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We deserve a better streams API for JavaScript

https://blog.cloudflare.com/a-better-web-streams-api/
65•nnx•1h ago•24 comments

Statement from Dario Amodei on our discussions with the Department of War

https://www.anthropic.com/news/statement-department-of-war
2477•qwertox•16h ago•1320 comments

Can you reverse engineer our neural network?

https://blog.janestreet.com/can-you-reverse-engineer-our-neural-network/
159•jsomers•2d ago•94 comments

Show HN: Badge that shows how well your codebase fits in an LLM's context window

https://github.com/qwibitai/nanoclaw/tree/main/repo-tokens
14•jimminyx•24m ago•2 comments

F-Droid Board of Directors nominations 2026

https://f-droid.org/2026/02/26/board-of-directors-nominations.html
96•edent•5h ago•39 comments

Show HN: RetroTick – Run classic Windows EXEs in the browser

https://retrotick.com/
56•lqs_•2h ago•12 comments

An interactive intro to quadtrees

https://growingswe.com/blog/quadtrees
119•evakhoury•2d ago•10 comments

The normalization of corruption in organizations (2003) [pdf]

https://gwern.net/doc/sociology/2003-ashforth.pdf
180•rendx•9h ago•86 comments

The Hunt for Dark Breakfast

https://moultano.wordpress.com/2026/02/22/the-hunt-for-dark-breakfast/
380•moultano•11h ago•146 comments

Tenth Circuit: 4th Amendment Doesn't Support Broad Search of Protesters' Devices

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/02/victory-tenth-circuit-finds-fourth-amendment-doesnt-support...
30•hn_acker•30m ago•2 comments

Breaking Free

https://www.forbrukerradet.no/breakingfree/
90•Aissen•5h ago•15 comments

OpenAI raises $110B on $730B pre-money valuation

https://techcrunch.com/2026/02/27/openai-raises-110b-in-one-of-the-largest-private-funding-rounds...
35•zlatkov•43m ago•21 comments

The quixotic team trying to build a world in a 20-year-old game

https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2026/02/inside-the-quixotic-team-trying-to-build-an-entire-world-i...
63•nxobject•2d ago•11 comments

Sprites on the Web

https://www.joshwcomeau.com/animation/sprites/
7•vinhnx•3d ago•0 comments

Reading English from 1000 Ad

https://lewiscampbell.tech/blog/260224.html
47•LAC-Tech•3d ago•20 comments

Get free Claude max 20x for open-source maintainers

https://claude.com/contact-sales/claude-for-oss
67•zhisme•6h ago•47 comments

What Claude Code chooses

https://amplifying.ai/research/claude-code-picks
523•tin7in•21h ago•195 comments

OpenAI's $110B funding round (investments from Amazon, Nvidia, SoftBank)

https://www.reuters.com/business/retail-consumer/amazon-invest-50-billion-openai-2026-02-27/
20•throwaw12•54m ago•16 comments

Ubicloud (YC W24): Software Engineer – $95-$250K in Turkey, Netherlands, CA

https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/ubicloud/jobs/j4bntEJ-software-engineer
1•ozgune•6h ago

How to Allocate Memory

https://geocar.sdf1.org/alloc.html
15•tosh•2d ago•1 comments

Working on Pharo Smalltalk: BPatterns: Rewrite Engine with Smalltalk Style

http://dionisiydk.blogspot.com/2026/02/bpatterns-rewrite-engine-with-smalltalk.html
37•mpweiher•6h ago•1 comments

80386 Protection

https://nand2mario.github.io/posts/2026/80386_protection/
106•nand2mario•2d ago•25 comments

The complete Manic Miner disassembly

https://skoolkit.ca/disassemblies/manic_miner/
42•sandebert•7h ago•6 comments

AirSnitch: Demystifying and breaking client isolation in Wi-Fi networks [pdf]

https://www.ndss-symposium.org/wp-content/uploads/2026-f1282-paper.pdf
388•DamnInteresting•23h ago•172 comments

Compact disc story (1998)

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/294484774_Compact_disc_story
27•pipeline_peak•12h ago•7 comments

What does " 2>&1 " mean?

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/818255/what-does-21-mean
365•alexmolas•19h ago•214 comments

Layoffs at Block

https://twitter.com/jack/status/2027129697092731343
827•mlex•18h ago•910 comments

The history of knocking on wood

https://resobscura.substack.com/p/neolithic-habits-machine-age-tools
40•benbreen•3d ago•8 comments

The Origins of Agar

https://www.asimov.press/p/agar
51•surprisetalk•4d ago•10 comments

I rendered 1,418 confusables over 230 fonts. Most aren't confusable to the eye

https://paultendo.github.io/posts/confusable-vision-visual-similarity/
94•paultendo•2d ago•45 comments
Open in hackernews

Building my npx business card

https://ashley.dev/posts/turning-feedback-into-features/
8•edent•9mo ago

Comments

steele•9mo ago
Ooh, free real estate, let's colonize and gentrify package management
aabhay•9mo ago
Lmao, gentrify cracked me up
neilv•9mo ago
Do these npx business cards run arbitrary code on your computer?
cypherpunks01•9mo 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•9mo 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•9mo ago
Yeah, this seems like a very smart but inherently flawed idea.
cypherpunks01•9mo 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•9mo ago
May as well just release an executable tbh.
theamk•9mo 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•9mo 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•9mo 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."