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The hardest working font in Manhattan (2025)

https://aresluna.org/the-hardest-working-font-in-manhattan/
161•dcminter•5d ago•23 comments

Compression is prediction

https://ngrok.com/blog/compression-is-prediction
474•nikolay•11h ago•202 comments

llama.cpp

https://llama.app
141•kristianpaul•2h ago•65 comments

WorldClaw Agentic 3D open-world generation at scale

https://tencent-hunyuan.github.io/Hunyuan3D-WorldClaw/
202•EwanG•9h ago•58 comments

The lifesaving secret hidden inside a horseshoe crab's blue blood

https://whdh.com/news/the-lifesaving-secret-hidden-inside-a-horseshoe-crabs-blue-blood-and-the-ra...
71•andsoitis•5h ago•19 comments

A shell exclamation mark is not for yelling. Be lazy

https://refp.se/articles/your-shell-and-the-lazy-exclamation-mark
32•refp•5d ago•5 comments

The Human Is the Loop

https://brentfitzgerald.com/posts/the-human-is-the-loop/
80•burnto•5h ago•28 comments

Nvidia Nemotron 3.5 Lightning and NeMo Switchyard

https://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/nemotron-lightning-switchyard-rtx-dgx/
219•droidjj•12h ago•112 comments

Dropbox is an obvious PE Target?

https://s-1.vercel.app/posts/why-dropbox-is-a-obvious-pe-target/
43•Taikhoom10•3h ago•58 comments

Stealing Reasoning Traces from Proprietary LLM APIs

https://stolen-thoughts.com/
598•quantumgarbage•18h ago•271 comments

Mojo 1.0

https://www.modular.com/blog/modular-26-5-mojo-1-0-is-here
371•dayanruben•14h ago•173 comments

How to Install Python3.14 from source on Ubuntu 26.04

https://jamesoclaire.com/2026/08/06/how-to-install-python3-14-from-source-on-ubuntu-26-04/
5•ddxv•6d ago•3 comments

OpenAI’s head of ethics leaves less than a year after joining

https://www.ft.com/content/e49dfb75-f841-4466-a577-f7aaff8779a0
397•ilamont•19h ago•399 comments

Grok Bot

https://x.ai/bot
262•rvz•14h ago•212 comments

Making holograms with a pen plotter

https://blog.jordan.matelsky.com/Penplotter-holography/
153•DemiGuru•12h ago•15 comments

Show HN: iPhone app takes simultaneous images from 2 lenses, fuses into 1 photo

https://photosynthesis.camera
265•sajomes•3d ago•243 comments

Flatworms, Ion Channels, and Burning Mouths

https://www.science.org/content/blog-post/flatworms-ion-channels-and-burning-mouths
28•surprisetalk•1d ago•1 comments

DARPA heavy lift challenge ends with winner at a 3.84:1 payload to weight ratio

https://dronexl.co/2026/08/10/darpa-lift-challenge-results-avidrone/
21•daau•4h ago•4 comments

Show HN: Tamron Lens Utility Alternative on Linux

https://github.com/yikerman/tamron-lens-control
59•xiaoyu2006•4d ago•1 comments

Show HN: Line9 – A Mermaid rendering engine with its own layout

https://line9.ai/diagram
64•jumpalongjim•5d ago•14 comments

Retire the Abstractions

https://hazyresearch.stanford.edu/blog/2026-08-05-retire-the-abstractions
38•convexstrictly•6d ago•47 comments

Go is an ideal language for AI-assisted software engineering

https://developers.googleblog.com/why-go-is-an-ideal-language-for-ai-assisted-software-engineering/
345•0xedb•14h ago•404 comments

Jolt: Clojure compiler implemented with Chez Scheme

https://jolt-lang.github.io
187•mark_l_watson•3d ago•63 comments

Neutrinos from Deep Inside Earth Provide a New Picture of the Mantle

https://www.quantamagazine.org/neutrinos-from-deep-inside-earth-provide-a-new-picture-of-the-mant...
36•rbanffy•18h ago•2 comments

London Underground begins scanning passengers' faces

https://www.btp.police.uk/news/btp/news/england/btp-expands-live-facial-recognition-lfr-trial-int...
303•BlueBerry2001•21h ago•332 comments

England set to be one of the first countries to eliminate hepatitis C

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c75gk620r22o
526•stevekemp•18h ago•375 comments

How we used to get jobs: A newspaper classifieds story

https://ironicsans.ghost.io/how-we-used-to-get-jobs/
136•speckx•13h ago•105 comments

Manus will return to operating as an independent company

https://manus.im/blog/a-note-to-our-users
153•thm•17h ago•76 comments

CSS properties you should know for better text designs

https://master.dev/blog/typographic-css-tricks/
108•ibobev•14h ago•18 comments

Ethical Cold Outreach

https://blog.val.town/ethical-cold-outreach
38•stevekrouse•13h ago•54 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."