frontpage.
newsnewestaskshowjobs

Made with ♥ by @iamnishanth

Open Source @Github

fp.

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."

Elixir v1.20: Now a gradually typed language

https://elixir-lang.org/blog/2026/06/03/elixir-v1-20-0-released/
529•cloud8421•6h ago•188 comments

Gemma 4 12B: A unified, encoder-free multimodal model

https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/technology/developers-tools/introducing-gemma-4-12b/
674•rvz•9h ago•288 comments

The ways we contain Claude across products

https://www.anthropic.com/engineering/how-we-contain-claude
16•jbredeche•54m ago•2 comments

I was recently diagnosed with anti-NMDA receptor encephalitis

https://burntsushi.net/encephalitis/
489•Tomte•11h ago•144 comments

Artificial intelligence is not conscious – Ted Chiang

https://www.theatlantic.com/philosophy/2026/06/no-artificial-intelligence-is-not-conscious/687378/
213•lordleft•7h ago•394 comments

Meteor Explodes over Massachusetts

https://www.nbcboston.com/news/local/meteor-explodes-over-massachusetts-what-we-know-and-where-it...
42•1970-01-01•2d ago•15 comments

DaVinci Resolve 21

https://www.blackmagicdesign.com/products/davinciresolve/whatsnew
386•pentagrama•11h ago•183 comments

Uber's $1,500/month AI limit is a useful signal for AI tool pricing

https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jun/3/uber-caps-usage/
362•pdyc•12h ago•463 comments

I built a vulnerable app and spent $1,500 seeing if LLMs could hack it

https://kasra.blog/blog/i-spent-1500-seeing-if-llms-could-hack-my-app/
7•jc4p•26m ago•0 comments

Journey to JPEG XL: open-source experiments shaped the future of image coding

https://opensource.googleblog.com/2026/06/journey-to-jpeg-xl-how-open-source-experiments-shaped-t...
34•ledoge•3h ago•15 comments

The Ü Programming Language

https://github.com/Panzerschrek/U-00DC-Sprache/
20•deterministic•1h ago•9 comments

Pwnd Blaster: Hacking your PC using your speaker without ever touching it

https://blog.nns.ee/2026/06/03/katana-badusb/
645•xx_ns•14h ago•104 comments

Ableton Extensions SDK

https://www.ableton.com/en/live/extensions/
64•bennett_dev•4h ago•29 comments

A Man Who Reads Books for a Living (One Every Two Days)

https://lithub.com/the-man-who-reads-books-for-a-living-one-every-two-days/
74•gmays•5h ago•47 comments

Mobile won the platform war on distribution, not capability

https://prashamhtrivedi.in/mobile-lost-on-distribution/
6•prash2488•3d ago•0 comments

Gooey: A GPU-accelerated UI framework for Zig

https://github.com/duanebester/gooey
135•ksec•8h ago•46 comments

Launch HN: Hyper (YC P26) – Company brain to power agentic development

50•shalinshah•7h ago•54 comments

A Post-Quantum Future for Let's Encrypt

https://letsencrypt.org/2026/06/03/pq-certs
215•SGran•10h ago•122 comments

ESP32-S31

https://www.espressif.com/en/products/socs/esp32-s31
249•volemo•9h ago•141 comments

Patching my guitar amp's firmware

https://mforney.org/blog/2026-05-28-patching-my-guitar-amps-firmware.html
30•birdculture•3d ago•3 comments

A Mathematician's Lament – Paul Lockhart (2002) [pdf]

https://worrydream.com/refs/Lockhart_2002_-_A_Mathematician%27s_Lament.pdf
28•xeonmc•3h ago•1 comments

Self-hosted dev sandboxes with preview URLs (Docker, Go, no K8s)

https://github.com/tastyeffectco/sandboxes
47•tastyeffectco•5h ago•10 comments

Skyvern (YC S23) Is Hiring Open-Source Loving DevRel Engineers

https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/skyvern/jobs/1qRTlVx-founding-developer-marketing-open-sour...
1•suchintan•8h ago

Stop Killing Games

https://jxself.org/stop-killing-games.shtml
186•amcclure•2d ago•175 comments

Embryos shape their limbs: a key discovery of "genetic brakes"

https://nouvelles.umontreal.ca/en/article/2026/06/02/how-embryos-shape-their-limbs-a-key-discover...
50•gmays•7h ago•2 comments

Mathematicians issue warning as AI rapidly gains ground

https://www.science.org/content/article/mathematicians-issue-warning-ai-rapidly-gains-ground
173•pseudolus•15h ago•215 comments

Brume is a 24-voice multi-timbral desktop synth for the CM5

https://brume.aftertone.co/
46•oceanwaves•5h ago•24 comments

Show HN: Mnemo – local-first AI memory layer for any LLM (Rust, SQLite,petgraph)

https://github.com/zaydmulani09/mnemo
23•zaydmulani•4h ago•14 comments

PlayStation Architecture

https://www.copetti.org/writings/consoles/playstation/
251•gregsadetsky•14h ago•50 comments

Every Byte Matters

https://fzakaria.com/2026/06/01/every-byte-matters
229•ingve•14h ago•111 comments