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Mistral Large 4

https://mistral.ai/news/mistral-large-4/\
1385•Philpax•7h ago•869 comments

Nobel Prize in Physics 2026: Francis Halzen

https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/physics/2026/
471•solarist•11h ago•156 comments

Paramount completes $111B Warner merger, creating "Skydance" behemoth

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/10/paramount-completes-111b-warner-merger-creating-skyda...
49•Mgtyalx•37m ago•33 comments

EmbeddingGemma 2

https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/technology/developers-tools/embeddinggemma-2/
62•ilreb•5h ago•6 comments

Benchmark in Milliseconds

https://matklad.github.io/2026/10/05/benchmark-milliseconds.html
111•surprisetalk•1d ago•25 comments

The Early History of Smalltalk (1993)

https://worrydream.com/EarlyHistoryOfSmalltalk/
89•_reza•5h ago•39 comments

Gleam doesn't compile to Erlang source anymore

https://gleam.run/news/gleam-doesnt-compile-to-erlang-source-anymore/
267•ingve•13h ago•105 comments

Mathematics of Geothermal Energy

https://www.ebsco.com/research-starters/power-and-energy/mathematics-geothermal-energy/
61•srameshc•8h ago•31 comments

Subquadratic 3SUM and Subcubic APSP

https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.06783
75•mauriziocalo•8h ago•30 comments

System-level ad-blocking in Android

https://kevinboone.me/adblock.html
10•birdculture•42m ago•3 comments

Polars 2.0

https://pola.rs/posts/release-polars-2/
380•simicd•9h ago•89 comments

What's Earth's dominant species by mass?

https://signoregalilei.com/2026/09/27/whats-earths-dominant-species-by-mass/
74•surprisetalk•8h ago•33 comments

Show HN: I turned my iPhone and a $20 smart plug into an f-stop timer

https://peterszentkiralyi.eu/darkplug/
49•pentakkusu•7h ago•10 comments

Nature's capacity to 'bounce back' when species are lost is overestimated: study

https://phys.org/news/2026-10-nature-capacity-species-lost-vastly.html
283•pseudolus•9h ago•142 comments

Beam: Reflection's 501B open-weight model

https://reflection.ai/blog/introducing-beam
531•Philpax•1d ago•166 comments

Erdosproblems.com Succumbs to the AI Onslaught

https://www.erdosproblems.com/forum/thread/blog:9
52•pfdietz•8h ago•12 comments

Tumbler Ridge shooter's ChatGPT use "more disturbing" than known: reporter

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/mother-jones-chatgpt-safeguards-tumbler-ridge-bc-...
9•devonnull•27m ago•0 comments

Example.com just launched the biggest redesign in decades

https://www.debugbear.com/blog/example-dot-com-redesign-history
329•jgx0•22h ago•222 comments

OpenSSH 10.6

https://www.openssh.org/releasenotes.html#10.6
14•torcete•29m ago•1 comments

Show HN: Parseable, an open observability datalake, handles 100M time-series/min

https://www.parseable.com
66•yashdotrv•7h ago•13 comments

Toronto-Based VPN Provider Plans to Quit Canada over Lawful-Access Bill

https://citizenlab.ca/toronto-based-vpn-provider-plans-to-quit-canada-over-lawful-access-bill/
19•speckx•2h ago•5 comments

Find the flattest route between any two points in SF

https://flattensf.com/
297•ishan0102•23h ago•104 comments

Dust: Pretraining Transformers Without Backpropagation

https://qlabs.sh/research/dust
262•E-Reverance•23h ago•76 comments

Direct retinal projection display for smart glasses using a meta-optic mirror

https://www.tdk.com/en/news_center/press/20261002_01.html
115•bookofjoe•3d ago•56 comments

Friendship ended with Deno, now Node is my best friend

https://dbushell.com/2026/10/03/deno-to-node/
297•ibobev•22h ago•224 comments

Best-selling Zigbee temperature sensors tested and compared

https://smarthomescene.com/reviews/best-selling-zigbee-temperature-sensors-tested/
218•walrus01•2d ago•116 comments

Tapo (Rust/Python library) now speaks TP-Link's TPAP protocol

https://mihai.dinculescu.dev/posts/tapo-speaks-tpap/
121•faithraven•7h ago•55 comments

First enhanced geothermal power plant completed in just 23 months

https://techcrunch.com/2026/10/01/worlds-first-enhanced-geothermal-power-plant-completed-in-just-...
137•hochmartinez•9h ago•59 comments

Competitive Programmer's Handbook (2018) [pdf]

https://cses.fi/book/book.pdf
301•vinhnx•3d ago•79 comments

I'm the AGI that's wiping out humanity

https://ajmoon.com/posts/im-the-agi-thats-wiping-out-humanity-heres-how
126•alex-moon•10h ago•78 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."