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How Europe is killing makers and micro-entrepreneurs

https://lectronz.com/u/lectronz/articles/how-europe-is-killing-makers-and-micro-entrepreneurs
319•l-one-lone•1h ago•192 comments

SeL4 security proofs now complete on AArch64

https://proofcraft.systems/news-2026/#2026-08-21
87•snvzz•3h ago•19 comments

I were 17, I'd learn how to build LLMs from scratch

https://twitter.com/paulg/status/2091544343589060625
316•bilsbie•18h ago•427 comments

Everything I own, owned

https://schlarp.com/posts/everything-i-own-owned/
1182•schlarpc•16h ago•306 comments

Why older tech is sometimes safer from hackers

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20260821-why-older-tech-is-sometimes-safer-from-hackers
33•tchalla•3h ago•20 comments

Executable Is a SQLite Database

https://fzakaria.com/2026/08/23/your-executable-is-a-sqlite-database
260•setheron•9h ago•54 comments

FDA clears blood test to aid evaluation for Alzheimer's disease

https://medicine.washu.edu/news/fda-clears-blood-test-to-aid-evaluation-for-alzheimers-disease/
104•dabinat•8h ago•40 comments

Anthropic's best AI model struggles to attract users as cheaper tools thrive

https://www.ft.com/content/5ee49718-c258-4f01-aa32-7e5b76ae5245
664•naves•20h ago•579 comments

Fast drilldown dashboards from a single Parquet file

https://www.hamiltonulmer.com/customer-dashboards-r2-hyparquet/
97•v3gas•6h ago•4 comments

Show HN: A techno machine in one HTML file, with verifiable renders

https://ssx360.github.io/rack-02/?src=hn
7•ssx360•1h ago•2 comments

How I find problems to solve as a staff engineer

https://lalitm.com/post/find-problems-staff-engineer/
484•vanpra•19h ago•141 comments

Agent Is Not the Model

https://code.joejag.com/2026/your-agent-is-not-the-model.html
37•joejag•3h ago•14 comments

The Future Belongs to the Weird

https://essays.georgestrakhov.com/weird/
81•georgestrakhov•5h ago•49 comments

Andreessen Horowitz is investing billions into a bleak future

https://www.modelrepublic.org/articles/a16z-portfolio
416•reasonableklout•7h ago•169 comments

I built a low-latency AI companion that plays Skyrim with me

https://pantel.is/projects/ai-gaming-companion/
259•pantelisk•15h ago•49 comments

OCR It – pull text out of un-copyable documents for your LLM

https://github.com/thiagotigaz/ocr-it
87•thiagolima•8h ago•20 comments

Woman stranded in Spain after UK's eVisa system mistakes her for twin sister

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026/aug/24/woman-stranded-spain-uk-evisa-system-mistakes-twi...
122•giuliomagnifico•4h ago•88 comments

What Is a Harness?

https://earendil.com/posts/what-is-a-harness/
504•tosh•1d ago•161 comments

Google Workspace thinks my domain is an email provider (2025)

https://blog.elis.cc/articles/google-workspace-thinks-my-domain-is-an-email-provider/
354•el1s7•19h ago•125 comments

My agent.md to improve LLM-assisted code quality

https://fabiensanglard.net/agent.md/index.html
354•ibobev•20h ago•152 comments

Mourning Steve French

https://lwn.net/Articles/1090098/
49•mfrw•9h ago•0 comments

New EU-wide product repair rules come into force

https://www.rte.ie/news/business/2026/0824/1588931-repair-rules/
197•austinallegro•8h ago•110 comments

Show HN: Vanilla OS 3 Reunion – Immutable and Reproducible Operating System

https://vanillaos.org/blog/article/2026-08-24/vanilla-os-3-reunion---stable-release
11•NN708•4h ago•5 comments

How Complex Systems Fail (1998)

https://how.complexsystems.fail/
348•shortcrct•23h ago•73 comments

AI Chip Architectures

https://www.jepeake.com/ai-chip-architectures
114•Finbarr•1d ago•37 comments

Malware infects Android-based automotive head unit firmware

https://securelist.com/android-head-unit-malware/121106/
252•campuscodi•1d ago•131 comments

My favorite nonfiction books about cults, scams, and schemes

https://bookdna.com/best-books/nonfiction-about-cults-scams-and-schemes
262•bwb•1d ago•107 comments

Fable and the end of the free lunch

https://www.dbreunig.com/2026/08/23/fable-the-end-of-moore-s-law.html
197•dbreunig•19h ago•186 comments

Over 5,200 Ebola cases recorded in Congo

https://www.afro.who.int/countries/democratic-republic-of-congo/news/over-5200-cases-recorded-dem...
103•simonebrunozzi•7h ago•43 comments

Explain it to me like I'm ten

https://timharford.com/2026/08/explain-it-to-me-like-im-ten/
169•bookofjoe•20h ago•62 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."