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Fable 5.1 Solves the Cyphral Distich, a 370-year-old cipher

https://www.vals.ai/blogs/fable-solves-cyphral-distich
520•u1hcw9nx•5h ago•233 comments

Why is Google still serving dodgy ads?

https://www.atomic14.com/2026/09/13/why-is-google-still-serving-dodgy-ads
626•iamflimflam1•9h ago•297 comments

Spaceships (Reverse Asteroid)

https://spaceships.treybastian.com/
36•zdw•3d ago•13 comments

Registration without a phone number on Signal will use zero-knowledge proofs

https://community.signalusers.org/t/registration-without-a-phone-number/2222?page=10
102•Cider9986•5h ago•49 comments

Open-Source AI and Open Models Reading List

https://www.interconnects.ai/p/open-source-ai-reading-list
29•simonpure•2h ago•1 comments

Julia 1.13 highlights

https://julialang.org/blog/2026/09/julia-1.13-highlights/
168•eigenspace•3d ago•12 comments

Astra and Fable still hack on simple variants of alignment evals from 2025

https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/munJKF7iWMsWJLAH2/astra-and-fable-still-hack-on-simple-variants-o...
388•Levitating•12h ago•177 comments

Data collected by cars and sold to third parties

https://www.theverge.com/column/994172/your-car-is-selling-your-data
324•bookofjoe•13h ago•165 comments

Apple's Dimensional Drawings

https://developer.apple.com/accessories/dimensional-drawings/
28•herbertl•2h ago•4 comments

Show HN: Is It Greg?

https://github.com/antoineleclair/is-it-greg
22•antoineleclair•51m ago•6 comments

Flawed routers flood University of Wisconsin internet time server (2003)

https://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~plonka/netgear-sntp/
67•walrus01•6h ago•8 comments

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

97•david927•9h ago•211 comments

AI is not a normal technology

https://12gramsofcarbon.com/p/ai-is-not-a-normal-technology
11•theahura•1h ago•18 comments

Mullenweg has returned as CEO after attempted board ouster

https://techcrunch.com/2026/09/12/automattic-confirms-mullenweg-has-returned-as-ceo-after-attempt...
57•ilamont•6h ago•110 comments

The GDR and Vietnam: From Fake Coffee to Coffee Empire

https://www.katjahoyer.uk/p/the-gdr-and-vietnam-from-fake-coffee
34•NaOH•3d ago•7 comments

Writing a better reality: The case for optimistic sci-fi

https://honisoit.com/2022/03/writing-a-better-reality-the-case-for-optimistic-sci-fi/
8•andsoitis•2h ago•3 comments

The Coming War on General Computation (2011)

https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Coming_War_on_General_Computation
54•gregsadetsky•2h ago•13 comments

Reverse engineering my e-scooter and rewriting the firmware in Rust

https://bensimms.moe/reverse-engineering-scooter/
394•vinhnx•3d ago•90 comments

Why is the x86 undefined instruction called ud2? Why 2?

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20260910-00/?p=112689
213•ibobev•14h ago•49 comments

Making Startups Powerful

https://paulgraham.com/powerful.html
168•tosh•12h ago•76 comments

I build a mechanical watch face: a real gear train for a watch with no gears

https://myday24.com/blog/how-a-mechanical-watch-face-is-built/
16•tomasslavicek•3d ago•7 comments

CUDA for AMD on Windows

https://github.com/Speedstu/CUDA-for-AMD-Windows
142•chiassedu80•12h ago•72 comments

The Malicious Use of Artificial Intelligence

https://arxiv.org/abs/1802.07228
5•rasengan0•1h ago•0 comments

"Chilling" warning or overreaction? AI bioweapons report divides experts

https://www.science.org/content/article/chilling-warning-or-overreaction-ai-bioweapons-report-div...
10•sbulaev•2h ago•0 comments

Show HN: Exploring the intersection of prediction markets and social media

https://www.thevidmarket.com/
3•ryanpere2298•1h ago•0 comments

Why is privacy so hard?

https://cacm.acm.org/blogcacm/why-is-privacy-so-hard/
32•andsoitis•5h ago•35 comments

Reverse-Engineering Claude Web's MicroVM: Uncovering Anthropic's Hidden Antspace

https://aprilnea.me/en/blog/reverse-engineering-claude-code-antspace
63•rzk•2d ago•14 comments

The contagion of fear

https://bcantrill.dtrace.org/2026/09/13/the-contagion-of-fear/
155•elffjs•4h ago•122 comments

Bad code is kudzu

https://vickiboykis.com/2026/09/01/bad-code-is-kudzu/
42•surprisetalk•3d ago•13 comments

Necker, 1832: "An optical phænomenon on viewing a figure of a geometrical solid"

https://zenodo.org/records/1430991
7•akkartik•2d ago•1 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."