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“I just chose words carefully”

https://unsung.aresluna.org/i-just-chose-words-carefully/
129•zdw•1h ago•27 comments

Creepy Crawlies

https://people.kernel.org/monsieuricon/creepy-crawlies
879•zdw•1d ago•402 comments

Thoughts on Pope Leo XIV's Magnifica Humanitas

https://adropincalm.com/blog/thoughts-on-magnifica-humanitas/
35•borracciaBlu•1h ago•22 comments

Haiku R1/beta6 has been released

https://www.haiku-os.org/news/2026-08-26_haiku_r1_beta6
236•metrofun•8h ago•71 comments

Cores in space: The core memory module from a 1980 Spacelab computer

https://www.righto.com/2026/08/spacelab-core-memory.html
59•pwg•4h ago•10 comments

Mark Zuckerberg's Social Reckoning

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2026/09/07/mark-zuckerbergs-social-reckoning
29•fortran77•2h ago•39 comments

Show HN: NFC Energy-Harvesting PCB Business Card with an MCU

https://wilsonharper.net/projects/businesscard/
80•WilsonHarper•2d ago•8 comments

Show HN: Academa – Long-form STEM lecture videos generated by LLMs

https://academa.ai/
20•sinaatalay•1h ago•15 comments

Sort branches by last commit date

https://ryangreenberg.com/til/git-branches-by-commit-date/
72•speckx•5d ago•20 comments

Continuous Diffusion Language Models (CDLM's)

https://sander.ai/2026/08/24/continuous-dlms.html
46•peter_d_sherman•3h ago•12 comments

Why open source rocks – a new SM750 (Silicon Motion GPU) HDMI Driver

https://github.com/KodeMunkie/sm750hdmifb
59•SillyUsername•5h ago•31 comments

Coordination Headwind: How Organizations Are Like Slime Molds

https://komoroske.com/slime-mold/
118•rzk•8h ago•40 comments

Commercially Available Bike Generators Are Not Sustainable

https://solar.lowtechmagazine.com/2011/05/bike-powered-electricity-generators-are-not-sustainable/
16•baud147258•4d ago•4 comments

Hacking IKEA Furniture

https://greenlightning.eu/diy/hacking-ikea-furniture/
255•greenlightning•12h ago•170 comments

How would you know whether an ancient culture had zero?

https://www.johndcook.com/blog/2026/08/21/ancient-number-system/
7•ibobev•3d ago•0 comments

Zig: Pointer Stability for ArrayLists

https://ziglang.org/devlog/2026/#2026-08-27
80•tosh•9h ago•49 comments

Dad’s Custom Atari Peripherals

https://www.goto10retro.com/p/dads-custom-atari-peripherals
89•rbanffy•3d ago•11 comments

Arbitrary code execution in QubesOS via copy-to-VM error reporting backchannel

https://www.qubes-os.org/news/2026/08/29/qsb-118/
198•vntok•15h ago•83 comments

Startup Anti-Patterns

https://www.itamarnovick.com/intro-to-startup-anti-pattern-series/
58•rzk•8h ago•26 comments

Artie (YC S23) Is Hiring Technical AES

https://www.artie.com/careers?ashby_jid=e87b84d2-78b3-41a3-937a-47e83643cdf1
1•j-cheong•7h ago

Electric rain can eat through metal

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/electric-rain-can-eat-through-metal/
88•sohkamyung•3d ago•16 comments

Quest for the Eternal Dock – Lambdock

https://jointhefreeworld.org/blog/articles/gnu-linux/quest-for-eternal-dock/index.html
12•signa11•1d ago•1 comments

Longest Straight Line Paths on Water or Land on the Earth (2018)

https://arxiv.org/abs/1804.07389
189•joebig•15h ago•56 comments

European Commission Revives Push for Encryption Backdoors in ProtectEU Strategy

https://reclaimthenet.org/eu-protecteu-strategy-encryption-backdoor-law-enforcement
341•nickslaughter02•8h ago•142 comments

Synchronisation and SMPTE timecode (time code)

https://www.philrees.co.uk/articles/timecode.htm
33•sublinear•2d ago•9 comments

Omarchy: Any User Process Can Escalate to Root

https://0xcc.io/posts/omarchy-root-creds/
376•trap0xcc•8h ago•382 comments

METR and Redwood Offer Holy %^ Postmortem of the HuggingFace Hack

https://thezvi.wordpress.com/2026/08/29/metr-and-redwood-offer-holy-postmortem-of-the-huggingface...
217•catbird•10h ago•167 comments

Automating Immersive Reading

https://smoores.dev/post/automating_immersive_reading/
90•smoores•12h ago•34 comments

Storm Summoner, a MIDI controller for effects pedals

https://kabaragoya.com/products/storm-summoner
30•peteforde•3d ago•8 comments

Europe's summer drought is so extreme that desertification is a growing threat

https://fortune.com/2026/08/29/europe-summer-drought-desertification-threat-rivers-fish/
242•Brajeshwar•9h ago•294 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."