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The baffling intelligence of a single cell (2024)

https://jsomers.net/e-coli-chemotaxis/
302•jsomers•1d ago•73 comments

Hittite royal archive found in Turkey

https://www.thehistoryblog.com/archives/77107
53•benbreen•4h ago•3 comments

GLM-Legal

https://z.ai/blog/glm-legal
575•ilreb•18h ago•324 comments

Intel D270 GPU AI Accelerator–Up to 480 GB LPDDR5X

https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/products/details/discrete-gpus/data-center-gpu/d-series.html
225•hurricanepootis•13h ago•110 comments

Show HN: Use your OpenAI subscription to create audiobooks

https://pdftomp3.com/connect-ai/
5•janpmz•42m ago•0 comments

Hackers activate automatic defrosting in supermarket fridges across Europe

https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/cyber-security/unprecedented-cyberattack-cripples-supe...
716•Zeekaas•22h ago•837 comments

A Modern Web App in C

https://prophitt.me/writing/a-modern-web-app-in-c
577•prophittcorey•18h ago•243 comments

Document Review with Unsiloed and TypeSafe Jev

https://www.unsiloed.ai/blog/document-review-unsiloed-typesafe-jev
12•ritzaco•2h ago•2 comments

CFTC Staff Were Told to Retract Analysis of Suspicious Oil Trades

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2026-10-13/cftc-staff-told-to-retract-analysis-of-suspici...
19•helsinkiandrew•42m ago•1 comments

Who is vfmaddrnd231pd?

https://purplesyringa.moe/blog/who-is-vfmaddrnd231pd/
213•pngmangi•13h ago•20 comments

Janas: Run LLMs larger than RAM by streaming experts from SSD

https://github.com/prabanta-dev/janas
153•khalidkhair•12h ago•52 comments

Making big downloads resumable in Firefox

https://lunarwatcher.codeberg.page/til/firefox/resumable-big-downloads.html
217•speckx•15h ago•98 comments

Turn a WiFi 7 Router into a 320Msps Software Defined Radio Receiver

https://github.com/h0m3us3r/w1700k-sdr
353•djfergus•22h ago•95 comments

Citroen revives the 2CV for an electric age

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c620r33plgppo
344•scrlk•22h ago•389 comments

AI is a tool and using it well takes skill

https://yyhh.org/blog/2026/10/ai-is-a-tool/
428•layer8•13h ago•343 comments

A look at the math that OpenAI claims computes faster Fourier transforms

https://www.argmin.net/p/faster-fourier-transforms
148•mochomocha•8h ago•104 comments

Launch HN: Agent37 (YC F26) – Low-cost agent sandboxes for running agents

132•vishnukool•18h ago•98 comments

Auto Research: Integer multiplication below n log n

https://app.getsupers.com/auto-research
64•swesnow•1d ago•29 comments

Crypto thieves sell hardware wallets with secret eSIM

https://www.heise.de/en/news/Crypto-thieves-sell-hardware-wallets-with-secret-eSIM-11485188.html
21•qwertox•2h ago•19 comments

Writing a Demoscene Intro for the ZX Spectrum

https://www.markround.com/blog/2026/zx-spectrum-intro
136•zdw•15h ago•26 comments

Solar panels that plug into your wall

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/environment/article/balcony-plug-in-solar-panels-renewable-energy
194•speckx•20h ago•205 comments

AI models can provably hide arbitrary capabilities

https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.13928
214•sbulaev•8h ago•112 comments

Show HN: SolidCraft – Open-Source Parametric CAD in Rust (With MCP Support)

https://github.com/bherbruck/solidcraft
68•bherbruck•10h ago•13 comments

AI models may soon self-replicate without access to data centers

https://www.reuters.com/business/ai-models-may-soon-self-replicate-without-access-data-centers-an...
6•samizdis•42m ago•5 comments

AWS Lambda Web Functions

https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/announcing-aws-lambda-web-functions-for-fast-consistent-web-app-...
11•HatchedLake721•43m ago•4 comments

Show HN: An experimental pattern-first DAW that supports MCP

https://github.com/andrewfader/blokkily
60•androsynth89•11h ago•28 comments

Kevin Kelly's 2016 AI Predictions, 10 Years Later

https://taylor.town/kk-ai-2026
192•surprisetalk•19h ago•73 comments

The Making Of Super Mario 64 – full Giles Goddard interview (2001)

https://pixelatron.com/blog/the-making-of-super-mario-64-full-giles-goddard-interview-ngc/
252•gregsadetsky•2d ago•97 comments

Phreak.ing – Internet Phone Switch

https://phreak.ing/
133•rickcarlino•13h ago•34 comments

Codex CLI installs a persistent, self-updating background daemon by default

https://github.com/openai/codex/issues/48195
567•whimblepop•16h ago•275 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."