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Since Chromium 148, Math.tanh is now fingerprintable to link underlying OS

https://scrapfly.dev/posts/browser-math-os-fingerprint/
304•joahnn_s•4h ago•152 comments

Cyberpunk Comics, Manga and Graphic Novels

https://shellzine.net/cyberpunk-comics/
73•zdw•3h ago•15 comments

Tiny Emulators

https://floooh.github.io/tiny8bit-preview/index.html
145•naves•5h ago•7 comments

Designing and assembling my first PCB

https://vilkeliskis.com/b/2026/0711.html
46•tadasv•2h ago•4 comments

So you want to learn physics (second edition, 2021)

https://www.susanrigetti.com/physics
97•azhenley•4d ago•8 comments

A Peek Inside Jim Henson's Creature Shop, Where Whimsical Puppets Are Designed

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/travel/a-peek-inside-jim-hensons-creature-shop-where-sesame-street...
16•pseudolus•5d ago•0 comments

Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (July 2026)

76•david927•4h ago•190 comments

Why Vanilla JavaScript

https://guseyn.com/html/posts/why-vanilla-js.html
39•guseyn•3h ago•17 comments

Ask HN: Add flag for AI-generated articles

26•levkk•32m ago•6 comments

Old and new apps, via modern coding agents

https://terrytao.wordpress.com/2026/07/11/old-and-new-apps-via-modern-coding-agents/
413•subset•14h ago•120 comments

Migrating a production AI agent to GPT-5.6: 2.2x faster, 27% cheaper

https://ploy.ai/blog/migrating-a-production-ai-agent-to-gpt-5-6
142•brryant•8h ago•46 comments

Claude Code sends 33k tokens before reading the prompt; OpenCode sends 7k

https://systima.ai/blog/claude-code-vs-opencode-token-overhead
468•systima•7h ago•263 comments

The four horsemen behind Postgres outages

https://malisper.me/the-four-horsemen-behind-thousands-of-postgres-outages/
5•craigkerstiens•3d ago•0 comments

How we can reduce traffic congestion

https://research.google/blog/the-power-of-collaboration-how-we-can-reduce-traffic-congestion/
79•raahelb•10h ago•88 comments

Kode Dot Programmable pocket device for makers, pentesters and geeks

https://kode.diy
41•iNic•4h ago•10 comments

LARP – Revenue infrastructure for serious founders

https://www.larp.website/
162•BerislavLopac•8h ago•35 comments

I Learned to Read Again

https://substack.magazinenongrata.com/p/how-i-learned-to-read-again
101•georgex7•7h ago•41 comments

Profiling the "Abundance" housing bottleneck with real data

https://laxmena.com/same-capacity-less-throughput
25•laxmena•4h ago•12 comments

Why write code in 2026

https://softwaredoug.com/blog/2026/07/09/write-code
112•softwaredoug•2d ago•149 comments

Architecture Description Languages [pdf]

https://ics.uci.edu/~taylor/documents/2000-ADLs-TSE.pdf
18•ascent817•3h ago•1 comments

Deir El-Medina Strikes

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deir_el-Medina_strikes
80•mooreds•5d ago•17 comments

Automation Without Understanding

https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.06377
95•root-parent•9h ago•40 comments

Mechanistic interpretability researchers applying causality theory to LLMs

https://cacm.acm.org/news/can-we-understand-how-large-language-models-reason/
83•adunk•7h ago•63 comments

Vint Cerf, “father of the Internet”, is retiring

https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/30/the-father-of-the-internet-is-finally-retiring/
280•compiler-guy•3d ago•162 comments

Circular Obstacle Pathfinding (2017)

https://redblobgames.github.io/circular-obstacle-pathfinding/
8•andsoitis•2h ago•1 comments

I love LLMs, I hate hype

https://geohot.github.io//blog/jekyll/update/2026/07/12/i-love-llms.html
324•therepanic•7h ago•194 comments

MacKenzie Scott's giving, in quality-adjusted life years

https://maxghenis.com/mackenzie-scott-qaly/
46•383toast•1h ago•15 comments

Against Usefulness

https://www.motivenotes.ai/p/against-usefulness
85•supo•8h ago•22 comments

Flash-MSA: Accelerating Million-Token Training with Sparse Attention Kernels

https://nanduruganesh.github.io/flash-msa/
21•rawsh•5h ago•0 comments

The One-Step Trap (In AI Research)

http://incompleteideas.net/IncIdeas/OneStepTrap.html
45•jxmorris12•7h ago•8 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."