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The AI Aesthetic

https://blog.jim-nielsen.com/2026/ai-aesthetic/
136•montroser•3h ago•67 comments

Read this before you buy that TV streaming stick

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2026/07/read-this-before-you-buy-that-tv-streaming-stick/
588•speckx•9h ago•345 comments

I flagged two research papers for fake authors and both were accepted as orals

https://geospatialml.com/posts/reviewing-ai-slop/
102•volumes94•4h ago•38 comments

Agent Skill to Force Docs in ASD-STE100 Simplified Technical English

https://github.com/AminBlg/SimpleEnglish
216•navs•7h ago•80 comments

Stacked PRs are now live on GitHub

https://github.blog/changelog/2026-07-30-stacked-pull-requests-are-now-in-public-preview/
488•tomzorz•10h ago•167 comments

Gemini Robotics 2 brings whole body intelligence to robots

https://deepmind.google/blog/gemini-robotics-2-brings-whole-body-intelligence-to-robots/
485•ai2027•11h ago•396 comments

The American Grilled Cheese Sandwich Essay (2024)

https://buttondown.com/theswordandthesandwich/archive/the-best-american-grilled-cheese-sandwich-e...
20•NaOH•3d ago•4 comments

Rune 1.1: adds Python, an Emacs editor, a symbol index and is now free

https://rune.build/blog/rune-1-1-release
51•ernestrc•4h ago•17 comments

CodePen 2.0

https://chriscoyier.net/2026/07/30/codepen-2-0/
137•robin_reala•8h ago•42 comments

Bad Apple but It's Traceroute

https://jssfr.de/2026-07-27-bad-apple-but-traceroute.html
69•jssfr•3d ago•15 comments

Physicists Solve a Muon Mystery. Now, Old Results Don't Add Up

https://www.quantamagazine.org/physicists-solve-a-muon-mystery-now-old-results-dont-add-up-20260729/
183•ibobev•11h ago•98 comments

UEFA and its national associations will not participate in FIFA competitions

https://www.uefa.com/news-media/news/02a7-213a92896eb0-54dfbf454e3b-1000--statement-on-behalf-of-...
818•dickfickling•8h ago•444 comments

Google will expand age checks on Android worldwide till the end of the year

https://android-developers.googleblog.com/2026/07/google-play-age-signals-api-safer-experiences.html
358•dmantis•16h ago•438 comments

The Economic Benefit of Refactoring

https://martinfowler.com/articles/exploring-gen-ai/refactoring-economic-benefit.html
199•javaeeeee•11h ago•81 comments

Memo-1: A 6502 computer built from scratch, using a Minitel as its terminal

https://github.com/MemoireMorte/Memo-1
57•sciences44•2d ago•6 comments

2x, not 10x: coding with LLMs in 2026

https://obryant.dev/p/2x-not-10x/
220•tnisonoff•5d ago•171 comments

Saber-toothed cats became inbred–and struggled to move–before they went extinct

https://www.science.org/content/article/saber-toothed-cats-became-inbred-and-struggled-move-they-...
28•gmays•5h ago•8 comments

Advancing the price-performance frontier with GPT‑5.6

https://openai.com/index/advancing-the-price-performance-frontier-with-gpt-5-6/
505•tedsanders•9h ago•335 comments

Show HN: Distilling DeepSeek into GPT-OSS doesn't transfer censorship. Try it

https://www.ctgt.ai/research/distillation-censorship-transfer
87•cgorlla•8h ago•62 comments

GCC steering committee announces AI policy

https://lwn.net/Articles/1086041/
244•arto•14h ago•288 comments

The Religion of Speed

https://graybeard.ing/the-religion-of-speed/
13•MobiusHorizons•2h ago•3 comments

We Gave GPT 5.6 Sol a Real Business. It Lied, Spammed, and Lost $447

https://www.bottlenecklabs.com/blog/autonomously-run-businesses
305•Areibman•9h ago•190 comments

Show HN: Kedge – Full-stack cloud with forkable VM snapshots and global SQLite

https://kedge.dev/
93•wgjordan•1d ago•20 comments

Destroying a Community with a Gigantic "Clogged Vacuum Cleaner"

https://gizmodo.com/this-viral-data-center-sounds-like-satans-buzzsaw-2000791122
67•ghuroo1•3d ago•40 comments

Rise Reforming (YC S26) Is Hiring

https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/rise-reforming/jobs/wJ9Q9nv-senior-chemical-process-engineer
1•george_rose25•9h ago

Why is everyone trying to build a solid-state battery?

https://www.construction-physics.com/p/why-is-everyone-trying-to-build-a
176•crescit_eundo•14h ago•210 comments

Investigating three real-world incidents in our cybersecurity evaluations

https://www.anthropic.com/news/investigating-incidents-cybersecurity-evals
103•surprisetalk•3h ago•89 comments

The lost civic life of movie rental stores

https://thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/the-lost-civic-life-of-movie-rental-stores/
128•facundo_olano•12h ago•188 comments

Upper stage impacting the moon on 2026 August 5

https://www.projectpluto.com/25010d.htm
186•ryannevius•13h ago•47 comments

Hacker Public Radio

https://hackerpublicradio.org/
139•bmacho•12h ago•25 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."