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New paper shows that 37% of workers in US saw real wages decline from 2021-2024 [pdf]

https://bfi.uchicago.edu/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/BFI_WP_2026-108-1.pdf
220•jplusequalt•2h ago•106 comments

Meta's blockbuster trial draws parallels to big tobacco

https://www.economist.com/business/2026/08/18/metas-blockbuster-trial-draws-parallels-to-big-tobacco
33•newsomix9xl•1h ago•9 comments

OpenLogi

https://openlogi.org/en
40•amatheus•1h ago•5 comments

Cerebras CS-4

https://www.cerebras.ai/cs4
115•sunils34•3h ago•77 comments

A 3D fruit fly on macOS desktop powered by the real FlyWire connectome

https://github.com/DenisSergeevitch/desktop-fly
186•phoenix120•5h ago•49 comments

The Amazon tax

https://seths.blog/2026/08/the-amazon-tax/
986•herbertl•14h ago•571 comments

Solo – a .so loader for static Linux binaries

https://github.com/pg83/solo
65•zX41ZdbW•3h ago•69 comments

How does IKEA come up with names for its products?

https://www.ikea.com/se/en/customer-service/knowledge/articles/6f564c4d-2ccc-46de-b643-545a3948dc...
255•NaOH•9h ago•150 comments

AI usage patterns in software teams

https://linear.app/data
63•giuliomagnifico•5h ago•29 comments

Scientists stunned by children's lung recovery in ultra low emission zone

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c1l1r1zne1ro
50•dabinat•2h ago•21 comments

That Disgraceful, Disreputable, (Wonderful) Form of Punctuation: The Parenthesis

https://lithub.com/on-that-disgraceful-disreputable-wonderful-form-of-punctuation-the-parenthesis/
17•pseudolus•2h ago•2 comments

Turbovec – Google's TurboQuant for vector search in Rust

https://github.com/RyanCodrai/turbovec
213•fittingopposite•9h ago•29 comments

Show HN: Interactive, animated architecture of any HuggingFace models

https://modelmap.cc
43•lizhaoliu•3h ago•6 comments

Using the railway network as a flatbed scanner

https://philo.gay/linecam/
411•otherayden•14h ago•68 comments

Cursor launches Origin, GitHub alternative

https://cursor.com/changelog/origin-code-hosting
498•tomasreimers•1d ago•382 comments

Fixing a bricked Framework laptop

https://quantum5.ca/2026/08/16/fixing-bricked-amd-7040-series-framework-13-laptop-with-20-tools/
373•jp_sc•14h ago•258 comments

And then the men with guns tell you to do it anyway

https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2026/08/and-then-the-men-with-guns-tell-you-to-do-it-anyway/
195•_djo_•10h ago•113 comments

A 25-year-old video patent just expired, ending a legal headache for Linux

https://www.xda-developers.com/25-year-old-brazilian-video-patent-expired-legal-headache-linux/
111•theanonymousone•3d ago•40 comments

Memory prices climb 500% in 12 months

https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/ram/memory-prices-climb-500-percent-in-12-months-up-to...
515•haunter•1d ago•426 comments

CUDA Shared Memory Swizzling

https://leimao.github.io/blog/CUDA-Shared-Memory-Swizzling/
4•jxmorris12•5d ago•0 comments

Palomar: A registry of Lean verified mathematics

https://terrytao.wordpress.com/2026/08/18/palomar-a-registry-of-lean-verified-mathematics/
4•matt_d•50m ago•0 comments

The 90-year history of the binoculars bolted to scenic overlooks

https://www.dpreview.com/news/the-90-year-history-of-the-binoculars-bolted-to-scenic-overlooks/
34•sohkamyung•4h ago•7 comments

Tiny satellite will use the dark side of the Moon as a shield

https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/tiny-satellite-will-use-the-dark-side-of-the-moon-to-eavesdro...
15•NordStreamYacht•2h ago•1 comments

Being ambitious and being a dad

https://nicholascharriere.com/blog/being-ambitious-and-being-a-dad/
333•nichochar•2d ago•201 comments

Beware Management Consultants

https://about.iceland.co.uk/our-story/the-dark-ages/beware-management-consultants/
460•KolmogorovComp•8h ago•125 comments

GLM-5.3 Artificial Analysis Benchmarks

https://artificialanalysis.ai/models/glm-5-3
92•apitman•5h ago•43 comments

Universal health coverage could save $1T and 114k lives a year: study

https://ysph.yale.edu/news-article/universal-health-coverage-could-save-one-trillion-dollars-and-...
755•karakoram•1d ago•822 comments

Apple announces changes for apps in the European Union

https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2026/08/apple-announces-changes-for-apps-in-the-european-union/
124•newusertoday•11h ago•186 comments

How a giant battery is transforming a town centre in Cannington, Ontario

https://betakit.com/how-a-giant-battery-is-transforming-a-town-centre-in-cannington-ontario/
24•builtbystef•4d ago•11 comments

Launch HN: machine0 (YC S26) – Persistent CPU and GPU VMs from the CLI

https://machine0.io
66•bwm•11h ago•40 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."