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Why is Google still serving dodgy ads?

https://www.atomic14.com/2026/09/13/why-is-google-still-serving-dodgy-ads
276•iamflimflam1•2h ago•125 comments

There Is No AI (It's Just People) with Jaron Lanier

https://singjupost.com/startalk-there-is-no-ai-really-its-just-people-w-jaron-lanier-transcript/
14•andsoitis•36m ago•2 comments

Global Shortage Has Led to Motor Oil Rationing at Costco

https://guessingheadlights.com/global-shortage-has-led-to-motor-oil-rationing-at-costco/
74•mikhael•2h ago•46 comments

Astra and Fable still hack on simple variants of alignment evals from 2025

https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/munJKF7iWMsWJLAH2/astra-and-fable-still-hack-on-simple-variants-o...
288•Levitating•5h ago•130 comments

Data collected by cars and sold to third parties

https://www.theverge.com/column/994172/your-car-is-selling-your-data
172•bookofjoe•6h ago•100 comments

JetKVM Mini

https://jetkvm.com/blog/introducing-jetkvm-mini
455•taubek•12h ago•177 comments

Sean Carroll explains the biggest ideas in the universe – Full Interview [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_TBNJyztai0
39•binyu•2d ago•6 comments

Why is the x86 undefined instruction called ud2? Why 2?

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20260910-00/?p=112689
143•ibobev•7h ago•37 comments

Julia 1.13 Highlights

https://julialang.org/blog/2026/09/julia-1.13-highlights/
17•eigenspace•3d ago•2 comments

I'm being cyberattacked by Tesla, Inc

https://dreamstation.systems/personal/tesla.html
307•robinpie•2h ago•88 comments

Reverse engineering my e-scooter and rewriting the firmware in Rust

https://bensimms.moe/reverse-engineering-scooter/
270•vinhnx•3d ago•69 comments

Making Startups Powerful

https://paulgraham.com/powerful.html
91•tosh•6h ago•35 comments

Device Drivers lab exercise – COSC562

https://web.eecs.utk.edu/~smarz1/courses/cosc562/drivers.html
12•azhenley•2h ago•1 comments

CUDA for AMD on Windows

https://github.com/Speedstu/CUDA-for-AMD-Windows
103•chiassedu80•5h ago•58 comments

Garry Tan wants US open-weight AI labs to 'distill' frontier models, too

https://techcrunch.com/2026/09/11/y-combinators-garry-tan-wants-u-s-open-weight-ai-labs-to-distil...
234•TheJCDenton•4h ago•118 comments

Why are AI agents lying, cheating and coordinating?

https://yoshuabengio.org/en/publication/why-are-ai-agents-lying-cheating-and-coordinating
533•jonifico•18h ago•615 comments

Reverse-Engineering Claude Web's MicroVM: Uncovering Anthropic's Hidden Antspace

https://aprilnea.me/en/blog/reverse-engineering-claude-code-antspace
19•rzk•2d ago•4 comments

Cpak – OCI application package format for Linux desktops, servers and devices

https://cpak.it/
32•xlmnxp•5h ago•11 comments

David Sacks: OpenAI and Anthropic Don't Need Regulations to Pace Frontier Models

https://twitter.com/DavidSacks/status/2098973625252708460
153•kolanos•3h ago•112 comments

'Fingerprints' inside the Sun could reveal if it once swallowed a planet

https://ras.ac.uk/news-and-press/research-highlights/fingerprints-inside-sun-could-reveal-if-it-o...
94•blincoln•8h ago•37 comments

TailTalk: A modern async user space AppleTalk stack with Rust and Tokio

https://github.com/FeralFirmware/TailTalk/
57•zdw•20h ago•13 comments

Libraries Run Rust Inside Python (With PyO3)

https://belderbos.dev/blog/how-libraries-run-rust-inside-python/
38•lumpa•4h ago•26 comments

Romania soccer introduces black card to 'combat abusive behaviour' from parents

https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7586821/2026/09/12/football-black-card-referee/
64•thunderbong•3h ago•44 comments

Alan's Random Insult Generator (1999)

https://alanbellows.com/experiments/insult/index.html
53•DamnInteresting•2d ago•23 comments

Make your first edit to OpenStreetMap

https://high5apps.github.io/josm-plugin-website-wizard/
576•juliantigler•1d ago•138 comments

AI recursive self-improvement might not come so quickly after all (August 2026)

https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/08/18/1142188/ai-recursive-self-improvement/
16•dgellow•1h ago•10 comments

Base84 deserves a place in file names

https://00f.net/2026/09/09/base84/
49•kevvok•2d ago•39 comments

Homebrew 7.0.0

https://brew.sh/2026/09/13/homebrew-7.0.0/
492•mikemcquaid•11h ago•196 comments

On Binary Translation and Its Consequences

https://chipsandcheese.com/p/on-binary-translation-and-its-consequences
42•matt_d•2d ago•16 comments

Key symbols we lost to time, pt. 1: The PC side

https://unsung.aresluna.org/key-symbols-we-lost-to-time-pt-1-the-pc-side/
79•leephillips•6h ago•26 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."