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LittleSnitch for Linux

https://obdev.at/products/littlesnitch-linux/index.html
692•pluc•8h ago•201 comments

Open Source Security at Astral

https://astral.sh/blog/open-source-security-at-astral
172•vinhnx•5h ago•30 comments

I ported Mac OS X to the Nintendo Wii

https://bryankeller.github.io/2026/04/08/porting-mac-os-x-nintendo-wii.html
1564•blkhp19•17h ago•272 comments

Haunted Paper Toys

http://ravensblight.com/papertoys.html
76•exvi•2d ago•1 comments

Creating the Futurescape for the Fifth Element

https://theasc.com/articles/fantastic-voyage-creating-the-futurescape-for-the-fifth-element
3•nixass•9m ago•1 comments

The Importance of Being Idle

https://theamericanscholar.org/the-importance-of-being-idle/
174•Caiero•2d ago•90 comments

Process Manager for Autonomous AI Agents

https://botctl.dev/
31•ankitg12•3h ago•6 comments

Dr. Dobb's Developer Library DVD 6

https://archive.org/details/DDJDVD6
28•kristianp•4d ago•9 comments

USB for Software Developers: An introduction to writing userspace USB drivers

https://werwolv.net/posts/usb_for_sw_devs/
293•WerWolv•13h ago•36 comments

Understanding the Kalman filter with a simple radar example

https://kalmanfilter.net
336•alex_be•16h ago•44 comments

They're made out of meat (1991)

http://www.terrybisson.com/theyre-made-out-of-meat-2/
535•surprisetalk•22h ago•147 comments

Who is Satoshi Nakamoto? My quest to unmask Bitcoin's creator

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/08/business/bitcoin-satoshi-nakamoto-identity-adam-back.html
483•jfirebaugh•1d ago•539 comments

Six (and a half) intuitions for KL divergence

https://www.perfectlynormal.co.uk/blog-kl-divergence
74•jxmorris12•1d ago•9 comments

ML promises to be profoundly weird

https://aphyr.com/posts/411-the-future-of-everything-is-lies-i-guess
496•pabs3•20h ago•486 comments

Git commands I run before reading any code

https://piechowski.io/post/git-commands-before-reading-code/
2035•grepsedawk•1d ago•432 comments

Muse Spark: Scaling towards personal superintelligence

https://ai.meta.com/blog/introducing-muse-spark-msl/?_fb_noscript=1
339•chabons•17h ago•327 comments

Improving storage efficiency in Magic Pocket, Dropbox's immutable blob store

https://dropbox.tech/infrastructure/improving-storage-efficiency-in-magic-pocket-our-immutable-bl...
8•laluser•5d ago•0 comments

MegaTrain: Full Precision Training of 100B+ Parameter LLMs on a Single GPU

https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.05091
294•chrsw•21h ago•54 comments

I imported the full Linux kernel git history into pgit

https://oseifert.ch/blog/linux-kernel-pgit
127•ImGajeed76•3d ago•18 comments

Expanding Swift's IDE Support

https://swift.org/blog/expanding-swift-ide-support/
113•frizlab•13h ago•52 comments

Map Gesture Controls - Control maps with your hands

https://sanderdesnaijer.github.io/map-gesture-controls/
27•hebelehubele•4d ago•4 comments

Understanding Traceroute

https://tech.stonecharioteer.com/posts/2026/traceroute/
128•stonecharioteer•3d ago•21 comments

Ask HN: Any interesting niche hobbies?

361•e-topy•3d ago•533 comments

Show HN: A (marginally) useful x86-64 ELF executable in 301 bytes

https://github.com/meribold/btry
37•meribold•2d ago•8 comments

John Deere to pay $99M in right-to-repair settlement

https://www.thedrive.com/news/john-deere-to-pay-99-million-in-monumental-right-to-repair-settlement
305•CharlesW•12h ago•93 comments

Teardown of unreleased LG Rollable shows why rollable phones aren't a thing

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026/04/teardown-of-unreleased-lg-rollable-shows-why-rollable-pho...
105•DamnInteresting•1d ago•47 comments

Audio Reactive LED Strips Are Diabolically Hard

https://scottlawsonbc.com/post/audio-led
227•surprisetalk•1d ago•63 comments

Show HN: Is Hormuz open yet?

https://www.ishormuzopenyet.com/
395•anonfunction•11h ago•163 comments

Union types in C# 15

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/dotnet/csharp-15-union-types/
202•0x00C0FFEE•4d ago•184 comments

Veracrypt project update

https://sourceforge.net/p/veracrypt/discussion/general/thread/9620d7a4b3/
1214•super256•1d ago•446 comments
Open in hackernews

Building my npx business card

https://ashley.dev/posts/turning-feedback-into-features/
8•edent•10mo ago

Comments

steele•10mo ago
Ooh, free real estate, let's colonize and gentrify package management
aabhay•10mo ago
Lmao, gentrify cracked me up
neilv•10mo ago
Do these npx business cards run arbitrary code on your computer?
cypherpunks01•10mo 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•10mo 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•10mo ago
Yeah, this seems like a very smart but inherently flawed idea.
cypherpunks01•10mo 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•10mo ago
May as well just release an executable tbh.
theamk•10mo 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•10mo 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•10mo 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."