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How I use LLMs to learn complex topics

https://laurentiugabriel.github.io/blog/articles/how-i-use-llms-to-learn/
298•laurentiurad•4h ago•161 comments

Mea Culpa – Dark Hours

https://blog.terrygodier.com/2026/08/09/mea-culpa-dark-hours.html
529•satvikpendem•10h ago•242 comments

New Zealand lost its music media, and what we're building to replace it

https://propelmusic.co.nz/articles/the-sound-went-quiet-nz-music-media
44•berghoffer•2h ago•23 comments

Ask HN: What are you working on? (August 2026)

146•david927•6h ago•541 comments

The tragedy of the commons, AI edition

https://www.economist.com/britain/2026/08/06/the-tragedy-of-the-commons-ai-edition
55•simonpure•3h ago•23 comments

Cool URIs Don't Change (1998)

https://www.w3.org/Provider/Style/URI
167•Klaster_1•8h ago•29 comments

Tuxedo No. 2 – Cocktail recipes

https://tuxedono2.com
23•smartmic•2h ago•5 comments

Taxi drivers rarely die of Alzheimer's

https://theconversation.com/taxi-drivers-rarely-die-of-alzheimers-how-complex-mental-maps-and-spa...
148•jader201•8h ago•112 comments

Andrew Wiles on proving Fermat’s Last Theorem (1995) [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GS7CxAtV5Ks
22•jackdoe•3d ago•12 comments

I made tinnitus my friend, then it disappeared [video]

https://mynoise.net/vlog.php?ep=20260803
44•gregsadetsky•4h ago•19 comments

The Hacker's Renaissance

https://phrack.org/issues/72/19#article
68•yu3zhou4•3h ago•49 comments

OpenChamber: An Agentic Development Environment

https://openchamber.dev/
94•hexomancer•6h ago•52 comments

The climate benefits of retiring an operational combustion engine vehicle

https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adv5441
15•toomuchtodo•2h ago•14 comments

Georgia police officers fired after Flock camera misuse

https://www.wtoc.com/2026/08/07/savannah-police-department-fires-6-employees-over-flock-safety-sy...
39•chirau•2h ago•5 comments

Everything you do is being recorded

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/2026/05/ai-wearable-surveillance-countermeasures/687203/
178•ike_usawa•11h ago•139 comments

How Golden Is Silence, Actually?

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2026/08/10/silence-kate-mcloughlin-book-review
29•tintinnabula•3d ago•10 comments

John C. Lilly on solid state intelligence and the elimination of man (1978)

https://kibotronics.net/unlisted/lilly-machines/
115•Kiboneu•9h ago•73 comments

The main way I've seen people turn ideologically crazy (2025)

https://blog.andymasley.com/p/the-main-way-ive-seen-people-turn
78•mef•3h ago•53 comments

Windows 11's built-in Weather app wastes more than 1 GB of RAM

https://www.notebookcheck.net/Windows-11-s-built-in-Weather-app-wastes-more-than-1-GB-of-RAM.1364...
316•akyuu•8h ago•266 comments

Two wheels, a few tradeoffs, and gas prices

https://blog.raed.dev/posts/motocycle/
16•Raed667•3h ago•18 comments

Touring the Consensus, Six Months In

https://theconsensus.dev/blog/2026/08/05/touring-the-consensus-six-months-in.html
4•tosh•3d ago•0 comments

Show HN: A Project Oberon System version running on RISC-V instead of RISC-5

https://github.com/rochus-keller/OberonSystem/tree/op2-rv32
100•Rochus•10h ago•16 comments

Show HN: Alphabet Soup, a multiplayer game, build the longest word to win

https://alphabetsoup.club
18•johnchinjew•3h ago•10 comments

When Compilers Disagree About UTF‑8

https://nemanjatrifunovic.substack.com/p/when-compilers-disagree-about-utf8
28•rbanffy•4d ago•5 comments

Reviving a four year old reMarkable 2

https://oskrim.github.io/hardware/2026/08/09/remarkable-over-ssh.html
113•tremguy•11h ago•84 comments

Crickets as pets

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crickets_as_pets
72•Michelangelo11•4d ago•33 comments

There Are Magic Hexagons of Every Order

https://gukov.dev/math/2026/08/02/new-magic-hexagons.html
177•gukoff•16h ago•29 comments

To Recruit Teachers, School Districts Are Building Homes

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/28/business/affordable-housing-schools-teachers.html
13•mooreds•1h ago•2 comments

Human vs. AI – Diff-based line-level provenance for text under agentic editing

https://github.com/eighttrigrams/us-vs-them
42•eighttrigrams•8h ago•9 comments

The Alpha 21264 CPU: NT's Greatest RISC (1998)

https://halfhill.com/byte/1998-12_alpha.html
76•Lammy•13h ago•63 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."