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A walking tour of surveillance infrastructure in Seattle

https://coveillance.org/a-walking-tour-of-surveillance-infrastructure-in-seattle/
218•eustoria•4h ago•101 comments

Larry Ellison: "Citizens will be on their best behavior because we’re recording" (2024)

https://www.techradar.com/pro/quote-of-the-day-by-oracle-co-founder-larry-ellison-citizens-will-b...
83•CharlesW•35m ago•26 comments

Coreutils for Windows

https://github.com/microsoft/coreutils
98•gigel82•1h ago•78 comments

Adafruit Receives Demand Letter from Fenwick Legal Counsel on Behalf of Flux.ai

https://blog.adafruit.com/
475•semanser•8h ago•193 comments

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

https://www.fidonet.org/inet92_Randy_Bush.txt
101•BruceEel•4h ago•31 comments

Why Janet? (2023)

https://ianthehenry.com/posts/why-janet/
367•yacin•8h ago•184 comments

Expanding Project Glasswing

https://www.anthropic.com/news/expanding-project-glasswing
100•surprisetalk•4h ago•109 comments

Love systemd timers

https://blog.tjll.net/you-dont-love-systemd-timers-enough/
248•yacin•8h ago•163 comments

Rethinking Search as Code Generation

https://research.perplexity.ai/articles/rethinking-search-as-code-generation
11•1zael•1h ago•1 comments

Three Ways to Get Paid

https://jasonzweig.com/three-ways-to-get-paid/
74•nate•1h ago•48 comments

CSS-Native Parallax Effect

https://dan-webnotes.com/posts/2026-06-02-css-native-parallax-effect/
109•dandep•7h ago•46 comments

Stop Ruining It

https://seths.blog/2026/06/stop-ruining-it/
168•herbertl•8h ago•81 comments

Preparing for KDE Plasma's Last X11-Supported Release

https://blog.davidedmundson.co.uk/blog/596/
92•jandeboevrie•3h ago•88 comments

Can the stockmarket swallow Anthropic, SpaceX and OpenAI?

https://www.economist.com/finance-and-economics/2026/06/01/can-the-stockmarket-swallow-anthropic-...
619•1vuio0pswjnm7•18h ago•1070 comments

Show HN: Eyeball

https://eyeball.rory.codes/
170•mrroryflint•9h ago•58 comments

Reviving Teletext for Ham Radio

https://spectrum.ieee.org/reviving-teletext-for-ham-radio
45•yarapavan•4d ago•20 comments

Key Chemistry Question Answered, No Quantum Computer Required

https://www.quantamagazine.org/key-chemistry-question-answered-no-quantum-computer-required-20260...
10•defrost•4d ago•0 comments

Great Question (YC W21) Is Hiring Applied AI Interns

https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/great-question/jobs/J5TNvQH-ai-engineer-intern
1•nedwin•6h ago

Why Custom Attributes in .NET Give Me Nightmares

https://blog.washi.dev/posts/custom-attributes-and-why-they-suck/
62•jandeboevrie•2d ago•20 comments

Webcam head tracking, webcam to control in‑game FOV

https://www.openfov.com/
78•mwit2023•3d ago•38 comments

Squillions: How money laundering won

https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v48/n09/john-lanchester/squillions
127•rwmj•2d ago•108 comments

macOS needs its grid back

https://blog.hopefullyuseful.com/blog/macos-needs-its-grid-back/
364•ranebo•16h ago•237 comments

The newest Instagram “exploit” is the goofiest I've seen

https://www.0xsid.com/blog/meta-account-takeover-fiasco
2089•ssiddharth•1d ago•466 comments

PCMFlowG722 wideband (HD voice) codec for ESP32

https://github.com/tanakamasayuki/PCMFlowG722
18•zdw•3d ago•1 comments

CQL: Categorical Databases

https://categoricaldata.net/
89•noworriesnate•3d ago•32 comments

Chipotlai Max

https://github.com/cyberpapiii/chipotlai-max
352•nigelgutzmann•19h ago•60 comments

OpenAI frontier models and Codex are now available on AWS

https://openai.com/index/openai-frontier-models-and-codex-are-now-available-on-aws/
348•typpo•20h ago•119 comments

Apple rejected my dictation app for using the accessibility API

https://www.mitmllc.com/blog/apple-rejected-my-dictation-app/
247•RZelaya•6h ago•149 comments

Promoting Advanced Artificial Intelligence Innovation and Security

https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2026/06/promoting-advanced-artificial-intelligenc...
21•artninja1988•1h ago•7 comments

Debug Project

https://debug.com/
266•Eridanus2•21h ago•110 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."