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Data Compression Explained (2012)

https://mattmahoney.net/dc/dce.html
65•mtdewcmu•3d ago•5 comments

Snap Smart Glasses

https://www.specs.com/smart-glasses/specs-27
34•hmokiguess•2d ago•24 comments

There are no instances in ATProto

https://overreacted.io/there-are-no-instances-in-atproto/
392•danabramov•14h ago•207 comments

The discovery that changed how scientists think about memory – IBM

https://www.ibm.com/think/news/discovery-changed-how-scientists-think-about-memory-kavli-prize
16•rbanffy•2d ago•0 comments

Surprising economics of load-balanced systems

https://brooker.co.za/blog/2020/08/06/erlang.html
74•KraftyOne•9h ago•19 comments

Hyundai buys Boston Dynamics

https://startupfortune.com/hyundai-takes-full-control-of-boston-dynamics-as-softbank-exits-for-32...
732•ck2•13h ago•339 comments

Norway imposes near ban on AI in elementary school

https://www.reuters.com/technology/norway-imposes-near-ban-ai-elementary-school-2026-06-19/
558•ilreb•13h ago•377 comments

Meet Nikolai Evreinov, the 19th century Nathan Fielder

https://mssv.net/2026/06/16/meet-nikolai-evreinov-the-19th-century-nathan-fielder/
17•adrianhon•3d ago•2 comments

Bobby Prince, composer for Doom, Wolfenstein 3D, and Duke Nukem 3D, has died

https://www.legacy.com/legacy/robert-bobby-prince-lll
293•pgrote•10h ago•33 comments

Project Valhalla, Explained: How a Decade of Work Arrives in JDK 28

https://www.jvm-weekly.com/p/project-valhalla-explained-how-a
564•philonoist•23h ago•355 comments

How many of the 170k English words do you know?

https://vocabowl-870366514258.us-west1.run.app/
294•abnry•16h ago•402 comments

A Perceptron in Age of Empires II

https://adewynter.github.io/notes/aoe2-circuits
50•EvgeniyZh•1d ago•24 comments

Egyptian Fractions

https://blog.plover.com/math/egyptian-fractions.html
82•luu•4d ago•4 comments

Satellite reveals immense scale of GPS signal tampering

https://www.space.com/space-exploration/satellites/its-quite-a-bit-more-than-we-expected-satellit...
17•y1n0•1h ago•0 comments

Hey, n00b, we didn't hire you to complete tasks

https://newsletter.kentbeck.com/p/hey-n00b-we-didnt-hire-you-to-complete
136•rrvsh•5h ago•68 comments

How to feed a dictator

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2026/jun/09/how-to-feed-a-dictator-film
118•Michelangelo11•4h ago•41 comments

Can you see three trees?

https://www.not-ship.com/can-you-see-three-trees/
20•Pamar•1d ago•0 comments

John Jumper to join Anthropic

https://twitter.com/JohnJumperSci/status/2068001285173834106
102•artninja1988•11h ago•73 comments

Ask HN: Will programmers write more efficient code during the memory shortage?

65•amichail•7h ago•99 comments

Telescope Ranchers

https://kottke.org/26/06/telescope-ranchers
112•bookofjoe•3d ago•43 comments

Court Records Should Be Free

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/06/court-records-should-be-free
316•hn_acker•12h ago•66 comments

Big Banana Car

https://bigbananacar.com/
134•Bender•11h ago•74 comments

Think of the children: How to force real ID for all internet traffic (2023)

https://nochan.net/b/Internet-Crap/20230829-Think-Of-The-Children/
181•Bender•9h ago•107 comments

Show HN: Metiq: a real time 3D globe for 100 public datasets

https://metiq.space
106•rakeda•3d ago•30 comments

Zen and the Art of Machine Learning Research

https://blog.jxmo.io/p/zen-and-the-art-of-machine-learning
245•jxmorris12•4d ago•89 comments

Building a robotics research setup that lives next to my desk

https://dfdxlabs.com/research/2026/robotics-setup/
132•mplappert•1d ago•45 comments

Ten years of ClickHouse in open source

https://clickhouse.com/blog/open-source-10
293•saisrirampur•4d ago•73 comments

AURpocalypse now: a look at the recent AUR attacks

https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/1077619/f7b07c5489fdd43a/
45•jwilk•12h ago•35 comments

The AirPods Effect

https://www.theescapenewsletter.com/p/the-airpods-effect
395•herbertl•1d ago•702 comments

Zenzizenzizenzic

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zenzizenzizenzic
95•gyosifov•8h ago•26 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."