu/menuez/browse/next-computer-inc?per_page=96&sort=pub_year_isi+asc%2...
164•Austin_Conlon•9h ago•87 comments

PaperPilot – Zero-Cloud, Pure-Rust PDF Engine with WASM and MCP

https://github.com/KrushnaVardhanReddy/PaperPilot
178•vardhan1237•9h ago•66 comments

Dolly Parton's Imagination Library

https://imaginationlibrary.com/
586•jumploops•18h ago•99 comments

Show HN: A Truly Modular Keyboard

https://github.com/notaroomba/keybytes
200•NotARoomba•1d ago•67 comments

Growing Trees

https://brashandplucky.com/2026/10/15/growing-trees.html
117•ibobev•2d ago•17 comments

Overgrown, when plants invade your abandoned tabs

https://charliegerard.dev/blog/overgrown-extension/
328•speckx•3d ago•115 comments

Attention Is Not What You Need (2025)

https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.19428
142•westurner•13h ago•50 comments

Peter Thiel, the tech oligarch who believes in the Antichrist

https://english.elpais.com/technology/2026-10-25/peter-thiel-the-tech-oligarch-who-believes-in-th...
19•geox•22m ago•1 comments

Superhuman Hardware Design Is the Easy Part

https://www.a16z.news/p/superhuman-hardware-design-is-the
43•gmays•2d ago•28 comments

Iron Age salt-mining complex found beneath Hallstatt in Austria

https://archaeologymag.com/2026/09/iron-age-salt-mining-complex-beneath-hallstatt/
95•janandonly•3d ago•39 comments

Why I Am a Programmer

https://www.alfie.wtf/programming/why-i-am-a-programmer.html
266•jruohonen•18h ago•85 comments

F-Zero X on Nintendo 3DS

https://hypnotize.works/gdx-3ds/postmortem/index.html
140•bpierre•13h ago•76 comments

Steal My Bitcoin CTF PoC

https://github.com/KillaBoi/StealMyBitcoin-PoC
139•davikr•12h ago•36 comments

The State of Context Engineering

https://www.dbreunig.com/2026/10/24/the-state-of-context-engineering.html
213•pchristensen•16h ago•53 comments

We should be more ambitious with the software we build

https://danluu.com/ambitious/
830•ltratt•1d ago•726 comments

Writing Is Closer to Thought Than Code

https://danielmiessler.com/blog/writing-is-closer-to-thought-than-code
5•eigenBasis•40m ago•1 comments

Amazon’s “digital pacifier” for toddlers

https://oligarchwatch.substack.com/p/amazons-digital-pacifier-for-toddlers
230•jumploops•4d ago•329 comments

Two Million Hornets

https://dark-mountain.net/two-million-hornets/
21•promulgate•2d ago•4 comments

IBM CEO says open weight models are now good and cheap on-prem

https://www.theregister.com/systems/2026/10/22/ibm-ceo-says-open-weight-models-are-now-irresistib...
330•Betelbuddy•11h ago•239 comments

A 10-year-old CNN outperforms frontier LLMs for skin cancer diagnosis

https://lynchlab.net/llm-skin-cancer
600•sungam•19h ago•252 comments

Show HN: ADRs for AI – Deliberation records for human–AI work, versioned in Git

https://adrs.systems
55•lumbroso•1d ago•31 comments

Where the Romans Fought (interactive map)

https://iosiflazaridis.github.io/battles-of-the-romans/
126•endorphine•18h ago•49 comments

OpenAI and Anthropic cut their LLM prices by up to 80% within a few months. Why?

https://minimaxir.com/2026/10/cheap-llms/
371•minimaxir•16h ago•362 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."