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CSSQuake

https://cssquake.com/
267•msalsas•5h ago•56 comments

The European Social Stack

https://european.social
33•doener•1h ago•13 comments

VPN ban update for UK households as government looks at 'age-gate'

https://www.birminghammail.co.uk/news/midlands-news/vpn-ban-update-uk-households-34141063
52•iamnothere•1h ago•52 comments

Bootimus – A Self-Contained PXE and HTTP Boot Server

https://bootimus.com
54•car•5h ago•19 comments

From PGP to Mythos: a brief history of export controls that didn't stop anyone

https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/19/encryption-spyware-and-now-mythos-history-shows-why-cyber-expor...
63•Brajeshwar•2h ago•28 comments

Where to Find the Colors Your Screen Can't Show You

https://moultano.wordpress.com/2026/06/19/where-to-find-the-colors-your-screen-cant-show-you/
317•moultano•12h ago•71 comments

I Stored a Website in a Favicon

https://www.timwehrle.de/blog/i-stored-a-website-in-a-favicon/
239•theanonymousone•10h ago•85 comments

Web Browsers on PDAS

https://vale.rocks/posts/pda-browsers
11•robin_reala•1h ago•3 comments

Mencius

https://scholarworks.iu.edu/iuswrrest/api/core/bitstreams/265d73a0-6bfa-45df-92ff-4e7d3f8be4b1/co...
5•jruohonen•1d ago•1 comments

DOS Game "F-15 Strike Eagle II" reversing project needs DOS test pilots

https://neuviemeporte.github.io/f15-se2/2026/06/20/needyou.html
4•LowLevelMahn•49m ago•2 comments

Cargo-Geiger

https://github.com/geiger-rs/cargo-geiger
4•tosh•1h ago•0 comments

Computed goto for efficient dispatch tables (2012)

https://eli.thegreenplace.net/2012/07/12/computed-goto-for-efficient-dispatch-tables
25•firephox•3d ago•10 comments

The Cold War's Accidental Whale Observatory

https://thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/the-cold-wars-accidental-whale-observatory/
45•pseudolus•3d ago•17 comments

Can you see three trees?

https://www.not-ship.com/can-you-see-three-trees/
246•Pamar•2d ago•110 comments

Temporary Cloudflare Accounts for AI Agents

https://blog.cloudflare.com/temporary-accounts/
29•farhadhf•4h ago•13 comments

Ubisoft co-founder Claude Guillemot has died in a plane crash

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-06-20/ubisoft-co-founder-claude-guillemot-dies-in-ai...
30•drayfield•1h ago•4 comments

Lithuanian startup launches open-source network to detect Shahed-type drones

https://www.lrt.lt/en/news-in-english/19/2965205/lithuanian-startup-launches-open-source-network-...
83•giuliomagnifico•4h ago•64 comments

GPT-5.5 hallucinates 3x more than MIT-licensed GLM-5.2

https://arrowtsx.dev/bigger-models/
374•oshrimpton•23h ago•172 comments

There are no instances in ATProto

https://overreacted.io/there-are-no-instances-in-atproto/
489•danabramov•1d ago•265 comments

Big Tech is stoking unrest in the UK. Why?

https://www.ft.com/content/0f3e33d2-0b9e-481d-a911-245d8cc01a9c
22•mmarian•17m ago•4 comments

Data Compression Explained (2012)

https://mattmahoney.net/dc/dce.html
170•mtdewcmu•3d ago•25 comments

Human Judgment as a Specification

https://blog.brownplt.org/2026/06/09/pick.html
26•surprisetalk•3d ago•10 comments

Pong in S Favicon

https://pong-in-a-favicon.franzai.com/
16•theanonymousone•3h ago•3 comments

The discovery that changed how scientists think about memory

https://www.ibm.com/think/news/discovery-changed-how-scientists-think-about-memory-kavli-prize
97•rbanffy•3d ago•40 comments

LLMs Are Complicated Now

https://ianbarber.blog/2026/06/19/llms-are-complicated-now/
110•matt_d•14h ago•35 comments

Windows 11 New Media Player Uses 3.5x More RAM, Charges for Popular Video Codecs

https://www.extremetech.com/computing/windows-11s-new-media-player-uses-35x-more-ram-charges-for-...
23•tcp_handshaker•1h ago•13 comments

US Scientist John Jumper to Leave Google DeepMind for Anthropic

https://www.reuters.com/technology/us-scientist-john-jumper-leave-google-deepmind-anthropic-2026-...
13•karakoram•1h ago•0 comments

A 1969 camera operators' strike created Upstairs Downstairs multiverse

https://ironicsans.ghost.io/the-color-strike/
66•ohjeez•3d ago•19 comments

How many of the 170k English words do you know?

https://vocabowl-870366514258.us-west1.run.app/
444•abnry•1d ago•529 comments

New (Old) 3D Golf: Porting PC-9801 and Virtual Boy to Mega Drive

https://blog.gingerbeardman.com/2026/06/19/new-old-3d-golf-porting-pc-9801-and-virtual-boy-to-meg...
8•msephton•3h 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."