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Didgeridoo playing as alternative treatment for obstructive sleep apnoea (2006)

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC1360393/
126•kelseyfrog•2d ago•42 comments

Show HN: Audiomass – a free, open-source multitrack audio editor for the web

https://audiomass.co/?multitrack=1
366•pantelisk•18h ago•81 comments

Show HN: Geomatic – a command-driven geometry studio enabled with autodiff

https://www.tinyvolt.com/geomatic
9•nivter•1h ago•5 comments

DeepSeek reasonix, DeepSeek native coding agent with high caching and low cost

https://esengine.github.io/DeepSeek-Reasonix/
565•Alifatisk•21h ago•233 comments

Migrating from Go to Rust

https://corrode.dev/learn/migration-guides/go-to-rust/
283•jabits•15h ago•274 comments

Jira Is Turing-Complete

https://seriot.ch/computation/jira.html
176•vinhnx•6h ago•75 comments

C constructs that still don't work in C++

https://lospino.so/blog/c-constructs-that-still-dont-work-in-cpp/
76•jalospinoso•3d ago•56 comments

White Rabbit – sub-nanosecond synchronization for large distributed systems

https://ohwr.org/projects/white-rabbit/
100•michaelsbradley•2d ago•27 comments

Bug 1950764: Work Around Crash on Intel Raptor Lake CPU

https://phabricator.services.mozilla.com/D301917
93•luu•2d ago•28 comments

A fundamental principle of aeronautical engineering has been overturned

https://www.wired.com/story/a-fundamental-principle-of-aeronautical-engineering-has-been-overturned/
163•littlexsparkee•14h ago•79 comments

Bytecode VMs in surprising places (2024)

https://dubroy.com/blog/bytecode-vms-in-surprising-places/
17•azhenley•2d ago•8 comments

I spent 50 hours drawing a line graph

https://www.dougmacdowell.com/50-hours-to-draw-some-lines.html
543•dougdude3339•3d ago•93 comments

I love my Bluetooth keyboard

https://liquidbrain.net/blog/i-love-my-bluetooth-keyboard/
78•evakhoury•2d ago•71 comments

Constraint Decay: The Fragility of LLM Agents in Back End Code Generation

https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.06445
241•wek•21h ago•135 comments

Defeating Git Rigour Fatigue with Jujutsu

https://ikesau.co/blog/defeating-git-rigour-fatigue-with-jujutsu/
121•ikesau•15h ago•129 comments

Microsoft open-sources “the earliest DOS source code discovered to date”

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026/04/microsoft-open-sources-the-earliest-dos-source-code-disco...
474•DamnInteresting•1d ago•167 comments

Scientists solve 200-year-old puzzle of how tobacco plants make nicotine

https://www.york.ac.uk/news-and-events/news/2026/research/200-year-old-puzzle-tobacco-plants-nico...
87•sohkamyung•2d ago•32 comments

Build Adafruit projects right from Firefox

https://www.firefox.com/en-US/landing/adafruit/
166•mch82•3d ago•56 comments

Memory has grown to nearly two-thirds of AI chip component costs

https://epoch.ai/data-insights/ai-chip-component-cost-shares
387•intelkishan•17h ago•398 comments

Why Do We Sleep Under Blankets, Even on the Hottest Nights? (2017)

https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/blankets-summer-hot
33•downbad_•4h ago•21 comments

Building Pi with Pi

https://lucumr.pocoo.org/2026/5/24/pi-oss/
90•mplanchard•16h ago•64 comments

Gorilla: A fast, scalable, in-memory time series database (2016)

https://blog.acolyer.org/2016/05/03/gorilla-a-fast-scalable-in-memory-time-series-database/
15•xnorswap•4d ago•2 comments

Mastering Dyalog APL

https://mastering.dyalog.com/README.html
143•tosh•22h ago•37 comments

Greg Brockman interview [video]

https://fs.blog/knowledge-project-podcast/greg-brockman/
198•prakashqwerty•1d ago•212 comments

Childhood Computing

https://susam.net/childhood-computing.html
211•blenderob•21h ago•99 comments

Using HTTP/2 Cleartext for a server in Go 1.24

https://www.clarityboss.com/blog/go-http2-cleartext-h2c-cloud-run
85•dan_sbl•5d ago•9 comments

Scammers are abusing an internal Microsoft account to send spam links

https://techcrunch.com/2026/05/21/scammers-are-abusing-an-internal-microsoft-account-to-send-spam/
289•spike021•1d ago•162 comments

The Eternal Sloptember

https://geohot.github.io//blog/jekyll/update/2026/05/24/the-eternal-sloptember.html
327•razin•6h ago•262 comments

Why is Vivado 2026.1 dropping Linux support for free tier?

https://adaptivesupport.amd.com/s/question/0D5Pd00001YQLdMKAX/why-is-vivado-20261-dropping-linux-...
324•zdw•1d ago•200 comments

Perceptual Image Codec: What Matters in Practical Learned Image Compression

https://apple.github.io/ml-pico/
115•ksec•22h ago•34 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."