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I canceled my book deal

https://austinhenley.com/blog/canceledbookdeal.html
168•azhenley•2h ago•71 comments

Privacy and control. My tech setup

https://toidiu.com/blog/2025-12-25-privacy-and-control/
51•todsacerdoti•2h ago•16 comments

The compiler is your best friend

https://blog.daniel-beskin.com/2025-12-22-the-compiler-is-your-best-friend-stop-lying-to-it
107•based2•4h ago•55 comments

My role as a founder-CTO: year 8

https://miguelcarranza.es/cto-year-8
31•ridruejo•5d ago•20 comments

Scaffolding to Superhuman: How Curriculum Learning Solved 2048 and Tetris

https://kywch.github.io/blog/2025/12/curriculum-learning-2048-tetris/
90•a1k0n•4h ago•18 comments

Demystifying DVDs

https://hiddenpalace.org/News/One_Bad_Ass_Hedgehog_-_Shadow_the_Hedgehog#Demystifying_DVDs
26•boltzmann-brain•2d ago•3 comments

All-optical synthesis chip for large-scale intelligent semantic vision

https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adv7434
3•QueensGambit•25m ago•0 comments

Akin's Laws of Spacecraft Design [pdf] (2011)

https://www.ece.uvic.ca/~elec399/201409/Akin%27s%20Laws%20of%20Spacecraft%20Design.pdf
233•tosh•10h ago•57 comments

39C3 Grafana Dashboard

https://dashboard.congress.ccc.de/public-dashboards/e6cf86b287304662b4d1b8eb31b5ab50
6•immibis•4d ago•2 comments

FTX whistleblower Caroline Ellison set for early release next month

https://invezz.com/news/2025/12/26/ftx-whistleblower-caroline-ellison-set-for-early-release-next-...
4•jxmorris12•46m ago•0 comments

Microtonal Spiral Piano

https://shih1.github.io/spiral/
36•phoenix_ashes•5d ago•7 comments

SigNoz (YC W21, open source observability platform) Is Hiring across roles

https://signoz.io/careers
1•pranay01•3h ago

When square pixels aren't square

https://alexwlchan.net/2025/square-pixels/
75•PaulHoule•6h ago•34 comments

Stewart Cheifet, creator of The Computer Chronicles, has died

https://obits.goldsteinsfuneral.com/stewart-cheifet
91•spankibalt•2h ago•32 comments

The most famous transcendental numbers

https://sprott.physics.wisc.edu/pickover/trans.html
109•vismit2000•8h ago•58 comments

Show HN: Use Claude Code to Query 600 GB Indexes over Hacker News, ArXiv, etc.

https://exopriors.com/scry
257•Xyra•12h ago•85 comments

Efficient method to capture carbon dioxide from the atmosphere

https://www.helsinki.fi/en/news/innovations/efficient-method-capture-carbon-dioxide-atmosphere-de...
222•lrasinen•6h ago•228 comments

The rise of industrial software

https://chrisloy.dev/post/2025/12/30/the-rise-of-industrial-software
184•chrisloy•11h ago•137 comments

Nvidia GB10's Memory Subsystem, from the CPU Side

https://chipsandcheese.com/p/inside-nvidia-gb10s-memory-subsystem
49•ingve•7h ago•4 comments

Doom in Django: testing the limits of LiveView at 600.000 divs/segundo

https://en.andros.dev/blog/7b1b607b/doom-in-django-testing-the-limits-of-liveview-at-600000-divss...
146•andros•3d ago•46 comments

How AI labs are solving the power problem

https://newsletter.semianalysis.com/p/how-ai-labs-are-solving-the-power
70•Symmetry•6h ago•121 comments

Meta created 'playbook' to fend off pressure to crack down on scammers

https://www.reuters.com/investigations/meta-created-playbook-fend-off-pressure-crack-down-scammer...
124•lossolo•2h ago•46 comments

Kitchen optimizations

https://www.natemeyvis.com/kitchen-optimizations/
34•Theaetetus•1w ago•65 comments

Back to the future: the story of Squeak, a practical Smalltalk written in itself [pdf] (1997)

http://www.vpri.org/pdf/tr1997001_backto.pdf
76•fanf2•6d ago•16 comments

France targets Australia-style social media ban for children next year

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/dec/31/france-plans-social-media-ban-for-under-15s-from-se...
122•belter•5h ago•131 comments

Stardew Valley developer made a $125k donation to the FOSS C# framework MonoGame

https://monogame.net/blog/2025-12-30-385-new-sponsor-announcement/
455•haunter•5h ago•188 comments

RoboCop – Breaking the Law. H0ffman Cracks RoboCop Arcade from DataEast

https://hoffman.home.blog/2025/12/26/robocop-breaking-the-law/
66•birdculture•4d ago•3 comments

Animated AI

https://animatedai.github.io/
286•frozenseven•5d ago•24 comments

Tixl: Open-source realtime motion graphics

https://github.com/tixl3d/tixl
157•nateb2022•5d ago•25 comments

Claude wrote a functional NES emulator using my engine's API

https://carimbo.games/games/nintendo/
61•delduca•7h ago•59 comments
Open in hackernews

Building my npx business card

https://ashley.dev/posts/turning-feedback-into-features/
8•edent•7mo ago

Comments

steele•7mo ago
Ooh, free real estate, let's colonize and gentrify package management
aabhay•7mo ago
Lmao, gentrify cracked me up
neilv•7mo ago
Do these npx business cards run arbitrary code on your computer?
cypherpunks01•7mo 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•7mo 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•7mo ago
Yeah, this seems like a very smart but inherently flawed idea.
cypherpunks01•7mo 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•7mo ago
May as well just release an executable tbh.
theamk•7mo 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•7mo 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•7mo 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."