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Today, we hacked what we'd set out to hack: the iPhone

https://blog.calif.io/p/iphone
209•pavel_lishin•50m ago•98 comments

Kimi K3.1 Pro and K3.1 Pro Highspeed

https://www.kimi.com/code/docs/en/kimi-code/models.html
46•Jowsey•13m ago•3 comments

Local Wikipedia: Wikipedia, but only for things a half hour walk from you

https://edjefferson.com/localwiki/
940•sohkamyung•18h ago•181 comments

The Real Kevin Bacon

https://pudding.cool/2026/10/kevin-bacon/
35•xnx•3d ago•5 comments

Docker is weird

https://codeandcake.dev/posts/2026-10-22-docker-is-weird
756•psxuaw•17h ago•303 comments

Total Historian

https://www.theideasletter.org/essay/total-historian/
5•benbreen•49m ago•0 comments

The Missed Opportunities of Sonic 06

https://isaacmarovitz.com/posts/sonic-06/
3•ibobev•34m ago•0 comments

The alien space of science: Coherent but cognitively unavailable directions

https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.01092
169•martincsweiss•1d ago•60 comments

Job loss and cortisone mania

https://tilschuenemann.de/job-loss-cortisone-mania
100•speckx•6h ago•40 comments

The foolishness of "natural language programming" (1978)

https://www.cs.utexas.edu/~EWD/transcriptions/EWD06xx/EWD667.html
313•xiaoyu2006•16h ago•211 comments

Show HN: OnKey – I'm a bad singer, so I built an app to show where I'm off-key

https://github.com/dsmurrell/onkey
156•dsmurrell•1d ago•69 comments

Every AI model has the same "controversial" take on humans

https://www.modelcompare.ai/blog/ai-models-controversial-take-on-humans
592•rakannimer•1d ago•562 comments

Ask HN: If the models are so good, why doesn't OpenAI just start 100 companies?

408•ex-aws-dude•20h ago•441 comments

Gemma-4-26B-A4B with 39-69% less thinking at same accuracy

https://bottlecapai.com/post/thinkingcap-gemma-4-26b/
18•armcat•2h ago•0 comments

OpenSSL 4.1.0

https://github.com/openssl/openssl/releases/tag/openssl-4.1.0
157•petecooper•4h ago•45 comments

How does Fable 5.1 hide messages in images?

https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/WHEQps5PK8LrrcTAb/how-does-fable-5-1-hide-messages-in-images
177•gmays•19h ago•57 comments

OpenShell – A safe, private runtime for fleets of autonomous AI agents

https://github.com/NVIDIA/OpenShell
475•niemandhier•23h ago•205 comments

Pentagon grants DHS permission to test heat ray weapon for use at border

https://www.cnn.com/2026/10/21/politics/heat-ray-weapon-dhs-pentagon
50•bushwart•2h ago•51 comments

LLMs are making formal software verification feasible at a much larger scale

https://www.anthropic.com/research/formal-verification
412•johnbender•18h ago•252 comments

An alignment assessment of the UK AISI cybertesting incident

https://www.anthropic.com/research/alignment-assessment-ukaisi
4•olwmc•2h ago•1 comments

Run full iOS 16.5 firmware on Android Devices

https://github.com/oosexgang/hackios-xnu-kernel
497•aghuang•1d ago•181 comments

eMudhra ignored Mozilla Root investigation deadline; blames social media

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2083449
160•IcePenguin•2h ago•90 comments

WorldTUI: I trained a 360M model to pretend to be a terminal

https://simedw.com/2026/10/21/world-model-terminal/
593•alphax314•1d ago•180 comments

This I Believe (1952)

https://www.awakin.org/v2/read/view.php?tid=468
139•ctoth•14h ago•62 comments

Getting ready to operate GNU Taler in Germany

https://www.taler.net/en/news/2026-13.html
345•dewey•1d ago•157 comments

Show HN: Making a smart TV dumb and then smart

https://github.com/anubhavmalhotra/r2d2-tv
74•animalhot•17h ago•44 comments

The HTML-in-Canvas API origin trial

https://developer.chrome.com/blog/html-in-canvas-origin-trial
111•andrewstuart•21h ago•49 comments

Quad9 to exit France

https://quad9.net/news/blog/au-revoir-france/
1322•farrokhi•1d ago•456 comments

Remove pgrust: the entry is cheating (per-query kernels and result caching)

https://github.com/ClickHouse/ClickBench/pull/2165
167•f311a•9h ago•105 comments

Jank – The native Clojure dialect with seamless C++ interop

https://jank-lang.org/
158•giancarlostoro•17h ago•31 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."