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Beam: Reflection's 501B open-weight model

https://reflection.ai/blog/introducing-beam
363•Philpax•8h ago•108 comments

Find the flattest route between any two points in SF

https://flattensf.com/
139•ishan0102•6h ago•46 comments

Dust: Pretraining Transformers Without Backpropagation

https://qlabs.sh/research/dust
131•E-Reverance•6h ago•25 comments

Example.com just launched the biggest redesign in decades

https://www.debugbear.com/blog/example-dot-com-redesign-history
120•jgx0•5h ago•74 comments

AI tutoring with Khanmigo in a two-year school experiment

https://edworkingpapers.com/ai26-1551
50•bryan0•4h ago•35 comments

An algorithmic failure beneath the secret ballot

https://blog.citp.princeton.edu/2026/08/03/an-algorithmic-failure-beneath-the-secret-ballot/
47•leecoursey•2d ago•15 comments

Friendship ended with Deno, now Node is my best friend

https://dbushell.com/2026/10/03/deno-to-node/
95•ibobev•5h ago•37 comments

Opus 5.5 agents discover two room-temperature magnetic semiconductor candidates

https://www.vals.ai/blogs/room-temperature-magnetic-semiconductors
251•outlier99•7h ago•178 comments

Photopea creator weighs in on Photosuite project

https://github.com/eolix/photosuite/issues/77
52•montag•3h ago•24 comments

ChatGPT is adding real cartoonists' signatures to fake New Yorker cartoons

https://www.niemanlab.org/2026/10/chatgpt-is-adding-real-cartoonists-signatures-to-fake-new-yorke...
336•rdmuser•5h ago•238 comments

Web Search API

https://developers.cloudflare.com/changelog/post/2026-10-02-introducing-web-search-api/
502•tosh•17h ago•232 comments

Samon: Designing a Zen Garden Raking Puzzle

https://gwern.net/doc/design/2026-10-03-gwern-samon.html
27•networked•4h ago•8 comments

Competitive Programmer's Handbook (2018) [pdf]

https://cses.fi/book/book.pdf
145•vinhnx•2d ago•34 comments

Anthropic reported diary entry to police, woman faces felony charge

https://www.techspot.com/news/114091-florida-woman-used-claude-diary-anthropic-reported-shoot.html
597•emptybits•22h ago•493 comments

Global Solar Atlas: summary of solar power potential globally

https://globalsolaratlas.info/
27•stratts•5h ago•16 comments

Testing 12 different Zigbee temperature/humidity sensors

https://smarthomescene.com/reviews/best-selling-zigbee-temperature-sensors-tested/
58•walrus01•1d ago•15 comments

Show HN: Photoc – Command-line tools for photographers

https://github.com/ahmetomerv/photoc
9•ahmetomer•2d ago•2 comments

DEDA – Tracking Dots Extraction, Decoding and Anonymisation Toolkit

https://github.com/dfd-tud/deda
39•greyface-•1d ago•4 comments

Ephemeral Testing

https://lemire.me/blog/2026/10/05/ephemeral-testing/
37•ibobev•5h ago•13 comments

Why Common Lisp Is Now the Best Programming Language

https://www.vivienhenz.com/common-lisp
4•misterchocolat•1h ago•1 comments

Using Theme park rides and smartphones for demonstrating Newtonian mechanics

https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1361-6404/aea271
4•bryanrasmussen•2d ago•1 comments

Texas city demands $2M for public records on Flock usage

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/10/texas-city-demands-2m-for-public-records-on-flock-usage/
138•01-_-•6h ago•21 comments

Using Blu-ray M-Disk as backup of last resort

https://smyck.net/2026/10/03/holocron-the-backup-of-last-resort/
76•hukl•1d ago•75 comments

Learning Jazz Pianist Style with Cross-Attention Conditioning

https://almostimplemented.github.io/jazz-pianist-style/
34•ishan0102•5h ago•4 comments

Making a GTK application in Haskell, part 1

https://floreal.tech/blog/2026/making-a-gtk-app-in-haskell-part-1/
140•Vosporos•13h ago•37 comments

High Diesel Prices Bankrupted 16 Trucking Companies in Just 30 Days

https://www.thedrive.com/news/high-diesel-prices-bankrupted-16-trucking-companies-in-just-30-days
68•speckx•3h ago•41 comments

The lamps in my house

https://arslan.io/2026/10/05/the-lamps-in-my-house/
150•farslan•13h ago•74 comments

Apple and a hacker's future

https://stratechery.com/2026/apple-and-a-hackers-future/
228•maguay•18h ago•199 comments

Better Space-Time Trade-Offs for LSM-Tree Based Key-Value Stores [pdf]

https://nivdayan.github.io/dostoevsky.pdf
24•ibobev•5h ago•0 comments

Qualcomm licenses patents on Huawei’s LogicFolding chip tech

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-10-05/qualcomm-licenses-patents-on-huawei-s-logicfol...
180•0xedb•20h ago•121 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."