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Audacity 4.0

https://github.com/audacity/audacity/releases/tag/Audacity-4.0.0
493•ClydeN•3h ago•123 comments

Elevated Errors for Multiple Models

https://status.claude.com/incidents/461yvfrzpwtt
91•__vivek•1h ago•61 comments

Mom Gets 6-Mo Suspended Sentence for Letting 5-Year-Old Walk to the Pond

https://reason.com/2026/09/02/virginia-mom-gets-6-month-suspended-jail-sentence-for-letting-5-yea...
76•softwaredoug•25m ago•33 comments

Pre-Release of Polars 2.0

https://pola.rs/posts/announcing-polars-2/
285•komape•7h ago•91 comments

The Browser's Main Thread Is Expensive

https://kciter.so/posts/the-expensive-main-thread/en/
244•kciter•2d ago•80 comments

Fuck Off as a Service (Foaas)

https://foaas.io/
24•speckx•50m ago•4 comments

Invisible Companies

https://colossus.com/article/invisible-companies/
66•ltononro•2d ago•19 comments

What I Learned from My Mom (1941-2026)

https://experimentalliving.substack.com/p/what-i-learned-from-my-mom-1941-2026
137•NaOH•4d ago•7 comments

Intrusive Linked Lists

https://www.data-structures-in-practice.com/intrusive-linked-lists/
31•tripdout•3d ago•16 comments

9 Mothers (YC P26) Is Hiring in Austin, TX

https://9mothers.com/careers
1•ukd1•2h ago

Gemini 3.8 Flash and 3.8 Flash Cyber

https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/models-and-research/gemini-models/3-8-flash-and-3-8-flash-c...
1102•bratao•23h ago•624 comments

Muse Spark 1.3

https://developer.meta.com/ai/models/muse-spark/
642•bvaldivielso•19h ago•418 comments

Nvidia to Acquire Hugging Face

https://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/nvidia-to-acquire-hugging-face/
96•tosh•2h ago•33 comments

Amazon Stonehenge: Parque Arqueológico do Solstício

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parque_Arqueol%C3%B3gico_do_Solst%C3%ADcio
13•nycdatasci•3d ago•5 comments

Three sites made 215,128 “best software” pages for AI. Perplexity cites them

https://trellner.com/reports/manufactured-sources-behind-ai-recommendations/
481•jakobgreenfeld•1d ago•233 comments

Google avoids a breakup of its ad tech business

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/02/technology/google-ad-tech-remedies.html
434•donohoe•23h ago•306 comments

Fish Bad, Sugar Good and Other Medieval Ideas About Food

https://lithub.com/fish-bad-sugar-good-and-other-medieval-ideas-about-food/
57•mooreds•2d ago•41 comments

Holden's Lightning Flight

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holden%27s_Lightning_flight
200•ColinWright•3d ago•41 comments

The Computer Museum of America reclamation project

https://computer-museum.org/wp/
75•rbanffy•2d ago•31 comments

Three schoolgirls in Kinsale pulled up a pea plant covered in warts (2016)

https://scienceblog.com/b-three-schoolgirls-in-kinsale-pulled-up-a-pea-plant-covered-in-warts-and...
117•DamonHD•7h ago•49 comments

Can I opt out of my input or output data being used for training?

https://help.mistral.ai/en/articles/455207-can-i-opt-out-of-my-input-or-output-data-being-used-fo...
475•teekert•1d ago•222 comments

Google Antigravity TOS: 3rd party usage can get Google account suspended

https://twitter.com/GergelyOrosz/status/2095453567955968398
81•tosh•3h ago•45 comments

Fable 5.1 World Modeling

https://github.com/PhiloLabs/fable51-worlds
303•surreal_•18h ago•84 comments

Reverse Engineering Unknown File Formats with ImHex

https://werwolv.net/posts/file_format_reverse_engineering/
233•carlos-menezes•3d ago•44 comments

Biggest dark matter detector spots a single weird particle

https://www.science.org/content/article/world-s-biggest-dark-matter-detector-spots-single-weird-p...
324•randycupertino•1d ago•117 comments

Launch HN: RonanRX (YC S26) – Personalized Peptides and GLP-1s

75•lloydarmbrust•16h ago•76 comments

Aging brains blend memories together instead of just forgetting them

https://studyfinds.com/aging-brains-blend-memories-together-instead-of-forgetting-them-study-finds/
315•mdp2021•1d ago•127 comments

Wendell Berry has died

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/31/us/wendell-berry-dead.html
220•Curiositry•2d ago•113 comments

A dark horse enters China's AI race: StartLux

https://chinaonchina.com/article/chen-dawei-returns-enters-the-large-model-sector
43•try-working•3h ago•22 comments

Astronomers Detect a 10-Sided Structure in Saturn's Atmosphere

https://www.sciencealert.com/astronomers-spot-an-uncannily-geometric-10-sided-structure-in-saturn...
6•jjgreen•50m ago•0 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."