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Show HN: HackerBooks – HackerTube, but for books mentioned on HN

https://hackerbooks.org
1171•roansh•14h ago•211 comments

Postgres 19 is late because so many more bugs are being found now

http://rhaas.blogspot.com/2026/10/postgres-19-is-late-and-its-ais-fault.html
235•soheilpro•2d ago•151 comments

F/OSS Comics #13: BSD Unix, Part 3 – The Beginning of BSD Unix

https://fosscomics.com/posts/13.%20BSD%20Unix%20Part%203%20-%20The%20Beginning%20of%20BSD%20Unix/
66•joonehur•4h ago•5 comments

HackerTube: YouTube built from videos recommended by HN

https://karpathy.bearblog.dev/hacker-tube/
2424•karpathy•1d ago•554 comments

Trigger.dev customer environment variables exposed

https://trigger.dev/blog/security-incident-nov-2026
54•anurag•4h ago•18 comments

Mystery of 60-Second Fluctuations in Power Grids Solved

https://www.fz-juelich.de/en/news/archive/press-release/2026/mystery-of-60-second-fluctuations-in...
69•_Microft•1d ago•23 comments

Ask HN: Which TV do you recommend for privacy?

248•LecroJS•10h ago•417 comments

Nibnib: Image compression with extreme decompression speed

https://github.com/raphlinus/nibnib
123•raphlinus•3d ago•21 comments

Tips for more effective fuzz testing with AFL++

https://nullprogram.com/blog/2025/02/05/
100•luu•4d ago•16 comments

Copper – A minimal low-level programming language with OOP and generics

https://tibleiz.net/copper/
154•bogdanoff_2•2d ago•82 comments

Show HN: OmniDiff – Opensource, super fast, content aware Git difftool, in Rust

https://github.com/ivankovic/omnidiff
198•FabCH•17h ago•46 comments

OccupySaaS

https://occupysaas.com/
164•misswaterfairy•5h ago•109 comments

Keeping Up Appearances – The women taking over the funeral industry

https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/death-industry-mortuary-programs-women-andie-eisen-quarterly/
39•TMWNN•2d ago•20 comments

Proving and improving the Platonic Representation Hypothesis with JEPAs

https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.39302
124•Anon84•16h ago•66 comments

AI fan wikis riddled with errors are muddying the waters of games culture

https://www.eurogamer.net/ai-fan-wikis-errors-complicating-games-culture
59•rdmuser•4h ago•37 comments

New 3D thermal invisibility cloak makes objects disappear from infrared cameras

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2026/10/261025073051.htm
62•stevenalowe•3d ago•32 comments

The AI cost of JavaScript frameworks

https://nolanlawson.com/2026/10/28/the-ai-cost-of-javascript-frameworks/
337•luu•1d ago•259 comments

Mathematics has changed. Let's act like it

https://terrytao.wordpress.com/2026/11/01/mathematics-has-changed-lets-act-like-it/
260•smilelamp•11h ago•286 comments

One-minute frequency disturbances from synchronization in power systems

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41560-026-02144-0
138•croes•1d ago•45 comments

Lenovo's 'encrypted' fingerprint USB is just an unencrypted SD card in a case

https://www.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/1xl2pr3/lenovos_encrypted_fingerprint_usb_drive_is_j...
439•entryleveljobsc•15h ago•157 comments

Show HN: Point your camera at a landscape to learn about its geology

https://outcrop.rocks/
181•headsupernova•3d ago•41 comments

Bidirectional charging during grid outages

https://www.jefftk.com/p/bidirectional-charging-during-grid-outages
95•luu•1d ago•144 comments

Radiation Map of the World

https://radiaverse.com/
147•slater•4d ago•47 comments

Show HN: I rebuilt my old canvas 3D library as a small WebGL 2 library – phoria2

https://kevs3d.co.uk/phoria2/
84•kevs3d•1d ago•14 comments

Bones may release proteins that slow aging and extend life span

https://www.science.org/content/article/bones-may-release-proteins-slow-aging-and-extend-life-span
8•EA-3167•4h ago•0 comments

The She-Wolves of Jülich

https://www.historytoday.com/archive/history-matters/she-wolves-julich
19•Thevet•1d ago•3 comments

Domain hacks with unusual Unicode characters (2018)

https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2018/11/domain-hacks-with-unusual-unicode-characters/
69•n_plus_1_acc•19h ago•49 comments

Novellas with Groff

https://movq.de/blog/postings/2026-10-31/0/POSTING-en.html
118•dverlaeckt80•16h ago•51 comments

Parchment Paper History: How We Got Paper Perfect for Baking (2019)

https://tedium.co/2019/11/21/nonstick-parchment-paper-history/
46•colinprince•2d ago•24 comments

Seoul Viosys begins production of rare-earth-free white light emitter

https://www.semiconductor-today.com/news_items/2026/oct/seoul-291026.shtml
155•gmays•13h ago•43 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."