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September 2026: The world today, as seen by one Polish guy

https://tomwojcik.com/posts/2026-09-21/september-2026-the-world-today/
125•marjancek•1h ago•27 comments

Livenerf: Has Opus 5.5 been nerfed yet?

https://github.com/ninjahawk/livenerf
589•bryan0•10h ago•245 comments

Solving Factorio Quality

https://exyr.org/2026/solving-factorio-quality/
58•laurenth•1d ago•22 comments

Dots: Always-on agents

https://openai.com/index/introducing-dots/
605•alvis•15h ago•464 comments

U.S. postal inspectors shut down website selling counterfeit postage labels

https://postalemployeenetwork.com/news/2026/09/26/u-s-postal-inspectors-shut-down-website-selling...
226•ilamont•13h ago•132 comments

Vermont replacing power plants with home batteries

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20260928-a-virtual-power-plant-hidden-in-vermont-homes-is-keep...
188•devonnull•14h ago•148 comments

Testing WebGPU data layouts with Facet

https://www.mattkeeter.com/blog/2026-08-23-wgpu-facet/
35•luu•1d ago•0 comments

NASA asked several former SR-71A staffers to help secret restart

https://aviationweek.com/defense/aircraft-propulsion/nasa-asked-several-former-sr-71a-staffers-he...
155•ilamont•22h ago•148 comments

America.gov

https://america.gov/
547•plesiv•19h ago•458 comments

RSS Feeds for Last.fm

https://lfm.xiffy.nl/
61•Baljhin•6h ago•12 comments

Raleigh Vektar Restoration (2020)

https://retromash.com/2020/06/26/raleigh-vektar-restoration-part-1-the-arrival/
12•robin_reala•1d ago•0 comments

Show HN: Real-time Solar System with 526k asteroids and all tracked satellites

https://space.bl2.net/
243•wanick•13h ago•52 comments

Why Is Sam Altman a Free Man?

https://prospect.org/2026/09/29/artificial-intelligence-agents-openai-microsoft-sam-altman-greg-b...
41•ragall•1h ago•6 comments

How Delhi cut electricity loss from 50 to 5 percent

https://spectrum.ieee.org/delhi-electricity-loss
515•rbanffy•20h ago•293 comments

GPT 6.1 Sol: Near-Astra intelligence for a fifth of the price

https://openai.com/index/introducing-gpt-6-1-sol/
924•crorella•15h ago•821 comments

Backblaze drive stats for Q2 2026

https://www.backblaze.com/blog/backblaze-drive-stats-for-q2-2026/
179•HieronymusBosch•19h ago•47 comments

Needed 1+1, built a functional programming language

https://hereticpleb.vercel.app/blog/needed-one-plus-one/
97•birdculture•16h ago•29 comments

Phyllotaxis: An audio-reactive LED display

https://jagi.studio/posts/phyllotaxis/
290•evakhoury•1d ago•48 comments

Floppy Emu Hardware Failure Analysis Results

https://www.bigmessowires.com/2026/09/29/floppy-emu-hardware-failure-analysis-results/
3•zdw•9h ago•0 comments

Language models for text classification: From bag-of-words to Jev

https://magazine.sebastianraschka.com/p/classifier-history-and-jev
107•Anon84•21h ago•4 comments

When oil prices spike, where does the money go?

https://theconversation.com/when-oil-prices-spike-where-does-the-money-go-280763
81•thelastgallon•1d ago•74 comments

PS5 Relapse Exploit

https://github.com/ntfargo/Relapse-Exploit
305•therepanic•17h ago•183 comments

Ask HN: What are you reading?

267•dan-bailey•19h ago•546 comments

Show HN: Using 2D DFT, dithering, etc. to maximize eInk manga image quality

https://github.com/ciromattia/kcc
20•seam_carver•1d ago•4 comments

NAND-16: a computer built from 277,248 NAND gates

https://somethingbig.ai/computer
142•rossant•2d ago•80 comments

A Staff Engineer's Guide to Inventing Work

https://sujithjay.com/inventing-work
265•amortize•1d ago•53 comments

NRC issues first U.S. construction permit for a BWRX-300 small modular reactor

https://www.gevernova.com/news/press-releases/nrc-issues-first-us-construction-permit-bwrx-300-sm...
36•papa-whisky•10h ago•8 comments

We’re forgetting what darkness feels like

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/sep/29/night-sky-darkness-city-regulation
152•pseudolus•14h ago•81 comments

Show HN: NSL – WSL for Linux

https://frostyard.github.io/nsl/
129•bketelsen•18h ago•80 comments

PSSA: A non-transformer language model written from scratch in Rust

https://github.com/Sparticle62ops/pssa
76•sparticle62•5h ago•32 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."