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359•vitaut•7h ago•33 comments

AWS: Inaccurate Estimated Billing Data – $1.7 billion

1192•nprateem•1d ago•708 comments

Thanks HN for 15 years of support and helping me find my life's work

606•nicholasjbs•17h ago•63 comments

Porting nanochat to a TPU: what carries over from PyTorch, and what breaks

https://github.com/tucan9389/nanochat-jax/discussions/1
33•tucan9389•3d ago•4 comments

First atmosphere found on Earth-like planet in habitable zone of distant star

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cy4kdd1e0ejo
461•neversaydie•20h ago•272 comments

Reviving a 15-year-old netbook with Arch Linux

https://parksb.github.io/en/article/41.html
110•parksb•3d ago•72 comments

In-toto: A framework to secure the integrity of software supply chains

https://in-toto.io/
33•Erenay09•1d ago•0 comments

TP-Link Kasa cameras leaked home GPS via unauthenticated UDP for 6 years

https://github.com/BadChemical/IoT-Vulnerability-Research-Public/blob/main/TP-Link_Kasa_EC71/Kasa...
136•BadChemical•12h ago•38 comments

The Zilog Z80 has turned 50

https://goliath32.com/blog/z80.html
224•st_goliath•14h ago•83 comments

Learning a few things about running SQLite

https://jvns.ca/blog/2026/07/17/learning-about-running-sqlite/
257•surprisetalk•16h ago•68 comments

Waldi: A quiet place to write, and to be read

https://github.com/waaldev/waldi
7•waaldev•5d ago•4 comments

Kimi K3, and what we can still learn from the pelican benchmark

https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jul/16/kimi-k3/
342•droidjj•20h ago•183 comments

Stenchill: 3D Printable Solder Paste Stencil Generator

https://www.stenchill.com/en/
58•radeeyate•9h ago•16 comments

Show HN: IKEA Complexity Index

https://ikea.greg.technology/
42•gregsadetsky•6h ago•20 comments

I started a “dirt notebook”

https://pinewind.bearblog.dev/i-started-a-dirt-notebook/
66•herbertl•9h ago•55 comments

Static search trees: 40x faster than binary search (2024)

https://curiouscoding.nl/posts/static-search-tree/
126•lalitmaganti•13h ago•6 comments

Funny item co-occurrences in 3.2M Instacart orders

https://rogerdickey.com/funny-item-co-occurrences-in-3-million-instacart-orders/
3•rogerdickey•2d ago•0 comments

Battery packs: Let's talk about crates, baby

https://smallcultfollowing.com/babysteps/blog/2026/07/15/battery-packs/
24•MeetingsBrowser•1d ago•9 comments

Vāgdhenu: A Sanskrit Chanting TTS System

https://prathosh.in/vagdhenu/
173•subinalex•4d ago•46 comments

An Update on Igalia's Layer Based SVG Engine in WebKit (Reducing Layer Overhead)

https://blogs.igalia.com/nzimmermann/posts/2026-07-14-lbse-conditional-layers/
47•bkardell•3d ago•3 comments

Open Book Touch: open-source e-reader

https://www.crowdsupply.com/oddly-specific-objects/open-book-touch
115•surprisetalk•13h ago•38 comments

Lego building instructions through time

https://www.lego.com/en-us/history/articles/d-lego-building-instructions-through-time
125•NaOH•16h ago•32 comments

Painting the sides of railroad rails white to reduce derailment

https://www.up.com/news/safety/Tracking-Rail-Heat-260608
99•zdw•14h ago•51 comments

DrDroid (YC W23) Is Hiring

https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/drdroid/jobs/w45QcNV-product-engineer-assignment-mandatory
1•TheBengaluruGuy•9h ago

The state of open source AI

https://stateofopensource.ai/
446•rellem•19h ago•319 comments

Topcoat: The full full-stack framework for Rust

https://github.com/tokio-rs/topcoat
83•wertyk•13h ago•40 comments

Show HN: Find someone in the dark – light them or light yourself? (Three.js)

https://github.com/skorotkiewicz/signal-in-the-dark
8•modinfo•3h ago•1 comments

Three ways people respond to a problem (other than solving it)

https://improvesomething.today/responses-to-problems/
243•surprisetalk•20h ago•137 comments

Show HN: A zoomable timeline of 4M Wikipedia events

https://app.everything.diena.co/
94•lortex•15h ago•35 comments

Frank Lloyd Wright’s first home

https://www.architecturaldigest.com/story/frank-lloyd-wright-home-and-studio-everything-you-need-...
102•NaOH•5d ago•53 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."