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Old and new apps, via modern coding agents

https://terrytao.wordpress.com/2026/07/11/old-and-new-apps-via-modern-coding-agents/
332•subset•7h ago•93 comments

Don't you mean extinct?

https://fabiensanglard.net/extinct/index.html
99•zdw•3h ago•40 comments

Show HN: Shirei, cross-platform GUI framework in native Go

https://github.com/hasenj/go-shirei/
41•hsn915•1h ago•19 comments

The shingles vaccine may reduce the risk of dementia

https://www.economist.com/leaders/2026/07/09/a-no-brainer-for-protecting-your-brain
83•saikatsg•3h ago•65 comments

Automation Without Understanding

https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.06377
25•root-parent•1h ago•11 comments

Against Usefulness

https://www.motivenotes.ai/p/against-usefulness
19•supo•54m ago•3 comments

Why study Diophantine equations?

https://hidden-phenomena.com/articles/modular
34•mb1699•2h ago•12 comments

Understanding the Odin Programming Language

https://odinbook.com/
116•AlexeyBrin•6h ago•56 comments

LARP – Revenue infrastructure for serious founders

https://www.larp.website/
16•BerislavLopac•1h ago•1 comments

The power of collaboration: How we can reduce traffic congestion

https://research.google/blog/the-power-of-collaboration-how-we-can-reduce-traffic-congestion/
30•raahelb•3h ago•18 comments

How to Read More Books

https://scotto.me/blog/2026-07-12-how-to-read-more-books/
149•silcoon•2h ago•78 comments

Ghostel.el: Terminal emulator powered by libghostty

https://dakra.github.io/ghostel/
203•signa11•9h ago•33 comments

Theo de Raadt: "You've been smoking something mind altering" (2007)

https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-misc&m=119318909016582
36•turrini•2h ago•23 comments

Vint Cerf, “father of the Internet”, is retiring

https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/30/the-father-of-the-internet-is-finally-retiring/
249•compiler-guy•2d ago•134 comments

Morphometrics: Introduction to the Analysis of Shape

https://www.geol.umd.edu/~tholtz/G331/lectures/331biomech.html
15•num42•1w ago•0 comments

What xAI's Grok build CLI sends to xAI: A wire-level analysis

https://gist.github.com/cereblab/dc9a40bc26120f4540e4e09b75ffb547
328•jhoho•17h ago•146 comments

Autoresearch, Claude and Constrained Optimization

https://www.elliotcsmith.com/autoresearch-claude-and-constrained-optimization/
19•gmays•4h ago•4 comments

Unauthenticated RCE in Motorola's MR2600 Router

https://mrbruh.com/motorola/
63•MrBruh•6h ago•22 comments

AI boosts research careers but narrow the span of ideas explored: study

https://spectrum.ieee.org/ai-science-research-flattens-discovery
106•zaikunzhang•5h ago•85 comments

Why write code in 2026

https://softwaredoug.com/blog/2026/07/09/write-code
4•softwaredoug•2d ago•53 comments

Satteri: A Markdown pipeline forged in Rust for the JavaScript world

https://satteri.bruits.org/
35•nateb2022•4d ago•5 comments

Abject Praise

https://infrequently.org/2026/07/abject-praise/
8•genericlemon24•5d ago•2 comments

Mesh LLM: distributed AI computing on iroh

https://www.iroh.computer/blog/mesh-llm
324•tionis•20h ago•75 comments

Show HN: Mindwalk – Replay coding-agent sessions on a 3D map of your codebase

https://github.com/cosmtrek/mindwalk
136•cosmtrek•12h ago•61 comments

Death of the Status Update: Why 55% of Americans Stopped Posting on Social Media

https://ca.pcmag.com/social-media/16790/the-death-of-the-status-update-why-55-of-americans-stoppe...
47•thunderbong•8h ago•45 comments

Lessons from the Vasa Shipwreck

https://www.ft.com/content/200a6c44-9b66-4af3-82eb-98acb53898e4
23•bookofjoe•3d ago•26 comments

Ditching Zotero for a Text File

https://atthis.link/blog/2026/57207.html
47•speckx•5d ago•29 comments

Show HN: Kurvengefahr – browser CAD/CAM for pen plotters

https://kurvengefahr.org/
10•tibordp•4h ago•3 comments

Protobuf-py: Protobuf for Python, without compromises

https://buf.build/blog/protobuf-py
122•ming13•4d ago•37 comments

Nvidia, CoreWeave, and Nebius: Inside the Circular Financing of the GPU Boom

https://io-fund.com/ai-stocks/nvidia-coreweave-nebius-circular-financing-gpu-boom
354•adletbalzhanov•1d ago•153 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."