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ChatGPT Desktop (Codex Desktop) for Linux

https://openai.com/codex/
213•allanrbo•7h ago•127 comments

The lattice of sets of natural numbers is rich

https://jdh.hamkins.org/the-lattice-of-sets-of-natural-numbers-is-rich/
41•benmandrew•2d ago•3 comments

DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813

https://openrouter.ai/deepseek/deepseek-v4-pro-0813
961•explosion-s•19h ago•404 comments

Tracking down the 16-year-old WAL-reset SQLite bug

https://tailscale.com/blog/sqlite-wal-reset-bug
1079•ropbear•21h ago•202 comments

Qwen3.8-2.4T

https://huggingface.co/Qwen/Qwen3.8-2.4T-A95B
648•Philpax•20h ago•154 comments

Delta

https://zed.dev/blog/introducing-delta
580•khy•17h ago•212 comments

Picking berries is my meditation

https://www.tsoon.com/posts/picking-berries-meditation/
14•mooreds•4d ago•7 comments

Principia Mathematica is modern and insightful

https://okmij.org/ftp/Computation/Impressions/PrincipiaMathematica.html
181•matt_d•12h ago•77 comments

Antiqua–Fraktur dispute

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antiqua%E2%80%93Fraktur_dispute
111•buzzy_hacker•2d ago•33 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
560•Markoff•1d ago•673 comments

The punched card tabulator

https://www.ibm.com/history/punched-card-tabulator
19•Bluestein•5d ago•4 comments

2026 Eclipse Webcams

https://jonty.github.io/2026_eclipse_webcams/
497•zoenolan•1d ago•133 comments

Flutter 3.47

https://flutter.dev/blog/whats-new-in-flutter-3-47
127•gumby271•12h ago•141 comments

Tim King, AmigaDOS developer, has died

https://amiga-news.de/en/news/AN-2026-08-00070-EN.html
280•doener•21h ago•35 comments

Why Target Common Lisp for Code Generation?

http://funcall.blogspot.com/2026/08/why-vibe-code-in-lisp.html
116•oumua_don17•1d ago•98 comments

Grok 4.6

https://x.ai/news/grok-4-6
575•iLuddite•20h ago•517 comments

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

https://sharktastica.co.uk/articles/pc-fxt-45
101•tart-lemonade•12h ago•37 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/
214•redbell•19h ago•140 comments

Come for Eniac, Stay for Univac and Skeduflo

https://uniqueatpenn.wordpress.com/2026/08/05/come-for-eniac-stay-for-univac-and-skeduflo/
3•cainxinth•1d ago•0 comments

Mushroom behind 'tiny people' hallucinations identified

https://phys.org/news/2026-08-qa-mushroom-tiny-people-hallucinations.html
174•wglb•5d ago•141 comments

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

https://discoveredmaterials.com/research/
143•advaith08•1d ago•32 comments

The Three-Stroke Problem

https://penpot.app/blog/the-three-stroke-problem/
19•elenathor•1w ago•0 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/
138•carabiner•14h ago•181 comments

Why tiny JPEGs look different in Chrome

https://guillaumetech.github.io/posts/jpg-scaling-chrome/
317•gutechh•21h ago•66 comments

From rubber boots to Copa: When MicroProse Soccer revolutionized football

https://spillhistorie.no/2026/08/08/fra-gummistovler-til-copa-da-microprose-soccer-revolusjonerte...
29•TMWNN•3d ago•4 comments

Breaking the WAL

https://antithesis.com/blog/2026/wal-reset-bug/
127•wwilson•15h ago•45 comments

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

https://knownagents.com/insights
283•gavinhking•21h ago•215 comments

Pixel Watch 5

https://blog.google/products-and-platforms/devices/pixel/pixel-watch-5/
151•ortusdux•19h ago•305 comments

Shade Map

https://shademap.app
213•fredley•22h ago•53 comments

Build Wide, Ship Narrow

https://adapt.com/blog/build-wide-ship-narrow
93•ashumz•12h ago•25 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."