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Learning Software Architecture

https://matklad.github.io/2026/05/12/software-architecture.html
136•surprisetalk•2h ago•17 comments

Screenshots of Old Desktop OSes

http://www.typewritten.org/Media/
272•adunk•6h ago•107 comments

Postmortem: TanStack NPM supply-chain compromise

https://tanstack.com/blog/npm-supply-chain-compromise-postmortem
895•varunsharma07•14h ago•366 comments

EU to crack down on TikTok, Instagram's 'addictive design' targeting kids

https://www.cnbc.com/2026/05/12/tiktok-instagram-social-media-addictive-eu-crack-down.html
46•thm•1h ago•10 comments

Toxicity on Social Media – The Noisy Room

https://thenoisyroom.com
83•skm•4h ago•54 comments

Text Blaze (YC W21) Is Hiring for a No-AI Summer Internship

https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/text-blaze/jobs/P4CCN62-the-blaze-no-ai-summer-internship
1•scottfr•3m ago

They Live (1988) inspired Adblocker

https://github.com/davmlaw/they_live_adblocker
311•tokenburner•11h ago•98 comments

If AI writes your code, why use Python?

https://medium.com/@NMitchem/if-ai-writes-your-code-why-use-python-bf8c4ba1a055
567•indigodaddy•15h ago•609 comments

Docker images are MB; a full game engine compiles to 35MB WASM

https://bogomolov.work/blog/posts/wasm-vs-docker/
11•theanonymousone•2d ago•3 comments

Coursera and Udemy are now one company

https://blog.coursera.org/coursera-and-udemy-are-now-one-company-creating-the-worlds-most-compreh...
37•Anon84•1h ago•11 comments

A HN post with negative points – how?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48104663
10•donohoe•1h ago•5 comments

UCLA discovers first stroke rehabilitation drug to repair brain damage (2025)

https://stemcell.ucla.edu/news/ucla-discovers-first-stroke-rehabilitation-drug-repair-brain-damage
371•bookofjoe•18h ago•71 comments

Rtwatch: Watch videos with friends using WebRTC

https://github.com/pion/rtwatch
38•nateb2022•2d ago•6 comments

Claude Platform on AWS

https://claude.com/blog/claude-platform-on-aws
157•matrixhelix•10h ago•70 comments

Optimize for change not application performance

https://www.echooff.dev/blog/developer-experience-is-a-performance-feature
15•lo1tuma•2d ago•5 comments

Music has scales / raagas. What about storytelling in movies and prestige shows?

https://arc.quanten.co/archetype
18•phaedrus044•3h ago•21 comments

Extremely Low Frequencies

https://computer.rip/2026-05-09-extremely-low-frequencies.html
100•pinewurst•8h ago•8 comments

Google says criminal hackers used AI to find a major software flaw

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/11/us/politics/google-hackers-attack-ai.html
199•donohoe•22h ago•145 comments

I let AI build a tool to help me figure out what was waking me up at night

https://martin.sh/i-let-ai-build-a-tool-to-help-me-figure-out-what-was-waking-me-up-at-night/
200•showmypost•15h ago•211 comments

Software Internals Book Club

https://eatonphil.com/bookclub.html
114•aragonite•9h ago•20 comments

Remembering Planet Source Code: Sharing Code Before GitHub Made It Easy

https://www.pietschsoft.com/post/2026/05/05/remembering-planet-source-code-sharing-code-before-gi...
24•pabs3•3d ago•3 comments

I hate soldering

https://user8.bearblog.dev/rant/
131•James72689•4d ago•123 comments

Nullsoft, 1997-2004 (2004)

https://slate.com/technology/2004/11/the-death-of-the-last-maverick-tech-company.html
291•downbad_•4d ago•82 comments

Boriel BASIC

https://zxbasic.readthedocs.io/en/docs/
50•AlexeyBrin•2d ago•17 comments

Unitree GD01: China's $537k rideable transformer robot is now in production

https://gagadget.com/en/709729-unitree-gd01-chinas-537k-rideable-transformer-robot-is-now-in-prod...
39•rguiscard•2h ago•28 comments

Show HN: A modern Music Player Daemon based on Rockbox firmware

https://github.com/tsirysndr/rockbox-zig
92•tsiry•2d ago•22 comments

Interaction Models

https://thinkingmachines.ai/blog/interaction-models/
240•smhx•15h ago•30 comments

Library for fast mapping of Java records to native memory

https://github.com/mamba-studio/TypedMemory
150•joe_mwangi•16h ago•33 comments

Show HN: TikTok but for scientific papers

https://andreaturchet.github.io/website/index.html
136•ciwrl•19h ago•64 comments

GitLab announces workforce reduction and end of their CREDIT values

https://about.gitlab.com/blog/gitlab-act-2/
563•AnonGitLabEmpl•15h ago•553 comments
Open in hackernews

Building my npx business card

https://ashley.dev/posts/turning-feedback-into-features/
8•edent•12mo ago

Comments

steele•11mo ago
Ooh, free real estate, let's colonize and gentrify package management
aabhay•11mo ago
Lmao, gentrify cracked me up
neilv•11mo ago
Do these npx business cards run arbitrary code on your computer?
cypherpunks01•11mo 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•11mo 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•11mo ago
Yeah, this seems like a very smart but inherently flawed idea.
cypherpunks01•11mo 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•11mo ago
May as well just release an executable tbh.
theamk•11mo 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•11mo 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•11mo 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."