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Animated AI

https://animatedai.github.io/
87•frozenseven•4d ago•9 comments

A faster heart for F-Droid

https://f-droid.org/2025/12/30/a-faster-heart-for-f-droid.html
343•kasabali•11h ago•146 comments

Readings in Database Systems (5th Edition)

http://www.redbook.io/
53•teleforce•4h ago•2 comments

FediMeteo: A €4 FreeBSD VPS Became a Global Weather Service

https://it-notes.dragas.net/2025/02/26/fedimeteo-how-a-tiny-freebsd-vps-became-a-global-weather-s...
258•birdculture•11h ago•62 comments

Show HN: 22 GB of Hacker News in SQLite

https://hackerbook.dosaygo.com
434•keepamovin•13h ago•150 comments

Google Opal

https://opal.google/landing/
61•gmays•2h ago•33 comments

A Vulnerability in Libsodium

https://00f.net/2025/12/30/libsodium-vulnerability/
247•raggi•13h ago•34 comments

What If Heavy Files Felt Heavy?

https://www.shiveesh.com/thoughts-and-ideas/what-if-heavy-files-actually-felt-heavy
28•shiveeshfotedar•5d ago•15 comments

Odin: Moving Towards a New "core:OS"

https://odin-lang.org/news/moving-towards-a-new-core-os/
12•ksec•4d ago•0 comments

Zpdf: PDF text extraction in Zig

https://github.com/Lulzx/zpdf
158•lulzx•10h ago•56 comments

Loss32: Let's Build a Win32/Linux

https://loss32.org/
254•akka47•1d ago•333 comments

OpenAI's cash burn will be one of the big bubble questions of 2026

https://www.economist.com/leaders/2025/12/30/openais-cash-burn-will-be-one-of-the-big-bubble-ques...
288•1vuio0pswjnm7•8h ago•386 comments

Electrolysis can solve one of our biggest contamination problems

https://ethz.ch/en/news-and-events/eth-news/news/2025/11/electrolysis-can-solve-one-of-our-bigges...
143•PaulHoule•12h ago•38 comments

Honey's Dieselgate: Detecting and tricking testers

https://vptdigital.com/blog/honey-detecting-testers/
176•AkshatJ27•8h ago•52 comments

LLVM AI tool policy: human in the loop

https://discourse.llvm.org/t/rfc-llvm-ai-tool-policy-human-in-the-loop/89159
162•pertymcpert•3h ago•77 comments

Sabotaging Bitcoin

https://blog.dshr.org/2025/12/sabotaging-bitcoin.html
127•zdw•9h ago•76 comments

Reverse Engineering a Mysterious UDP Stream in My Hotel (2016)

https://www.gkbrk.com/hotel-music
205•bayesnet•1w ago•26 comments

Non-Zero-Sum Games

https://nonzerosum.games/
359•8organicbits•18h ago•178 comments

Toro: Deploy Applications as Unikernels

https://github.com/torokernel/torokernel
127•ignoramous•13h ago•106 comments

Mitsubishi Diatone D-160 (1985)

https://audio-database.com/MITSUBISHI-DIATONE/diatonesp/d-160-e.html
35•anigbrowl•2d ago•17 comments

Escaping containment: A security analysis of FreeBSD jails [video]

https://media.ccc.de/v/39c3-escaping-containment-a-security-analysis-of-freebsd-jails
78•todsacerdoti•11h ago•2 comments

No strcpy either

https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2025/12/29/no-strcpy-either/
182•firesteelrain•17h ago•103 comments

Git analytics that works across GitHub, GitLab, and Bitbucket

7•akhnid•1d ago•5 comments

Professional software developers don't vibe, they control

https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.14012
151•dpflan•10h ago•176 comments

The British empire's resilient subsea telegraph network

https://subseacables.blogspot.com/2025/12/the-british-empires-resilient-subsea.html
185•giuliomagnifico•17h ago•45 comments

Times New American: A Tale of Two Fonts

https://hsu.cy/2025/12/times-new-american/
240•firexcy•17h ago•141 comments

L1TF Reloaded

https://github.com/ThijsRay/l1tf_reloaded
18•Fnoord•3h ago•0 comments

Five Years of Tinygrad

https://geohot.github.io//blog/jekyll/update/2025/12/29/five-years-of-tinygrad.html
212•iyaja•1d ago•101 comments

Approachable Swift Concurrency

https://fuckingapproachableswiftconcurrency.com/en/
162•wrxd•17h ago•82 comments

Igniting the GPU: From Kernel Plumbing to 3D Rendering on RISC-V

https://mwilczynski.dev/posts/riscv-gpu-zink/
83•michalwilczynsk•16h ago•8 comments
Open in hackernews

Building my npx business card

https://ashley.dev/posts/turning-feedback-into-features/
8•edent•7mo ago

Comments

steele•7mo ago
Ooh, free real estate, let's colonize and gentrify package management
aabhay•7mo ago
Lmao, gentrify cracked me up
neilv•7mo ago
Do these npx business cards run arbitrary code on your computer?
cypherpunks01•7mo 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•7mo 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•7mo ago
Yeah, this seems like a very smart but inherently flawed idea.
cypherpunks01•7mo 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•7mo ago
May as well just release an executable tbh.
theamk•7mo 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•7mo 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•7mo 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."