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FFmpeg 9.0

https://github.com/FFmpeg/FFmpeg/blob/n9.0/RELEASE_NOTES
149•gyan•1h ago•20 comments

DeepSeek V4 Flash on a Single AMD MI300X

https://github.com/ryanzhou/deepseek-v4-flash-mi300x
27•zhoutong•53m ago•3 comments

LLMs reward expertise

https://www.seangoedecke.com/llms-reward-expertise/
990•MaxMussio•13h ago•417 comments

You don't need React: creating a minimal UI library in Vanilla JavaScript

https://pedroth.github.io/?p=post/NoNeedReact
48•pedro_movai•2h ago•39 comments

Harness Engineering for Self-Improvement

https://lilianweng.github.io/posts/2026-07-04-harness/
65•tosh•4h ago•8 comments

Show HN: Run an 80B Qwen in 4.3 GB of RAM on a Mac, and a 35B on an iPhone

https://github.com/leonickson1/Swiftlet
194•leonickson•18h ago•88 comments

Ten advances in mathematics and theoretical computer science

https://openai.com/index/ten-advances-in-mathematics/
546•milkshakes•18h ago•838 comments

Devtools must be open source

https://blog.exe.dev/devtools-must-be-open-source
622•bryanmikaelian•20h ago•206 comments

Amazonian civilization had estimated 3M people in 3% of forest area

https://www.science.org/content/article/odd-shapes-hidden-dense-amazon-rainforest-reveal-sprawlin...
159•marojejian•5d ago•133 comments

Archaeologists Find Ancient Glyphs in the Amazon

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/31/world/americas/amazon-archaeology-geoglyphs.html
8•wglb•2d ago•5 comments

That time when I failed the Microsoft interview

https://ochagavia.nl/blog/that-time-when-i-failed-the-microsoft-interview/
71•wofo•6d ago•121 comments

Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2026)

181•whoishiring•19h ago•170 comments

Prevent cognitive debt by manually retyping LLM-generated code

https://ankursethi.com/blog/prevent-cognitive-debt-by-manually-retyping-llm-generated-code/
491•mpweiher•1d ago•404 comments

CollectWise (YC F24) Is Hiring

https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/collectwise/jobs/oEAfzBS-ai-agent-engineer
1•OBrien_1107•3h ago

There Will Come Soft Rains (1950) [pdf]

https://users.wpi.edu/~zrbutzke/Docs/BradburyStories(1).pdf
164•pmg101•11h ago•59 comments

The US is not a democracy but an oligarchy, study concludes (2014)

https://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2014/04/16/The-US-is-not-a-democracy-but-an-oligarchy-study-concl...
61•giov4•1h ago•34 comments

Smaller, faster, safer: running Kimi and GLM at scale

https://blog.cloudflare.com/smaller-faster-safer-models/
223•ascorbic•17h ago•58 comments

Beauty in my backyard

https://worksinprogress.co/issue/beauty-in-my-backyard/
27•footest•4d ago•9 comments

Twenty Years of Pandoc

https://pandoc.org/twenty-years-of-pandoc.html
273•fiddlosopher•19h ago•31 comments

Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (August 2026)

121•whoishiring•19h ago•288 comments

MiniMax H3 Day-0 Support in ComfyUI: Open Weights, Native Audio, and 2K Video

https://blog.comfy.org/p/minimax-h3-day-0-support-in-comfyui
300•vblanco•21h ago•87 comments

Launch HN: Hoplite (YC S26) – Effortlessly deploy cloud coding agents

https://hoplite.sh
73•BenceRed•18h ago•59 comments

Bending Spoons makes first post-IPO acquisition with $1.3B Airtable deal

https://live.euronext.com/en/financial-news/bending-spoons-makes-first-post-ipo-acquisition-13-bi...
43•riffraff•1h ago•43 comments

Trembling Photons in Non-Abelian Electric Fields

https://physics.aps.org/articles/v19/89
9•bookofjoe•3d ago•1 comments

Andy Pavlo joins ClickHouse to establish ClickHouse Labs

https://clickhouse.com/blog/andy-pavlo-joins-clickhouse
315•nikolay_sivko•20h ago•67 comments

Show HN: I made a private self-destructing image hosting site in Golang

https://picburn.xyz/
3•shelldweller•2h ago•1 comments

Celebrating 45 Years of Kermit with the First New C-Kermit Release in 15 Years

https://changelog.complete.org/archives/44456-celebrating-45-years-of-kermit-with-the-first-new-c...
168•roryirvine•17h ago•43 comments

200 Milliseconds

https://200ms.thenodebook.com
291•dimitarpanov•3d ago•89 comments

Windows XP 2002 for the Itanium: Unbridled rage

https://virtuallyfun.com/2026/08/03/windows-xp-2002-for-the-itanium-unbridled-rage/
108•jandeboevrie•12h ago•61 comments

Bonsai: Janestreet's UI Library

https://github.com/janestreet/bonsai
359•KolmogorovComp•1d ago•147 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."