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Converting a $3.88 analog clock from Walmart into a ESP8266-based Wi-Fi clock

https://github.com/jim11662418/ESP8266_WiFi_Analog_Clock
225•tokyobreakfast•3h ago•73 comments

Testing Ads in ChatGPT

https://openai.com/index/testing-ads-in-chatgpt/
38•davidbarker•25m ago•24 comments

Discord will require a face scan or ID for full access next month

https://www.theverge.com/tech/875309/discord-age-verification-global-roll-out
353•x01•4h ago•337 comments

Why is the sky blue?

https://explainers.blog/posts/why-is-the-sky-blue/
205•udit99•3h ago•64 comments

Hard-braking events as indicators of road segment crash risk

https://research.google/blog/hard-braking-events-as-indicators-of-road-segment-crash-risk/
77•aleyan•2h ago•98 comments

UEFI Bindings for JavaScript

https://codeberg.org/smnx/promethee
147•ananas-dev•5h ago•75 comments

Sleeper Shells: Attackers Are Planting Dormant Backdoors in Ivanti EPMM

https://defusedcyber.com/ivanti-epmm-sleeper-shells-403jsp
91•waihtis•4h ago•31 comments

Game Boy Advance Audio Interpolation

https://jsgroth.dev/blog/posts/gba-audio-interpolation/
19•ibobev•1h ago•3 comments

Eight more months of agents

https://crawshaw.io/blog/eight-more-months-of-agents
23•arrowsmith•1d ago•18 comments

Information Is Beautiful

https://informationisbeautiful.net/
41•surprisetalk•5d ago•3 comments

Thoughts on Generating C

https://wingolog.org/archives/2026/02/09/six-thoughts-on-generating-c
150•ingve•5h ago•39 comments

The Traffic Mimes of Bogotá

https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/traffic-mimes-of-colombia
48•IgorPartola•4d ago•7 comments

The Markets of Old London

https://spitalfieldslife.com/2024/06/20/the-markets-of-old-london-i/
11•zeristor•1h ago•1 comments

Show HN: Algorithmically finding the longest line of sight on Earth

https://alltheviews.world
302•tombh•9h ago•125 comments

What's the Entropy of a Random Integer?

https://quomodocumque.wordpress.com/2026/02/03/whats-the-entropy-of-a-random-integer/
8•sebg•4d ago•0 comments

Medieval Monks Wrote over Ancient Star Catalog – Particle Accel Reveals Original

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/medieval-monks-wrote-over-a-copy-of-an-ancient-star-cat...
55•bookofjoe•5d ago•32 comments

Like Game-of-Life, but on Growing Graphs, with WASM and WebGL

https://znah.net/graphs/
111•znah•1d ago•16 comments

Art of Roads in Games

https://sandboxspirit.com/blog/art-of-roads-in-games/
545•linolevan•22h ago•179 comments

GitHub is down again

https://www.githubstatus.com/incidents/54hndjxft5bx
340•MattIPv4•3h ago•346 comments

Ask HN: What are you working on? (February 2026)

225•david927•23h ago•773 comments

Long-Sought Proof Tames Some of Math's Unruliest Equations

https://www.quantamagazine.org/long-sought-proof-tames-some-of-maths-unruliest-equations-20260206/
54•ibobev•4h ago•11 comments

AT&T, Verizon blocking release of Salt Typhoon security assessment reports

https://www.reuters.com/business/media-telecom/senator-says-att-verizon-blocking-release-salt-typ...
201•redman25•5h ago•52 comments

Sandboxels

https://neal.fun/sandboxels/
20•2sf5•3h ago•3 comments

Nobody knows how the whole system works

https://surfingcomplexity.blog/2026/02/08/nobody-knows-how-the-whole-system-works/
206•azhenley•14h ago•152 comments

Humans peak in midlife: A combined cognitive and personality trait perspective

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0160289625000649
106•Brajeshwar•5h ago•44 comments

Show HN: Printable Classics – Free printable classic books for hobby bookbinders

https://printableclassics.com
53•bookman10•7h ago•23 comments

Eddie Bauer, venerable outdoor apparel retailer, declares bankruptcy

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/eddie-bauer-bankrupt-outdoor-apparel/
24•mgh2•1h ago•15 comments

Roman industrial hub discovered on banks of River Wear

https://www.durham.ac.uk/news-events/latest-news/2026/01/roman-industrial-hub-discovered-on-banks...
62•andsoitis•4d ago•12 comments

Show HN: Browse Internet Infrastructure

https://www.wirewiki.com
101•pul•6h ago•15 comments

Offpunk 3.0

https://ploum.net/2026-02-09-offpunk3.html
161•todsacerdoti•8h ago•33 comments
Open in hackernews

Building my npx business card

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

Comments

steele•8mo ago
Ooh, free real estate, let's colonize and gentrify package management
aabhay•8mo ago
Lmao, gentrify cracked me up
neilv•8mo ago
Do these npx business cards run arbitrary code on your computer?
cypherpunks01•8mo 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•8mo 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•8mo ago
Yeah, this seems like a very smart but inherently flawed idea.
cypherpunks01•8mo 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•8mo ago
May as well just release an executable tbh.
theamk•8mo 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•8mo 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•8mo 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."