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Meta’s new commercial terms will allow the scraping of news sites: experts

https://www.niemanlab.org/2026/10/metas-new-commercial-terms-will-allow-the-scraping-of-news-site...
238•0in•8h ago•89 comments

Muse Spark Open

https://research.meta.ai/blog/muse-spark-open
783•bigwheels•14h ago•392 comments

Last rites for Gentoo's Chromium package

https://lwn.net/Articles/1097760/
32•signa11•2h ago•15 comments

'500-hour' Order of the Sinking Star is as complex and exhausting as it sounds

https://www.polygon.com/order-of-the-sinking-star-impressions/
122•cvoss•2d ago•69 comments

RPKI now protects 70% of internet routes

https://ipinfo.io/blog/rpki-protects-70-internet-routes
139•emot•7h ago•41 comments

Woman who rescued injured crow keeps getting 'thank-you gifts' from birds [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sjNpfz4UzqU
195•johnnyApplePRNG•3d ago•46 comments

Neural networks are clean

https://already-clean.goodfire.com/
658•themgt•16h ago•242 comments

What I self-host

https://viceconsole.fyi/blog/2026/10/10/what-i-self-host/
443•BrunoBernardino•11h ago•279 comments

New York City's iconic horse-drawn carriages expected to take their last trot

https://www.cnn.com/2026/10/13/us/nyc-horse-carriage-ban
14•1659447091•2d ago•5 comments

The Folders Programming Language

https://danieltemkin.com/esolangs/folders
23•gurst•2h ago•2 comments

Wayland desktop for Linux with skeuomorphic design

https://github.com/fyzugx/DEsk
593•FinalDestiny•18h ago•235 comments

Apple routed a graphite pipe through the iPhone Duo's hinge to dissipate heat

https://www.pcmag.com/news/apple-routed-a-graphite-pipe-through-the-iphone-duos-hinge
125•giuliomagnifico•3d ago•83 comments

New Withings Users Must Pay $99/Year for Apple Health Syncing

https://support.withings.com/hc/en-us/community/posts/51887047154577-Unacceptable-Apple-Health-Sy...
264•johnbehnke•12h ago•174 comments

Jev meets the Trolley Problem

https://zachlandes.com/trolley-problem/
435•zlandes86•15h ago•181 comments

Any window from your Mac, on your iPhone and iPad

https://github.com/Saffsanity/sill
135•chanana•6h ago•30 comments

BIPM decides to stop adding leap seconds to UTC

https://www.bipm.org/en/cgpm-2026/resolution-5
164•gliffie•15h ago•75 comments

Someone on Torrent Sites Kept Fucking with My Sonarr

https://thereallo.dev/blog/someone-on-torrent-sites-kept-fucking-with-my-sonarr-setup
328•speckx•12h ago•145 comments

Casio F-91W using Statecharts

https://github.com/dundalek/casio-f91w-fsm
26•austinallegro•3d ago•6 comments

Celebrating 70 Years of Fortran

https://fortran-lang.org/news/2026/09-15-Fortran-birthday/
267•rbanffy•17h ago•108 comments

Krea 3 – An image model built for editing at scale

https://www.krea.ai/krea-3
298•dvrp•16h ago•95 comments

Comparing Chromium Development at Google and Igalia

https://lwn.net/Articles/1094721/
39•signa11•6h ago•11 comments

BeBox is a Haiku application that emulates Be Inc.'s BeBox

https://github.com/johnrash/bebox
57•rguiscard•8h ago•14 comments

Why I Wrote PGP (1991, revised 1999)

https://philzimmermann.com/EN/essays/WhyIWrotePGP.html
152•GaryBluto•1d ago•54 comments

Thank You, Deno

https://www.vlt.io/blog/competition-keeps-javascript-moving
63•jcbhmr•7h ago•11 comments

Major ICQ security hole (1998)

https://opennet.ru/base/maillist/169.txt.html
78•sysoleg•2d ago•40 comments

Libreboot 26.10 "Ominous Olive" released with UEFI, Chromebook support

https://libreboot.org/news/libreboot2610.html
281•iamnothere•19h ago•170 comments

Delta’s Biscoff cookies were supposed to be temporary

https://www.seriouseats.com/biscoff-history-12168161
216•mhb•2d ago•168 comments

Non-Determinism Doesn't Matter

https://sklar.rocks/non-determinism-doesnt-matter/
48•sklarsa•1d ago•47 comments

Using AI to reverse engineer hardware

https://blogs.gnome.org/uraeus/2026/10/15/aiandreverseengineerhardware/
180•ErenayDev•17h ago•161 comments

The 8-mile hole in a Hawaii national park that no one can explain

https://www.sfgate.com/national-parks/article/hawaii-volcanoes-park-great-crack-22358849.php
70•elsewhen•2d ago•44 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."