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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."

HERMES.md: Anthropic bug causes $200 extra charge, refuses refund

https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues/53262
403•homebrewer•1h ago•139 comments

Zed 1.0

https://zed.dev/blog/zed-1-0
1148•salkahfi•5h ago•370 comments

Copy Fail – CVE-2026-31431

https://copy.fail/
191•unsnap_biceps•1h ago•90 comments

Kyoto cherry blossoms now bloom earlier than at any point in 1,200 years

https://jivx.com/kyoto-bloom
27•momentmaker•32m ago•2 comments

FastCGI: 30 years old and still the better protocol for reverse proxies

https://www.agwa.name/blog/post/fastcgi_is_the_better_protocol_for_reverse_proxies
143•agwa•3h ago•36 comments

Cursor Camp

https://neal.fun/cursor-camp/
272•bpierre•4h ago•36 comments

Ramp's Sheets AI Exfiltrates Financials

https://www.promptarmor.com/resources/ramps-sheets-ai-exfiltrates-financials
51•takira•2h ago•15 comments

"People who don't use AI will be left behind"

https://migrainebrain.bearblog.dev/people-who-dont-use-ai-will-be-left-behind/
75•speckx•49m ago•60 comments

We need a federation of forges

https://blog.tangled.org/federation/
439•icy•6h ago•267 comments

Laws of UX

https://lawsofux.com/
70•bobbiechen•3h ago•9 comments

An open-source stethoscope that costs between $2.5 and $5 to produce

https://github.com/GliaX/Stethoscope
111•0x54MUR41•5h ago•50 comments

Third Editor Fired in Elsevier's Citation Cartel Crackdown

https://www.chrisbrunet.com/p/third-editor-fired-in-elseviers-citation
135•RigbyTaro•4h ago•37 comments

Online age verification is the hill to die on

https://x.com/GlennMeder/status/2049088498163216560
496•Cider9986•4h ago•318 comments

Soft launch of open-source code platform for government

https://www.nldigitalgovernment.nl/news/soft-launch-for-government-open-source-code-platform/
468•e12e•10h ago•111 comments

Why I still reach for Lisp and Scheme instead of Haskell

https://jointhefreeworld.org/blog/articles/lisps/why-i-still-reach-for-scheme-instead-of-haskell/...
61•jjba23•11h ago•11 comments

How to Build the Future: Demis Hassabis [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JNyuX1zoOgU
38•sandslash•5h ago•19 comments

Linux 7.0 Broke PostgreSQL: The Preemption Regression Explained

https://read.thecoder.cafe/p/linux-broke-postgresql
108•0xKelsey•4h ago•52 comments

Bugs Rust won't catch

https://corrode.dev/blog/bugs-rust-wont-catch/
590•lwhsiao•17h ago•320 comments

Show HN: A new benchmark for testing LLMs for deterministic outputs

https://interfaze.ai/blog/introducing-structured-output-benchmark
34•khurdula•4h ago•13 comments

Mistral Medium 3.5

https://mistral.ai/news/vibe-remote-agents-mistral-medium-3-5
306•meetpateltech•4h ago•168 comments

Maryland becomes first state to ban surveillance pricing in grocery stores

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/apr/29/maryland-grocery-stores-ban-surveillance-pricing
132•01-_-•3h ago•93 comments

Stardex Is Hiring a Founding Customer Success Lead

https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/stardex/jobs/6GCK1HC-founding-customer-success-lead
1•sanketc•8h ago

At Protocol: Building the Social Internet

https://atproto.com/
30•resiros•3h ago•11 comments

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

https://blog.jeffschomay.com/letting-ai-play-my-game
104•jschomay•7h ago•21 comments

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

https://github.com/DOS-History/Paterson-Listings
92•s2l•8h ago•5 comments

Ghostty is leaving GitHub

https://mitchellh.com/writing/ghostty-leaving-github
3266•WadeGrimridge•1d ago•964 comments

Virtualisation on Apple Silicon Macs is different

https://eclecticlight.co/2026/04/29/virtualisation-on-apple-silicon-macs-is-different/
28•zdw•3h ago•7 comments

Before GitHub

https://lucumr.pocoo.org/2026/4/28/before-github/
631•mlex•22h ago•205 comments

Improving ICU handovers by learning from Scuderia Ferrari F1 team

https://healthmanagement.org/c/icu/IssueArticle/improving-handovers-by-learning-from-scuderia-fer...
50•embedding-shape•6h ago•50 comments

How ChatGPT serves ads

https://www.buchodi.com/how-chatgpt-serves-ads-heres-the-full-attribution-loop/
474•lmbbuchodi•20h ago•330 comments