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DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813

https://openrouter.ai/deepseek/deepseek-v4-pro-0813
807•explosion-s•12h ago•317 comments

Tailscale Traces Database Corruption to 16y/o SQLite WAL-Reset Bug

https://tailscale.com/blog/sqlite-wal-reset-bug
879•ropbear•14h ago•169 comments

Delta

https://zed.dev/blog/introducing-delta
457•khy•10h ago•153 comments

Qwen3.8-2.4T

https://huggingface.co/Qwen/Qwen3.8-2.4T-A95B
536•Philpax•13h ago•118 comments

Principia Mathematica is modern and insightful

https://okmij.org/ftp/Computation/Impressions/PrincipiaMathematica.html
86•matt_d•5h ago•37 comments

Antiqua–Fraktur Dispute

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antiqua%E2%80%93Fraktur_dispute
19•buzzy_hacker•2d ago•1 comments

Happy 45th Birthday to the IBM PC and Model F/XT

https://sharktastica.co.uk/articles/pc-fxt-45
45•tart-lemonade•4h ago•15 comments

Build Wide, Ship Narrow

https://adapt.com/blog/build-wide-ship-narrow
58•ashumz•4h ago•8 comments

2026 Eclipse Webcams

https://jonty.github.io/2026_eclipse_webcams/
461•zoenolan•16h ago•124 comments

Tim King, AmigaDOS developer, has died

https://amiga-news.de/en/news/AN-2026-08-00070-EN.html
247•doener•14h ago•30 comments

Probabilistic Estimation for Localizing a Radioactive Source in an Urban Setting

https://repository.lib.ncsu.edu/items/451b001d-e63a-4968-866d-3fb3a599b1e7
16•toomuchtodo•4d ago•16 comments

HTML over WebSockets: real-time SPAs with barely any JavaScript

https://en.andros.dev/blog/ef4968f5/html-over-websockets-real-time-spas-with-barely-any-javascript/
162•redbell•11h ago•112 comments

Grok 4.6

https://x.ai/news/grok-4-6
458•iLuddite•12h ago•434 comments

uBlock Origin Is Giving Up the Fight to Keep Ads Off Facebook

https://digitalescapetools.com/2026/08/ublock-origin-stops-chasing-facebook-ads.html
352•Markoff•17h ago•474 comments

Launch HN: Discovered Materials (YC P26) – AI agents to discover new materials

https://discoveredmaterials.com/research/
125•advaith08•20h ago•28 comments

Show HN: Ballet – Workflow automation that writes integrations against any API

https://www.ballet.dev/
24•danielkimber•4h ago•3 comments

Why Target Common Lisp for Code Generation?

http://funcall.blogspot.com/2026/08/why-vibe-code-in-lisp.html
53•oumua_don17•19h ago•50 comments

Why tiny JPEGs look different in Chrome

https://guillaumetech.github.io/posts/jpg-scaling-chrome/
273•gutechh•14h ago•61 comments

Thanks to social media, canned sardines are a scarcity on the supermarket shelf

https://corneroffifth.studio/why-cant-you-find-canned-sardines-right-now/
71•carabiner•6h ago•92 comments

Someone is running mass vulnerability scans, spoofing AI bots like ClaudeBot

https://knownagents.com/insights
248•gavinhking•14h ago•187 comments

Pixel Watch 5

https://blog.google/products-and-platforms/devices/pixel/pixel-watch-5/
117•ortusdux•12h ago•226 comments

Shade Map

https://shademap.app
162•fredley•15h ago•43 comments

Lovable raises $400M Series C

https://lovable.dev/blog/series-c
105•thoughtpeddler•12h ago•106 comments

A Tale of Dynamic Programming (2022)

https://iagoleal.com/posts/dynamic-programming/
79•Brajeshwar•3d ago•7 comments

Process as a Proxy for Motivation

https://bengodfrey.dev/blog/process/
37•sudo-bendg•6h ago•12 comments

AI is removing the middle class of software engineering?

https://blog.florianherrengt.com/ai-removing-middle-class-software-engineering.html
779•florianherrengt•15h ago•727 comments

Reflex (YC W23) Is hiring Growth and GTM Roles

https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/reflex/jobs/71x5GFb-growth-engineer
1•apetuskey•11h ago

What sort of maths are LLMs good at?

https://gowers.wordpress.com/2026/08/12/what-sort-of-maths-are-llms-good-at/
245•ColinWright•18h ago•138 comments

Show HN: Woxi - Open-source Mathematica / Wolfram Language reimplementation

https://woxi.ad-si.com
266•adius•18h ago•40 comments

License plate reader searches should require a warrant

https://andrewpwheeler.com/2026/08/12/license-plate-reader-searches-should-require-a-warrant/
561•apwheele•13h ago•334 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."