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America Has Lost 200k of Jobs in Media, Film and the Arts. How Much Is AI?

https://www.apricitas.io/p/ai-and-the-fall-of-the-creative-class
128•gnabgib•2h ago•108 comments

We should be more ambitious with the software we build

https://danluu.com/ambitious/
150•ltratt•3h ago•107 comments

The Goose Programming Language

https://aardappel.github.io/goose/
236•bobbydigitales•6h ago•158 comments

Roku developer repositories moved from GitHub to GitLab

https://blog.roku.com/developer/gitlab-move
259•cxr•9h ago•169 comments

Listen and read USA nuclear forces Emergency Action Messages, heard on 11175 kHz

https://missileer.watch
111•liotier•5h ago•76 comments

Why Gopher in 2026?

https://gopher.muffinlabs.com/sdf.org/users/nervtoji/phlog/001.txt
19•andsoitis•1h ago•6 comments

Show HN: Steal My Bitcoin

https://stealmybitcoin.com/
397•cloudlandsdev•5h ago•239 comments

Small Programs and Languages

https://ratfactor.com/cards/pl-small
35•andsoitis•3h ago•1 comments

SpeedCrunch 1.1

https://www.speedcrunch.org/
73•LordNibbler•6h ago•10 comments

I Built a Stereo Vision Board for Hardware Hackers

https://rootkitlabs.com/2026/10/06/i-built-a-stereo-vision-board-for-hardware-hackers/
29•machinehum•4d ago•0 comments

Reactive Optimizers: rewrite the optimizer's source code during training

https://xingjianbai.com/reactive-optimizers/
5•matt_d•3d ago•0 comments

The Importance of Limitations for Creativity and Learning

https://ratfactor.com/cards/limitations
26•andsoitis•3h ago•6 comments

FreeDNS

https://freedns.afraid.org/
247•esher•10h ago•63 comments

I don't understand quantum physics (2018)

https://www.southampton.ac.uk/~doug/quantum_physics/index.html
281•rramadass•15h ago•213 comments

Social dynamics of toxic metal industry in medieval Europe

https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/antiquity/article/social-dynamics-of-toxic-metal-industry...
9•XzetaU8•4d ago•0 comments

The St. Helena 5 pence coin shows Jonathan, a roughly 190 year old tortoise

https://de.numista.com/9866
93•schleck8•8h ago•30 comments

Neural chip decodes interactions between brain regions

https://actu.epfl.ch/news/neural-chip-decodes-interactions-between-brain-r-2/
92•giuliomagnifico•9h ago•31 comments

Node2Shell evolves to HTTP2Shell, blast radius affects many HTTP libs and apps

https://www.aikido.dev/blog/python-packages-vulnerable-node2shell-brotli-cve-2026-111497
276•theanonymousone•17h ago•138 comments

GPU-unlock: FP/BF16 instruction issue rate on Nvidia 3000's cards

https://github.com/Zagitta/gpu-unlock
186•fragebogen•15h ago•61 comments

Google has officially turned these Nest thermostats back into dumb thermostats

https://www.makeuseof.com/google-nest-thermostats-unsupported/
35•gnabgib•2h ago•30 comments

Making a VGA Driver in SystemVerilog

https://lukaswerner.com/post/2026-10-20@bottom-up-vga
47•derHackerman•4d ago•9 comments

Local Wikipedia: Wikipedia, but only for things a half hour walk from you

https://edjefferson.com/localwiki/
1549•sohkamyung•2d ago•243 comments

Physicists trap a single antimatter particle for a month

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/physicists-trap-a-single-antimatter-particle-for-a-month/
279•mooreds•3d ago•80 comments

FindMyWeb: Apple Find My, reverse enginiered

https://codeberg.org/Misom/FindMyWeb
4•Velocifyer•1h ago•0 comments

Bbtree: Fastest Ordered Map

https://bbtree.xiangpeng.systems/post/
49•aoli-al•7h ago•4 comments

No signs of AI payoff outside the tech sector

https://www.apollo.com/wealth/insights-news/insights/daily-spark/no-signs-of-ai-payoff-outside-th...
472•the-mitr•5h ago•470 comments

Twelve years of distributed SQLite

https://philipotoole.com/twelve-years-of-distributed-sqlite/
365•otoolep•1d ago•62 comments

Oai-math-revised: a community hub for revising OpenAI's math write-ups

https://terrytao.wordpress.com/2026/10/24/oai-math-revised-a-community-hub-for-revising-openais-m...
33•tokepi•9h ago•24 comments

Bringing uv and ty together

https://astral.sh/blog/uv-ty-integration
301•Ravencentric•4d ago•110 comments

How close can pure functional programming get to C?

https://rtfeldman.com/fp-vs-c
255•stmonty•21h ago•88 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."