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Debian votes to allow "responsible use of generative AI"

https://lwn.net/Articles/1091231/
115•pluc•1h ago•65 comments

Indirect Calling of Nested Functions on GCC Without Executable Stack

https://uecker.codeberg.page/2026-08-29.html
8•uecker•48m ago•0 comments

Creating the Aetheryte Radio

https://haz.ee/posts/aetheryte-radio.html
20•wonger_•1d ago•1 comments

Samsung's Processing-in-Memory (PIM)

https://chipsandcheese.com/p/hot-chips-2026-samsungs-processing
173•ingve•9h ago•56 comments

Show HN: Typebase – A single-folder back end you write in TypeScript

https://typebase.io
17•andrewww-dev•3d ago•0 comments

GUIs should be fully keyboard-driven

https://ckardaris.com/blog/2026/08/28/keyboard-driven-guis.html
926•ckardaris•23h ago•454 comments

Glacier Mice

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glacier_mice
102•ostacke•4d ago•18 comments

Boot a Virtual iPhone via Apple's Virtualization.framework

https://github.com/Lakr233/vphone-cli
335•hentrep•16h ago•85 comments

Show HN: Galaxium, an experimental WebGPU space explorer

https://galaxium.app
48•guillaumec•5d ago•16 comments

Htmx 4.0

https://four.htmx.org/announcements/2026-08-28-htmx-4.0.0-is-released
735•rmsaksida•1d ago•180 comments

Hunting Down a Go Runtime Bug on 32-Bit Embedded Systems

https://sigma-star.at/blog/2026/08/go-runtime-netpoll-bug/
67•birdculture•2d ago•5 comments

EVE Online moves to Python 3

https://www.eveonline.com/news/view/the-move-to-python-3-begins
106•TylerJaacks•4d ago•51 comments

Europe's last regular standard-gauge steam passenger service

https://parowozowniawolsztyn.pl/?page_id=2141
75•GungulSurm•2d ago•19 comments

U.S. sanctions against the A/I Collective

https://www.inventati.org/
656•exiguus•1d ago•647 comments

StemDeck, a free, open-source and local AI stem separator

https://github.com/stemdeckapp/stemdeck
161•thclpr•13h ago•45 comments

Time complexity of operations on Python's built-in types

https://docs.python.org/3.16/library/time-complexity.html
41•theanonymousone•3d ago•7 comments

I accidentally turned LLM memory into program analysis

https://pwning.systems/posts/llm-memory-program-analysis/
205•matt_d•15h ago•60 comments

Inception-style curved map for turn-by-turn directions

https://www.orbify.eu/demo/
560•smoser•1d ago•182 comments

TurboKV: Insanely fast Rust key-value store

https://github.com/kingroryg/turbokv
146•rgbimbochamp•12h ago•67 comments

Iceland votes on whether to restart talks on joining EU

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cn45vdxyvvlo
239•tosh•3h ago•284 comments

Just the rumour of a bug is enough to find an exploit these days

https://anil.recoil.org/notes/rumour-is-the-exploit
355•avsm•23h ago•115 comments

Queen Caroline turned King Arthur into an 18C royal PR strategy

https://theconversation.com/how-queen-caroline-turned-king-arthur-into-an-18th-century-royal-pr-s...
33•samizdis•4d ago•7 comments

Monzo Stand-In

https://monzo.com/blog/tolerating-full-cloud-outages-with-monzo-stand-in
102•coffeefuel•5d ago•45 comments

Our decision on Cursor following its acquisition by SpaceX

https://openai.com/index/our-decision-on-cursor-following-its-acquisition-by-spacex/
667•meetpateltech•13h ago•396 comments

Does the Sumerian King List Align with Paleoclimate Events?

https://www.vectorian.be/articles/2026-06-07/sumerian-king-list-paleoclimate-alignment-explorer/
119•dev_l1x_be•15h ago•68 comments

Experiments with Plotter Art

https://sometimes.digital/posts/experiments-with-plotter-art/
79•surprisetalk•5d ago•7 comments

Attimet (YC F24) Is Hiring Members of Technical Staff – Engineering and Research

https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/attimet/jobs/6btZFDg-member-of-technical-staff-engineering
1•kbanothu•22h ago

The Twelve-Factor App (2025)

https://12factor.net/
289•jxmorris12•1d ago•163 comments

Curvature Beziers: Improving on a timeless recipe

https://acko.net/blog/curvature-beziers/
138•leephillips•4d ago•19 comments

Visual Analysis of Binary Files

https://binvis.io/#/
98•vismit2000•3d ago•25 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."