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AWS Acquires DuckDB

https://ducklabs.com/news/2026/08/26/ducklabs-to-join-aws
476•onderkalaci•2h ago•108 comments

GLM-5.3-Flash

https://z.ai/blog/glm-5.3-flash
214•Philpax•1h ago•70 comments

Qwen3.8-Flash-Next: A New Architecture, Towards Ultimate Cost-Efficiency

https://qwen.ai/blog?id=qwen3.8-flash-next
272•tosh•2h ago•84 comments

WebMCP: Teaching Your Website to Talk to AI Agents

https://sreenathmenon.com/blog/2026-08-04-webmcp-teaching-websites-to-talk-to-ai-agents/
9•sreenathmenon•9m ago•0 comments

RAG Is Simpler Than You Think

https://www.lighthousenewsletter.com/p/rag-is-simpler-than-you-think
276•j0selit0•6h ago•117 comments

AI Is a Harsh Mistress

https://cacm.acm.org/opinion/ai-is-a-harsh-mistress-on-anima-machina-herd-acceptance-and-the-poli...
24•fscaramuzza•1h ago•4 comments

Taylor Farms: How One Company's Reach Became a National Risk

https://farmaction.us/taylorfarmsreport/
13•speckx•49m ago•0 comments

A curmudgeon tries a language server

https://entropicthoughts.com/curmudgeon-tries-language-server
45•crescit_eundo•2h ago•23 comments

Twitter Viewer – View Twitter Without Account

https://twitterwebviewer.com/
53•motownphilly•59m ago•17 comments

Meta reaches $16.68B settlement over social media harms to children

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/meta-settles-with-us-states-over-social-media-harms-2026-08-26/
230•bhouston•1h ago•178 comments

Oldinsurancemaps.net is now a Charter Project

https://openstreetmap.us/news/2026/08/oim-charter-project/
128•altilunium•6h ago•24 comments

Proliferate (YC S25) Is Hiring

https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/proliferate/jobs/OgpCKYJ-founding-product-engineer
1•pablo24602•3h ago

Nebula Sans

https://www.nebulasans.com
4•GavinAnderegg•7m ago•0 comments

AurionMail: E2EE suite (CryptPad/Stalwart) with single-password UX

https://github.com/AurionMail/docs
4•polo46•10m ago•0 comments

Z.ai confirms Ox Alpha is a new GLM-series model and will release its weights

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-08-26/china-s-z-ai-made-ox-alpha-stealth-model-that-...
337•garo-pro•5h ago•123 comments

Apple introduces M6 and M5 Ultra

https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2026/08/apple-introduces-m6-and-m5-ultra-for-a-big-leap-in-perform...
1260•interpol_p•1d ago•1197 comments

Beyond Recall and the Illusion of Competence

https://var0.xyz/posts/beyond-recall-and-the-illusion-of-competence.html
59•tuxie_•5h ago•19 comments

Stalking the Wily Hacker: 40 years later – Cliff Stoll [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=656058JxTM0
190•zoenolan•4d ago•59 comments

You could have invented PageRank

https://praveshkoirala.com/2026/08/26/you-could-have-invented-pagerank/
3•pkoird•42m ago•0 comments

Value Classes Still Need Compiler Sympathy

https://johan-sjolen.github.io/post/compiler-sympathy/compiler-sympathy/
67•lichtenberger•6h ago•30 comments

Take a Tour of SLAC

https://www6.slac.stanford.edu/public-tours
3•mooreds•49m ago•0 comments

FDA authorizes first wearable device that monitors ketone and blood sugar levels

https://www.fda.gov/news-events/press-announcements/fda-authorizes-first-wearable-device-continuo...
468•sunnynagra•20h ago•216 comments

Show HN: How much of Hacker News is AI?

https://hnstats.com
5•beekthos•55m ago•4 comments

Queryable Executables

https://fzakaria.com/2026/08/24/actually-queryable-executables
275•rguiscard•14h ago•74 comments

OpenAI Jalapeño: Better than Nvidia Blackwell

https://newsletter.semianalysis.com/p/openai-jalapeno-better-than-nvidia
555•bmulholland•1d ago•351 comments

Radiation link in flight attendant's breast cancer, French court finds

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cn0j3z6147jo
17•dazhbog•3h ago•1 comments

New Mac Studio with M5 Max and M5 Ultra

https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2026/08/apple-introduces-new-mac-studio-with-m5-max-and-m5-ultra/
809•interpol_p•1d ago•535 comments

LibreOffice 26.8 Released with Many Nice Improvements

https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/ReleaseNotes/26.8
43•DemiGuru•2h ago•3 comments

Harvest (IBM 7950): Supercomputer for cryptanalysis at the NSA in the Cold War

https://spectrum.ieee.org/cold-war-codebreaker-nsa-ibm
71•jnord•10h ago•20 comments

Black hole singularity is a surface not a point

https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.21590
289•raattgift•22h ago•201 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."