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How OpenAI delivers low-latency voice AI at scale

https://openai.com/index/delivering-low-latency-voice-ai-at-scale/
112•Sean-Der•2h ago•53 comments

I am worried about Bun

https://wwj.dev/posts/i-am-worried-about-bun/
305•remote-dev•5h ago•202 comments

Securing a DoD contractor: Finding a multi-tenant authorization vulnerability

https://www.strix.ai/blog/how-strix-found-zero-auth-vulnerability-dod-backed-startup
134•bearsyankees•4h ago•60 comments

Talking to strangers at the gym

https://thienantran.com/talking-to-35-strangers-at-the-gym/
947•thitran•10h ago•471 comments

Formatting a 25M-line codebase overnight

https://stripe.dev/blog/formatting-an-entire-25-million-line-codebase-overnight-the-rubyfmt-story
47•r00k•1h ago•24 comments

GameStop makes $55.5B takeover offer for eBay

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cn0p8yled1do
586•n1b0m•12h ago•531 comments

Microsoft Edge stores all passwords in memory in clear text, even when unused

https://twitter.com/L1v1ng0ffTh3L4N/status/2051308329880719730
275•cft•3h ago•107 comments

Does Employment Slow Cognitive Decline? Evidence from Labor Market Shocks

https://www.nber.org/papers/w35117
155•littlexsparkee•6h ago•142 comments

Let's talk about LLMs

https://www.b-list.org/weblog/2026/apr/09/llms/
83•cdrnsf•4h ago•50 comments

Redis array: short story of a long development process

https://antirez.com/news/164
194•antirez•7h ago•74 comments

Welcome to Gas City

https://steve-yegge.medium.com/welcome-to-gas-city-57f564bb3607
15•teruakohatu•30m ago•16 comments

US healthcare marketplaces shared citizenship and race data with ad tech giants

https://techcrunch.com/2026/05/04/us-healthcare-marketplaces-shared-citizenship-and-race-data-wit...
345•ZeidJ•4h ago•122 comments

How Monero’s proof of work works

https://blog.alcazarsec.com/tech/posts/how-moneros-proof-of-work-works
203•alcazar•7h ago•163 comments

UK Fuel Price Intelligence – Market analytics from reporting stations

https://www.fuelinsight.co.uk
138•theazureguy•6h ago•69 comments

Pomiferous: The most extensive apples (pommes) database

https://pomiferous.com/
86•Ariarule•7h ago•32 comments

Stop big tech from making users behave in ways they don't want to

https://economist.com/by-invitation/2026/04/29/stop-big-tech-from-making-users-behave-in-ways-the...
178•andsoitis•4h ago•116 comments

1966 Ford Mustang Converted into a Tesla with Working 'Full Self-Driving'

https://electrek.co/2026/05/02/tesla-1966-mustang-ev-conversion-full-self-driving/
81•Brajeshwar•6h ago•64 comments

Sierra Raises $950M at $15B Valuation

https://sierra.ai/blog/better-customer-experiences-built-on-sierra
62•doppp•5h ago•85 comments

Heat pump sales rise across Europe

https://www.pv-magazine.com/2026/05/04/heat-pump-sales-rise-17-across-europe-in-q1-as-energy-pric...
157•doener•4h ago•81 comments

Show HN: nfsdiag – A NFS diagnostic application

https://github.com/lsferreira42/nfsdiag
23•lsferreira42•2d ago•1 comments

The Visible Zorker: Zork 3

https://eblong.com/infocom/visi/zork3/
29•zarlez•4h ago•1 comments

Frizbee is a tool you may throw a tag at and it comes back with a checksum

https://github.com/stacklok/frizbee
4•mooreds•2d ago•0 comments

Newton's law of gravity passes its biggest test

https://www.science.org/content/article/newton-s-law-gravity-passes-its-biggest-test-ever
116•pseudolus•8h ago•102 comments

Offenders sentenced up to 10 years for spying on TSMC

https://www.taipeitimes.com/News/front/archives/2026/04/28/2003856358
84•ironyman•3h ago•4 comments

“Kitten Space Agency”, a Spiritual Successor to “Kerbal Space Program” (2025)

https://www.space.com/entertainment/space-games/kitten-space-agency-is-the-spiritual-successor-to...
103•Tomte•4h ago•37 comments

A little comparison between R and Kap

https://blog.dhsdevelopments.com/a-little-comparison-between-r-and-kap
9•tosh•2d ago•0 comments

Transformers Are Inherently Succinct

https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.19315
6•bearseascape•1h ago•1 comments

Trillions in Retirement Dollars Flow into Opaque Trusts

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2026-05-03/trillions-in-us-retirement-dollars-flow-into-o...
91•koolhead17•4h ago•15 comments

Using “underdrawings” for accurate text and numbers

https://samcollins.blog/underdrawings/
353•samcollins•3d ago•126 comments

Why are neural networks and cryptographic ciphers so similar? (2025)

https://reiner.org/neural-net-ciphers
116•jxmorris12•2d ago•34 comments
Open in hackernews

Building my npx business card

https://ashley.dev/posts/turning-feedback-into-features/
8•edent•11mo ago

Comments

steele•11mo ago
Ooh, free real estate, let's colonize and gentrify package management
aabhay•11mo ago
Lmao, gentrify cracked me up
neilv•11mo ago
Do these npx business cards run arbitrary code on your computer?
cypherpunks01•11mo 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•11mo 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•11mo ago
Yeah, this seems like a very smart but inherently flawed idea.
cypherpunks01•11mo 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•11mo ago
May as well just release an executable tbh.
theamk•11mo 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•11mo 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•11mo 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."