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People who know the formula for WD-40

https://www.wsj.com/business/the-secret-society-of-people-who-know-the-formula-for-wd-40-e9c0ff54
27•fortran77•39m ago•36 comments

Television is 100 years old today

https://diamondgeezer.blogspot.com/2026/01/tv100.html
334•qassiov•7h ago•106 comments

The Hidden Engineering of Runways

https://practical.engineering/blog/2026/1/20/the-hidden-engineering-of-runways
62•crescit_eundo•6d ago•4 comments

RIP Low-Code 2014-2025

https://www.zackliscio.com/posts/rip-low-code-2014-2025/
53•zackliscio•5h ago•23 comments

JuiceSSH – Give me my pro features back

https://nproject.io/blog/juicessh-give-me-back-my-pro-features/
151•jandeboevrie•4h ago•61 comments

Dithering – Part 2: The Ordered Dithering

https://visualrambling.space/dithering-part-2/
62•ChrisArchitect•2h ago•6 comments

ChatGPT Containers can now run bash, pip/npm install packages and download files

https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jan/26/chatgpt-containers/
45•simonw•2h ago•30 comments

Show HN: TetrisBench – Gemini Flash reaches 66% win rate on Tetris against Opus

https://tetrisbench.com/tetrisbench/
46•ykhli•3h ago•20 comments

Qwen3-Max-Thinking

https://qwen.ai/blog?id=qwen3-max-thinking
376•vinhnx•6h ago•321 comments

Fedora Asahi Remix is now working on Apple M3

https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:okydh7e54e2nok65kjxdklvd/post/3mdd55paffk2o
334•todsacerdoti•3h ago•112 comments

MapLibre Tile: a modern and efficient vector tile format

https://maplibre.org/news/2026-01-23-mlt-release/
369•todsacerdoti•11h ago•73 comments

Show HN: Ourguide – OS wide task guidance system that shows you where to click

https://ourguide.ai
11•eshaangulati•3h ago•3 comments

When AI 'builds a browser,' check the repo before believing the hype

https://www.theregister.com/2026/01/26/cursor_opinion/
150•CrankyBear•2h ago•66 comments

Find 'Abbey Road when type 'Beatles abbey rd': Fuzzy/Semantic search in Postgres

https://rendiment.io/postgresql/2026/01/21/pgtrgm-pgvector-music.html
58•nethalo•5d ago•14 comments

There is an AI code review bubble

https://www.greptile.com/blog/ai-code-review-bubble
96•dakshgupta•6h ago•67 comments

The mountain that weighed the Earth

https://signoregalilei.com/2026/01/18/the-mountain-that-weighed-the-earth/
71•surprisetalk•5h ago•10 comments

Not all Chess960 positions are equally complex

https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.14319
37•MaysonL•3d ago•15 comments

Google Books removed all search functions for any books with previews

https://old.reddit.com/r/google/comments/1qn1hk1/google_has_seemingly_entirely_removed_search/
140•adamnemecek•3h ago•47 comments

Google AI Overviews cite YouTube more than any medical site for health queries

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/jan/24/google-ai-overviews-youtube-medical-citations-...
316•bookofjoe•7h ago•170 comments

Taming P99s in OpenFGA: How we built a self-tuning strategy planner

https://auth0.com/blog/self-tuning-strategy-planner-openfga/
13•elbuo•4d ago•1 comments

OpenFlexure Microscope

https://openflexure.org/projects/microscope/
26•o4c•5d ago•4 comments

Things I've learned in my 10 years as an engineering manager

https://www.jampa.dev/p/lessons-learned-after-10-years-as
493•jampa•5d ago•126 comments

San Francisco Graffiti

https://walzr.com/sf-graffiti
117•walz•11h ago•115 comments

OSS ChatGPT WebUI – 530 Models, MCP, Tools, Gemini RAG, Image/Audio Gen

https://llmspy.org/docs/v3
99•mythz•6h ago•23 comments

Show HN: Only 1 LLM can fly a drone

https://github.com/kxzk/snapbench
120•beigebrucewayne•10h ago•75 comments

The Holy Grail of Linux Binary Compatibility: Musl and Dlopen

https://github.com/quaadgras/graphics.gd/discussions/242
197•Splizard•14h ago•165 comments

Notice of Collective Action Lawsuit Against Workday, INC

https://workdaycase.com
76•mooreds•3h ago•24 comments

The browser is the sandbox

https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jan/25/the-browser-is-the-sandbox/
319•enos_feedler•16h ago•167 comments

Text Is King

https://www.experimental-history.com/p/text-is-king
151•zdw•5d ago•67 comments

Exactitude in Science – Borges (1946) [pdf]

https://kwarc.info/teaching/TDM/Borges.pdf
77•jxmorris12•7h ago•24 comments
Open in hackernews

Building my npx business card

https://ashley.dev/posts/turning-feedback-into-features/
8•edent•8mo ago

Comments

steele•8mo ago
Ooh, free real estate, let's colonize and gentrify package management
aabhay•8mo ago
Lmao, gentrify cracked me up
neilv•8mo ago
Do these npx business cards run arbitrary code on your computer?
cypherpunks01•8mo 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•8mo 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•8mo ago
Yeah, this seems like a very smart but inherently flawed idea.
cypherpunks01•8mo 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•8mo ago
May as well just release an executable tbh.
theamk•8mo 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•8mo 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•8mo 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."