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Hitachi launches CO2 heat pump water heaters with solar-friendly tariff controls

https://www.pv-magazine.com/2026/09/07/hitachi-launches-co2-heat-pump-water-heaters-with-solar-fr...
43•thelastgallon•22h ago•34 comments

What algorithm did Windows XP use to choose your initial user picture?

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20260909-00/?p=112683
160•soheilpro•4h ago•74 comments

Show HN: The same nine streaming subscriptions cost $702/year more than in 2021

https://honestlyranked.com/guides/streaming-price-increases/
197•honestlyranked•2h ago•179 comments

Stockfish 19

https://stockfishchess.org/blog/2026/stockfish-19/
114•atiedebee•2d ago•67 comments

DeepSeek v4.1 Flash

https://twitter.com/deepseek_ai/status/2097930608790167907
561•Liwink•6h ago•305 comments

iPhone Duo

https://www.apple.com/iphone-duo/
1263•thecosmicfrog•18h ago•2215 comments

Show HN: What if the speed of light was 5 km/h?

https://rivendell.dmitrybrant.com/relativity/
435•dmitrybrant•11h ago•180 comments

Shopify acquires Tailwind

https://tailwindcss.com/blog/tailwind-is-joining-shopify
1072•EdwinHoksberg•23h ago•415 comments

Object storage is all you need

https://www.tigrisdata.com/blog/object-storage-all-need/
26•jpsaccount•1d ago•18 comments

What do Visa and Mastercard do? An intro to card networks

https://tautology.town/2026/06/01/card-networks.html
580•evakhoury•1d ago•354 comments

Thanks to Siri Recaps, your Apple Watch is always listening

https://www.techradar.com/health-fitness/smartwatches/thanks-to-siri-recaps-your-apple-watch-is-a...
62•geox•2h ago•37 comments

Larger Pacific Striped Octopus

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larger_Pacific_striped_octopus
87•olalonde•1d ago•45 comments

Growing proof that autonomous cars save lives

https://spectrum.ieee.org/are-self-driving-cars-safe
380•bookofjoe•19h ago•663 comments

Show HN: Art – draw one stroke, let symmetry complete it

https://mrdee.in/mandala/
29•cyb0rg0•4d ago•12 comments

Samsung Debuts zHBM Prototype, Stacking Memory Directly on AI Accelerators

https://www.thelec.net/news/articleView.html?idxno=12835
40•peter_d_sherman•3d ago•7 comments

List of references on Sony websites to players "owning" their digital games

https://consumerrights.wiki/w/Sony_PlayStation_digital_game_ownership_lawsuit
14•haunter•48m ago•3 comments

PlayStation cancels Kojima's PHYSINT, Xbox steps in

https://twitter.com/hideo_kojima_en/status/2097877506401681753
58•HatchedLake721•2h ago•31 comments

Liesegang Rings

https://chillphysicsenjoyer.substack.com/p/liesegang-rings
6•surprisetalk•23h ago•0 comments

No Man's Sky Cosmos

https://www.nomanssky.com/cosmos-update/
417•Limb•21h ago•417 comments

GPT-6 Astra, looped transformers, and hidden reasoning

https://magazine.sebastianraschka.com/p/gpt-6-astra-looped-transformers-and
467•ModelForge•22h ago•147 comments

AirPods 5

https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2026/09/apple-introduces-airpods-5-with-best-in-class-open-ear-act...
479•awad•19h ago•404 comments

iPhone 18 Pro and iPhone 18 Pro Max

https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2026/09/apple-debuts-iphone-18-pro-and-iphone-18-pro-max/
383•meetpateltech•19h ago•429 comments

Automattic's board forces CEO Matt Mullenweg into leave of absence

https://techcrunch.com/2026/09/09/automattics-board-forces-ceo-matt-mullenweg-into-leave-of-absence/
357•LeoPanthera•13h ago•229 comments

Aardman (Wallace and Gromit) Is Selling Its Original Movie Puppets

https://gizmodo.com/aardman-is-selling-its-original-movie-puppets-this-month-2000807968
66•Gaishan•3d ago•15 comments

Show HN: Persistent Jupyter kernel execution and live output streaming in VSCode

https://github.com/rnoro/tithon
6•rnoro_•23h ago•1 comments

Open Source Durable Objects for Postgres

https://solidobjects.dev/blog/introducing-solidobjects
34•cardmagic•1d ago•15 comments

All grown-ups were once children, but only few of them remember it

https://mathstodon.xyz/@tao/117244102901892965
224•yurivish•9h ago•170 comments

Desert Ant Labs: local, fast models that run on device

https://desertant.com/blog/introducing-desert-ant-labs/
464•willwhitedc•1d ago•97 comments

Show HN: Compute polynomials twice as fast

https://thomasahle.com/fast-polynomials/
106•thomasahle•1d ago•34 comments

Qwen 3.8 follows GPT-5.5 Pro reasoning prefills

https://gist.github.com/wsxiaoys/e0286dc6bb624ff5fdf49e7f4c528ba3
227•wsxiaoys•19h ago•88 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."