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Why Twilio Segment moved from microservices back to a monolith

https://www.twilio.com/en-us/blog/developers/best-practices/goodbye-microservices
105•birdculture•3h ago•76 comments

Linux Sandboxes and Fil-C

https://fil-c.org/seccomp
22•pizlonator•47m ago•0 comments

Recovering Anthony Bourdain's (really) lost Li.st's

https://sandyuraz.com/blogs/bourdain/
57•thecsw•2h ago•10 comments

VPN location claims don't match real traffic exits

https://ipinfo.io/blog/vpn-location-mismatch-report
195•mmaia•3h ago•112 comments

I tried Gleam for Advent of Code

https://blog.tymscar.com/posts/gleamaoc2025/
217•tymscar•6h ago•119 comments

I fed 24 years of my blog posts to a Markov model

https://susam.net/fed-24-years-of-posts-to-markov-model.html
59•zdw•3h ago•19 comments

The Rise of Computer Games, Part I: Adventure

https://technicshistory.com/2025/12/13/the-rise-of-computer-games-part-i-adventure/
31•cfmcdonald•3h ago•4 comments

Flat-pack washing machine spins a fairer future

https://www.positive.news/society/flat-pack-washing-machine-spins-a-fairer-future/
27•ohjeez•1h ago•3 comments

Want to sway an election? Here’s how much fake online accounts cost

https://www.science.org/content/article/want-sway-election-here-s-how-much-fake-online-accounts-cost
95•rbanffy•2h ago•47 comments

Useful patterns for building HTML tools

https://simonwillison.net/2025/Dec/10/html-tools/
218•simonw•3d ago•67 comments

Ask HN: How can I get better at using AI for programming?

169•lemonlime227•8h ago•209 comments

Cryptids

https://wiki.bbchallenge.org/wiki/Cryptids
80•frozenseven•1w ago•12 comments

TigerBeetle as a File Storage

https://aivarsk.com/2025/12/07/tigerbeetle-blob-storage/
12•aivarsk•6d ago•1 comments

Go Proposal: Secret Mode

https://antonz.org/accepted/runtime-secret/
145•enz•4d ago•61 comments

EasyPost (YC S13) Is Hiring

https://www.easypost.com/careers
1•jstreebin•6h ago

From Azure Functions to FreeBSD

https://jmmv.dev/2025/12/from-azure-functions-to-freebsd.html
58•todsacerdoti•5d ago•4 comments

Are we stuck with the same Desktop UX forever? [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1fZTOjd_bOQ
81•joelkesler•5h ago•91 comments

What is the nicest thing a stranger has ever done for you?

https://louplummer.lol/nice-stranger/
273•speckx•2d ago•211 comments

A Giant Ball Will Help This Man Survive a Year on an Iceberg

https://www.outsideonline.com/outdoor-adventure/exploration-survival/how-giant-ball-will-help-man...
28•areoform•8h ago•29 comments

Researchers seeking better measures of cognitive fatigue

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-03974-w
95•bikenaga•3d ago•27 comments

Photographer built a medium-format rangefinder

https://petapixel.com/2025/12/06/this-photographer-built-an-awesome-medium-format-rangefinder-and...
158•shinryuu•1w ago•36 comments

Purdue University Approves New AI Requirement for All Undergrads

https://www.forbes.com/sites/michaeltnietzel/2025/12/13/purdue-university-approves-new-ai-require...
38•rmason•2h ago•29 comments

Using Python for Scripting

https://hypirion.com/musings/use-python-for-scripting
78•birdculture•5d ago•67 comments

Kids Rarely Read Whole Books Anymore. Even in English Class

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/12/us/high-school-english-teachers-assigning-books.html
3•signa11•20m ago•1 comments

A Lisp Interpreter Implemented in Conway's Game of Life (2021)

https://woodrush.github.io/blog/posts/2022-01-12-lisp-in-life.html
84•pabs3•20h ago•3 comments

Java FFM zero-copy transport using io_uring

https://www.mvp.express/
95•mands•6d ago•43 comments

GNU Unifont

https://unifoundry.com/unifont/index.html
320•remywang•1d ago•72 comments

Pig Video Arcades Critique Life in the Pen (1997)

https://www.wired.com/1997/06/pig-video-arcades-critique-life-in-the-pen/
7•naryJane•5d ago•2 comments

Will West Coast Jazz Get Some Respect?

https://www.honest-broker.com/p/will-west-coast-jazz-finally-get
64•paulpauper•1w ago•41 comments

A 'toaster with a lens': The story behind the first handheld digital camera

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20251205-how-the-handheld-digital-camera-was-born
75•selvan•5d ago•43 comments
Open in hackernews

Building my npx business card

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

Comments

steele•6mo ago
Ooh, free real estate, let's colonize and gentrify package management
aabhay•6mo ago
Lmao, gentrify cracked me up
neilv•6mo ago
Do these npx business cards run arbitrary code on your computer?
cypherpunks01•6mo 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•6mo 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•6mo ago
Yeah, this seems like a very smart but inherently flawed idea.
cypherpunks01•6mo 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•6mo ago
May as well just release an executable tbh.
theamk•6mo 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•6mo 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•6mo 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."