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Basalt Woven Textile

https://materialdistrict.com/material/basalt-woven-textile/
91•rbanffy•4h ago•42 comments

Android/Linux Dual Boot

https://wiki.postmarketos.org/wiki/Dual_Booting/WiP
76•joooscha•3d ago•16 comments

CUDA Ontology

https://jamesakl.com/posts/cuda-ontology/
63•gugagore•3d ago•7 comments

Interactive World History Atlas Since 3000 BC

http://geacron.com/home-en/
3•not_knuth•7m ago•0 comments

Implementation of a Java Processor on a FPGA

https://mavmatrix.uta.edu/electricaleng_theses/337/
36•mghackerlady•3h ago•16 comments

Europe is scaling back GDPR and relaxing AI laws

https://www.theverge.com/news/823750/european-union-ai-act-gdpr-changes
727•ksec•19h ago•806 comments

Loose wire leads to blackout, contact with Francis Scott Key bridge

https://www.ntsb.gov:443/news/press-releases/Pages/NR20251118.aspx
342•DamnInteresting•13h ago•132 comments

Meta Segment Anything Model 3

https://ai.meta.com/sam3/
482•lukeinator42•16h ago•94 comments

Researchers discover security vulnerability in WhatsApp

https://www.univie.ac.at/en/news/detail/forscherinnen-entdecken-grosse-sicherheitsluecke-in-whatsapp
230•KingNoLimit•13h ago•82 comments

AI is a front for consolidation of resources and power

https://www.chrbutler.com/what-ai-is-really-for
328•delaugust•14h ago•247 comments

Building more with GPT-5.1-Codex-Max

https://openai.com/index/gpt-5-1-codex-max/
410•hansonw•15h ago•236 comments

#!magic, details about the shebang/hash-bang mechanism on various Unix flavours

https://www.in-ulm.de/%7Emascheck/various/shebang/
30•js2•4h ago•5 comments

Show HN: An A2A-compatible, open-source framework for multi-agent networks

https://github.com/openagents-org/openagents
40•snasan•4h ago•33 comments

Precise geolocation via Wi-Fi Positioning System

https://www.amoses.dev/blog/wifi-location/
179•nicosalm•12h ago•70 comments

PHP 8.5 gets released today, here's what's new

https://stitcher.io/blog/new-in-php-85
99•brentroose•3h ago•36 comments

What really happened with the CIA and The Paris Review?

https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2025/11/11/what-really-happened-with-the-cia-and-the-paris-re...
61•frenzcan•1w ago•2 comments

CLI tool to check the Git status of multiple projects

https://github.com/uralys/check-projects
29•chrisdugne•6d ago•10 comments

The lost cause of the Lisp machines

https://www.tfeb.org/fragments/2025/11/18/the-lost-cause-of-the-lisp-machines/
71•enbywithunix•14h ago•61 comments

Launch HN: Mosaic (YC W25) – Agentic Video Editing

https://mosaic.so
123•adishj•18h ago•115 comments

New Proofs Probe Soap-Film Singularities

https://www.quantamagazine.org/new-proofs-probe-soap-film-singularities-20251112/
4•pseudolus•1w ago•0 comments

How Slide Rules Work

https://amenzwa.github.io/stem/ComputingHistory/HowSlideRulesWork/
109•ColinWright•12h ago•28 comments

The Lucas-Lehmer Prime Number Test

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-to-identify-a-prime-number-without-a-computer/
69•beardyw•1w ago•39 comments

What influence has the BBC had on history?

https://www.historytoday.com/archive/head-head/what-influence-has-bbc-had-history
31•pepys•2d ago•36 comments

Static Web Hosting on the Intel N150: FreeBSD, SmartOS, NetBSD, OpenBSD and Linu

https://it-notes.dragas.net/2025/11/19/static-web-hosting-intel-n150-freebsd-smartos-netbsd-openb...
161•t-3•16h ago•60 comments

Gaming on Linux has never been more approachable

https://www.theverge.com/tech/823337/switching-linux-gaming-desktop-cachyos
404•throwaway270925•12h ago•284 comments

The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online

https://darwin-online.org.uk/
54•bookofjoe•6d ago•2 comments

The patent office is about to make bad patents untouchable

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/11/patent-office-about-make-bad-patents-untouchable
436•iamnothere•11h ago•57 comments

Vortex: An extensible, state of the art columnar file format

https://github.com/vortex-data/vortex
76•tanelpoder•5d ago•17 comments

Measuring political bias in Claude

https://www.anthropic.com/news/political-even-handedness
76•gmays•14h ago•111 comments

Robert Louis Stevenson's Art of Living (and Dying)

https://lithub.com/robert-louis-stevensons-art-of-living-and-dying/
23•Caiero•14h ago•2 comments
Open in hackernews

Building my npx business card

https://ashley.dev/posts/turning-feedback-into-features/
8•edent•6mo ago

Comments

steele•6mo ago
Ooh, free real estate, let's colonize and gentrify package management
aabhay•6mo ago
Lmao, gentrify cracked me up
neilv•6mo ago
Do these npx business cards run arbitrary code on your computer?
cypherpunks01•6mo 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•6mo 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•6mo ago
Yeah, this seems like a very smart but inherently flawed idea.
cypherpunks01•6mo 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•6mo ago
May as well just release an executable tbh.
theamk•6mo 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•6mo 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•6mo 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."