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QBittorrent breaks out of sandbox to commit crimes

https://beige.party/@intransitivelie/117057396732763183
893•mraniki•5h ago•169 comments

Following legal advice, the Nitter project will continue

https://github.com/zedeus/nitter
33•Cider9986•25m ago•3 comments

Your intellectual fly is open (2025)

https://bcantrill.dtrace.org/2025/12/05/your-intellectual-fly-is-open/
330•cyb0rg0•6h ago•213 comments

NetBSD 9.5 released and EOL for NetBSD-9

https://blog.netbsd.org/tnf/entry/netbsd_9_5_released_and
55•jaypatelani•2h ago•2 comments

An Alien Mind

https://openai.com/index/an-alien-mind/
98•tosh•1h ago•58 comments

We monitor internal coding agents for misalignment

https://openai.com/index/how-we-monitor-internal-coding-agents-misalignment/
30•lukaspetersson•1h ago•20 comments

Isar Aerospace reaches orbit and deploys payloads on second flight

https://isaraerospace.com/press/history-for-european-spaceflight-isar-aerospace-reaches-orbit-and...
452•mpweiher•10h ago•134 comments

Research carried out using NetBSD

https://www.netbsd.org/gallery/research.html
33•Bluestein•2h ago•2 comments

Opalite Health (YC W26) Is Hiring – Founding GTM

https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/opalite-health/jobs/bNedVAD-founding-gtm
1•ckuo9•1h ago

A/I shuts down – Stay human

https://keepitfree.ai/announcements/a/i-shuts-down-stay-human/
325•captainmuon•3h ago•210 comments

Doomscrolling Ourselves to Death

https://www.edwest.co.uk/p/doomscrolling-ourselves-to-death
254•shubhamjain•6h ago•169 comments

Research acceleration: The view inside OpenAI

https://openai.com/index/research-acceleration-view-inside-openai
43•iamsyr•3h ago•15 comments

Recreating Minecraft Is Not a Benchmark

https://kuber.studio/blog/Reflections/Recreating-Minecraft-is-Not-a-Benchmark
30•kuberwastaken•3h ago•20 comments

Electronic skin for prosthetics to sense temperature and pressure

https://news.wsu.edu/press-release/2026/08/20/researchers-develop-electronic-skin-for-prosthetics...
15•gmays•4d ago•2 comments

Is There I/O After Death? What Happens to Io_uring When a Process Dies

https://blog.ydb.tech/is-there-i-o-after-death-what-happens-to-io-uring-when-a-process-dies-92c65...
29•porridgeraisin•3d ago•4 comments

M-DISC – DVD/Blu-ray compatible discs that may last up to 1000 years

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M-DISC
145•gurjeet•4d ago•62 comments

Asahi Linux Now Officially Supports Apple M3 Macs – With Caveats

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Asahi-Linux-Official-M3
172•mdp2021•4h ago•102 comments

Babylonian Lamb Stew with Beets (1750–1730 BCE)

https://babylonian-collection.yale.edu/about/babylonian-cooking
10•yubblegum•2d ago•14 comments

The many mysteries and lessons of the Bayeux tapestry

https://economist.com/interactive/culture/2026/09/03/the-many-mysteries-and-lessons-of-the-bayeux...
39•andsoitis•4h ago•5 comments

Cloud in a Bottle: making self-hosting accessible to everyone

https://cloudinabottle.org/blog/launch-post
561•zplizzi•18h ago•278 comments

The revolt of the reader

https://bcantrill.dtrace.org/2026/09/05/the-revolt-of-the-reader/
520•chmaynard•20h ago•247 comments

The pencil case model of creativity

https://dub.uu.nl/en/column/pencil-case-model-creativity
40•jruohonen•6h ago•15 comments

I'm teaching an introductory 12 week course on Quantum Oracle Engineering

https://shukla.io/quantum-oracle-engineering/
34•BinRoo•5h ago•11 comments

IBM Quantum Nighthawk R2

https://www.ibm.com/quantum/blog/nighthawk-r2
61•fuglede_•3d ago•33 comments

Music Theory for Programmers

https://runjs.app/blog/music-theory-for-programmers
296•birdculture•3d ago•192 comments

Ganon's Mysterious Origins (Revisited)

https://www.thrillingtalesofoldvideogames.com/blog/ganon-name-origin-kamen-rider
15•tobr•21h ago•4 comments

Discovery of a new OpenAI agent message board

https://collusion.wiki/
2248•moultano•2d ago•1573 comments

Household Laser Cuts

https://cceckman.com/writing/household-laser-cuts/
39•evakhoury•1d ago•14 comments

Show HN: Kadō – open-source habit tracker, with non-binary habit score, for iOS

https://github.com/scastiel/kado
39•scastiel•3h ago•18 comments

The ColorChecker, photography's most important 24 squares, turns 50

https://www.dpreview.com/news/the-colorchecker-photographys-most-important-24-squares-turns-50/
111•sohkamyung•4d ago•22 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."