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DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731

https://arcprize.org/results/deepseek-v4-flash-0731
436•tosh•6h ago•254 comments

U.S. Department of Energy Launches the Genesis Open Models Initiative

https://genesisopenmodels.anl.gov/
46•moelf•2h ago•16 comments

Assembly Hall of Shame

https://github.com/xoreaxeaxeax/asm-hall-of-shame
238•piotrgrabowski•6h ago•53 comments

Ancient Library – 1,060 Greek/Latin texts, click any word to parse it

https://ancientlibrary.net/
137•aagha•5h ago•47 comments

What happens if an entire class of workers loses faith in their careers

https://www.noemamag.com/why-is-everyone-in-tech-so-sad/
386•RickJWagner•12h ago•522 comments

Should AI labs be treated like the owners of dangerous animals?

https://www.economist.com/science-and-technology/2026/08/06/should-ai-labs-be-treated-like-the-ow...
8•reasonableklout•46m ago•3 comments

Managing AI Coding Costs at Scale

https://www.databricks.com/blog/managing-ai-coding-costs-scale
155•moonikakiss•6h ago•158 comments

Responding to the next frontier of critical cyber capabilities

https://openai.com/index/responding-next-frontier-critical-cyber-capabilities/
148•artninja1988•8h ago•167 comments

Oracle bans AI-generated code from OpenJDK

https://app.dealroom.co/news/feed/oracle-bans-ai-generated-code-from-openjdk-despite-ellison-s-cl...
373•delduca•7h ago•247 comments

An all-sky map of half a million supermassive black holes

https://www.sdss.org/black-hole-mapper-release-20/
135•MarcoDewey•9h ago•35 comments

Guarded Methods in OCaml (2025)

https://xvw.lol/en/articles/oop-refl.html
54•birdculture•4d ago•4 comments

Water system controllers don't belong on the internet, says ex-NSA chief

https://www.theregister.com/security/2026/08/07/water-system-controllers-dont-belong-on-the-inter...
108•Bender•3h ago•65 comments

Carl's Required Reading

https://carlkolon.com/reading/
93•cckolon•6d ago•10 comments

Psychological Warfare in Reverse Engineering (2015)

https://github.com/xoreaxeaxeax/repsych
44•theanonymousone•5h ago•2 comments

Making Postgres 300x faster for analytics: batching, operator fusion, and SIMD

https://malisper.me/how-we-made-postgres-hundreds-of-times-faster-the-query-engine/
241•poly2it•13h ago•109 comments

2027 memory capacity is reportedly sold out

https://www.ign.com/articles/ramageddon-continues-another-year-as-2027-memory-capacity-is-reporte...
220•inigyou•16h ago•212 comments

Kitesurf: Agent-first browser that runs in V8 isolates

https://blog.cloudflare.com/kitesurf/
160•m3h•14h ago•42 comments

Curlese, Five Years Later

https://www.hypertesto.me/en/blog/2026/08/curlese-five-years-later
6•rovr138•3d ago•2 comments

Radical Study Suggests Life on Earth Arose Twice

https://www.sciencealert.com/radical-study-suggests-life-on-earth-arose-from-non-living-matter-twice
90•jnord•12h ago•79 comments

Show HN: textlog – A quiet, text-only microblogging platform, open-source, no JS

https://textlog.cc/about
132•stagas•13h ago•58 comments

Show HN: Wyzer Programming Language

https://github.com/Wyzer-Lang/wyzer
171•v0id_isgood•12h ago•100 comments

Captain Bible Reverse Engineering

https://github.com/peterkelly/captain-bible-re
4•peterkelly•5d ago•0 comments

Why are all the amounts values negative?

https://bankstatementconverter.com/blog/posts/2026-08-02-why-are-all-amounts-negative/
31•4pkjai•5d ago•6 comments

Energizing a vacuum-tube flip-flop module from a 1948 IBM system

https://www.righto.com/2026/07/ibm-604-trigger-tube-module.html
20•geerlingguy•5d ago•4 comments

Möbius-Strip Crosswords

https://quuxplusone.github.io/blog/2026/08/04/mobius-crossword/
50•ibobev•9h ago•6 comments

A year of fighting scrapers on my 1.5 million-page website

https://patronview.com/news/99-percent-of-my-website-traffic-is-bots/
363•petercooper•9h ago•346 comments

New Mexico court orders Meta to pay $567m over harms to children’s mental health

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/aug/06/new-mexico-court-meta
714•boplicity•1d ago•389 comments

Why Are There Statues of Beavers on Top of This Oxford Street Shop?

https://londonist.com/london/history/oxford-street-beavers
52•bookofjoe•4d ago•29 comments

Petri Nets as a Music Sequencer

https://blog.stackdump.com/posts/petri-net-sequencer
65•m_kos•4d ago•21 comments

AMD acquires Taalas to boost inference performance by etching models in silicon

https://www.theregister.com/systems/2026/08/06/amd-acquires-ai-chip-startup-taalas-to-boost-infer...
882•itvision•1d ago•664 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."