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Iosevka is an open-source, sans-serif and slab-serif, monospace font

https://typeof.net/Iosevka/
461•otobrglez•7h ago•186 comments

Pg_vectorsearch: An index that is faster than pgvector's IVFFlat and HNSW

https://github.com/timescale/pg_vectorsearch
115•jascha_eng•4h ago•34 comments

Running Windows desktop tests from Linux with disposable VMs

https://www.qawolf.com/blog/how-we-solved-windows-desktop-automation
19•jadenlemmon•1h ago•7 comments

Passkeys Are Not a Trap

https://scotthelme.co.uk/passkeys-are-not-a-trap/
185•speckx•52m ago•199 comments

ASML's strong orders ease fears AI spending boom is running out of steam

https://www.reuters.com/business/asml-forecasts-q4-sales-above-expectations-ai-chip-demand-2026-1...
82•tartoran•1h ago•63 comments

AI is mass decompiling games. That's both awesome and scary

https://popcar.bearblog.dev/ai-is-mass-decompiling-games-thats-both-awesome-and-scary/
36•popcar2•1h ago•10 comments

Amazon pushes up prices across the Internet

https://www.not-ship.com/how-amazon-pushes-up-prices-all-across-the-internet/
412•sighborg•6h ago•400 comments

Sound – Bartosz Ciechanowski (2022)

https://ciechanow.ski/sound/
231•dverlaeckt80•2d ago•24 comments

The Gold-Bug: Edgar Allan Poe's story that taught me about cryptography (2024)

https://robotsinplainenglish.com/e/2024-01-21-gold-bug.html
29•ripe•2d ago•4 comments

Show HN: A guided 3D Leonardo da Vinci museum, built in code

https://museumofages.org/w/vinci
61•micstradev•6h ago•29 comments

The Origin Story of Kid Pix

http://red-green-blue.com/kid-pix-the-early-years
112•MBCook•1d ago•22 comments

Show HN: Guitoro, a virtual guitar you strum with your keyboard

https://guitoro.com/
530•talccc•20h ago•147 comments

TV4 postpones show after AI agent erases edited material

https://swedenherald.com/article/tv4-postpones-the-challenge-until-2027-after-technical-failure-e...
89•tobr•5h ago•56 comments

Apple Keynote now showing ads in its UI

https://mastodon.social/@marioguzman/117436264149891011
52•jervant•2h ago•9 comments

Pulsar at ESUG 2026 (new Smalltalk IDE)

https://blog.lorenzano.eu/pulsar-at-esug-2026/
60•mpweiher•5h ago•10 comments

900-Page Pre-Pantone Guide to Color from 1692 (With Complete High-Res Scan)

https://www.openculture.com/2026/10/a-900-page-pre-pantone-guide-to-color-from-1692.html
238•mdp2021•2d ago•40 comments

The Genealogy of Eliza

https://elizagen.org/genealogy.html
11•abrax3141•1d ago•1 comments

Gemini 4 Argon

https://deepmind.google/models/gemini/
1395•737max•1d ago•999 comments

How Tabasco Became the World's Hot Sauce

https://www.weareravenous.com/how-tabasco-accidentally-on-purpose-became-the-worlds-hot-sauce/
4•bookofjoe•3d ago•1 comments

Recreational Programming

https://www.cphiri.dev/presentations/recreational-programming
275•jslakro•17h ago•122 comments

Same Job, Two Engines: InnoDB and Iceberg Internals

https://marcpaul.io/logs/same-job-two-engines-innodb-and-iceberg-internals/
47•marcbpaul•1d ago•4 comments

AOSP Source Releases Are So Late Developers Disassemble Libraries to Report Bugs

https://github.com/android/ndk/issues/2260
435•tharen•9h ago•208 comments

Eric Binnion has died

https://ma.tt/2026/10/rip-eric/
71•speckx•3h ago•31 comments

Character.ai's Bankruptcy Documents Show the Economics of AI Don't Work

https://www.404media.co/character-ais-bankruptcy-documents-show-the-economics-of-ai-dont-work/
12•Luc•28m ago•2 comments

Who Is Planting Backdoors in Ledger Crypto Wallets?

https://www.zetter-zeroday.com/who-is-planting-backdoors-in-ledger-crypto-wallets/
105•hacb•6h ago•107 comments

Nvidia's first GPU: GeForce 256

https://dfarq.homeip.net/nvidias-first-gpu-geforce-256/
7•ibobev•4h ago•0 comments

Felix Rieseberg Homepage

https://felixrieseberg.com/
253•rglover•11h ago•98 comments

MIT class project turns into an FDA-cleared treatment for tremors

https://news.mit.edu/2026/mit-class-project-turns-into-fda-cleared-treatment-for-tremors-1002
260•zdw•1d ago•53 comments

AI Laser Locking for Quantum Computers: How QuEra Automates It

https://www.quera.com/blog-posts/holding-the-light-teaching-an-ai-to-lock-and-tune-our-quantum-co...
24•EvgeniyZh•5h ago•5 comments

PostEra (YC W20) Is Hiring AI Researchers for Drug Discovery

https://jobs.lever.co/postera/c7d50a36-db0a-4574-bfe4-8700b74a22c0
1•morraa•19h ago
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."