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GPT-5.6 used a prompt to close a 30-year gap in convex optimization

https://old.reddit.com/r/math/comments/1uxj3cy/after_openais_cdc_proof_announcement_gpt56_used_a/
286•mbustamanter•4h ago•159 comments

Gleam Is Now on Tangled

https://tangled.org/gleam.run/gleam
76•nerdypepper•1h ago•41 comments

Setting up your spare Mac for Claude Code to control, a step-by-step guide

https://ykdojo.github.io/claude-controls-mac/
38•ykev•1h ago•8 comments

Elixir-lang.org has a new design

https://elixir-lang.org/
44•bbg2401•1h ago•18 comments

Is this the end of the once-mighty GoPro?

https://amateurphotographer.com/latest/photo-news/going-going-gone-is-this-the-end-of-the-once-mi...
111•aanet•3d ago•157 comments

Fable 5 vs. GPT-5.6 Sol on an NP-Hard Problem: Does /goal help?

https://charlesazam.com/blog/fable-5-gpt-5-6-sol-goal/
144•couAUIA•6h ago•62 comments

If You Build It, They Will Come

https://www.benlandautaylor.com/p/if-you-build-it-they-will-come
18•barry-cotter•1h ago•6 comments

Our Approach to Bioresilience: Isomorphic Labs and Google DeepMind

https://deepmind.google/blog/our-approach-to-bioresilience/
14•bookofjoe•1h ago•5 comments

Show HN: Q3Edit – Edit and play Quake 3 maps in the browser

https://q3edit.com
16•drdator•2h ago•3 comments

Tech note: making your own V-I plots at home

https://lcamtuf.substack.com/p/tech-note-making-your-own-v-i-plots
33•zdw•21h ago•4 comments

LG monitors silently install software through Windows Update without consent

https://videocardz.com/newz/lg-monitors-silently-install-software-through-windows-update-without-...
699•baranul•6h ago•347 comments

Regressive JPEGs

https://maurycyz.com/projects/bad_jpeg/
558•vitaut•14h ago•55 comments

What AI did to stackoverflow in a graph

https://data.stackexchange.com/stackoverflow/query/1953768#graph
244•secretslol•6h ago•288 comments

EU ban on destruction of unsold clothes and shoes enters into application

https://environment.ec.europa.eu/news/ban-destruction-unsold-clothes-and-shoes-enters-application...
144•robtherobber•3h ago•121 comments

The Fermi Paradox, Percolation, and Inbreeding

https://reactormag.com/the-fermi-paradox-percolation-and-inbreeding/
11•bryanrasmussen•1h ago•6 comments

GTX 1080s: Testing a Legend

https://www.lttlabs.com/articles/2026/07/15/gtx-1080s-revisiting-legends
28•LabsLucas•2d ago•7 comments

Reviving a 15-year-old netbook with Arch Linux

https://parksb.github.io/en/article/41.html
191•parksb•4d ago•119 comments

The Computer at the Bottom of a Canal

https://negroniventurestudios.com/2026/07/18/the-computer-at-the-bottom-of-a-canal/
104•Kudos•8h ago•22 comments

Thanks HN for 15 years of support and helping me find my life's work

742•nicholasjbs•1d ago•94 comments

Fake food delivery site for the dopamine

https://old.reddit.com/r/BingeEatingDisorder/comments/1uzr3ui/fake_food_delivery_site_for_the_dop...
30•guerrilla•1h ago•7 comments

British runner Josh Kerr breaks world record for mile which stood for 27 years

https://news.sky.com/story/british-runner-josh-kerr-breaks-world-record-for-mile-which-had-stood-...
41•austinallegro•2h ago•28 comments

First atmosphere found on Earth-like planet in habitable zone of distant star

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cy4kdd1e0ejo
500•neversaydie•1d ago•292 comments

Qubes OS Security in the Public Record

https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.14587
52•sciences44•8h ago•9 comments

The Zilog Z80 has turned 50

https://goliath32.com/blog/z80.html
256•st_goliath•21h ago•103 comments

No link between acetaminophen use during pregnancy and adverse birth outcomes

https://sph.unc.edu/sph-news/no-link-between-acetaminophen-use-during-pregnancy-and-adverse-birth...
14•geox•1h ago•0 comments

TP-Link Kasa cameras leaked home GPS via unauthenticated UDP for 6 years

https://github.com/BadChemical/IoT-Vulnerability-Research-Public/blob/main/TP-Link_Kasa_EC71/Kasa...
190•BadChemical•19h ago•73 comments

Learning a few things about running SQLite

https://jvns.ca/blog/2026/07/17/learning-about-running-sqlite/
302•surprisetalk•23h ago•76 comments

Waldi: A quiet place to write, and to be read

https://github.com/waaldev/waldi
51•waaldev•6d ago•25 comments

Kimi K3, and what we can still learn from the pelican benchmark

https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jul/16/kimi-k3/
380•droidjj•1d ago•206 comments

Funny item co-occurrences in 3.2M Instacart orders

https://rogerdickey.com/funny-item-co-occurrences-in-3-million-instacart-orders/
39•rogerdickey•3d ago•69 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."