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Building my npx business card

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

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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."

Tangled – We need a federation of forges

https://blog.tangled.org/federation/
50•icy•18m ago•7 comments

Soft launch of open-source code platform for government

https://www.nldigitalgovernment.nl/news/soft-launch-for-government-open-source-code-platform/
331•e12e•5h ago•100 comments

Ghostty is leaving GitHub

https://mitchellh.com/writing/ghostty-leaving-github
2953•WadeGrimridge•18h ago•886 comments

HashiCorp co-founder says GitHub 'no longer a place for serious work'

https://www.theregister.com/2026/04/29/mitchell_hashimoto_ghostty_quitting_github/
276•terminalbraid•2h ago•142 comments

Letting AI play my game – building an agentic test harness to help play-testing

https://blog.jeffschomay.com/letting-ai-play-my-game
22•jschomay•1h ago•1 comments

Bugs Rust won't catch

https://corrode.dev/blog/bugs-rust-wont-catch/
436•lwhsiao•11h ago•234 comments

GitHub – DOS 1.0: Transcription of Tim Paterson's DOS Printouts

https://github.com/DOS-History/Paterson-Listings
21•s2l•2h ago•0 comments

Before GitHub

https://lucumr.pocoo.org/2026/4/28/before-github/
554•mlex•17h ago•180 comments

Show HN: Adblock-rust Manager – Firefox extension to enable the Brave ad blocker

https://github.com/electricant/adblock-rust-manager
15•electricant•1h ago•8 comments

How ChatGPT serves ads

https://www.buchodi.com/how-chatgpt-serves-ads-heres-the-full-attribution-loop/
413•lmbbuchodi•14h ago•278 comments

Stardex Is Hiring a Founding Customer Success Lead

https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/stardex/jobs/6GCK1HC-founding-customer-success-lead
1•sanketc•2h ago

Improving ICU handovers by learning from Scuderia Ferrari F1 team

https://healthmanagement.org/c/icu/IssueArticle/improving-handovers-by-learning-from-scuderia-fer...
5•embedding-shape•1h ago•1 comments

He asked AI to count carbs 27000 times. It couldn't give the same answer twice

https://www.diabettech.com/i-asked-ai-to-count-my-carbs-27000-times-it-couldnt-give-me-the-same-a...
160•sarusso•1h ago•190 comments

Show HN: Rip.so – a graveyard for dead internet things

https://rip.so
117•bozdemir•4h ago•86 comments

Show HN: Rocky – Rust SQL engine with branches, replay, column lineage

https://github.com/rocky-data/rocky
88•hugocorreia90•23h ago•24 comments

Show HN: Auto-Architecture: Karpathy's Loop, pointed at a CPU

https://github.com/FeSens/auto-arch-tournament/blob/main/docs/auto-arch-tournament-blog-post.md
195•fesens•21h ago•58 comments

HardenedBSD Is Now Officially on Radicle

https://hardenedbsd.org/article/shawn-webb/2026-04-26/hardenedbsd-officially-radicle
108•lftherios•7h ago•25 comments

Coffee with a splash of physics: how to make the most out of your brew

https://physicsworld.com/a/coffee-with-a-splash-of-physics-how-to-make-the-most-out-of-your-brew/
29•sohkamyung•2h ago•12 comments

Withnail's Coat and I

https://ontherow.substack.com/p/withnails-coat-and-i
113•apollinaire•1d ago•14 comments

OpenAI models coming to Amazon Bedrock: Interview with OpenAI and AWS CEOs

https://stratechery.com/2026/an-interview-with-openai-ceo-sam-altman-and-aws-ceo-matt-garman-abou...
293•translocator•18h ago•97 comments

Low-Compilation-Cost Register Allocation in LLVM-Based Binary Translation

https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/3767295.3803591
43•matt_d•7h ago•1 comments

GitHub RCE Vulnerability: CVE-2026-3854 Breakdown

https://www.wiz.io/blog/github-rce-vulnerability-cve-2026-3854
403•bo0tzz•22h ago•86 comments

Who owns the code Claude Code wrote?

https://legallayer.substack.com/p/who-owns-the-claude-code-wrote
464•senaevren•1d ago•435 comments

I won a championship that doesn't exist

https://ron.stoner.com/How_I_Won_a_Championship_That_Doesnt_Exist/
208•SEJeff•17h ago•111 comments

Talkie: a 13B vintage language model from 1930

https://talkie-lm.com/introducing-talkie
719•jekude•1d ago•306 comments

Warp is now open-source

https://www.warp.dev/blog/warp-is-now-open-source
322•meetpateltech•22h ago•96 comments

Gallium oxide electronics withstand extreme cold

https://discovery.kaust.edu.sa/en/article/26858/gallium-oxide-electronics-withstand-extreme-cold/
62•giuliomagnifico•2d ago•6 comments

Your phone is about to stop being yours

https://keepandroidopen.org/en/
1522•doener•22h ago•737 comments

Behavioral timescale synaptic plasticity rewires the brain after an experience

https://www.quantamagazine.org/a-new-type-of-neuroplasticity-rewires-the-brain-after-a-single-exp...
138•ibobev•2d ago•9 comments

Intel Arc Pro B70 Review

https://www.pugetsystems.com/labs/articles/intel-arc-pro-b70-review/
183•zdw•5d ago•112 comments