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Fable 5.1 Solves the Cyphral Distich, a 370-year-old cipher

https://www.vals.ai/blogs/fable-solves-cyphral-distich
906•u1hcw9nx•12h ago•381 comments

Spaceships (Reverse Asteroid)

https://spaceships.treybastian.com/
232•zdw•4d ago•40 comments

Registration without a phone number on Signal will use zero-knowledge proofs

https://community.signalusers.org/t/registration-without-a-phone-number/2222?page=10
250•Cider9986•11h ago•119 comments

The case against JPEG XL

https://giannirosato.com/blog/post/case-against-jxl/
151•contact9879•8h ago•206 comments

Apple's Dimensional Drawings

https://developer.apple.com/accessories/dimensional-drawings/
176•herbertl•8h ago•70 comments

Show HN: 1080p is 920px tall – 1k real browser viewports

https://screensize.net/reports/viewport-stats
9•zenpe•1h ago•4 comments

Mullenweg has returned as CEO after attempted board ouster

https://techcrunch.com/2026/09/12/automattic-confirms-mullenweg-has-returned-as-ceo-after-attempt...
150•ilamont•12h ago•203 comments

Rope, twine and thread: Invisible technologies of the Stone Age

https://knowablemagazine.org/content/article/society/2026/prehistory-lost-threads
61•knowablemag•2d ago•16 comments

Julia 1.13 highlights

https://julialang.org/blog/2026/09/julia-1.13-highlights/
227•eigenspace•3d ago•20 comments

Of Gods and Languages: On "When God Spoke Greek" (2013)

https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/of-gods-and-languages-on-when-god-spoke-greek/
25•bryanrasmussen•2h ago•15 comments

Ask HN: What are you working on? (September 2026)

162•david927•15h ago•513 comments

OEMpocalypse: Unprivileged Android app to root on Samsung, Xiaomi, others

https://calif.io/research/oempocalypse
51•negura•6h ago•22 comments

Why is Google still serving dodgy ads?

https://www.atomic14.com/2026/09/13/why-is-google-still-serving-dodgy-ads
803•iamflimflam1•15h ago•357 comments

The GDR and Vietnam: From Fake Coffee to Coffee Empire

https://www.katjahoyer.uk/p/the-gdr-and-vietnam-from-fake-coffee
77•NaOH•3d ago•32 comments

Show HN: EterDB, a Postgres fork that makes it easy to recover from incidents

https://eterdb.com/
31•fdeth•3d ago•11 comments

Flawed routers flood University of Wisconsin internet time server (2003)

https://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~plonka/netgear-sntp/
80•walrus01•12h ago•10 comments

The Nature of Dance

https://vester.si/blog/nature-of-dance/
3•wonger_•2d ago•0 comments

Five Words from Vanishing Fleece

https://blog.wordnik.com/five-words-from-vanishing-fleece
7•dan353hehe•2d ago•0 comments

Bad benchmarks and evals: Senior SWE-Bench, napkin math, and winter tires

https://danluu.com/exercise-7/
25•luu•2d ago•4 comments

Open-source AI and open models reading list

https://www.interconnects.ai/p/open-source-ai-reading-list
107•simonpure•8h ago•18 comments

Nike exits the S&P 100 after 18 years and a $200B market-cap wipeout

https://fortune.com/2026/09/08/nike-stock-plummets-sp500-market-cap-index/
119•andsoitis•6h ago•149 comments

The Malicious Use of Artificial Intelligence

https://arxiv.org/abs/1802.07228
63•rasengan0•7h ago•14 comments

CUDA for AMD on Windows

https://github.com/Speedstu/CUDA-for-AMD-Windows
166•chiassedu80•18h ago•86 comments

'Coltrane' Review: Sound and Spirit

https://www.wsj.com/arts-culture/books/coltrane-review-sound-and-spirit-b2417282
8•Thevet•1d ago•1 comments

Astra and Fable still hack on simple variants of alignment evals from 2025

https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/munJKF7iWMsWJLAH2/astra-and-fable-still-hack-on-simple-variants-o...
436•Levitating•18h ago•202 comments

AI Robots – When will they be in our homes

https://spectrum.ieee.org/ai-robots
31•andsoitis•8h ago•24 comments

Reverse-Engineering Claude Web's MicroVM: Uncovering Anthropic's Hidden Antspace

https://aprilnea.me/en/blog/reverse-engineering-claude-code-antspace
91•rzk•3d ago•20 comments

Necker, 1832: "An optical phænomenon on viewing a figure of a geometrical solid"

https://zenodo.org/records/1430991
30•akkartik•2d ago•9 comments

Data collected by cars and sold to third parties

https://www.theverge.com/column/994172/your-car-is-selling-your-data
423•bookofjoe•19h ago•213 comments

Why is privacy so hard? (2019)

https://cacm.acm.org/blogcacm/why-is-privacy-so-hard/
47•andsoitis•11h ago•55 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."