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Mea Culpa – Dark Hours

https://blog.terrygodier.com/2026/08/09/mea-culpa-dark-hours.html
290•satvikpendem•3h ago•131 comments

Criminal Deception in Silicon Valley

https://pubsonline.informs.org/doi/full/10.1287/orsc.2024.19981
40•iamnothere•1h ago•2 comments

Show HN: A Project Oberon System version running on RISC-V instead of RISC-5

https://github.com/rochus-keller/OberonSystem/tree/op2-rv32
61•Rochus•4h ago•15 comments

Cool URIs Don't Change (1998)

https://www.w3.org/Provider/Style/URI
26•Klaster_1•2h ago•2 comments

John C. Lilly on solid state intelligence and the elimination of man (1978)

https://kibotronics.net/unlisted/lilly-machines/
40•Kiboneu•3h ago•17 comments

Every fast write moves work somewhere else

https://www.shayon.dev/post/2026/220/every-fast-write-moves-work-somewhere-else/
12•shayonj•1h ago•1 comments

Honey, I shrunk the embeddings: Matryoshka vs. PCA

https://dylancastillo.co/posts/matryoshka-vs-pca
58•dcastm•6d ago•11 comments

There Are Magic Hexagons of Every Order

https://gukov.dev/math/2026/08/02/new-magic-hexagons.html
144•gukoff•9h ago•19 comments

Windows 11's built-in Weather app wastes more than 1 GB of RAM

https://www.notebookcheck.net/Windows-11-s-built-in-Weather-app-wastes-more-than-1-GB-of-RAM.1364...
52•akyuu•1h ago•33 comments

Silicon Valley misreads science fiction and undermines democracy

https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/09/historian-jill-lepore-says-the-tech-industry-is-led-by-bad-read...
97•evo_9•1h ago•71 comments

Human vs. AI – Diff-based line-level provenance for text under agentic editing

https://github.com/eighttrigrams/us-vs-them
5•eighttrigrams•1h ago•1 comments

My server is a phone now

https://seg6.space/posts/phone-server/
450•seg6•18h ago•212 comments

I Wanted to Own the Harness. Then Codex Desktop Won

https://jorypestorious.com/blog/portable-agent-factory/
15•calmhive•2h ago•12 comments

The Alpha 21264 CPU: NT's Greatest RISC (1998)

https://halfhill.com/byte/1998-12_alpha.html
56•Lammy•6h ago•39 comments

Microsoft Word for Windows 1.1a, Native X64 Port

https://github.com/jmarshall23/msword
132•BruceEel•11h ago•57 comments

Tom Stanton's supersonic trebuchet breaks sound barrier with gravity alone

https://www.techeblog.com/tom-stanton-supersonic-trebuchet/
55•Thorondor•1h ago•14 comments

Os8088: A powerful Mac-like OS for the IBM XT, 286, 386

https://os8088.com/
222•jggonz•17h ago•146 comments

The Grid That Doubles the Strength of the Ground

https://practical.engineering/blog/2026/8/4/the-grid-that-doubles-the-strength-of-the-ground
101•michaefe•4d ago•28 comments

Dithered QR Codes

https://www.andrewt.net/dithered-qr-codes/wtf/
328•jmusall•17h ago•35 comments

Taxi drivers rarely die of Alzheimer's

https://theconversation.com/taxi-drivers-rarely-die-of-alzheimers-how-complex-mental-maps-and-spa...
25•jader201•1h ago•16 comments

Improving Heuristics for A* Pathfinding

https://www.redblobgames.com/pathfinding/heuristics/differential.html
324•bobbiechen•1w ago•37 comments

Uber SubmitQueue: a high-performance speculative merge queue

https://github.com/uber/submitqueue/
64•handfuloflight•1w ago•50 comments

A partial digestion of the HRT counterexample

https://terrytao.wordpress.com/2026/08/06/a-partial-digestion-of-the-hrt-counterexample/
6•ijustlovemath•2h ago•1 comments

Willoughbyland: England's Forgotten South American Colony

https://www.historytoday.com/archive/history-matters/willoughbyland-englands-forgotten-south-amer...
7•benbreen•1w ago•1 comments

Show HN: Airy – Free, fast, and simple voice content creation

https://airy.so
23•login588•7h ago•12 comments

We replaced Redis with MySQL for inventory reservations and it scaled

https://shopify.engineering/scaling-inventory-reservations
304•adletbalzhanov•18h ago•204 comments

Show HN: Today's cities on a globe of Earth's tectonic past and future

https://douwe.com/projects/tectonic_globe
4•dosinga•2h ago•0 comments

Stylized GGX Shading

https://alexandrelamure.github.io/graphics-posts/stylized-ggx-shading.html
55•ibobev•5d ago•0 comments

FCC moves to ban Lidar-equipped foreign drones from US

https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/drones/fcc-moves-to-ban-lidar-equipped-foreign-drones-...
9•f-serif•38m ago•0 comments

Making difficulty curves in games

http://www.davetech.co.uk/difficultycurves
155•hakkikonu•4d ago•73 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."