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Gemini 3.8 Flash and 3.8 Flash Cyber

https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/models-and-research/gemini-models/3-8-flash-and-3-8-flash-c...
547•bratao•3h ago•337 comments

A Note from LWN

https://lwn.net/Articles/1090585/
614•rwky•5h ago•124 comments

Paint.net 5.2 alpha now runs on Linux

https://forums.paint.net/topic/134562-paintnet-52-alpha-build-9739/
84•judah•1h ago•54 comments

Mistral now trains on user input by default, except on enterprise tier

https://help.mistral.ai/en/articles/455207-can-i-opt-out-of-my-input-or-output-data-being-used-fo...
284•teekert•6h ago•126 comments

I Don't Have a Smartphone

https://ploum.net/2026-09-02-i_dont_have_a_smartphone.html
91•speckx•1h ago•70 comments

Biggest dark matter detector spots a single weird particle

https://www.science.org/content/article/world-s-biggest-dark-matter-detector-spots-single-weird-p...
177•randycupertino•5h ago•41 comments

Firefox's AI Switch Is Off. Telemetry Isn't

https://marius.blog/firefox-155-ai-kill-switch-retest/
14•speckx•31m ago•1 comments

Exit the Cave

https://turtlespace.blog/p/exit-the-cave
129•akkartik•4h ago•29 comments

Three sites made 215,128 “best software” pages for AI. Perplexity cites them

https://trellner.com/reports/manufactured-sources-behind-ai-recommendations/
221•jakobgreenfeld•5h ago•106 comments

SteamdDB Joins Nexus Mods

https://www.nexusmods.com/news/15597
56•HelloUsername•3h ago•24 comments

Aging Brains Blend Memories Together Instead of Just Forgetting Them

https://studyfinds.com/aging-brains-blend-memories-together-instead-of-forgetting-them-study-finds/
124•mdp2021•6h ago•53 comments

Commodore 64 released September 1, 1982

https://dfarq.homeip.net/commodore-64-released-september-1-1982/
285•giuliomagnifico•10h ago•137 comments

GrapheneOS says Pixel 11 has MTE support after all

https://grapheneos.social/@GrapheneOS/117194007157499435
155•user_7832•5h ago•104 comments

A Selection of Los Alamos Rolodex Business Cards

https://clui.org/collections/los-alamos-business-cards/selection-cards
97•1970-01-01•1d ago•20 comments

Poisson Disk Sampling

https://stripeacross.com/posts/poisson-disk-sampling/
90•vismit2000•5h ago•12 comments

WebLLM: high-performance in-browser LLM inference engine

https://github.com/mlc-ai/web-llm
58•saikatsg•5h ago•12 comments

Making the Internet Boring

https://cemrehancavdar.com/2026/08/30/making-the-internet-boring/
21•zdw•2d ago•7 comments

A third of Perplexity's citations don't contain the number they're cited for

https://hausresearch.com/reports/perplexity-citation-audit/
116•jakobgreenfeld•5h ago•42 comments

Why do so many tools have JSON config files?

https://textlog.cc/post/895
9•stagas•39m ago•15 comments

Discontinuation of third level domain registrations for the .name TLD [pdf]

https://itp.cdn.icann.org/en/files/consensus-policies/rsep-2026013-name-request-15-04-2026-en.pdf
31•greyface-•1d ago•17 comments

Show HN: FrontierHarness Eval – 9 harness, same model, cost per pass varies 17x

https://frontierharness.org
44•shiqimei•2h ago•21 comments

Tangle – Visual ML Pipeline Editor

https://tangleml.com/
16•duck•2h ago•1 comments

How to debloat your Xiaomi 15 Ultra without root access

https://trackerninja.codeberg.page/post/how-to-debloat-your-xiaomi-15-ultra-without-rooting-and-c...
21•spacedrone808•2h ago•11 comments

The race to engineer new knobs for the human brain

https://www.neuroai.science/p/the-race-to-engineer-new-knobs-for
20•pminimax•2h ago•2 comments

Check if a file was made with Claude

https://claude.com/check-content
115•frexs•6h ago•84 comments

LLMs: Intelligence vs. Cost

https://openteams.com/intelligence-vs-cost/
59•theanonymousone•5h ago•27 comments

Telli (YC F24) is hiring engineers and designers [Berlin, on-site]

https://careers.telli.com/
1•sebselassie•10h ago

The Emergent Symbolic Structure of Artificial Neural Networks

https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.29530
262•schmuhblaster•14h ago•89 comments

Six curl CVEs after OpenAI and Anthropic came back with zero

https://aisle.com/blog/aisle-discovered-six-curl-cves-after-openai-and-anthropic-found-zero
135•goobreee•5h ago•48 comments

How Railroad Crossings Work

https://practical.engineering/blog/2023/12/29/how-railroad-crossings-work
19•at1as•2h ago•12 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."