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I paid people to try and follow my README

https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2026/10/i-paid-people-to-try-and-follow-my-readme/
242•edent•5h ago•123 comments

The Corporate Happiness Treadmill and the Case for Doing Less

https://0xff.nu/corp-burnout/
15•hxii•1h ago•5 comments

Bot traffic from Yandex

https://radar.cloudflare.com/bots/as13238?dateRange=7d
503•walrus01•6h ago•193 comments

The tilde in your PATH may not be your HOME

https://disconnect3d.pl//2026/10/02/dont-put-tilde-in-your-path/
128•arusekk•4h ago•74 comments

LineageOS 24.0

https://lineageos.org/Changelog-32/
296•timschumi•10h ago•105 comments

Valen's Memory Safety: A New Kind of Borrow Checking

https://verdagon.dev/blog/valen-group-borrowing
77•verdagon•4h ago•32 comments

Show HN: BetterWispr – Free, open-source dictation for Mac

https://betterwispr.com/
58•kartik017•5h ago•31 comments

How I reverse engineered a commercial spatial audio effect

http://epestr.com/blog/reverse-engineering-a-commercial-spatial-audio-effect/
21•epestr•1h ago•8 comments

Nitter: Update Oct 10th seeking funding and legal help

https://nitter.net
321•ForHackernews•6h ago•154 comments

The RAM shortage is bringing back DDR4

https://www.theverge.com/games/1009140/ram-shortage-intel-amd-ddr4-comeback
178•1potato•1d ago•166 comments

2D Vehicles

https://patkerr.co.uk/2d-vehicles/
574•Michelangelo11•4d ago•110 comments

Build your own decision model

https://nishtahir.com/build-your-own-decision-model/
422•softwaredoug•18h ago•95 comments

A city-building game in which the city would prefer you didn't

https://housing.over.pizza/
471•JumpCrisscross•20h ago•157 comments

Weave (YC W25) is hiring ML, AI, product, & design engineers

https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/weave-os
1•adchurch•5h ago

3rd Yandex Cloud Data Center Was Hit

https://status.yandex.cloud/en/incidents/2136
395•defly•9h ago•482 comments

IRCv3

https://ircv3.net/
227•basilikum•6h ago•208 comments

Documents Add to Evidence in Climate Deception Case Against ExxonMobil

https://insideclimatenews.org/news/07102026/exxonmobil-climate-deception-new-evidence/
311•gumby•2h ago•155 comments

The Lightbulb Computer

https://lightbulbcomputer.com/
533•oskarth•1d ago•88 comments

A Cray-1 supercomputer replica from 30 "obsolete" Mac Minis

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026/10/a-cray-1-supercomputer-replica-from-30-obsolete-mac-minis/
12•pseudolus•1d ago•2 comments

Plumbers, chains, and famous painters: The history of the pipe operator in R

http://adolfoalvarez.cl/blog/2021-09-16-plumbers-chains-and-famous-painters-the-history-of-the-pi...
32•sinnsro•2d ago•2 comments

The Wild West of polyglot docs sites

https://technicalwriting.dev/blog/2026/10/polyglot/index.html
5•zdw•2d ago•1 comments

Why hasn't SpaceX, worth $2T, paid this Bay Area chef the $70K it owes him?

https://www.sfchronicle.com/food/restaurants/article/spacex-stateline-napa-late-payment-22463945.php
3•hn_acker•6m ago•1 comments

How big is a Git commit?

https://ratfactor.com/cards/git-commit-size
70•theanonymousone•2d ago•28 comments

Rat's Register Allocator

https://hexrat.cc/pages/blog/2026_10_07
44•mpweiher•1d ago•2 comments

PSPi 6 – Raspberry Pi in a PSP

https://github.com/othermod/PSPi-Version-6
122•therepanic•16h ago•12 comments

I'm sorry, but you still have to think

https://itsallaboutthebit.com/i-am-sorry-but-you-still-have-to-think/
6•drogus•2h ago•0 comments

Retrofitting language models to operate over bytes

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-026-11111-4
96•theanonymousone•3d ago•19 comments

Nix wrote half of my debugger

https://fzakaria.com/2026/10/07/nix-wrote-half-of-my-debugger
226•ingve•2d ago•54 comments

Show HN: Happy Hangul Day! An RNN for Generating Korean Handwriting Strokes

https://hangul.ink/blog/hangul-day
83•jbaudanza•2d ago•16 comments

Five months treating bugs like patients and coding agents like a medical team

https://www.cockroachlabs.com/blog/experiment-running-hospital-code/
192•rafiss•2d ago•87 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."