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Nobel Prize in Physics goes to Francis Halzen

https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/physics/2026/
194•solarist•3h ago•57 comments

JetBrains reported a net financial loss first time in its tracked history

https://www.helgilibrary.com/companies/jetbrains
112•thw_9a83c•1h ago•89 comments

Release of Polars 2.0

https://pola.rs/posts/release-polars-2/
30•simicd•1h ago•5 comments

Gleam doesn't compile to Erlang source anymore

https://gleam.run/news/gleam-doesnt-compile-to-erlang-source-anymore/
97•ingve•4h ago•15 comments

Nature's capacity to 'bounce back' when species are lost is vastly overestimated

https://phys.org/news/2026-10-nature-capacity-species-lost-vastly.html
49•pseudolus•1h ago•12 comments

Beam: Reflection's 501B open-weight model

https://reflection.ai/blog/introducing-beam
483•Philpax•17h ago•156 comments

Find the flattest route between any two points in SF

https://flattensf.com/
236•ishan0102•15h ago•79 comments

Dust: Pretraining Transformers Without Backpropagation

https://qlabs.sh/research/dust
229•E-Reverance•15h ago•61 comments

Friendship ended with Deno, now Node is my best friend

https://dbushell.com/2026/10/03/deno-to-node/
218•ibobev•14h ago•136 comments

World's First enhanced geothermal power plant completed in just 23 months

https://techcrunch.com/2026/10/01/worlds-first-enhanced-geothermal-power-plant-completed-in-just-...
26•hochmartinez•1h ago•1 comments

Accountability mechanisms can be joyful (2024)

https://liquidbrain.net/blog/accountability-and-joy/
56•luu•2d ago•14 comments

Web Search API

https://developers.cloudflare.com/changelog/post/2026-10-02-introducing-web-search-api/
566•tosh•1d ago•263 comments

Opus 5.5 agents discover two room-temperature magnetic semiconductor candidates

https://www.vals.ai/blogs/room-temperature-magnetic-semiconductors
398•outlier99•16h ago•268 comments

Using A.I. and machine learning to decode communication of sperm whales

https://blue-continuum.com/the-man-who-listens-to-whales
49•dnetesn•2d ago•31 comments

ASOS app users receive push notifications apparently sent by hackers

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cj62ylzpr6d3o
42•helsinkiandrew•2h ago•24 comments

Example.com just launched the biggest redesign in decades

https://www.debugbear.com/blog/example-dot-com-redesign-history
261•jgx0•14h ago•168 comments

Testing 12 different Zigbee temperature/humidity sensors

https://smarthomescene.com/reviews/best-selling-zigbee-temperature-sensors-tested/
146•walrus01•2d ago•80 comments

Resurrecting iChat Audio and Video Conferencing

https://blog.pipetogrep.org/2026/09/11/resurrecting-ichat-audio-and-video-conferencing/
72•thepipetogrep•9h ago•15 comments

Direct retinal projection display for smart glasses using a meta-optic mirror

https://www.tdk.com/en/news_center/press/20261002_01.html
51•bookofjoe•2d ago•15 comments

Competitive Programmer's Handbook (2018) [pdf]

https://cses.fi/book/book.pdf
237•vinhnx•2d ago•56 comments

The complement of true is true, except when it's false

https://dryperspective.github.io/posts/complement-of-true/
33•aw1621107•2d ago•6 comments

The lamps in my house

https://arslan.io/2026/10/05/the-lamps-in-my-house/
242•farslan•22h ago•102 comments

An algorithmic failure beneath the secret ballot

https://blog.citp.princeton.edu/2026/08/03/an-algorithmic-failure-beneath-the-secret-ballot/
97•leecoursey•2d ago•73 comments

Why Common Lisp is now the best programming language

https://www.vivienhenz.com/common-lisp
229•misterchocolat•10h ago•293 comments

Show HN: Entombed in a Raycaster

https://www.stelabouras.com/blog/entombed-raycaster/
31•stelabouras•3d ago•6 comments

DEDA – Tracking Dots Extraction, Decoding and Anonymisation Toolkit

https://github.com/dfd-tud/deda
77•greyface-•2d ago•9 comments

Ephemeral Testing

https://lemire.me/blog/2026/10/05/ephemeral-testing/
70•ibobev•13h ago•25 comments

Apple and a hacker's future

https://stratechery.com/2026/apple-and-a-hackers-future/
275•maguay•1d ago•235 comments

Samon: Designing a Zen Garden Raking Puzzle

https://gwern.net/doc/design/2026-10-03-gwern-samon.html
50•networked•13h ago•23 comments

Making a GTK application in Haskell, part 1

https://floreal.tech/blog/2026/making-a-gtk-app-in-haskell-part-1/
165•Vosporos•22h ago•47 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."