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Run Qwen 3.8 Flash Next (125B) on consumer hardware (RTX 4090) at 100T/s

https://github.com/Niko1221/Strata
327•snehesht•4h ago•177 comments

What I learnt co-leading an AI Safety bootcamp for legal and governance practit

https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/KtAug62dYRgAS8sqJ/what-i-learnt-co-leading-an-ai-safety-bootcamp-...
10•joozio•22m ago•2 comments

A Map of Every Lighthouse on the Planet

https://mapped.earth/lighthouses/world
44•karakoram•2d ago•28 comments

Car is a smartphone on wheels. Here's who's listening

https://automatictransmission.khoury.northeastern.edu/
141•longhaul•2h ago•70 comments

Tell HN: Bob Cringely has died

700•paveworld•16h ago•145 comments

Glashütte Trash Clock – A 30-minute pendulum clock made from trash

https://niklasroy.com/gtc/
112•r0r0•2d ago•14 comments

Show HN: AI search for every photo and every frame of video on macOS

https://github.com/allenv0/SCM
78•allenleee•8h ago•42 comments

Why don't more developers “use the platform”?

https://nolanlawson.com/2026/10/03/why-dont-more-developers-use-the-platform/
236•vinhnx•13h ago•238 comments

VGHF Digital Archive passes 5000 magazines. Here's what's next

https://gamehistory.org/5k-magazines/
83•rdmuser•8h ago•13 comments

The Heilbronn Problem

https://math.tejstead.com/heilbronn/
43•tejstead•1d ago•4 comments

The work by Valve's Timur Kristóf on improving old AMD GPUs on Linux

https://www.phoronix.com/news/XDC-2026-Valve-Timur-AMDGPU
406•speckx•22h ago•68 comments

Agents don't need memory, they need documentation

https://liao.gg/blog/agents-dont-need-memory
297•kmeh•1d ago•172 comments

Emitting metadata early makes building/checking Rust up to twice as fast

https://github.com/PowderworksCode/headstart
80•knuckleheads•11h ago•23 comments

Treachery in the Rodin Museum 3D scan verdict

https://cosmowenman.substack.com/p/rodin-museum-3d-scan-verdict
279•CosmoWenman•23h ago•148 comments

Magic Switch: Share Apple Magic keyboard/track-pad/mouse between two Macs

https://joshua.hu/magic-switch-easily-switch-magic-keyboard-trackpad-mouse-between-mac-macbook-macos
54•chanux•2d ago•24 comments

LeCun has "zero concerns" about AI wiping out humanity, recent "rogue" incidents

https://fortune.com/2026/10/01/ai-godfather-yann-lecun-has-zero-concerns-about-human-extinction-s...
298•Anon84•23h ago•514 comments

Blindsight (Watts Novel)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blindsight_(Watts_novel)
22•mooreds•1h ago•7 comments

What's the Future for Pure Math Research in the Age of AI?

https://writings.stephenwolfram.com/2026/09/whats-the-future-for-pure-math-research-in-the-age-of...
38•6bitquant•9h ago•14 comments

L-systems generate weevils, pizza toppings, and matriarchal lineages

https://blog.plover.com/2026/09/25/
4•surprisetalk•2d ago•1 comments

Hole Punch: Sling your spaceship around gravitational fields

https://notoriousbfg.com/hole-punch/
337•trwhite•23h ago•83 comments

Celebrating the 100th birthday of the kidney donated to him as a teenager

https://www.whec.com/top-news/webster-man-celebrating-the-100th-birthday-of-the-kidney-his-mom-do...
246•gscott•3d ago•58 comments

We're going to need default hard budget caps on pretty much everything

https://simonwillison.net/2026/Oct/3/default-hard-budget-caps/
553•elffjs•17h ago•284 comments

Reasons I didn't become an EMT, ranked

https://ben.stolovitz.com/posts/reasons-not-emt-ranked/
208•citelao•20h ago•88 comments

Background Passive FTP with No GUI Control Survives Apple Store DFU

https://knowledgeisuserdata.medium.com/passive-ftp-enabled-on-macbook-after-apple-store-reset-and...
6•cududa•44m ago•1 comments

I quit OpenAI because its culture is broken

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/2026/10/openai-safety-team-resignation/688881/?gift=v5U_Uz...
396•Brajeshwar•1d ago•643 comments

So you think you could be an electrician?

https://asteriskmag.com/issues/15/so-you-think-you-could-be-an-electrician
403•zdw•4d ago•340 comments

We want you to build the next Git platform on Cloudflare

https://blog.cloudflare.com/next-git-platform-on-cloudflare/
187•geoffbp•22h ago•163 comments

What Meta got right with Muse

https://metedata.substack.com/p/what-meta-got-right-with-muse
110•young_mete•23h ago•143 comments

Dirty Optimization Secrets (C for Playdate)

https://devforum.play.date/t/dirty-optimization-secrets-c-for-playdate/23011
54•ibobev•2d ago•6 comments

gpuvis: GPU Trace Visualizer

https://github.com/mikesart/gpuvis
62•luu•2d ago•10 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."