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Genode OS is a tool kit for building highly secure special-purpose OS

https://genode.org/about/index
40•doener•1h ago•1 comments

Mobile carriers can get your GPS location

https://an.dywa.ng/carrier-gnss.html
153•cbeuw•2h ago•105 comments

Antirender: remove the glossy shine on architectural renderings

https://antirender.com/
1735•iambateman•23h ago•418 comments

Animated AVIF for the Modern Web

https://arthur.pizza/2025/12/animated-avif-for-the-modern-web/
47•sdoering•5d ago•22 comments

CPython Internals Explained

https://github.com/zpoint/CPython-Internals
98•yufiz•4d ago•26 comments

Students using “humanizer” programs to beat accusations of cheating with AI

https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/internet/college-students-ai-cheating-detectors-humanizers-rcna253878
23•unpredict•3d ago•19 comments

Finland to end "uncontrolled human experiment" with ban on youth social media

https://yle.fi/a/74-20207494
126•Teever•2h ago•94 comments

NASA's WB-57 crash lands at Houston

https://arstechnica.com/space/2026/01/one-of-nasas-three-wb-57-aircraft-just-did-a-belly-landing-...
115•verzali•3d ago•60 comments

Guix System First Impressions as a Nix User

https://nemin.hu/guix.html
94•todsacerdoti•8h ago•35 comments

We have ipinfo at home or how to geolocate IPs in your CLI using latency

https://blog.globalping.io/we-have-ipinfo-at-home-or-how-to-geolocate-ips-in-your-cli-using-latency/
160•jimaek•10h ago•44 comments

"Giving up upstream-ing my patches & feel free to pick them up"

https://mail.openjdk.org/pipermail/hotspot-dev/2026-January/118080.html
79•csmantle•8h ago•31 comments

My Ridiculously Robust Photo Management System (Immich Edition)

https://jaisenmathai.com/articles/my-ridiculously-robust-photo-management-system-immich-edition/
176•jmathai•3d ago•79 comments

Quaternion Algebras

https://jvoight.github.io/quat.html
75•teleforce•4d ago•31 comments

Apple Platform Security (Jan 2026) [pdf]

https://help.apple.com/pdf/security/en_US/apple-platform-security-guide.pdf
101•pieterr•3h ago•65 comments

Show HN: I trained a 9M speech model to fix my Mandarin tones

https://simedw.com/2026/01/31/ear-pronunication-via-ctc/
388•simedw•18h ago•115 comments

Death Note: L, Anonymity and Eluding Entropy (2011)

https://gwern.net/death-note-anonymity
5•teej•20m ago•2 comments

Bitcoin Looks Set for Longest Monthly Losing Streak Since 2018

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-01-30/bitcoin-btc-slides-toward-longest-monthly-losi...
45•1vuio0pswjnm7•2h ago•36 comments

Sumerian Star Map Recorded the Impact of an Asteroid (2024)

https://archaeologyworlds.com/5500-year-old-sumerian-star-map-recorded/
121•griffzhowl•11h ago•40 comments

Show HN: Moltbook – A social network for moltbots (clawdbots) to hang out

https://www.moltbook.com/
63•schlichtm•2d ago•777 comments

Insane Growth Goldbridge (YC F25) Is Hiring a Forward Deployed Engineer

https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/goldbridge/jobs/78gGEHh-forward-deployed-engineer
1•alvinsalehi•7h ago

Peerweb: Decentralized website hosting via WebTorrent

https://peerweb.lol/
334•dtj1123•22h ago•107 comments

Euro firms must ditch Uncle Sam's clouds and go EU-native

https://www.theregister.com/2026/01/30/euro_firms_must_ditch_us/
625•jamesblonde•8h ago•564 comments

HTTP Cats

https://http.cat/
521•surprisetalk•1d ago•81 comments

Ask HN: Any real OpenClaw (Clawd Bot/Molt Bot) users? What's your experience?

45•cvhc•1h ago•61 comments

Implementing the Transcendental Functions in Ivy

https://commandcenter.blogspot.com/2026/01/implementing-transcendental-functions.html
29•chmaynard•5d ago•4 comments

Predicting how Heathrow is using it's runways in the browser

https://blog.billyedmoore.com/heathrow
11•Billyedmoore•5d ago•6 comments

A Step Behind the Bleeding Edge: A Philosophy on AI in Dev

https://somehowmanage.com/2026/01/22/a-step-behind-the-bleeding-edge-monarchs-philosophy-on-ai-in...
129•Ozzie_osman•2d ago•68 comments

Berlin: Record harvest sparks mass giveaway of free potatoes

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/jan/31/record-harvest-berlin-giveaway-potatoes
3•novaRom•15m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Phage Explorer

https://phage-explorer.org/
108•eigenvalue•14h ago•25 comments

Disrupting the largest residential proxy network

https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/threat-intelligence/disrupting-largest-residential-proxy-net...
211•cdrnsf•2d ago•198 comments
Open in hackernews

Building my npx business card

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

Comments

steele•8mo ago
Ooh, free real estate, let's colonize and gentrify package management
aabhay•8mo ago
Lmao, gentrify cracked me up
neilv•8mo ago
Do these npx business cards run arbitrary code on your computer?
cypherpunks01•8mo 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•8mo 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•8mo ago
Yeah, this seems like a very smart but inherently flawed idea.
cypherpunks01•8mo 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•8mo ago
May as well just release an executable tbh.
theamk•8mo 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•8mo 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•8mo 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."