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Radicle: The Sovereign Forge

https://radicle.xyz
171•ibobev•4h ago•82 comments

Booting from a vinyl record (2020)

https://boginjr.com/it/sw/dev/vinyl-boot/
195•yesturi•7h ago•55 comments

KORG phase8 – Acoustic Synthesizer

https://www.korg.com/us/products/dj/phase8/
48•bpierre•3h ago•33 comments

AI is a horse (2024)

https://kconner.com/2024/08/02/ai-is-a-horse.html
316•zdw•3d ago•163 comments

Gas Town's Agent Patterns, Design Bottlenecks, and Vibecoding at Scale

https://maggieappleton.com/gastown
79•pavel_lishin•1h ago•80 comments

Show HN: Zsweep – Play Minesweeper using only Vim motions

https://zsweep.com
21•oug-t•5d ago•8 comments

Proton Spam and the AI Consent Problem

https://dbushell.com/2026/01/22/proton-spam/
375•dbushell•10h ago•234 comments

Show HN: Whosthere: A LAN discovery tool with a modern TUI, written in Go

https://github.com/ramonvermeulen/whosthere
111•rvermeulen98•5h ago•45 comments

I built a light that reacts to radio waves [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=moBCOEiqiPs
365•codetheweb•12h ago•81 comments

Three RCEs in Ilias Learning Management System

https://srlabs.de/blog/breaking-ilias-part-2-three-to-rce
11•hack223•1h ago•2 comments

Updates to our web search products and Programmable Search Engine capabilities

https://programmablesearchengine.googleblog.com/2026/01/updates-to-our-web-search-products.html
172•01jonny01•8h ago•143 comments

European Alternatives

https://european-alternatives.eu
231•s_dev•4h ago•86 comments

Show HN: isometric.nyc – giant isometric pixel art map of NYC

https://cannoneyed.com/isometric-nyc/
1168•cannoneyed•1d ago•215 comments

Flying with Photons: Rendering Novel Views of Propagating Light

https://anaghmalik.com/FlyingWithPhotons/
18•pillars•3d ago•4 comments

GPTZero finds 100 new hallucinations in NeurIPS 2025 accepted papers

https://gptzero.me/news/neurips/
904•segmenta•1d ago•482 comments

What has Docker become?

https://tuananh.net/2026/01/20/what-has-docker-become/
174•tuananh•5h ago•184 comments

AI Usage Policy

https://github.com/ghostty-org/ghostty/blob/main/AI_POLICY.md
412•mefengl•7h ago•201 comments

Capital One to acquire Brex for $5.15B

https://www.reuters.com/legal/transactional/capital-one-buy-fintech-firm-brex-515-billion-deal-20...
358•personjerry•20h ago•291 comments

Replacing Protobuf with Rust to go 5 times faster

https://pgdog.dev/blog/replace-protobuf-with-rust
132•whiteros_e•8h ago•89 comments

Why does SSH send 100 packets per keystroke?

https://eieio.games/blog/ssh-sends-100-packets-per-keystroke/
607•eieio•22h ago•321 comments

I was banned from Claude for scaffolding a Claude.md file?

https://hugodaniel.com/posts/claude-code-banned-me/
659•hugodan•23h ago•580 comments

The state of modern AI text to speech systems for screen reader users

https://stuff.interfree.ca/2026/01/05/ai-tts-for-screenreaders.html
63•tuukkao•8h ago•27 comments

Presence in Death

https://rubinmuseum.org/presence-in-death/
50•tock•5h ago•10 comments

Microsoft mishandling example.com

https://tinyapps.org/blog/microsoft-mishandling-example-com.html
176•mrled•4h ago•67 comments

Qwen3-TTS family is now open sourced: Voice design, clone, and generation

https://qwen.ai/blog?id=qwen3tts-0115
687•Palmik•1d ago•207 comments

Douglas Adams on the English–American cultural divide over "heroes"

https://shreevatsa.net/post/douglas-adams-cultural-divide/
514•speckx•1d ago•511 comments

Why medieval city-builder video games are historically inaccurate (2020)

https://www.leidenmedievalistsblog.nl/articles/why-medieval-city-builder-video-games-are-historic...
206•benbreen•17h ago•136 comments

Your app subscription is now my weekend project

https://rselbach.com/your-sub-is-now-my-weekend-project
494•robteix•4d ago•341 comments

The lost art of XML

https://marcosmagueta.com/blog/the-lost-art-of-xml/
92•Curiositry•13h ago•107 comments

Show HN: S2-lite, an open source Stream Store

https://github.com/s2-streamstore/s2
52•shikhar•2d ago•17 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."