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Microsoft open-sources "the earliest DOS source code discovered to date"

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026/04/microsoft-open-sources-the-earliest-dos-source-code-disco...
217•DamnInteresting•7h ago•54 comments

Why is Vivado 2026.1 dropping Linux support for free tier?

https://adaptivesupport.amd.com/s/question/0D5Pd00001YQLdMKAX/why-is-vivado-20261-dropping-linux-...
113•zdw•4h ago•30 comments

Scammers are abusing an internal Microsoft account to send spam links

https://techcrunch.com/2026/05/21/scammers-are-abusing-an-internal-microsoft-account-to-send-spam/
130•spike021•7h ago•47 comments

Wake up! 16b

https://hellmood.111mb.de/wake_up_16b_writeup.html
197•MaximilianEmel•7h ago•12 comments

Alexander Grothendieck Revolutionized 20th-Century Mathematics

https://www.quantamagazine.org/how-alexander-grothendieck-revolutionized-20th-century-mathematics...
51•anujbans•5h ago•8 comments

Converting an Integer to a Decimal String in Under Two Nanoseconds

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/spe.70079
16•mpweiher•4d ago•4 comments

The C64 Dead Test Font

https://www.masswerk.at/nowgobang/2026/c64-dead-test-font
34•masswerk•4h ago•4 comments

Green card seekers must leave U.S. to apply, Trump administration says

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/22/us/politics/green-card-changes-trump.html
845•tlhunter•1d ago•1425 comments

Time to talk about my writerdeck

https://veronicaexplains.net/my-first-writerdeck/
366•hggh•13h ago•210 comments

Amazon Web Services – Four Years and Out

https://www.adventuresinoss.com/aws-four-years/
186•RyeCombinator•3h ago•49 comments

On The <dl> (2021)

https://benmyers.dev/blog/on-the-dl/
387•ravenical•19h ago•111 comments

My two-part desk setup (2025)

https://arslan.io/2025/11/18/my-two-part-desk-setup/
276•James72689•3d ago•159 comments

Neoclassical C++: segmented iterators revisited

https://boostedcpp.net/2026/05/18/neoclassical-c-segmented-iterators-revisited-1/
24•ibobev•1d ago•2 comments

Sales and Dungeons: Thermal printer TTRPG utility

https://sales-and-dungeons.app/
87•hyperific•2d ago•29 comments

Judson's Last Ride

https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2026/05/22/judsons_last_ride_154150.html
94•NaOH•20h ago•4 comments

The Art of Money Getting

https://kk.org/cooltools/book-freak-210-the-art-of-money-getting/
275•dxs•19h ago•149 comments

My I3-Emacs Integration

https://khz.ac/software/i3-integration.html
62•nosolace•9h ago•16 comments

Hengefinder: Finding when the sun aligns with your street

https://victoriaritvo.com/blog/hengefinder/
139•evakhoury•1d ago•34 comments

Schlitz Is Gone, but First It's Getting One Last Hurrah

https://www.milwaukeemag.com/schlitz-is-gone/
28•NaOH•2d ago•12 comments

Buildcraft Is a Compiler Problem

https://mitander.xyz/posts/buildcraft-is-a-compiler-problem/
16•mitander•1d ago•4 comments

Key, in sight [Creative uses of keyboard shortcuts and macros]

https://aresluna.org/key-in-sight/
3•anotherevan•4d ago•1 comments

Air France and Airbus found guilty of manslaughter over 2009 plane crash

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/czd2qmdvmq6o
78•baal80spam•12h ago•48 comments

Byrne's Euclid

https://www.c82.net/euclid/
45•layer8•10h ago•12 comments

80386 microcode disassembled

https://www.reenigne.org/blog/80386-microcode-disassembled/
248•nand2mario•20h ago•47 comments

Reverse engineering circuitry in a Spacelab computer from 1980

https://www.righto.com/2026/05/reverse-engineering-spacelab-computer.html
102•elpocko•16h ago•21 comments

.NET (OK, C#) finally gets union types

https://andrewlock.net/exploring-the-dotnet-11-preview-2-dotnet-gets-union-types/
189•ingve•1d ago•179 comments

New map reveals lost roads of the Roman Empire

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/new-high-resolution-map-transforms-what-we-know-about-...
75•sohkamyung•3d ago•9 comments

Kindle loyalists scramble as Amazon turns page on old e-readers

https://www.reuters.com/business/retail-consumer/kindle-loyalists-scramble-amazon-turns-page-old-...
159•cf100clunk•4d ago•179 comments

-​-dangerously-skip-reading-code

https://olano.dev/blog/dangerously-skip/
141•fagnerbrack•22h ago•135 comments

PHP's Oddities

https://flowtwo.io/post/php%27s-oddities
117•thejoeflow•4d ago•147 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."