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Cloud VM benchmarks 2026: performance/price for 44 VM types over 7 providers

https://devblog.ecuadors.net/cloud-vm-benchmarks-2026-performance-price-1i1m.html
45•dkechag•1h ago•26 comments

Science Fiction Is Dying. Long Live Post Sci-Fi?

https://www.typebarmagazine.com/science-fiction-is-dying-long-live-post-sci-fi/
27•KittenInABox•1h ago•9 comments

CasNum

https://github.com/0x0mer/CasNum
191•aebtebeten•5h ago•24 comments

A decade of Docker containers

https://cacm.acm.org/research/a-decade-of-docker-containers/
231•zacwest•9h ago•170 comments

Dumping Lego NXT firmware off of an existing brick (2025)

https://arcanenibble.github.io/dumping-lego-nxt-firmware-off-of-an-existing-brick.html
152•theblazehen•1d ago•10 comments

The stagnancy of publishing and the disappearance of the midlist

https://www.honest-broker.com/p/the-day-ny-publishing-lost-its-soul
48•wallflower•4h ago•27 comments

Effort to prevent government officials from engaging in prediction markets

https://www.merkley.senate.gov/merkley-klobuchar-launch-new-effort-to-ban-federal-elected-officia...
237•stopbulying•5h ago•79 comments

Ki Editor - an editor that operates on the AST

https://ki-editor.org/
371•ravenical•15h ago•132 comments

Show HN: A weird thing that detects your pulse from the browser video

https://pulsefeedback.io/
9•kilroy123•3d ago•4 comments

In 1985 Maxell built a bunch of life-size robots for its bad floppy ad

https://buttondown.com/suchbadtechads/archive/maxell-life-size-robots/
60•rfarley04•3d ago•7 comments

Overheads (2023)

https://blog.xoria.org/hidden-overheads/
9•surprisetalk•1d ago•0 comments

Autoresearch: Agents researching on single-GPU nanochat training automatically

https://github.com/karpathy/autoresearch
38•simonpure•5h ago•11 comments

FLASH radiotherapy's bold approach to cancer treatment

https://spectrum.ieee.org/flash-radiotherapy
184•marc__1•10h ago•57 comments

The influence of anxiety: Harold Bloom and literary inheritance

https://thepointmag.com/examined-life/the-influence-of-anxiety/
16•apollinaire•3d ago•2 comments

macOS code injection for fun and no profit (2024)

https://mariozechner.at/posts/2024-07-20-macos-code-injection-fun/
71•jstrieb•3d ago•12 comments

The surprising whimsy of the Time Zone Database

https://muddy.jprs.me/links/2026-03-06-the-surprising-whimsy-of-the-time-zone-database/
43•jprs•7h ago•5 comments

Put the zip code first

https://zipcodefirst.com
229•dsalzman•2h ago•174 comments

LLM Writing Tropes.md

https://tropes.fyi/tropes-md
88•walterbell•4h ago•35 comments

Lisp-style C++ template meta programming

https://github.com/mistivia/lmp
18•mistivia•3h ago•0 comments

Compiling Prolog to Forth [pdf]

https://vfxforth.com/flag/jfar/vol4/no4/article4.pdf
98•PaulHoule•4d ago•9 comments

How important was the Battle of Hastings?

https://www.historytoday.com/archive/head-head/how-important-was-battle-hastings
5•benbreen•3d ago•9 comments

SigNoz (YC W21) is hiring for engineering, growth and product roles

https://signoz.io/careers
1•pranay01•9h ago

Re-creating the complex cuisine of prehistoric Europeans

https://arstechnica.com/science/2026/03/recreating-the-complex-cuisine-of-prehistoric-europeans/
63•apollinaire•1d ago•27 comments

Ghostmd: Ghostty but for Markdown Notes

https://mimoo.github.io/ghostmd/
22•baby•2h ago•28 comments

The yoghurt delivery women combatting loneliness in Japan

https://www.bbc.com/travel/article/20260302-the-yoghurt-delivery-women-combatting-loneliness-in-j...
206•ranit•12h ago•127 comments

Files are the interface humans and agents interact with

https://madalitso.me/notes/why-everyone-is-talking-about-filesystems/
178•malgamves•15h ago•106 comments

Bourdieu's theory of taste: a grumbling abrégé (2023)

https://dynomight.net/bourdieu/
36•sebg•2d ago•13 comments

Ask HN: Would you use a job board where every listing is verified?

31•BelVisgarra•4h ago•53 comments

Show HN: ANSI-Saver – A macOS Screensaver

https://github.com/lardissone/ansi-saver
87•lardissone•11h ago•29 comments

Self-Portrait by Ernst Mach (1886)

https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/self-portrait-by-ernst-mach-1886/
93•Hooke•2d ago•16 comments
Open in hackernews

Building my npx business card

https://ashley.dev/posts/turning-feedback-into-features/
8•edent•9mo ago

Comments

steele•9mo ago
Ooh, free real estate, let's colonize and gentrify package management
aabhay•9mo ago
Lmao, gentrify cracked me up
neilv•9mo ago
Do these npx business cards run arbitrary code on your computer?
cypherpunks01•9mo 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•9mo 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•9mo ago
Yeah, this seems like a very smart but inherently flawed idea.
cypherpunks01•9mo 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•9mo ago
May as well just release an executable tbh.
theamk•9mo 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•9mo 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•9mo 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."