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1-Click GitHub Token Stealing via a VSCode Bug

https://blog.ammaraskar.com/github-token-stealing/
252•ammar2•14h ago•33 comments

The Unreasonable Redundancy of Nature's Protein Folds

https://research.ligo.bio/posts/unreasonable-redundancy-of-natural-protein-folds/
45•ray__•2h ago•3 comments

Use your Nvidia GPU's VRAM as swap space on Linux

https://github.com/c0dejedi/nbd-vram
239•tanelpoder•7h ago•65 comments

Show HN: I reverse-engineered the world maps of Test Drive III (1990 DOS game)

https://github.com/s-macke/Test-Drive-3-Maps
24•s-macke•2d ago•6 comments

MAI-Code-1-Flash

https://microsoft.ai/news/introducingmai-code-1-flash/
440•EvanZhouDev•11h ago•190 comments

AI outperforms law professors in Stanford Law study

https://law.stanford.edu/press/ai-outperforms-law-professors-in-stanford-law-study/
181•berlianta•6h ago•144 comments

CT scans of BYD car parts

https://www.lumafield.com/scan-of-the-month/byd
324•viasfo•9h ago•147 comments

Roku LT Operating System open source distribution

https://blog.roku.com/developer/roku-lt-os
62•dpmdpm•5h ago•19 comments

Capstone – multi-platform, multi-architecture disassembly framework

https://www.capstone-engine.org/
35•gregsadetsky•4h ago•0 comments

Words of Type

https://wiki.wordsoftype.com/
39•tobr•2d ago•4 comments

Gmail thinks I'm stupid, so I left

https://moddedbear.com/gmail-thinks-im-stupid-so-i-left
796•speckx•11h ago•471 comments

My thoughts after using Clojure for about a month

https://www.acdw.net/clojure/
186•speckx•10h ago•97 comments

U of T researchers demonstrate AI worm could target any online device

https://www.utoronto.ca/news/u-t-researchers-demonstrate-ai-worm-could-target-any-online-device
9•shscs911•2h ago•2 comments

Pluto.jl 1.0 release – reactive notebook for Julia

https://discourse.julialang.org/t/pluto-1-0-release/137296
76•fons-p•7h ago•5 comments

4K years ago, Mohenjo-daro grew more equal over time

https://archaeologymag.com/2026/05/mohenjo-daro-grew-more-equal-over-time/
78•marojejian•8h ago•37 comments

Open Repair Data Standard – Open Repair Alliance

https://openrepair.org/open-data/open-standard/
118•cassepipe•10h ago•3 comments

HP re-releases classic computer science calculator: The HP-16C

https://hpcalcs.com/product/hp-16c-collectors-edition/
151•dm319•11h ago•96 comments

How we index images for RAG

https://www.kapa.ai/blog/how-we-index-images-for-rag
114•mooreds•14h ago•14 comments

OpenFOV – Webcam head tracking for iRacing

https://www.openfov.com/
110•mwit2023•3d ago•51 comments

Trump signs downsized AI order after weeks of reversals

https://www.politico.com/news/2026/06/02/trump-signs-downsized-ai-order-00946389
201•_alternator_•13h ago•147 comments

Multicore suppport for DOS is real – partly

https://www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?t=111336
79•beebix•2d ago•13 comments

Preparing for KDE Plasma's Last X11-Supported Release

https://blog.davidedmundson.co.uk/blog/596/
175•jandeboevrie•16h ago•203 comments

Show HN: Paseo – Beautiful open-source coding agent interface

https://github.com/getpaseo/paseo
57•timhigins•7h ago•29 comments

Fidonet: Technology, Use, Tools, and History (1993)

https://www.fidonet.org/inet92_Randy_Bush.txt
161•BruceEel•16h ago•65 comments

Loading Sega Games Off a Vinyl Record [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c744iD0_fWU
31•zdw•2d ago•7 comments

SaySynth: A Brief History of Speaking Machines

https://brian.abelson.live/log/2025/12/20/saysynth-composition-codes.html
8•evakhoury•1d ago•0 comments

Bringing Up DeepSeek-V4-Flash on AMD MI300X

https://fergusfinn.com/blog/deepseek-v4-flash-mi300x/
101•kkm•12h ago•12 comments

QBE – Compiler Backend – 1.3

https://c9x.me/compile/release/qbe-1.3.html
95•birdculture•12h ago•29 comments

The advertising cartel coming to your web browser

https://blog.zgp.org/the-advertising-cartel-coming-to-your-web-browser/
189•speckx•10h ago•51 comments

Stop Ruining It

https://seths.blog/2026/06/stop-ruining-it/
265•herbertl•20h ago•125 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."