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Simons Foundation launches $15M effort to help mathematicians navigate AI era

https://www.simonsfoundation.org/news/simons-foundation-launches-15m-effort-to-help-mathematician...
158•aaraujo002•2h ago•124 comments

Neural Networks Are Already Clean

https://already-clean.goodfire.com/
101•themgt•1h ago•26 comments

Wayland desktop for Linux with skeuomorphic design

https://github.com/fyzugx/DEsk
290•FinalDestiny•4h ago•118 comments

Krea 3 – Frontier Image Model 4× faster than Nano Banana Pro

https://www.krea.ai/krea-3
78•dvrp•1h ago•37 comments

I Know Why the Mathematicians Weep

https://www.derekthompson.org/p/i-know-why-the-mathematicians-weep
219•RickJWagner•4h ago•329 comments

Libreboot 26.10 "Ominous Olive" released with UEFI, Chromebook support

https://libreboot.org/news/libreboot2610.html
181•iamnothere•4h ago•94 comments

More on Anthropic's Scion ripping off Mononoke

https://sunshowers.io/posts/anthropic-mononoke-2/
40•sunshowers•44m ago•4 comments

Celebrating 70 Years of Fortran

https://fortran-lang.org/news/2026/09-15-Fortran-birthday/
95•rbanffy•2h ago•47 comments

Biscoff Cookies Were Supposed to Be Temporary. Then Passengers Fell in Love

https://www.seriouseats.com/biscoff-history-12168161
49•mhb•1d ago•39 comments

Zero-Click Spyware Delivered via Targeted Ads: AdFection

https://citizenlab.ca/research/how-discover-tech-turned-targeted-ads-into-a-pipeline-for-spyware/
190•jcomp•7h ago•30 comments

Show HN: Unfenced – Land for sale that borders public land

https://unfenced.land/
180•otherwatersflow•6h ago•130 comments

Steam Client Is Now Faster Than Epic's New Vibe Coded Launcher

https://respawnfirst.com/steam-client-is-now-faster-than-epics-new-vibe-coded-launcher/
136•starkparker•1h ago•160 comments

The technical actions needed to ensure the continuity of UTC

https://www.bipm.org/en/cgpm-2026/resolution-5
32•gliffie•1h ago•19 comments

Show HN: Proa – a Rust web framework with fast SSR and multi-target rendering

https://proa.so/
25•burnrate•1h ago•1 comments

Anthropic Update on Independent Evaluators

https://www.anthropic.com/news/an-update-on-independent-evaluators
8•surprisetalk•19m ago•1 comments

Prompt injection in HTTP headers: what 217M web responses show

https://www.signalscorps.com/blog/prompt-injection-in-http-headers/
53•panoramas4good•3h ago•11 comments

C++26 Contracts: Introduction to Preconditions and Postconditions

https://www.cppstories.com/2026/cpp26_contracts/
81•ibobev•4h ago•75 comments

Muse Spark Open, the Most Capable US Open‑Weight Model to Date

https://research.meta.ai/blog/muse-spark-open
59•meetpateltech•51m ago•4 comments

Wanted to download an ISO, ended up writing a kernel exploit

https://blog.dfb.sh/blog/eap770-root-for-two-zeros/
289•0xdeafbeef•2d ago•142 comments

An Israeli firm is sending zero-click spyware through online ads

https://www.theverge.com/tech/1011956/discover-tech-zero-click-ads-spyware
37•drewfax•48m ago•2 comments

Market selloff, rising rates test AI data centre deal boom

https://www.reuters.com/business/finance/market-selloff-rising-rates-test-ai-data-centre-deal-boo...
48•tartoran•1h ago•35 comments

Game of Life – But Multiplayer, Hypermedia and Python

https://stario.dev/apps/life
9•bobowski•1d ago•1 comments

The largest eagle hunted unlike any other bird of prey (2021)

https://www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/news/2021/december/worlds-largest-eagle-hunted-unlike-any-other-bi...
27•EndXA•2d ago•0 comments

Show HN: Sygal – Convert PDFs, scans and web pages to Markdown, locally

https://sygal.app
11•cyrillsemah•1h ago•3 comments

OpenCode 2.0

https://anoma.ly/notes/opencode-2-0/
804•gmays•21h ago•348 comments

The Haunted Toys R Us

https://www.retroist.com/p/the-haunted-toys-r-us
49•speckx•3d ago•25 comments

Tiny Little Office

https://tinylittleoffice.com/
615•donohoe•19h ago•166 comments

GridSnap – an open-source Divvy-style window snapper for macOS

https://github.com/konieczkow/gridsnap
37•zderror•4h ago•18 comments

The First Social Network: In rural Argentina residents send messages w AM radio

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2026/10/19/the-first-social-network
123•bookofjoe•1d ago•45 comments

I designed a nose guard for my dog and gave it away. Now 500 dogs wear one

https://snoutcover.com/one-year
200•ragswag•2h ago•103 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."