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All AI-generated code should be Open Source

https://jakub.jankiewicz.org/blog/ai-code-open-source/
583•jcubic•3h ago•333 comments

The MacBook Pro's OLED PWM Problem: When a 'Better' Display Becomes Worse to Use

https://macanorak.com/the-macbook-pros-oled-pwm-problem-when-a-better-display-becomes-worse-to-use/
240•MacAnorak•4h ago•139 comments

Emacs Is My Browser

https://joshblais.com/blog/emacs-as-my-browser/
75•nyc111•2h ago•30 comments

Things That Turbo Pascal Is Smaller Than (2011)

https://prog21.dadgum.com/116.html
112•ksec•4h ago•47 comments

SpaceX catches the Starship to end Flight 15

https://www.spacex.com/launches/starship-flight-15
1511•ls612•20h ago•1050 comments

Claude Code and Codex reverse engineered my 1994 Jeep's ECU over a $3 Arduino [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WPj3aQ-xxpI
103•envoked•3d ago•48 comments

Understanding Positional Embeddings in Modern LLMs

https://magazine.sebastianraschka.com/p/understanding-positional-embeddings
127•vismit2000•6h ago•3 comments

Notes on Mathematics for Engineers (1959) [pdf]

https://websites.umich.edu/~ners311/CourseLibrary/MathNotes.pdf
9•the-mitr•4d ago•0 comments

Court denies motion to dismiss DRAM price fixing case

https://litnews.ai/articles/garciaguirre-samsung-sk-hynix-micron-dram-conspiracy-suit-survives-di...
403•ybathaee•16h ago•182 comments

A NES emulator written in Odin

https://lucypero.com/lucynes.html
68•frostbyte7•5h ago•15 comments

20 Years of Pyrolog

https://pypy.org/posts/2026/11/20-years-of-pyrolog.html
38•lumpa•3d ago•3 comments

What thousands of conversations look like inside a language model

https://operator0x.com/field-notes/qwen-conversation-state-space/
72•josip208•2d ago•23 comments

The Hypertext Transfer Protocol Status Code 483 (I'm Not a Freezer)

https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-banffy-httpbis-not-a-freezer/
65•rbanffy•3h ago•28 comments

Why did some Apollo missions carry a grenade launcher?

https://space.stackexchange.com/questions/37775
158•Skyfall106•9h ago•118 comments

Lutnick Pushed to Weaken Chip Rules That Overlap with His Family Business

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/11/15/us/politics/lutnick-pushed-to-weaken-chip-rules-that-overlap-w...
264•JumpCrisscross•6h ago•116 comments

The Telephone Changed the World

https://lithub.com/how-the-telephone-changed-the-world/
35•NaOH•19h ago•11 comments

Chasing an audio artifact on power loss

https://subalpinecircuits.com/chasing-an-audio-artifact-on-power-loss/
38•ireflect•2d ago•3 comments

How to read codes from (many) IR remote controls with as little code as possible

https://bitbanksoftware.blogspot.com/2026/11/how-to-read-codes-from-many-ir-remote.html
31•speckx•3d ago•5 comments

How did Woz write the Apple 1 BASIC before building the computer?

https://retrocomputing.stackexchange.com/questions/17957
284•Skyfall106•19h ago•146 comments

Handwritten 200-year-old dismissal notice found on roof tile

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c6jdmdzv25r9o
56•nephihaha•2d ago•38 comments

My favourite modern NES games

https://jordi.inversethought.com/blog/25-of-my-favourite-modern-nes-games/
176•jordigh•15h ago•30 comments

Show HN: Carton Clock – A working pendulum clock made from empty drink cartons

https://www.niklasroy.com/carton-clock/
47•r0r0•2d ago•2 comments

Open-Source HF Communications for Remote Communities and Experimenters

https://www.ardc.net/rhizomaticas-hermes-and-mercury-expand-open-source-hf-communications-for-rem...
67•tejtm•4d ago•9 comments

A family tree of software job titles

https://zwischenzugs.com/2026/11/03/a-family-tree-of-software-job-titles/
399•umerf•1d ago•195 comments

Lovable apps expose passport details and more than 200K private messages

https://www.crissyfield.de/research/lovable-en/
949•armcat•1d ago•363 comments

Semicircle Packing

https://rorz.io/writing/semicircle-packing
81•sarreph•2d ago•8 comments

Show HN: db-branch – database branches in seconds for AI agents and CI, via ZFS

https://github.com/db-branch/db-branch
7•nu_nu11•4h ago•2 comments

Disk encryption on NetBSD – achieving secrecy

https://netbsd.org/~nia/disk-encrypt/
85•jaypatelani•12h ago•16 comments

The Evolving Story of How Chemistry Became Biology

https://www.quantamagazine.org/the-evolving-story-of-how-chemistry-became-biology-20261112/
94•pseudolus•2d ago•21 comments

PyPI's redesigned project pages with clearer security signals are now live

https://blog.pypi.org/posts/2026-11-06-ui-updates-complete/
265•rbanffy•1d ago•125 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."