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The lost joy of music piracy

https://www.pigeonsandplanes.com/read/music-piracy-what-cd-oink-nine-inch-nails-streaming
345•mcgin•5h ago•190 comments

Inkling: Our Open-Weights Model

https://thinkingmachines.ai/news/introducing-inkling/
990•vimarsh6739•16h ago•249 comments

If you want to create a button from scratch, you must first create the universe

https://madcampos.dev/blog/2026/07/accessibility-from-scratch/
139•treve•6h ago•63 comments

Teardown: A Generic 7-Port USB 3.0 Hub That Wasn't

https://goughlui.com/2026/07/09/teardown-a-generic-7-port-usb-3-0-hub-that-wasnt/
65•speckx•3d ago•25 comments

1,300 Beautiful Wildlife Illustrations from the 19th Century Now Restored

https://www.openculture.com/2026/07/explore-1300-beautiful-wildlife-illustrations-from-the-19th-c...
101•gslin•7h ago•17 comments

Grok Build is open source

https://github.com/xai-org/grok-build
456•skp1995•13h ago•503 comments

Where are YC founders now? OpenAI and Anthropic, mostly

https://joinedanthropic.com
20•ohong•2h ago•3 comments

SQLite should have (Rust-style) editions

https://mort.coffee/home/sqlite-editions/
277•gnyeki•11h ago•117 comments

Governments, companies, nonprofits should invest in free, open source AI [pdf]

https://www.siegelendowment.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/fortune-david-siegel-open-source-ai.pdf
200•bilsbie•13h ago•73 comments

Stripe and Advent have made a joint offer to acquire PayPal – sources

https://www.reuters.com/business/finance/stripe-advent-offer-buy-paypal-more-than-53-billion-sour...
447•rvz•1d ago•258 comments

Bluesky Trademarks ATProto

https://atproto.com/blog/at-protocol-trademark
106•chaosharmonic•9h ago•44 comments

Reynard: A real Firefox web browser for iOS 13 or later

https://github.com/minh-ton/reynard-browser
45•AbuAssar•5h ago•13 comments

I also filed the corners off my MacBook

https://www.brt.fyi/posts/mac-book-filing/
191•maxbrt•1d ago•90 comments

Making 768 servers look like 1

https://planetscale.com/blog/making-768-servers-look-like-1
82•hisamafahri•6h ago•11 comments

In defense of not understanding your codebase

https://www.seangoedecke.com/in-defense-of-not-understanding-your-codebase/
9•saikatsg•3d ago•8 comments

The Tokio/Rayon Trap and Why Async/Await Fails Concurrency

https://pmbanugo.me/blog/why-async-await-complect-concurrency
70•LAC-Tech•8h ago•42 comments

High-Bandwidth Flash offers efficient storage for model weights

https://spectrum.ieee.org/high-bandwidth-flash
46•Gaishan•1d ago•17 comments

G# – A modern .NET language with Go, Kotlin, and Swift ergonomics

https://davidobando.github.io/gsharp/
100•serial_dev•4d ago•69 comments

Running Gemma 4 26B at 5 tokens/sec on a 13-year-old Xeon with no GPU

https://www.neomindlabs.com/2026/06/08/running-gemma-4-26b-at-5-tokens-sec-on-a-13-year-old-xeon-...
289•neomindryan•18h ago•187 comments

Rebuilding My Homelab with Compose, Ruby, IPv6, and No Kubernetes

https://www.petekeen.net/homelab-resolved/
30•zrail•4d ago•24 comments

Job queues are deceptively tricky

https://typesanitizer.com/blog/job-queues.html
90•ingve•2d ago•29 comments

Launch HN: Coasty (YC S26) – An API for computer-use agents

https://coasty.ai/docs
37•nkov47•18h ago•12 comments

Can LLMs Perform Deep Technical Comprehension of Computer Architecture Papers

https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.11859
56•Jimmc414•8h ago•12 comments

Command Line Interface Guidelines

https://clig.dev/
134•subset•3d ago•28 comments

Dense Arena Interning: The Engine of Compiler Performance

https://aikoschurmann.com/blog/string-interning-compilers
8•g0xA52A2A•3d ago•1 comments

Netstrings (1997)

https://cr.yp.to/proto/netstrings.txt
20•signa11•4h ago•9 comments

LLM Networking with MikroTik

https://blog.greg.technology/2026/07/14/llm-networking-with-mikrotik.html
91•gregsadetsky•12h ago•41 comments

Metal-Organic Frameworks, Chemistry's New Miracle Materials (2018)

https://chemistry.berkeley.edu/news/meet-metal-organic-frameworks-chemistry%E2%80%99s-new-miracle...
57•andsoitis•11h ago•13 comments

Duskers, the scary command line game, is getting a sequel

https://elbowgreasegames.substack.com/p/misfits-attic-announces-duskers-20
129•spacemarine1•14h ago•39 comments

The Last Picture Show: A Conversation with George Lucas

https://a-rabbitsfoot.com/editorial/confessions/the-last-picture-show-a-conversation-with-george-...
17•Michelangelo11•2d ago•2 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."