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DeepSeek-v4-flash-vision-exp

https://api-docs.deepseek.com/guides/vision/
119•dares2573•1h ago•24 comments

The Lost Treasure of Sid Meier's Pirates

https://remapradio.com/articles/the-lost-treasure-of-sid-meiers-pirates/
123•spankibalt•4h ago•59 comments

Small, native web tricks worth remembering

https://htmlcat.net/
59•marcomezzavilla•2h ago•15 comments

We Rebuilt the Linux MicroVM Stack on Apple Silicon

https://encore.dev/blog/firecracker-apple-silicon
96•signa11•4h ago•46 comments

Flat Chair by Sara Paculdo

https://www.toxel.com/tech/2026/08/07/flat-chair-by-sara-paculdo/
31•surprisetalk•3d ago•11 comments

The August 17 outage

https://github.blog/news-insights/company-news/the-august-17-outage-and-the-work-ahead/
563•0xedb•16h ago•615 comments

AI companies destroy physical books – let's scan rare books before it's too late

https://annas-archive.pk/blog/physical-destruction.html
11•darccio•1h ago•0 comments

I like 'em thick: an apology to my English teachers

https://www.experimental-history.com/p/i-like-em-thick
766•Ariarule•2d ago•308 comments

HTML Can Do That

https://chrisburnell.com/html-can-do-that/
857•encyclopedism•1d ago•190 comments

The case against a C alternative (2022)

https://c3.handmade.network/blog/p/8486-the_case_against_a_c_alternative
48•theanonymousone•4d ago•37 comments

Malicious Rust crate Arrayref runs a build-time payload

https://safedep.io/arrayref-proc-macro1-rust-build-time-malware/
513•abhisek•22h ago•439 comments

Ox Alpha

https://openrouter.ai/stealth/ox-alpha
179•mtokmak06•11h ago•138 comments

The Religious Experience of Philip K. Dick by R. Crumb (1986)

https://philipdick.com/resources/miscellaneous/the-religious-experience-of-philip-k-dick-by-r-cru...
54•wise_blood•6h ago•31 comments

I should have loved biology (2020)

https://jsomers.net/i-should-have-loved-biology/
296•tyre•18h ago•110 comments

Micron announces $10B research hub in Boise

https://investors.micron.com/news/press-release/2026/Micron-Unveils-Micron-Research-Labs-a-U-S--B...
43•osnium123•7h ago•5 comments

Japan tried to build an operating system for the world, the US intervened

https://www.xda-developers.com/japan-tried-build-operating-system-entire-world-us-government-inte...
229•rdmuser•6h ago•120 comments

Why aren't smart people happier? (2022)

https://www.experimental-history.com/p/why-arent-smart-people-happier
201•rafaelc•17h ago•287 comments

CIA funding helped keep NeXT afloat in the 80s

https://www.wsj.com/tech/steve-jobs-apple-next-cia-161b65f9?st=NWWds1&reflink=desktopwebshare_per...
412•EwanG•1d ago•253 comments

The Mystery of Dark Oxygen

https://www.newyorker.com/science/elements/the-mystery-of-dark-oxygen
4•rbanffy•4d ago•0 comments

Launch HN: Vendo (YC S26) – Let users build features on top of your product

https://github.com/runvendo/vendo
43•yousefh409•20h ago•20 comments

Show HN: Huzzah – a novel approach to coding with AI

https://www.danielvaughn.dev/posts/huzzah/
327•danielvaughn•16h ago•174 comments

Better Batteries

https://matklad.github.io/2026/08/20/better-batteries.html
13•olexsmir•4h ago•8 comments

Vomit: Clean up Claude 5's token output with a separate LLM

https://github.com/zachahn/vomit
263•Bluestein•20h ago•260 comments

Seed: Minimal, self-modifying agent harness

https://github.com/vivekhaldar/seed
33•gandalfgeek•6h ago•12 comments

Captain Zilog

https://www.zilog.com/captain_zilog/
60•rbanffy•3d ago•7 comments

Stop Anthropomorphizing Intermediate Tokens as Reasoning/Thinking Traces (2025)

https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.09762
252•nunodonato•2d ago•199 comments

Linux 7.2

https://www.igalia.com/2026/08/19/Linux-72-Released.html
262•mariuz•20h ago•106 comments

AliExpress runs silent WebAudio fingerprinting that breaks Bluetooth multipoint

https://blog.laserphile.com/2026/08/aliexpress-webpage-keeping-multipoint.html
977•emctech•1d ago•312 comments

Anti-AI fonts are useless and harmful

https://blog.yaros.ae/anti-ai-fonts-are-useless-and-harmful/
176•speckx•20h ago•134 comments

Speeding Up (Small) Ruby Hashes

https://byroot.github.io/ruby/performance/2026/08/13/speeding-up-ruby-hashes.html
65•arto•1w ago•0 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."