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Qwen3.8 Max now ranked as the best overall model by agentic index

https://artificialanalysis.ai/?intelligence=agentic-index
197•apitman•1h ago•90 comments

xAI Ignores Laws and Profits: Rules for Thee, Not for Me

https://illegal.solutions/posts/xai_pollution
88•speckx•40m ago•47 comments

Mario Meets Pareto

https://www.mayerowitz.io/blog/mario-meets-pareto
749•theanonymousone•8h ago•137 comments

Launch HN: ProvenMetal (YC S26) delivers circuit boards in days instead of weeks

https://provenmetal.com
136•willcarkner•4h ago•96 comments

Almost no skill required to cook a steak

https://blog.sydorets.com/en/posts/almost-no-skill-required-to-cook-a-steak/
185•yusyd•4h ago•206 comments

Herdr is joining Y Combinator. The runtime stays open

https://herdr.dev/blog/herdr-is-joining-y-combinator/
24•collinmanderson•1h ago•10 comments

The DISTINCT in Your COUNT

https://boringsql.com/posts/distinct-in-your-count/
16•gmcabrita•38m ago•2 comments

Taste Is All That's Left

https://notashelf.dev/posts/taste-is-all-thats-left
46•tsak•3h ago•35 comments

Can you reverse engineer an ASIC?

https://blog.janestreet.com/can-you-reverse-engineer-an-asic/
9•bschne•1h ago•0 comments

GitHub Is Experiencing Difficulties

https://www.githubstatus.com/?d=2026/08/06
106•Jeaye•3h ago•65 comments

Crime Pays but Botany Doesn't

https://www.crimepaysbutbotanydoesnt.com/reading-list
597•DarkContinent•15h ago•182 comments

Learn how chips are made with this Rollercoaster Tycoon-inspired animation

https://laurentiugabriel.github.io/ChipTycoon/
40•laurentiurad•6d ago•7 comments

The Simple Elegance of the Integrated Timing Belt Loopback Fastener

https://danielmangum.com/posts/integrated-timing-belt-loopback-fastener/
66•hasheddan•4d ago•16 comments

How to Make a Nintendo 64 Game in 2026

https://phoboslab.org/log/2026/08/xibalba64-making-of
410•atan2•2d ago•178 comments

Show HN: The Channels SDK – Bring Any Agent to Any Channel (Slack, MS Teams)

https://github.com/CopilotKit/channels-sdk
64•davidmckayv•4h ago•17 comments

Unions Can Save Tech Workers and Tech Work

https://jacobin.com/2026/08/uc-upte-tech-workers-union
56•ughitsaaron•1h ago•39 comments

Pareto Front

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pareto_front
201•binyu•1w ago•85 comments

Improving GPT-5.6 Sol in ChatGPT—and expanding access for free users

https://openai.com/index/improving-gpt-5-6-sol-in-chatgpt/
51•tedsanders•3h ago•42 comments

Humans missed 1 in 3 threats approving AI agent commands across 40k game runs

https://scalex.dev/blog/ai-agent-permissions-stats/
211•Wirbelwind•8h ago•169 comments

Japanese Govt Asks US Govt to Stop Using Mario, Pokemono, Naruto Meme Postings

https://mainichi.jp/articles/20260803/k00/00m/010/133000c
20•m463•59m ago•4 comments

Building progressively enhanced forms using Htmx

https://www.rafa.ee/articles/progressive-enhanced-forms-htmx/
24•mpweiher•6d ago•4 comments

Discovery Loop

https://www.discoveryloop.com/
891•xtreak29•1d ago•561 comments

The Triangle Game, from Zero

https://muchmirul.github.io/conjectures/multicolor-ramsey/
4•jdkee•4d ago•1 comments

Federal Communications Commission scraps limit on broadcast TV ownership

https://www.nbcnews.com/business/media/federal-communications-commission-scraps-limit-broadcast-t...
61•pseudolus•1h ago•49 comments

Changes at Google DeepMind: Demis Hassabis from CEO to Chair, Jeff Dean departs

https://blog.google/company-news/inside-google/message-ceo/next-chapter-ai-momentum/
811•colesantiago•1d ago•862 comments

Zapscape (CVE-2026-64561)

https://github.com/V4bel/Zapscape
45•john_strinlai•3h ago•8 comments

My phone detects going on a run as "someone snatching my phone and running off"

https://mastodon.gamedev.place/@rygorous/117047697255584965
50•luu•1h ago•63 comments

Dress made of living mycelium can renew and repair itself

https://www.dezeen.com/2026/08/05/dress-living-mycelium-renew-repair/
59•speckx•3h ago•39 comments

Unearthing my 1996 windowed OS in machine code for Am29000 homebrew computer

https://nanochess.org/the_am29000_computer.html
133•nanochess•5d ago•32 comments

Poles of Inaccessibility in the San Gabriel Mountains

https://notes.secretsauce.net/notes/2015/05/06_poles-of-inaccessibility-in-the-san-gabriel-mounta...
25•dima55•4d ago•20 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."