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Beware Management Consultants

https://about.iceland.co.uk/our-story/the-dark-ages/beware-management-consultants/
236•KolmogorovComp•1h ago•40 comments

Turbovec – Google's TurboQuant for vector search in Rust

https://github.com/RyanCodrai/turbovec
141•fittingopposite•3h ago•17 comments

The Amazon tax

https://seths.blog/2026/08/the-amazon-tax/
715•herbertl•7h ago•455 comments

Using the railway network as a flatbed scanner

https://philo.gay/linecam/
353•otherayden•8h ago•56 comments

Fixing a bricked Framework laptop

https://quantum5.ca/2026/08/16/fixing-bricked-amd-7040-series-framework-13-laptop-with-20-tools/
301•jp_sc•7h ago•198 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...
151•NaOH•3h ago•97 comments

Cursor launches Origin, GitHub alternative

https://cursor.com/changelog/origin-code-hosting
359•tomasreimers•1d ago•288 comments

Linux 7.3 improves performance when running out of vRAM

https://pixelcluster.dev/VRAM-Overcommit/
475•flaburgan•13h ago•226 comments

2,500-year-old sculpture discovered at UNESCO site in Turkey

https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2026/08/07/colossal-2500-year-old-sculpture-discovered-turkey-une...
31•speckx•5d ago•7 comments

Pacing model development in an era of cyber-critical capabilities

https://openai.com/index/pacing-model-development-cyber-capabilities/
34•j4mie•2h ago•13 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...
355•haunter•1d ago•275 comments

Python Polars Cheatsheet (based on our O'Reilly book)

https://opensource.posit.co/resources/cheatsheets/polars/
137•jeroenjanssens•7h ago•26 comments

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

https://machine0.io
42•bwm•4h ago•30 comments

We've flown a radiation-blocking vest to the Moon and back, and it worked

https://arstechnica.com/science/2026/08/weve-flown-a-radiation-blocking-vest-to-the-moon-and-back...
64•rbanffy•4d ago•28 comments

Evolve: An incremental game about evolving a civilization

https://pmotschmann.github.io/Evolve/
41•frozenseven•3d ago•16 comments

Splitting a Git Commit

https://blog.gnoack.org/post/git-history-split
105•signa11•3d ago•53 comments

Data centers raise nearby temperatures by up to 4 degrees in Phoenix

https://asmedigitalcollection.asme.org/sustainablebuildings/article/7/2/024501/1233035/Data-Cente...
249•cwwc•3h ago•328 comments

Mycorrhizal Infrastructure Map

https://a-hidden-infrastructure.spun.earth/map
13•num42•3d ago•4 comments

Teaching my kid to code with a modern MUD

https://tau.dev/2026/08/07/canon
201•andrewjanke•6d ago•58 comments

Show HN: Openleetcode – local LeetCode runner where tests live in the repo

https://github.com/therepanic/openleetcode
41•therepanic•5h ago•14 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-...
593•karakoram•1d ago•685 comments

Norway Should Buy OpenAI

https://www.onethousandmeans.com/p/norway-should-buy-openai
146•alexeigannon•1h ago•161 comments

Show HN: macOS data protection keychain for Electron apps

https://github.com/biw/keychain-store
19•biwills•3h ago•1 comments

IndieWeb Homebrew Website Club Asia Pacific: Reflections

https://burgeonlab.com/blog/inaugural-hwc-ap-recap/
6•rdmuser•2h ago•0 comments

California's new tire efficiency rules could save drivers $1B a year

https://grist.org/transportation/californias-new-tire-efficiency-rules-could-save-drivers-1b-a-year/
119•littlexsparkee•18h ago•157 comments

Babies born under sugar rationing grew into adults with lower cancer risk

https://theconversation.com/babies-born-under-sugar-rationing-grew-into-adults-with-lower-cancer-...
232•zeristor•7h ago•47 comments

Fairphone is now officially available in the United States

https://www.fairphone.com/nl/stories/the-fairphone-gen-6-is-all-about-giving-you-more
328•Vinnl•8h ago•168 comments

Ask HN: GitHub employees what's going on? Why?

192•sharts•1d ago•158 comments

Google has acquired the data of failed US airline Spirit

https://www.theregister.com/ai-and-ml/2026/08/18/google-buys-crashed-airline-spirits-data-at-auct...
544•pseudolus•11h ago•371 comments

Rethinking Database Programming

https://acadia.engineering/blog/rethinking-database-programming
213•honungsburk•13h ago•119 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."