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Project Gutenberg – keeps getting better

https://www.gutenberg.org/
642•JSeiko•7h ago•161 comments

WinCE64 – Windows CE 2.11 for N64

https://github.com/ThroatyMumbo/WinCE64
116•xyru•4h ago•41 comments

I believe there are entire companies right now under AI psychosis

https://twitter.com/mitchellh/status/2055380239711457578
525•reasonableklout•2h ago•230 comments

The Zulip Foundation

https://blog.zulip.com/2026/05/15/announcing-zulip-foundation/
165•boramalper•4h ago•44 comments

How to Write to SSDs [pdf]

https://www.vldb.org/pvldb/vol19/p1469-lee.pdf
13•matt_d•1h ago•1 comments

Naturally Occurring Quasicrystals

https://johncarlosbaez.wordpress.com/2026/05/14/naturally-occurring-quasicrystals/
21•lukeplato•1d ago•0 comments

A 0-click exploit chain for the Pixel 10

https://projectzero.google/2026/05/pixel-10-exploit.html
314•happyhardcore•9h ago•139 comments

California bill would require patches or refunds when online games shut down

https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2026/05/bill-to-keep-online-games-playable-clears-key-hurdle-in-ca...
221•Lihh27•3h ago•129 comments

The sigmoids won't save you

https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/the-sigmoids-wont-save-you
118•Tomte•12h ago•150 comments

I designed a nibble-oriented CPU in Verilog to build a scientific calculator

https://github.com/gdevic/FPGA-Calculator
71•gdevic•6h ago•23 comments

U.S. DOJ demands Apple and Google unmask over 100k users of car-tinkering app

https://macdailynews.com/2026/05/15/u-s-doj-demands-apple-and-google-unmask-over-100000-users-of-...
317•tencentshill•5h ago•214 comments

Image-blaster: Creates 3D environments, SFX, and meshes from a single image

https://github.com/neilsonnn/image-blaster
118•MattRogish•7h ago•24 comments

Microscale Thermite Reaction

https://sciencedemonstrations.fas.harvard.edu/presentations/microscale-thermite-reaction
42•krunck•3h ago•15 comments

Waymo updates 3,800 robotaxis after they 'drive into standing water'

https://www.cnbc.com/2026/05/12/waymo-recalls-3800-robotaxis-after-able-drive-into-standing-water...
137•drob518•5h ago•131 comments

Explore Wikipedia Like a Windows XP Desktop

https://explorer.samismith.com/
472•smusamashah•14h ago•109 comments

ABC News has taken all FiveThirtyEight articles offline

https://twitter.com/baseballot/status/2055309076209492208
181•cmsparks•4h ago•86 comments

O(x)Caml in Space

https://gazagnaire.org/blog/2026-05-14-borealis.html
222•yminsky•12h ago•51 comments

Show HN: Watch a neural net learn to play Snake

https://ppo.gradexp.xyz/
106•c1b•1d ago•27 comments

Hightouch (YC S19) Is Hiring

https://hightouch.com/careers
1•joshwget•6h ago

A SQL-Inspired Query Language Designed for Event Sourcing (2025)

https://yoeight.github.io/blog/2025/12/21/EventQL_A_SQL_Inspired_Query_Language_Designed_For_Even...
6•goloroden•2d ago•1 comments

The nuclear-physics infrastructure behind PET scans

https://www.lanl.gov/media/publications/1663/proton-power-for-public-health
31•LAsteNERD•2d ago•1 comments

ASCII by Jason Scott

https://ascii.textfiles.com/
135•bookofjoe•9h ago•21 comments

London Police Deploy Facial Recognition at Protest for First Time

https://reclaimthenet.org/london-police-deploy-facial-recognition-at-protest-for-first-time
70•Cider9986•2h ago•50 comments

Radicle: Sovereign {code forge} built on Git

https://radicle.dev/
205•KolmogorovComp•11h ago•65 comments

Feedr v0.8.0 – a TUI RSS reader, now read the full article from your terminal

https://github.com/bahdotsh/feedr
35•bahdotshxx•6h ago•14 comments

Building a UMatrix Replacement

https://lock.cmpxchg8b.com/umatrix.html
32•taviso•5h ago•9 comments

Steve Jobs in Exile – New book on Steve Jobs’s years at NeXT Computer

https://spectrum.ieee.org/steve-jobs-next-computer
168•rbanffy•12h ago•140 comments

High dimensional geometry is transforming the MRI industry (2017) [pdf]

https://www.ams.org/government/DonohoPresentation06-28-17Final.pdf
87•nill0•9h ago•32 comments

Zenith: a live local-first fixed viewport planetarium

https://smorgasb.org/zenith-tech/
61•surprisetalk•7h ago•20 comments

The day the Pintupi Nine entered the modern world (2014)

https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-30500591
14•ilamont•2d ago•2 comments
Open in hackernews

Building my npx business card

https://ashley.dev/posts/turning-feedback-into-features/
8•edent•12mo ago

Comments

steele•12mo ago
Ooh, free real estate, let's colonize and gentrify package management
aabhay•12mo ago
Lmao, gentrify cracked me up
neilv•12mo ago
Do these npx business cards run arbitrary code on your computer?
cypherpunks01•12mo 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•12mo 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•12mo ago
Yeah, this seems like a very smart but inherently flawed idea.
cypherpunks01•12mo 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•12mo ago
May as well just release an executable tbh.
theamk•12mo 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•12mo 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•12mo 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."