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https://dev-null.sh
37•mnapoli•29m ago•33 comments

JPEG XL vs. AVIF for web use-cases

https://jakearchibald.com/2026/jpeg-xl-vs-avif/
50•farlight•1h ago•27 comments

Apple ML Research: Muse Spark Open with MLX on Mac Studio

https://machinelearning.apple.com/research/mlx-distributed-inference
139•antipaul•3h ago•72 comments

Desire to Move Permanently to U.S. at New Low

https://news.gallup.com/poll/708614/desire-migrate-drops-new-low.aspx
97•karakoram•48m ago•76 comments

Big Fish: Exploiting a 37-Year-Old Kernel Bug in OpenBSD

https://calif.io/research/big-fish
93•rs_rs_rs_rs_rs•2h ago•20 comments

Show HN: Gemini 4 Argon plays StarCraft

https://starskirmish.com/bench/v0-2/
82•__cayenne__•3h ago•43 comments

Piramidal (YC W24) Is Hiring

https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/piramidalinc/jobs/4443102009
1•dsacellarius•17m ago

What on Earth Is Dekton?

https://www.worksinprogress.news/p/porcelain
70•wawayanda•2h ago•21 comments

I Love Software Rendering

https://www.jamesfmackenzie.com/2026/10/13/i-love-software-rendering/
207•speckx•4h ago•144 comments

Stolen Renoir paintings found hidden, and damaged, behind cinder block wall

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/stolen-renoir-paintings-found-behind-wall-france/
42•ohjeez•3d ago•30 comments

Is Liquid Metal Killing Our PCs? Scientific Analysis and a 2-Year Test [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eF6bMSjPepM
50•zdw•18h ago•31 comments

RFC8950: Announce IPv4 with an IPv6 next-hop

https://anuragbhatia.com/post/2026/06/rfc8950-announce-ipv4-with-ipv6-next-hop/
50•porridgeraisin•3h ago•21 comments

Woman who rescued injured crow keeps getting 'thank-you gifts' from birds [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sjNpfz4UzqU
715•johnnyApplePRNG•3d ago•224 comments

US Rep Announces Congressional Legislation to Protect Video Game Ownership

https://ritchietorres.house.gov/posts/rep-torres-announces-power-to-the-players-act-legislation-t...
67•DeepLogin•1h ago•39 comments

How to make System 1 LLMs show System 2 competencies?

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/aaai.70113
22•porridgeraisin•3h ago•12 comments

Yet another way to invoke functions without parentheses

https://blog.ikaes.de/yet-another-way-to-invoke-functions-without-parentheses/
210•aragonite•2d ago•94 comments

Inside Polymarket's paid quote-retweet esports program

https://www.readergrev.com/p/polymarket-paid-quote-retweet-esports-investigation
58•paimapi•1h ago•41 comments

Making 1,750 programmable PCB badges for Canada's biggest hackathon

https://va3ndf.com/blog/hacker-badges/
6•va3ndf•2d ago•0 comments

Postgres 19 delayed after AI reviewers find more bugs than humans can fix

https://www.theregister.com/databases/2026/10/16/postgres-19-delayed-after-ai-reviewers-find-more...
49•magoghm•1h ago•10 comments

Show HN: rStation – A shared research lab for your AI agents

https://rstation.ai/
25•stephenchung•2h ago•15 comments

Show HN: OneDeploy – Managed open-source apps with nightly backups and TLS

https://onedeploy.co
16•relatedcode•1h ago•8 comments

How gyroscopes got so small [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Zc_6xB5W3Y
61•surprisetalk•1d ago•30 comments

The Economic Complexity of the Western Roman Empire

https://www.michelecoscia.com/?p=2613
121•mikk14•2d ago•26 comments

AI-assisted PCB design for KiCad 10

https://github.com/mixelpixx/Konnect
98•ofrzeta•2d ago•33 comments

Show HN: Wonderhop – A daily game: guess what most people say, or what none do

https://wonderhop.io/en/
18•mtlduo•2d ago•22 comments

What was a Token Ring network?

https://dfarq.homeip.net/what-was-a-token-ring-network/
32•ibobev•3h ago•28 comments

MS Paint Adds Freeform Rotation (2026)

https://blogs.windows.com/windows-insider/2026/02/20/announcing-windows-11-insider-preview-build-...
38•telestew•2d ago•36 comments

Bark: The Toll-Free BBS for 90s Teens

https://blog.bityard.net/articles/2026/October/bark-the-toll-free-bbs-for-90s-teens
33•bityard•5h ago•9 comments

A story of WiFi secrets, UART lockdowns and a damaged flash memory chip

https://adepts.of0x.cc/eufy-homestation2-firmware/
6•michidk•1h ago•0 comments

How to Formalize All of Mathematics

https://xenaproject.wordpress.com/2026/10/16/how-to-formalize-all-of-mathematics/
53•practal•3h ago•47 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."