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Tell HN: Bob Cringely has died

420•paveworld•8h ago•84 comments

Why don't more developers “use the platform”?

https://nolanlawson.com/2026/10/03/why-dont-more-developers-use-the-platform/
123•vinhnx•5h ago•84 comments

So you think you could be an electrician?

https://asteriskmag.com/issues/15/so-you-think-you-could-be-an-electrician
202•zdw•3d ago•139 comments

The work by Valve's Timur Kristóf on improving old AMD GPUs on Linux

https://www.phoronix.com/news/XDC-2026-Valve-Timur-AMDGPU
276•speckx•14h ago•39 comments

Treachery in the Rodin Museum 3D scan verdict

https://cosmowenman.substack.com/p/rodin-museum-3d-scan-verdict
191•CosmoWenman•15h ago•87 comments

In Ukraine, distributed renewables foil Russia's assaults

https://energytransition.org/2026/09/in-ukraine-distributed-renewables-foil-russias-assaults/
25•JumpCrisscross•40m ago•2 comments

Agents don't need memory, they need documentation

https://liao.gg/blog/agents-dont-need-memory
162•kmeh•16h ago•91 comments

We're going to need default hard budget caps on pretty much everything

https://simonwillison.net/2026/Oct/3/default-hard-budget-caps/
422•elffjs•9h ago•209 comments

Hole Punch: Sling your spaceship around gravitational fields

https://notoriousbfg.com/hole-punch/
287•trwhite•15h ago•66 comments

We're working on a new RuneScape MMO

https://play.runescape.com/4
59•droidjj•8h ago•20 comments

Celebrating the 100th birthday of the kidney donated to him as a teenager

https://www.whec.com/top-news/webster-man-celebrating-the-100th-birthday-of-the-kidney-his-mom-do...
193•gscott•2d ago•47 comments

Religious scholars met with Anthropic

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/29/us/anthropic-claude-morals-ai.html
74•bookofjoe•6h ago•136 comments

Reasons I didn't become an EMT, ranked

https://ben.stolovitz.com/posts/reasons-not-emt-ranked/
146•citelao•12h ago•74 comments

LeCun has "zero concerns" about AI wiping out humanity, recent "rogue" incidents

https://fortune.com/2026/10/01/ai-godfather-yann-lecun-has-zero-concerns-about-human-extinction-s...
115•Anon84•15h ago•151 comments

Math's pedagogical curse – Grant Sanderson [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UOuxo6SA8Uc
40•bobajeff•1d ago•17 comments

We want you to build the next Git platform on Cloudflare

https://blog.cloudflare.com/next-git-platform-on-cloudflare/
124•geoffbp•13h ago•114 comments

UK Government Body Kept Files on People Criticizing Prevent Program

https://reclaimthenet.org/uk-prevent-unit-tracked-online-critics
30•latein•3h ago•4 comments

How to hack time, with C2PA

https://www.da.vidbuchanan.co.uk/blog/hacking-time.html
36•Retr0id•14h ago•4 comments

Dirty Optimization Secrets (C for Playdate)

https://devforum.play.date/t/dirty-optimization-secrets-c-for-playdate/23011
10•ibobev•1d ago•0 comments

Your body of work thinks back at you

https://photoni.st/index.php/2026/09/25/your-body-of-work-thinks-back-at-you/
57•surprisetalk•3d ago•7 comments

Three AI agents, two countries, and one uneven world wide web

https://royapakzad.substack.com/p/multilingual-ai-agents
29•effects•1d ago•1 comments

FTL: A new operating system for clouds

https://ftl-os.org/
173•romac•18h ago•67 comments

Former SR-71 engineer talks NASA's Blackbird revival program

https://www.twz.com/air/former-sr-71-engineer-talks-nasas-blackbird-revival-program
58•rkagerer•1d ago•35 comments

"Torturing" LLMs in a Robot Prison Has Triggered the Dumbest Debate in AI Yet

https://www.404media.co/someone-torturing-llms-in-a-robot-prison-has-triggered-the-dumbest-debate...
9•airhangerf15•1h ago•1 comments

I quit OpenAI because its culture is broken

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/2026/10/openai-safety-team-resignation/688881/?gift=v5U_Uz...
216•Brajeshwar•19h ago•479 comments

Show HN: Thoreau BASIC – What if BASIC hadn't gone out of fashion?

https://thoreaubasic.com/
59•Gorsefound•1d ago•32 comments

What Meta got right with Muse

https://metedata.substack.com/p/what-meta-got-right-with-muse
47•young_mete•14h ago•55 comments

City building games have a Soul Problem pt.2

https://www.radical-elements.com/minor-epiphanies/city-building-games-have-a-soul-problem-pt2
133•lexx•17h ago•132 comments

'This can't go on': thousands protest against housing crisis in Spain

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/oct/03/spain-housing-protest
3•akbarnama•24m ago•0 comments

Surely you have ultra-wideband radios on your bins too?

https://sjg.io/writing/binrange-have-you-actually-put-the-bins-out/
72•simonjgreen•12h ago•37 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."