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OpenLogi

https://openlogi.org/en
854•amatheus•9h ago•238 comments

Air Theremin – a browser theremin you play by waving at your webcam

https://theremin.bizibah.com/
37•gurov•1h ago•14 comments

Cerebras CS-4

https://www.cerebras.ai/cs4
314•sunils34•11h ago•205 comments

The Two Factions of C++ (2024)

https://herecomesthemoon.net/2024/11/two-factions-of-cpp/
42•signa11•3d ago•34 comments

Being ambitious and being a dad

https://nicholascharriere.com/blog/being-ambitious-and-being-a-dad/
568•nichochar•2d ago•377 comments

Palomar: A registry of Lean verified mathematics

https://terrytao.wordpress.com/2026/08/18/palomar-a-registry-of-lean-verified-mathematics/
115•matt_d•8h ago•19 comments

Supersonic Trebuchet [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Co57SfcT-h0
129•CharlesW•4d ago•54 comments

Rings forged from meteorites may have been fashionable among ancient Greek elite

https://phys.org/news/2026-08-forged-meteorites-fashionable-ancient-greek.html
13•pseudolus•4d ago•3 comments

A 3D fruit fly on macOS desktop powered by the real FlyWire connectome

https://github.com/DenisSergeevitch/desktop-fly
298•phoenix120•13h ago•112 comments

λλ: A Programming Language for Silicon Photonics

https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3789240.3829151
37•matt_d•5h ago•6 comments

How does IKEA come up with names for its products?

https://www.ikea.com/se/en/customer-service/knowledge/articles/6f564c4d-2ccc-46de-b643-545a3948dc...
367•NaOH•17h ago•255 comments

Activation Energy is a good model for a lot of things

https://homosabiens.substack.com/p/activation-energy-is-a-good-model
25•surprisetalk•4d ago•4 comments

Solo – a .so loader for static Linux binaries

https://github.com/pg83/solo
151•zX41ZdbW•11h ago•172 comments

Scientists stunned by children's lung recovery in ultra low emission zone

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c1l1r1zne1ro
291•dabinat•10h ago•233 comments

The Mojo language (by Modular, now Qualcomm) is now open-source

https://www.modular.com/blog/modcon-announcements
76•flaburgan•3h ago•27 comments

The Vietnam Binh Chau (Chau Tan) Late Tang Wreck

https://www.koh-antique.com/client/tangwreck/tangwreck.html
43•teleforce•10h ago•3 comments

Show HN: Automatically detect and patch walking-dead states in Sierra games

https://github.com/katiahayati/lucasartsifier/
84•wkfauna•9h ago•33 comments

Finger: the 1971 social network that never died

https://en.andros.dev/blog/54572bc7/finger-the-1971-social-network-that-never-died/
229•andros•1d ago•70 comments

A 25-year-old video patent just expired, ending a legal headache for Linux

https://www.xda-developers.com/25-year-old-brazilian-video-patent-expired-legal-headache-linux/
214•theanonymousone•3d ago•88 comments

Win-V combo from Windows on Ubuntu

https://leo98ml.github.io/win-v/
3•havaianaslife•6d ago•0 comments

Turbovec – Google's TurboQuant for vector search in Rust

https://github.com/RyanCodrai/turbovec
258•fittingopposite•17h ago•32 comments

Claude writing a macOS driver for my obscure HP printer built only for Windows

https://twitter.com/kuberwastaken/status/2089377982536388964
219•porridgeraisin•23h ago•168 comments

The Amazon tax

https://seths.blog/2026/08/the-amazon-tax/
1210•herbertl•22h ago•637 comments

And then the men with guns tell you to do it anyway

https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2026/08/and-then-the-men-with-guns-tell-you-to-do-it-anyway/
333•_djo_•18h ago•225 comments

Meta's blockbuster trial draws parallels to big tobacco

https://www.economist.com/business/2026/08/18/metas-blockbuster-trial-draws-parallels-to-big-tobacco
253•newsomix9xl•9h ago•201 comments

Looking for Missed Alarm Bugs in a Formal Verification Tool

https://blog.regehr.org/archives/2124
19•luu•5d ago•0 comments

CUDA Shared Memory Swizzling

https://leimao.github.io/blog/CUDA-Shared-Memory-Swizzling/
54•jxmorris12•5d ago•2 comments

Where Human Sleep Went Wrong

https://nautil.us/where-human-sleep-went-wrong-1283797
78•XzetaU8•3h ago•63 comments

Apple announces changes for apps in the European Union

https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2026/08/apple-announces-changes-for-apps-in-the-european-union/
216•newusertoday•19h ago•304 comments

AI usage patterns in software teams

https://linear.app/data
150•giuliomagnifico•13h ago•98 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."