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Ti-84 Evo

https://education.ti.com/en/products/calculators/graphing-calculators/ti-84-evo
343•thatxliner•7h ago•318 comments

Good developers learn to program. Most courses teach a language

https://evilgeniuslabs.ca/blog/good-developers-learn-to-program-not-a-language
60•andsoitis•3h ago•35 comments

Artemis II Photo Timeline

https://artemistimeline.com/#artemis-ii-walkout-nhq202604010003
90•geerlingguy•2d ago•7 comments

New research suggests people can communicate and practice skills while dreaming

https://www.newyorker.com/culture/annals-of-inquiry/its-possible-to-learn-in-our-sleep-should-we
267•XzetaU8•9h ago•145 comments

The smelly baby problem

https://www.worksinprogress.news/p/how-disposable-diapers-conquered
126•dionysou•2d ago•68 comments

A Report on Burnout in Open Source Software Communities (2025) [pdf]

https://mirandaheath.website/static/oss_burnout_report_mh_25.pdf
39•susam•4h ago•9 comments

To Restore an Island Paradise, Add Fungi

https://e360.yale.edu/digest/atoll-islands-sea-level-rise-fungi
11•Brajeshwar•2d ago•0 comments

Direct electrochemical black coffee quality appraisal using cyclic voltammetry

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-026-71526-5
21•bookofjoe•2d ago•3 comments

I'm Peter Roberts, immigration attorney who does work for YC and startups. AMA

130•proberts•12h ago•190 comments

Lib0xc: A set of C standard library-adjacent APIs for safer systems programming

https://github.com/microsoft/lib0xc
91•wooster•8h ago•29 comments

Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2026)

234•whoishiring•12h ago•259 comments

Eka’s robotic claw feels like we're approaching a ChatGPT moment

https://www.wired.com/story/when-robots-have-their-chatgpt-moment-remember-these-pincers/
102•zdw•2d ago•132 comments

Sourcefeed – a pop-up RSS service

https://www.sourcefeed.app/
5•bjhess•3d ago•1 comments

Whohas – Command-line utility for cross-distro, cross-repository package search

https://github.com/whohas/whohas
132•peter_d_sherman•12h ago•31 comments

Show HN: WhatCable, a tiny menu bar app for inspecting USB-C cables

https://github.com/darrylmorley/whatcable
437•sleepingNomad•18h ago•132 comments

Whimsical Animations Course Open House

https://courses.joshwcomeau.com/wham/open-house/00-introduction
77•SpyCoder77•7h ago•9 comments

Tvheadend: Self-Hosted IPTV Server

https://tvheadend.org
13•hyperific•2d ago•5 comments

City Learns Flock Accessed Cameras in Children's Gymnastics Room as a Sales Demo

https://www.404media.co/city-learns-flock-accessed-cameras-in-childrens-gymnastics-room-as-a-sale...
330•joshcsimmons•8h ago•95 comments

Apocalypse Early Warning System

https://ews.kylemcdonald.net/
129•carlsborg•11h ago•73 comments

The gay jailbreak technique

https://github.com/Exocija/ZetaLib/blob/main/The%20Gay%20Jailbreak/The%20Gay%20Jailbreak.md
414•bobsmooth•10h ago•159 comments

Show HN: AI CAD Harness

https://fusion.adam.new/install
70•zachdive•9h ago•69 comments

Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (May 2026)

121•whoishiring•12h ago•252 comments

Understand Anything

https://github.com/Lum1104/Understand-Anything
111•taubek•10h ago•33 comments

Credit cards are vulnerable to brute force kind attacks

https://metin.nextc.org/posts/Credit_Cards_Are_Vulnerable_To_Brute_Force_Kind_Attacks.html
197•kodbraker•7h ago•165 comments

Spotify adds 'Verified' badges to distinguish human artists from AI

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c5yerr4m1yno
219•reconnecting•10h ago•244 comments

AI uses less water than the public thinks

https://californiawaterblog.com/2026/04/26/ai-water-use-distractions-and-lessons-for-california/
352•hirpslop•10h ago•313 comments

Running Adobe's 1991 PostScript Interpreter in the Browser

https://www.pagetable.com/?p=1854
127•ingve•15h ago•29 comments

Artemis II fault tolerance

https://alearningaday.blog/2026/05/01/artemis-ii-fault-tolerance/
67•speckx•9h ago•33 comments

Sally McKee, who coined the term "the memory wall", has died

https://www.online-tribute.com/SallyMcKee
109•deater•12h ago•26 comments

Historic Tennessee hotel is also home to the greatest duck tradition (2016)

https://www.audubon.org/magazine/tennessees-most-historic-hotel-also-home-greatest-duck-tradition
29•NaOH•2d ago•2 comments
Open in hackernews

Building my npx business card

https://ashley.dev/posts/turning-feedback-into-features/
8•edent•11mo ago

Comments

steele•11mo ago
Ooh, free real estate, let's colonize and gentrify package management
aabhay•11mo ago
Lmao, gentrify cracked me up
neilv•11mo ago
Do these npx business cards run arbitrary code on your computer?
cypherpunks01•11mo 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•11mo 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•11mo ago
Yeah, this seems like a very smart but inherently flawed idea.
cypherpunks01•11mo 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•11mo ago
May as well just release an executable tbh.
theamk•11mo 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•11mo 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•11mo 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."