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Europe's new robotics unicorn: Germany's RobCo hits $1B valuation

https://techfundingnews.com/europes-new-robotics-unicorn-germanys-robco-hits-1b-valuation/
174•dachworker•2h ago•138 comments

Pixel 11 doesn't yet meet the GrapheneOS security standards and may be skipped

https://discuss.grapheneos.org/d/41564-pixel-11-doesnt-yet-meet-the-grapheneos-security-standards...
37•finnlab•45m ago•18 comments

Web Search API

https://developers.cloudflare.com/changelog/post/2026-10-02-introducing-web-search-api/
120•tosh•3h ago•63 comments

Gitframes

https://github.com/gatewai-dev/gitframes
11•oknaslnkn•48m ago•7 comments

Denmark Data Breach Exposes 8.8M People's Personal Data

https://www.cpr.dk/cpr-nyt/nyhedsarkiv/2026/okt/omfattende-uautoriseret-adgang-til-borgeres-cpr-o...
269•clan•5h ago•220 comments

Huawei and Qualcomm Announce Broad Patent License Agreement

https://www.huawei.com/en/news/2026/10/qualcomm-broad-patent-agreement
98•0xedb•6h ago•61 comments

Press Release: Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2026

https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/medicine/2026/press-release/
58•Anon84•3h ago•18 comments

Type Safe Generic Data Structures in C

https://danielchasehooper.com/posts/typechecked-generic-c-data-structures/
44•AlexeyBrin•2d ago•5 comments

Run Qwen 3.8 Flash Next (125B) on consumer hardware (RTX 4090) at 100T/s

https://github.com/Niko1221/Strata
849•snehesht•1d ago•381 comments

Apple and a Hacker's Future

https://stratechery.com/2026/apple-and-a-hackers-future/
98•maguay•3h ago•77 comments

Differences Between `Foldl` and `Foldr`

https://blog.haskell.org/foldl-and-foldr/
26•signa11•4d ago•1 comments

In the wake of Tippett Studios’ closure, a digital archive appears online

https://filmstories.co.uk/news/tippett-studios-in-the-wake-of-its-closure-a-digital-archive-of-an...
179•rdmuser•16h ago•20 comments

We ported the original Doom to SQL

https://cedardb.com/blog/sqldoom/
206•Vaslo•1d ago•34 comments

A browser-native classic Visual Basic VB6 IDE

https://wieslawsoltes.github.io/VB6/
306•wiso•18h ago•101 comments

First Implantable Cochlear Implant Launches

https://spectrum.ieee.org/fully-implantable-cochlear-implant
36•rbanffy•4d ago•26 comments

The Tao of Backup

http://www.taobackup.com/index.html
193•vntok•3d ago•69 comments

ExplainDB: A Database System Built for Understandability

https://github.com/explaindb/explaindb
23•pykello•3d ago•0 comments

Infidel goes wild

https://blog.zarfhome.com/2026/10/infidel-goes-wild
153•tobr•2d ago•30 comments

Tell HN: Uceprotect is extorting website owners

9•goldenmember•1h ago•2 comments

Tell HN: Bob Cringely has died

905•paveworld•1d ago•197 comments

Turn off Apple Intelligence on macOS 27 and get its disk space back

https://github.com/omlahore/RemoveMacAI
660•privacyisntdead•18h ago•450 comments

The Philadelphia Inquirer built Scrape, an AI tool to surface hyperlocal news

https://www.lenfestinstitute.org/solutions-resources/philadelphia-inquirer-scrape-ai-hyperlocal-n...
34•giuliomagnifico•3d ago•11 comments

The Era of Software Quality, or the Era of Ostriches?

https://blogs.gnome.org/mcatanzaro/2026/10/02/the-era-of-software-quality-or-the-era-of-ostriches/
16•birdculture•1h ago•2 comments

Lace and Labor: Lessons from the actual Luddites

https://articlesofinterest.substack.com/p/lace-and-labor
44•surprisetalk•5d ago•2 comments

Automating my 35mm film scanning pipeline

https://shannadige.com/blog/darkroom/
94•shannadige•1d ago•65 comments

Decision models like Jev don't beat LLM-as-a-judge or traditional classifiers

https://developers.redhat.com/articles/2026/10/02/benchmarking-ai-decision-models-against-traditi...
112•tomncooper•2d ago•39 comments

Improper redaction reveals Google Data Center water and electricity usage

https://www.1011now.com/2026/09/30/more-questions-than-answers-about-lincolns-google-data-center-...
454•sensanaty•18h ago•588 comments

Safe Optimistic Lock Coupling

http://databasearchitects.blogspot.com/2026/04/safe-optimistic-lock-coupling.html
36•greghn•3d ago•6 comments

What is going on with ceiling fans

https://mcmansionhell.com/post/829127919552151552/what-is-going-on-with-ceiling-fans
360•colinprince•4d ago•310 comments

Powerless F1 drivers frustrated by Bahrain F1 software glitch

https://www.motorsport.com/f1/news/horrible-totally-unacceptable-powerless-f1-drivers-frustrated-...
251•llm_nerd•11h ago•214 comments
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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."