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Codex on AWS bedrock bug causing 10x charges

https://github.com/openai/codex/issues/37674
57•TheP1000•2h ago•16 comments

The August 17 outage

https://github.blog/news-insights/company-news/the-august-17-outage-and-the-work-ahead/
424•0xedb•10h ago•472 comments

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

https://www.experimental-history.com/p/i-like-em-thick
642•Ariarule•2d ago•274 comments

HTML Can Do That

https://chrisburnell.com/html-can-do-that/
658•encyclopedism•1d ago•174 comments

Malicious Rust crate Arrayref runs a build-time payload

https://safedep.io/arrayref-proc-macro1-rust-build-time-malware/
436•abhisek•16h ago•385 comments

I should have loved biology (2020)

https://jsomers.net/i-should-have-loved-biology/
228•tyre•11h ago•88 comments

Ox Alpha

https://openrouter.ai/stealth/ox-alpha
69•mtokmak06•5h ago•59 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...
382•EwanG•1d ago•228 comments

Captain Zilog

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

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

https://annas-archive.gl/blog/physical-destruction.html
200•Cider9986•2h ago•129 comments

There's no such thing as a small software team anymore

https://jacob.gold/posts/theres-no-such-thing-as-a-small-software-team/
54•mooreslaw•5h ago•92 comments

Why aren't smart people happier? (2022)

https://www.experimental-history.com/p/why-arent-smart-people-happier
131•rafaelc•10h ago•187 comments

Make a 6-Tesla-class high-temperature superconducting dipole magnet at 4.2 K

https://journals.aps.org/prab/abstract/10.1103/4nhs-bkwh
23•supermagnet•6d ago•5 comments

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

https://github.com/zachahn/vomit
219•Bluestein•14h ago•227 comments

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

https://www.danielvaughn.dev/posts/huzzah/
258•danielvaughn•10h ago•143 comments

Mojo is now open source

https://www.modular.com/blog/mojo-open-source
377•visheshdembla•2d ago•87 comments

AliExpress runs silent WebAudio fingerprinting that breaks Bluetooth multipoint

https://blog.laserphile.com/2026/08/aliexpress-webpage-keeping-multipoint.html
936•emctech•19h ago•295 comments

Linux 7.2

https://www.igalia.com/2026/08/19/Linux-72-Released.html
219•mariuz•13h ago•76 comments

The Quora Collapse

https://www.harperflow.io/dead-internet/quora-collapse
4•Heshamus•4d ago•0 comments

Anti-AI fonts are useless and harmful

https://blog.yaros.ae/anti-ai-fonts-are-useless-and-harmful/
139•speckx•14h ago•91 comments

Git at any scale

https://cursor.com/blog/git-at-any-scale
307•meetpateltech•2d ago•99 comments

SpacetimeDB: A Short Technical Review

https://strn.cat/posts/spacetime/
75•hurrrr•10h ago•16 comments

Speeding Up (Small) Ruby Hashes

https://byroot.github.io/ruby/performance/2026/08/13/speeding-up-ruby-hashes.html
35•arto•6d ago•0 comments

Consumer Rights Wiki

https://consumerrights.wiki/w/Main_Page
261•gregsadetsky•11h ago•48 comments

Project Cybersyn (2022)

https://bactra.org/notebooks/cybersyn.html
55•cassepipe•11h ago•43 comments

Stop Anthropomorphizing Intermediate Tokens as Reasoning/Thinking Traces

https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.09762
212•nunodonato•1d ago•131 comments

How to compromise your system with a job interview

https://www.codedge.de/posts/how-to-compromise-your-system-with-a-job-interview
138•codedge•13h ago•129 comments

Aaron Swartz was prosecuted for scraping, while Meta does it without consequence

https://blog.curiousquail.com/im-upset-again-about-a-co-creator-of-rss-being-prosecuted-for-somet...
1268•speckx•9h ago•284 comments

Every Model Cheats

https://dreadnode.io/research/every-model-cheats-prompt-level-mitigation-of-cheating-on-offensive...
90•vga805•15h ago•75 comments

Sixtyfour (YC P25) Is Hiring

https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/sixtyfour/jobs/39SkSrA-software-engineering-intern
1•HPMOR•12h ago
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."