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System 7 natively boots on the Mac mini G4

https://macos9lives.com/smforum/index.php?topic=7711.0
112•ibobev•3h ago•16 comments

WinApps: Run Windows apps as if they were a part of the native Linux OS

https://github.com/winapps-org/winapps
55•klaussilveira•3d ago•9 comments

Airbus A320 – intense solar radiation may corrupt data critical for flight

https://www.airbus.com/en/newsroom/press-releases/2025-11-airbus-update-on-a320-family-precaution...
231•pyrophoenix•9h ago•43 comments

Imgur geo-blocked the UK, so I geo-unblocked my network

https://blog.tymscar.com/posts/imgurukproxy/
344•tymscar•12h ago•114 comments

A triangle whose interior angles sum to zero

https://www.johndcook.com/blog/2025/11/28/tricusp-triangle/
83•tzury•6h ago•41 comments

Molly: An Improved Signal App

https://molly.im/
298•dtj1123•13h ago•160 comments

Every mathematician has only a few tricks (2020)

https://mathoverflow.net/questions/363119/every-mathematician-has-only-a-few-tricks
56•nill0•5h ago•11 comments

Confessions of a Software Developer: No More Self-Censorship

https://kerrick.blog/articles/2025/confessions-of-a-software-developer-no-more-self-censorship/
165•Kerrick•8h ago•159 comments

Neato vacuum robots to stop working

https://support.neatorobotics.com/support/solutions/articles/204000073686-announcement-6th-oct-2025
25•simonlondon•3h ago•9 comments

So you wanna build a local RAG?

https://blog.yakkomajuri.com/blog/local-rag
257•pedriquepacheco•14h ago•51 comments

The weirdest tool I own is also one of the most useful

https://www.zdnet.com/article/the-weirdest-tool-i-own-is-also-one-of-the-most-useful-and-its-14-o...
11•fcpguru•2d ago•0 comments

Show HN: Mu – The Micro Network

https://github.com/asim/mu
18•asim•4d ago•8 comments

Airloom – 3D Flight Tracker

https://objectiveunclear.com/airloom.html
202•azinman2•14h ago•65 comments

The original ABC language, Python's predecessor (1991)

https://github.com/gvanrossum/abc-unix
96•tony•11h ago•25 comments

A first look at Django's new background tasks

https://roam.be/notes/2025/a-first-look-at-djangos-new-background-tasks/
93•roam•9h ago•19 comments

28M Hacker News comments as vector embedding search dataset

https://clickhouse.com/docs/getting-started/example-datasets/hackernews-vector-search-dataset
367•walterbell•13h ago•145 comments

Fabric Project

https://github.com/Fabric-Project/Fabric
44•brcmthrowaway•8h ago•7 comments

I mathematically proved the best "Guess Who?" strategy [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_3RNB8eOSx0
59•surprisetalk•6d ago•15 comments

How good engineers write bad code at big companies

https://www.seangoedecke.com/bad-code-at-big-companies/
292•gfysfm•11h ago•198 comments

Language is primarily a tool for communication rather than thought (2024) [pdf]

https://gwern.net/doc/psychology/linguistics/2024-fedorenko.pdf
34•netfortius•16h ago•7 comments

Flight disruption warning as Airbus requests modifications to 6k planes

https://www.bbc.com/news/live/cvg4y6g74ert
196•nrhrjrjrjtntbt•9h ago•85 comments

Don't tug on that, you never know what it might be attached to (2016)

https://blog.plover.com/2016/07/01/#tmpdir
117•todsacerdoti•15h ago•53 comments

True P2P Email on Top of Yggdrasil Network

https://github.com/JB-SelfCompany/Tyr
129•basemi•14h ago•23 comments

How to get Pandoc to respect custom table styles in Word templates

https://johnathandos.com/posts/2025-11-24-custom-tables-with-pandoc/
10•johnathandos•4d ago•1 comments

Electron vs. Tauri

https://www.dolthub.com/blog/2025-11-13-electron-vs-tauri/
50•birdculture•10h ago•23 comments

Show HN: Choose your own adventure style Presentation

https://github.com/Skarlso/adventure-voter
18•skarlso•1w ago•4 comments

The 'S&P 493' reveals a different U.S. economy

https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/markets/the-s-p-493-reveals-a-very-different-us-economy/ar-AA1R1VUJ
23•MilnerRoute•1h ago•2 comments

Effective harnesses for long-running agents

https://www.anthropic.com/engineering/effective-harnesses-for-long-running-agents
94•diwank•11h ago•32 comments

JSON Schema Demystified: Dialects, Vocabularies and Metaschemas

https://www.iankduncan.com/engineering/2025-11-24-json-schema-demystified/
65•navigate8310•13h ago•23 comments

Can Dutch universities do without Microsoft?

https://dub.uu.nl/en/news/can-dutch-universities-do-without-microsoft
278•robtherobber•15h ago•280 comments
Open in hackernews

Building my npx business card

https://ashley.dev/posts/turning-feedback-into-features/
8•edent•6mo ago

Comments

steele•6mo ago
Ooh, free real estate, let's colonize and gentrify package management
aabhay•6mo ago
Lmao, gentrify cracked me up
neilv•6mo ago
Do these npx business cards run arbitrary code on your computer?
cypherpunks01•6mo 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•6mo 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•6mo ago
Yeah, this seems like a very smart but inherently flawed idea.
cypherpunks01•6mo 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•6mo ago
May as well just release an executable tbh.
theamk•6mo 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•6mo 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•6mo 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."