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Kimi K2.6 just beat Claude, GPT-5.5, and Gemini in a coding challenge

https://thinkpol.ca/2026/04/30/an-open-weights-chinese-model-just-beat-claude-gpt-5-5-and-gemini-...
172•bazlightyear•2h ago•78 comments

Clandestine network smuggling Starlink tech into Iran to beat internet blackout

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cvgzk91leweo
142•1659447091•5h ago•69 comments

A Couple Million Lines of Haskell: Production Engineering at Mercury

https://blog.haskell.org/a-couple-million-lines-of-haskell/
145•unignorant•6h ago•57 comments

This Month in Ladybird - April 2026

https://ladybird.org/newsletter/2026-04-30/
254•richardboegli•9h ago•41 comments

Six Years Perfecting Maps on WatchOS

https://www.david-smith.org/blog/2026/04/29/maps-on-watchos/
252•valzevul•9h ago•55 comments

Dav2d

https://code.videolan.org/videolan/dav2d
426•dabinat•13h ago•120 comments

The IBM Granite 4.1 family of models

https://research.ibm.com/blog/granite-4-1-ai-foundation-models
47•wglb•2d ago•5 comments

San Francisco streets with confusingly similar names

https://j-nelson.net/san-francisco-streets-with-similar-names/
14•SeenNotHeard•2d ago•15 comments

Neanderthals ran 'fat factories' 125,000 years ago (2025)

https://www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/news/2025/07/neanderthals-ran-fat-factories-125000-years-ago
152•andsoitis•9h ago•52 comments

Do_not_track

https://donottrack.sh/
268•RubyGuy•12h ago•87 comments

Windows API Is Successful Cross-Platform API

https://retrocoding.net/windows-api-is-successful-cross-platform-api
60•phendrenad2•3h ago•44 comments

VS Code inserting 'Co-Authored-by Copilot' into commits regardless of usage

https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/pull/310226
1052•indrora•10h ago•495 comments

Inventions for battery reuse and recycling increase seven-fold in last decade

https://www.epo.org/en/news-events/news/inventions-battery-reuse-and-recycling-increase-more-seve...
183•JeanKage•2d ago•11 comments

Maryland Is First to Ban A.I.-Driven Price Increases in Grocery Stores

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/01/business/surveillance-pricing-groceries-maryland.html
117•doener•5h ago•63 comments

Clojurists Together – Q2 2026 Open Source Funding Announcement

https://www.clojuriststogether.org/news/q2-2026-funding-announcement/
83•dragandj•9h ago•8 comments

The agent harness belongs outside the sandbox

https://www.mendral.com/blog/agent-harness-belongs-outside-sandbox
90•shad42•9h ago•70 comments

A more efficient implementation of Shor's algorithm

https://lwn.net/Articles/1066156/
57•signa11•1d ago•7 comments

Care Homes and Hotels in Japan Shut as Expansion Strategy Unravels

https://www.newsonjapan.com/article/149075.php
23•mikhael•5h ago•2 comments

Show HN: State of the Art of Coding Models, According to Hacker News Commenters

https://hnup.date/hn-sota
89•yunusabd•9h ago•45 comments

Windows quality update: Progress we've made since March

https://blogs.windows.com/windows-insider/2026/05/01/windows-quality-update-progress-weve-made-si...
7•jovial_cavalier•1d ago•2 comments

Simple and Correct Snapshot Isolation

https://remy.wang/blog/si.html
16•remywang•2d ago•1 comments

A Physics Engine with Incremental Rollback for Multiplayer Games

https://easel.games/blog/2026-rollback-physics
72•BSTRhino•1d ago•24 comments

How fast is a macOS VM, and how small could it be?

https://eclecticlight.co/2026/05/02/how-fast-is-a-macos-vm-and-how-small-could-it-be/
238•moosia•21h ago•87 comments

When Dawkins met Claude – Could this AI be conscious?

https://unherd.com/2026/04/is-ai-the-next-phase-of-evolution/
20•pentestercrab•1d ago•98 comments

Open source does not imply open community

https://blog.feld.me/posts/2026/04/open-source-does-not-imply-open-community/
119•RohanAdwankar•4h ago•28 comments

Dabbling in Erlang, part 2: A minimal introduction (2013)

https://agis.io/post/dabbling-in-erlang-a-minimal-introduction/
24•pasxizeis•22h ago•2 comments

Barman – Backup and Recovery Manager for PostgreSQL

https://github.com/EnterpriseDB/barman
152•nateb2022•3d ago•23 comments

Little Magazines Are Back

https://wsjfreeexpression.substack.com/p/little-magazines-are-back
84•prismatic•2d ago•28 comments

NetHack 5.0.0

https://nethack.org/v500/release.html
427•rsaarelm•12h ago•130 comments

The USB Situation

https://randsinrepose.com/archives/the-usb-situation/
118•herbertl•3d ago•130 comments
Open in hackernews

Building my npx business card

https://ashley.dev/posts/turning-feedback-into-features/
8•edent•11mo ago

Comments

steele•11mo ago
Ooh, free real estate, let's colonize and gentrify package management
aabhay•11mo ago
Lmao, gentrify cracked me up
neilv•11mo ago
Do these npx business cards run arbitrary code on your computer?
cypherpunks01•11mo 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•11mo 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•11mo ago
Yeah, this seems like a very smart but inherently flawed idea.
cypherpunks01•11mo 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•11mo ago
May as well just release an executable tbh.
theamk•11mo 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•11mo 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•11mo 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."