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Gardner police discontinue Flock cameras as license plate readers face scrutiny

https://www.kmbc.com/article/gardner-kansas-flock-cameras-license-plate-readers-privacy/73468724
79•cocacola1•1h ago•26 comments

OpenRouter is joining Stripe

https://openrouter.ai/blog/announcements/openrouter-is-joining-stripe/
611•rvz•7h ago•327 comments

Go 1.27

https://go.dev/blog/go1.27
427•database64128•6h ago•106 comments

Google replaced Git tags for certain source code with obtaining via Google Drive

https://grapheneos.social/@GrapheneOS/117057099753905023
279•Animux•7h ago•113 comments

Unlocking a locked/deactivated e-waste Cricut Maker

https://sprocketfox.io/xssfox/2026/07/01/cricut-unlock/
126•1e1a•5h ago•33 comments

Unsloth Dynamic 3.0 GGUFs

https://unsloth.ai/docs/basics/dynamic-3.0-ggufs
181•jonesy827•6h ago•65 comments

Manabu Kosaka's Handmade Paper Sculptures

https://coca11272000.wixsite.com/manabukosaka
15•surprisetalk•10h ago•0 comments

A joke domain purchase turned in geopolitical warfare

https://sprocketfox.io/xssfox/2026/08/19/sondehub-and-war/
739•kareiva•13h ago•114 comments

Os8088.com: IBM XT OS now has a Browser, CP/M 2.2 with Z80 core and MS Word 1.1a

https://os8088.com/spotlight/
38•jggonz•3h ago•25 comments

Casio F-B100W-1A

https://www.casio.com/uk/watches/casio/product.F-B100W-1A/
268•__fst__•9h ago•216 comments

DFlash 2: Keep Drafting Parallel

https://inco.ai/blog/dflash2/
69•mike-the-brain•4h ago•8 comments

Sol Loves to Cheat

https://jumploops.com/blog/sol-loves-to-cheat/
73•jumploops•1d ago•40 comments

Geolocating a random island using geometry and CUDA programming

https://yassa9.github.io/osint/gralhix-004/
397•yassa9•12h ago•75 comments

The little-known winstart.bat batch file

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20260811-00/?p=112605
71•ingve•4d ago•18 comments

Universality of Gradient Descent Neural Network Training

https://arxiv.org/abs/2007.13664
5•E-Reverance•58m ago•0 comments

PostgreSQL for Everything

https://www.raphaelbauer.com:443/posts/postgresql-everything/
297•karlmush•11h ago•184 comments

Mathematics in the age of AI

https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.16753
117•jonbaer•9h ago•118 comments

Xwayland 26.1.0 rc1

https://lists.x.org/archives/xorg/2026-August/062280.html
52•ErenayDev•5h ago•35 comments

Ornith-1.5: From Self-Scaffolding to Self-Improvement

https://ornith.ai/ornith_1_5.html
166•CommonGuy•10h ago•58 comments

fx :Tiny, open, native coding agent.

https://fx.sh
172•handfuloflight•1d ago•86 comments

Why travellers are obsessed with foreign supermarkets

https://www.bbc.com/travel/article/20260811-the-supermarket-is-becoming-a-tourist-attraction
15•edward•3d ago•9 comments

Pressed Penny Machine Map

https://pennypresses.net/home/map.php
39•willmeyers•4h ago•34 comments

A portable, sensitive, low power, analog Geiger counter (2025)

https://ludens.cl/Electron/geiger2/geiger2.html
40•crorella•3d ago•1 comments

Simulacra and Simulation

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simulacra_and_Simulation
6•soupspaces•1w ago•2 comments

Raiders of the Lost Array: vibe-coding a macOS driver for my orphaned Drobo

https://fetzu.ch/blog/20260819_claudevsdrobo/
6•fetzu•45m ago•0 comments

Extensible Software in the age of LLMs

https://jeremymorrell.dev/blog/extensible-software-in-the-age-of-llms/
104•coloneltcb•8h ago•48 comments

IDE Nostalgia (2022)

https://davidsmaynard.com/blog/keyset
35•dmaynard•5d ago•1 comments

Feature Request: Support AGENTS.md

https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues/6235
126•fg137•3h ago•72 comments

Aluminum Frame PC Fan Corsi-Rosenthal Build (2023)

https://itsairborne.com/aluminum-frame-pc-fan-corsi-rosenthal-build-c28aa7ca8927
12•walterbell•5d ago•2 comments

Air Theremin – A browser theremin you play by waving at your webcam

https://theremin.bizibah.com/
246•gurov•14h ago•84 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."