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7.1 Earthquake in Japan

https://www.data.jma.go.jp/multi/quake/quake_detail.html?eventID=20260728163528&lang=en
230•krembo•2h ago•54 comments

About the security content of macOS Tahoe 26.6

https://support.apple.com/en-us/128067
29•andor•54m ago•12 comments

What Even Are Microservices?

https://var0.xyz/posts/what-even-are-microservices.html
17•tuxie_•47m ago•24 comments

Our position on open-weights models

https://www.anthropic.com/news/position-open-weights-models
933•surprisetalk•12h ago•1350 comments

A $500 RL fine-tune of a 9B open model beat frontier models on catalog review

https://fermisense.com/when-machines-take-the-wheel/
201•ilreb•8h ago•54 comments

Ars Astronomica – English translations of rare Hebrew and Latin astronomy texts

https://arsastronomica.com/
65•sweisman•5h ago•9 comments

Benchmarking Opus 5 on SlopCodeBench

https://github.com/humanlayer/advanced-context-engineering-for-coding-agents/blob/main/benchmarki...
301•dhorthy•12h ago•68 comments

How to Survive Boiling Water

https://taxa.substack.com/p/how-to-survive-boiling-water
25•cainxinth•3d ago•1 comments

Vehicle Motion Cues

https://support.apple.com/guide/iphone/iphone-comfortably-riding-a-vehicle-iph55564cb22/ios
126•Austin_Conlon•9h ago•55 comments

Watching Go's new garbage collector move through the heap

https://theconsensus.dev/p/2026/07/19/observing-gos-garbage-collector-old-and-new.html
231•matheusmoreira•3d ago•28 comments

Neutrino-1 8B

https://www.fermionresearch.com/models/neutrino-8b/
86•handfuloflight•5h ago•27 comments

PyTorch: A Reference Language

https://docs.pytorch.org/devlogs/compiler/2026-07-25-pytorch-a-reference-language/
33•matt_d•5h ago•3 comments

RTX 2080 Ti Memory Upgrade to 22 GB

https://gpusolutions.net/rbservices/graphics-card-upgrade/
114•wslh•3d ago•72 comments

Programming Languages Are Authoring Tools for Platforms

https://www.makonea.com/en-US/blog/programming-languages-are-authoring-tools-for-platforms
22•jdw64•3d ago•4 comments

Using an open model feels surprisingly good

https://matthewsaltz.com/blog/using-an-open-model-feels-surprisingly-good/
285•msaltz•8h ago•108 comments

Kimi K3 Now Available via Telnyx Inference API

https://telnyx.com/release-notes/kimi-k3-telnyx-inference
91•fionaattelnyx•11h ago•42 comments

TWC Classics

https://twcclassics.com/
11•stefanpie•5d ago•1 comments

DConf 2026 in London

https://dconf.org/2026/index.html
92•teleforce•11h ago•41 comments

Show HN: Yap – OSS on-device voice dictation for macOS with no model to download

https://github.com/FrigadeHQ/yap
72•pancomplex•16h ago•26 comments

Launch HN: Rise Reforming (YC S26) – Turning Waste Gases into Valuable Chemicals

https://www.rise-reforming.com
73•george_rose25•14h ago•31 comments

C/C++ projects packaged for Zig

https://github.com/allyourcodebase
63•jcbhmr•11h ago•35 comments

Ray tracing massive amounts of animated geometry using tetrahedral cages

https://gpuopen.com/learn/ray-tracing-massive-amounts-animated-geometry/
108•LorenDB•4d ago•13 comments

Self-contained highly-portable Python distributions

https://gregoryszorc.com/docs/python-build-standalone/main/
147•jcbhmr•15h ago•32 comments

Some combinatorial applications of spacefilling curves

https://www2.isye.gatech.edu/~jjb/research/mow/mow.html
55•shraiwi•2d ago•7 comments

EYG: A Programming Language for Humans

https://crowdhailer.me/2026-06-08/a-programming-language-for-humans/
70•crowdhailer•8h ago•39 comments

Paged Out #9 [pdf]

https://pagedout.institute/download/PagedOut_009.pdf
246•laurensr•20h ago•26 comments

Securing Services with Rootless Containers

https://blog.coderspirit.xyz/blog/2026/07/06/securing-services-with-rootless-containers/
99•speckx•4d ago•29 comments

How real are real numbers? (2004)

https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0411418
81•surprisetalk•18h ago•60 comments

A Dying Art: The last of the morticians

https://harpers.org/archive/2026/08/a-dying-art-john-semley-mortuary-sciences-competition/
35•Petiver•4d ago•4 comments

Netflix employee fired for sharing personal details in retreat trust exercise

https://nypost.com/2026/07/26/us-news/netflix-exec-goes-ballistic-after-being-fired-for-stunning-...
343•softwaredoug•11h ago•328 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."