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QuadRF can spot drones and see WiFi through my wall

https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2026/quadrf-can-spot-drones-and-see-wifi-through-my-wall/
379•speckx•6h ago•150 comments

An update on residential proxies and the scraper situation

https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/1080822/990a8a5e2d379085/
58•chmaynard•3h ago•38 comments

GPT-5.6 Sol Ultra produces proof of the Cycle Double Cover Conjecture [pdf]

https://cdn.openai.com/pdf/04d1d1e4-bc75-476a-97cf-49055cd98d31/cdc_proof.pdf
256•scrlk•4h ago•223 comments

Apple sues OpenAI, accuses ex-employees of stealing trade secrets

https://9to5mac.com/2026/07/10/apple-sues-openai-trade-secret-theft/
80•stock_toaster•2h ago•35 comments

The tech of 'Terminator 2' – an oral history (2017)

https://vfxblog.com/2017/08/23/the-tech-of-terminator-2-an-oral-history/
138•markus_zhang•6h ago•52 comments

New York City to to ban deceptive subscription practices

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jul/10/new-york-city-deceptive-subscriptions-ban
312•randycupertino•4h ago•178 comments

War Atlas: An interactive cartography of every named war in human history

https://waratlas.org
95•NaOH•4h ago•41 comments

Inference Optimization for MiMo v2.5: Pushing Hybrid SWA Efficiency to the Limit

https://mimo.xiaomi.com/blog/mimo-v2-5-inference
14•theanonymousone•3d ago•2 comments

Moss (YC F25) Is Hiring

https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/moss/jobs/52LnqLQ-software-engineer-sdk
1•srimalireddi•1h ago

Combustion engine web-based simulator

https://combustionlab.net
85•mytuny•5d ago•36 comments

Computation as a universal and fundamental concept

https://ergo.org/courses/computation-as-a-universal-and-fundamental-concept
66•simonpure•7h ago•58 comments

Late Bronze Age Collapse

https://acoup.blog/2026/01/30/collections-the-late-bronze-age-collapse-a-very-brief-introduction/
296•dmonay•10h ago•206 comments

Snails' teeth beats spider silk as nature's strongest material (2015)

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/spider-silk-loses-top-spot-natures-strongest-material-s...
139•simonebrunozzi•6h ago•111 comments

Ask HN: Are systems ready for the first negative leap second?

41•Asmod4n•4d ago•48 comments

Show HN: Wyrm – Solve algebra by touch, built on an open-source soundness engine

https://github.com/dicroce/wyrm_math
37•dicroce•1d ago•3 comments

Good Tools Are Invisible

https://www.gingerbill.org/article/2026/07/10/good-tools-are-invisible/
315•theanonymousone•12h ago•146 comments

Einstein's relativity rules chemical bonds in heavy elements, new research shows

https://www.brown.edu/news/2026-07-09/chemical-bonds-relativity
4•hhs•21m ago•2 comments

How the terrorist group Boko Haram uses frontier AI

https://casp.ac/reports/ai-enabled-terrorism
137•imustachyou•4h ago•115 comments

Lost city discovered beneath Egypt's desert with ancient church

https://www.dailymail.com/sciencetech/article-15956159/Incredible-lost-city-discovered-Egypts-des...
131•Bender•4d ago•66 comments

SpaceX wants to launch 100k more Starlink satellites for 100x the bandwidth

https://www.zdnet.com/home-and-office/networking/spacex-wants-to-launch-100000-more-starlink-sate...
24•CrankyBear•5h ago•70 comments

Prismata: Confining cross-site prompt injection in web agents

https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.08147
9•zhinit•1h ago•0 comments

The Clouds of Hiroshima

https://doomsdaymachines.net/p/the-clouds-of-hiroshima
28•handfuloflight•3d ago•19 comments

Successful Companies Go Blind

https://ianreppel.org/how-successful-companies-go-blind/
177•speckx•9h ago•62 comments

GhostLock, a stack-UAF that has existed in ALL Linux distributions for 15 years

https://nebusec.ai/research/ionstack-part-2/
9•djfergus•2h ago•3 comments

Please don't discontinue Gemini 2.5 Flash

https://discuss.ai.google.dev/t/please-dont-discontinue-gemini-2-5-flash/174246
93•NickDob•2h ago•64 comments

Write code like a human will maintain it

https://unstack.io/write-code-like-a-human-will-maintain-it
318•ScottWRobinson•9h ago•260 comments

Show HN: Frugon – Find which LLM calls a cheaper model could handle (local, MIT)

https://github.com/Rodiun/frugon
45•jarodrh•3d ago•10 comments

Postgres locks do not scale

https://www.recall.ai/blog/postgres-locks-do-not-scale
10•timetoogo•1d ago•5 comments

GPT-5.6, Grok 4.5, Claude, and Muse Spark build the same 4 apps

https://www.tryai.dev/blog/gpt-5.6-build-off-12-models
117•hershyb_•2h ago•71 comments

Show HN: Reviving my 2001 college band with AI

https://www.fadingmaize.com
47•jacobgraf•1d ago•53 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."