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Petition for Recognition of Work on Open-Source as Volunteering in Germany

https://www.openpetition.de/petition/online/recognition-of-work-on-open-source-as-volunteering-in...
151•numeri•2h ago•20 comments

I miss thinking hard

https://www.jernesto.com/articles/thinking_hard
285•jernestomg•3h ago•162 comments

Lessons learned shipping 500 units of my first hardware product

https://www.simonberens.com/p/lessons-learned-shipping-500-units
503•sberens•2d ago•221 comments

Data centers in space makes no sense

https://civai.org/blog/space-data-centers
471•ajyoon•11h ago•575 comments

Show HN: Craftplan – I built my wife a production management tool for her bakery

https://github.com/puemos/craftplan
249•deofoo•2d ago•39 comments

The largest zip tie is nearly 4 feet long and $75

https://www.thedrive.com/news/youll-have-that-on-those-big-jobs-the-worlds-largest-zip-tie-is-nea...
72•PaulHoule•5d ago•34 comments

Deno Sandbox

https://deno.com/blog/introducing-deno-sandbox
393•johnspurlock•13h ago•129 comments

Resurrecting Crimsonland – Decompiling and preserving a cult 2003 classic game

https://banteg.xyz/posts/crimsonland/
93•banteg•2d ago•25 comments

Agent Skills

https://agentskills.io/home
435•mooreds•17h ago•221 comments

Xcode 26.3 – Developers can leverage coding agents directly in Xcode

https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2026/02/xcode-26-point-3-unlocks-the-power-of-agentic-coding/
289•davidbarker•13h ago•233 comments

New York’s budget bill would require “blocking technology” on all 3D printers

https://blog.adafruit.com/2026/02/03/new-york-wants-to-ctrlaltdelete-your-3d-printer/
359•ptorrone•15h ago•413 comments

Reimplementing Tor from Scratch for a Single-Hop Proxy

https://foxmoss.com/blog/kurrat/
21•Agreed3750•3d ago•3 comments

High-Altitude Adventure with a DIY Pico Balloon

https://spectrum.ieee.org/explore-stratosphere-diy-pico-balloon
7•jnord•3d ago•0 comments

AliSQL: Alibaba's open-source MySQL with vector and DuckDB engines

https://github.com/alibaba/AliSQL
185•baotiao•12h ago•22 comments

221 Cannon is Not For Sale

https://fredbenenson.com/blog/2026/02/03/221-cannon-is-not-for-sale/
224•mecredis•14h ago•171 comments

Prek: A better, faster, drop-in pre-commit replacement, engineered in Rust

https://github.com/j178/prek
230•fortuitous-frog•14h ago•101 comments

1,400-year-old tomb featuring giant owl sculpture discovered in Mexico

https://www.cnn.com/2026/01/29/science/zapotec-tomb-mexico-scli-intl
92•breve•4d ago•15 comments

X offices raided in France as UK opens fresh investigation into Grok

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/ce3ex92557jo
310•vikaveri•21h ago•498 comments

Microsoft Has Killed Widgets Six Times. Here's Why They Keep Coming Back

https://xakpc.dev/windows-widgets/history/
15•thunderbong•57m ago•4 comments

Y Combinator will let founders receive funds in stablecoins

https://fortune.com/2026/02/03/famed-startup-incubator-y-combinator-to-let-founders-receive-funds...
115•shscs911•12h ago•165 comments

Exploring Different Keyboard Sensing Technologies

https://www.lttlabs.com/articles/2026/01/27/exploring-different-keyboard-sensing-technologies
10•viraptor•6d ago•2 comments

Qwen3-Coder-Next

https://qwen.ai/blog?id=qwen3-coder-next
629•danielhanchen•15h ago•383 comments

FlashAttention-T: Towards Tensorized Attention

https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3774934.3786425
91•matt_d•10h ago•50 comments

France dumps Zoom and Teams as Europe seeks digital autonomy from the US

https://apnews.com/article/europe-digital-sovereignty-big-tech-9f5388b68a0648514cebc8d92f682060
901•AareyBaba•14h ago•468 comments

Notepad++ supply chain attack breakdown

https://securelist.com/notepad-supply-chain-attack/118708/
255•natebc•8h ago•117 comments

Bunny Database

https://bunny.net/blog/meet-bunny-database-the-sql-service-that-just-works/
278•dabinat•19h ago•112 comments

Puget Systems Most Reliable Hardware of 2025

https://www.pugetsystems.com/labs/articles/puget-systems-most-reliable-hardware-of-2025/
116•zdw•4d ago•41 comments

Heritability of intrinsic human life span is about 50%

https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adz1187
150•XzetaU8•2d ago•98 comments

Reference Target: having your encapsulation and eating it too

https://blogs.igalia.com/alice/reference-target-having-your-encapsulation-and-eating-it-too/
12•todsacerdoti•4d ago•0 comments

1 kilobyte is precisely 1000 bytes?

https://waspdev.com/articles/2026-01-11/kilobyte-is-1000-bytes
93•surprisetalk•14h ago•289 comments
Open in hackernews

Building my npx business card

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

Comments

steele•8mo ago
Ooh, free real estate, let's colonize and gentrify package management
aabhay•8mo ago
Lmao, gentrify cracked me up
neilv•8mo ago
Do these npx business cards run arbitrary code on your computer?
cypherpunks01•8mo 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•8mo 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•8mo ago
Yeah, this seems like a very smart but inherently flawed idea.
cypherpunks01•8mo 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•8mo ago
May as well just release an executable tbh.
theamk•8mo 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•8mo 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•8mo 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."