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U.S. postal inspectors shut down website selling counterfeit postage labels

https://postalemployeenetwork.com/news/2026/09/26/u-s-postal-inspectors-shut-down-website-selling...
128•ilamont•3h ago•66 comments

GPT 6.1 Sol: Near-Astra intelligence for a fifth of the price

https://openai.com/index/introducing-gpt-6-1-sol/
723•crorella•5h ago•650 comments

PS5 Relapse Exploit

https://github.com/ntfargo/Relapse-Exploit
200•therepanic•7h ago•102 comments

How Delhi cut electricity loss from 50 to 5 percent

https://spectrum.ieee.org/delhi-electricity-loss
407•rbanffy•10h ago•239 comments

NAND-16: a computer built from 277,248 NAND gates

https://somethingbig.ai/computer
92•rossant•2d ago•48 comments

Show HN: Real-time Solar System with 526k asteroids and all tracked satellites

https://space.bl2.net/
52•wanick•3h ago•21 comments

America.gov

https://america.gov/
234•plesiv•8h ago•196 comments

UnoDOS

https://github.com/hmofet/unodos
6•nicoloren•49m ago•1 comments

A Privacy Analysis of Web and Mobile Conversational AI Agents [pdf]

https://jorgegarciaherrero.com/wp-content/interactivos/20260916-Prompt-like-a-butterfly-sting-lik...
401•damaru2•13h ago•126 comments

Tcl/Tk 9.1

https://www.tcl-lang.org/software/tcltk/9.1.html
227•dmux•5h ago•74 comments

Show HN: TurboGPT: train 22KiB transformer in 13s

https://github.com/lostmsu/TurboGPT
37•lostmsu•3h ago•5 comments

Phyllotaxis: An audio-reactive LED display

https://jagi.studio/posts/phyllotaxis/
251•evakhoury•1d ago•41 comments

Virus Stole a Human Gene and Won't Let Go of It

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/28/science/virus-molluscum-human-gene.html
69•gumby•1d ago•24 comments

Stuck in the Suez Canal – the short version (2021)

https://cathsenker.co.uk/stuck-in-the-suez-canal-the-short-version/
33•joebig•2d ago•2 comments

Ask HN: What are you reading?

101•dan-bailey•9h ago•255 comments

Show HN: NSL – WSL for Linux

https://frostyard.github.io/nsl/
72•bketelsen•8h ago•54 comments

Solving a corn puzzle with CP-SAT

https://thill.me/2026/07/16/corn-puzzle-sat-solver.html
30•luu•2d ago•12 comments

Dots: Always-on agents

https://openai.com/index/introducing-dots/
425•alvis•5h ago•329 comments

A Staff Engineer's Guide to Inventing Work

https://sujithjay.com/inventing-work
157•amortize•1d ago•34 comments

Sustainable energy without the hot air (2008)

https://www.withouthotair.com/
133•0sake_rs•10h ago•73 comments

Jeeves. Reasoning improves Jev-like decision models

https://github.com/PostHog/jeeves
218•nicowaltz•11h ago•85 comments

'Pink Slime' Is Infecting AI Chatbots Ahead of the Midterms

https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2026/09/25/midterms-partisan-ai-chatbots-01092138
8•JumpCrisscross•2d ago•1 comments

Everybody’s home. No one’s coming over

https://www.derekthompson.org/p/the-death-of-the-american-host
698•barry-cotter•11h ago•642 comments

Commodore 64: Mercenary

https://gamesexplained.com/c64/mercenary/
13•a1r•3d ago•3 comments

Deser: Rethinking Rust Serialization

https://lucumr.pocoo.org/2026/9/29/deser/
3•tosh•1h ago•0 comments

Galaxy Game

https://icm.museum/blog/?p=698
12•rbanffy•3h ago•1 comments

Walking Men

https://bookofjoe2.blogspot.com/2026/09/walking-men.html
71•surprisetalk•1d ago•25 comments

ChatGPT Pro 500

https://help.openai.com/en/articles/9793128-about-chatgpt-pro-tiers
178•prodigycorp•5h ago•196 comments

Using any C++ library in Godot

https://blog.conan.io/cpp/conan/gamedev/godot/cmake/2026/09/29/Using-Any-Cpp-Library-In-Godot.html
154•czoido•14h ago•54 comments

What if Jev spoke Arrow?

https://columnar.tech/blog/what-if-jev-spoke-arrow/
32•ianmcook•6h ago•5 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."