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Using AI to write better code more slowly

https://nolanlawson.com/2026/05/25/using-ai-to-write-better-code-more-slowly/
350•signa11•5h ago•133 comments

Taking a walk may lead to more creativity than sitting, study finds (2014)

https://www.apa.org/news/press/releases/2014/04/creativity-walk
169•bilsbie•6h ago•62 comments

How Shamir's Secret Sharing Works

https://ente.com/blog/how-shamirs-secret-sharing-works/
126•subract•6h ago•12 comments

Norway's 2 petabytes of Huawei flash storage and LLM training

https://www.blocksandfiles.com/flash/2026/05/22/norways-2-petabytes-of-huawei-flash-storage-and-l...
213•rbanffy•9h ago•105 comments

Earthion: A New Mega Drive-Style Shoot-Em-Up

https://earthiongame.com/
10•MrBuddyCasino•1h ago•2 comments

Ferrari Luce

https://www.ferrari.com/en-EN/auto/ferrari-luce
144•jumploops•8h ago•298 comments

Exit IP VPN servers mitigation rollout

https://mullvad.net/en/help/exit-ip-vpn-servers-mitigation-rollout
310•Cider9986•11h ago•56 comments

California moves to exempt Linux from its age-verification law after backlash

https://www.tomshardware.com/software/linux/california-moves-to-exempt-linux-from-its-upcoming-ag...
763•rbanffy•10h ago•333 comments

Toshifumi Suzuki, founder of Seven-Eleven Japan, has died

https://www.referenceforbusiness.com/biography/S-Z/Suzuki-Toshifumi-1932.html
163•L_Rahman•12h ago•60 comments

Designing for and against the manufactured normalcy field (2012)

https://www.urbanhonking.com/ideasfordozens/2012/06/24/designing-for-and-against-the-manufactured...
14•nvader•4h ago•5 comments

Squares in Squares

https://kingbird.myphotos.cc/packing/squares_in_squares.html
52•carlos-menezes•1d ago•4 comments

Motorola phones have started hijacking the Amazon app to insert affiliate codes

https://9to5google.com/2026/05/25/motorola-amazon-app-hijacking-behavior/
27•Cider9986•1h ago•6 comments

Performance of Rust Language [pdf]

https://github.com/yugr/rust-slides/
37•tanelpoder•5h ago•19 comments

Show HN: Write your BPF programs in Go, not C

https://github.com/boratanrikulu/gobee
70•boratanrikulu•4d ago•32 comments

What we lost when we stopped letting kids leave the front yard

https://stevemagness.substack.com/p/the-cost-of-safetyism
125•obscurette•14h ago•118 comments

Hacker News front page as a site

https://thefrontpage.dev/
180•thatxliner•9h ago•60 comments

Dehydration's role in learning and memory

https://www.cshl.edu/dehydrations-role-in-learning-and-memory/
19•hhs•3d ago•6 comments

Nobody cracks open a programming book anymore

https://unix.foo/posts/nobody-cracks-open-a-programming-book/
144•zdw•5h ago•162 comments

CVE-2026-28952: Apple macOS 26.5 Kernel Vuln found by Claude

https://support.apple.com/en-us/127115
109•dragonsenseiguy•5h ago•48 comments

Why the Smart Home Bubble Popped

https://hackaday.com/2026/05/21/why-the-smart-home-bubble-popped/
20•lxm•1h ago•28 comments

Show HN: OpenBrief – Local-first video downloader/summarizer

https://github.com/tantara/openbrief
39•tantara•7h ago•5 comments

The Lottery – Shirley Jackson (1948)

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1948/06/26/the-lottery
28•jxmorris12•3d ago•14 comments

C extensions, portability, and alternative compilers

https://lemon.rip/w/6-c-extensions-compilers/
147•xngbuilds•15h ago•50 comments

Weave (YC W25) is hiring ML, AI, product, & design engineers

https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/workweave
1•adchurch•10h ago

Ask HN: Pregunta para los devs hispanohablantes

5•alonsovm44•46m ago•0 comments

Jensen–Shannon Divergence

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jensen%E2%80%93Shannon_divergence
90•teleforce•3d ago•15 comments

Does Anybody Actually Like React?

https://jsx.lol
110•brazukadev•3h ago•126 comments

Microsoft Copilot Cowork Exfiltrates Files

https://www.promptarmor.com/resources/microsoft-copilot-cowork-exfiltrates-files
209•Kneenex•7h ago•44 comments

A Comma and a Question Mark

https://www.thetypicalset.com/blog/a-comma-and-a-question-mark
11•eigenBasis•3d ago•4 comments

Gnutella: A Protocol Outliving the World That Created It

https://rickcarlino.com/notes/p2p/gnutella-explanation.html
235•rickcarlino•4d ago•72 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."