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Building my npx business card

https://ashley.dev/posts/turning-feedback-into-features/
8•edent•1y ago

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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."

The newest Instagram “exploit” is the goofiest I've seen

https://www.0xsid.com/blog/meta-account-takeover-fiasco
1192•ssiddharth•7h ago•293 comments

Debug Project

https://debug.com/
116•Eridanus2•3h ago•47 comments

AI Agent Guidelines for CS336 at Stanford

https://github.com/stanford-cs336/assignment1-basics/blob/main/CLAUDE.md
288•prakashqwerty•7h ago•108 comments

Should you normalize RGB values by 255 or 256?

https://30fps.net/pages/255-vs-256-division/
163•pplanu•6h ago•69 comments

CS336: Language Modeling from Scratch

https://cs336.stanford.edu/
331•kristianpaul•9h ago•41 comments

OpenAI frontier models and Codex are now available on AWS

https://openai.com/index/openai-frontier-models-and-codex-are-now-available-on-aws/
24•typpo•1h ago•3 comments

GrapheneOS Speech Services version 2 released

https://discuss.grapheneos.org/d/36001-grapheneos-speech-services-version-2-released
76•pretext•5h ago•13 comments

What appear to be biochemical processes may be a natural feature of geology

https://www.quantamagazine.org/the-dirt-that-refused-to-die-20260601/
182•speckx•8h ago•53 comments

Stealing from Biologists to Compile Haskell Faster

https://www.iankduncan.com/engineering/2026-05-30-stealing-from-biologists-to-compile-haskell-fas...
81•mooreds•2d ago•4 comments

Nvidia RTX Spark

https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/products/rtx-spark/
298•shenli3514•18h ago•243 comments

Microsoft builds MacBook Pro rival with NVIDIA-powered Surface Laptop Ultra

https://www.windowslatest.com/2026/06/01/microsoft-builds-its-ultimate-macbook-pro-rival-with-the...
110•jbk•11h ago•296 comments

Ask HN: Who is hiring? (June 2026)

142•whoishiring•8h ago•210 comments

I made my phone slow on purpose

https://vinewallapp.com/notes/i-made-my-phone-slow-on-purpose/
159•gcampos•4d ago•141 comments

Launch HN: Expanse (YC P26) – Unlock Wasted GPU Capacity

67•ismaeel_bashir•10h ago•20 comments

Anthropic confidentially submits draft S-1 to the SEC

https://www.anthropic.com/news/confidential-draft-s1-sec
421•surprisetalk•7h ago•334 comments

Windows GOG DOS Games on M-Series Macs

https://f055.net/technology/windows-gog-dos-games-on-m-series-macs/
131•f055•10h ago•77 comments

Show HN: DepsGuard – one command to harden NPM/pnpm/yarn/bun/uv configs

https://github.com/arnica/depsguard
6•eranation•6h ago•0 comments

Only 17% of all 64-bit Integers are products of two 32-bit integers

https://lemire.me/blog/2026/05/22/only-17-of-all-64-bit-integers-are-products-of-two-32-bit-integ...
186•sebg•4d ago•88 comments

GitHub and the crime against software

https://eblog.fly.dev/githubbad.html
180•pplanu•4h ago•76 comments

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

81•whoishiring•8h ago•248 comments

Flipper Zero Zig Template

https://github.com/NishantJoshi00/flipper-template
122•Nars088•10h ago•9 comments

Malicious npm packages detected across Red Hat Cloud Services

https://github.com/RedHatInsights/javascript-clients/issues/492
712•kurmiashish•10h ago•402 comments

The Pirate Bay Remains Resilient, 20 Years After the Raid

https://torrentfreak.com/the-pirate-bay-remains-resilient-20-years-after-the-raid/
473•speckx•9h ago•235 comments

Medium Access Control Protocols

https://jasonfantl.com/posts/Multiple-Access-Protocols/
3•jfantl•1d ago•0 comments

Florida sues OpenAI and Sam Altman over AI risks

https://www.politico.com/news/2026/06/01/openai-hit-with-florida-lawsuit-00944215
168•cyunker•7h ago•152 comments

Building a custom mount for a telescoping webcam

https://john.mercouris.online/webcam-mount.html
10•jmercouris•2d ago•2 comments

Sysadmining Like It's 2009

https://lambdacreate.com/posts/sysadmining-like-its-2009
84•yacin•9h ago•36 comments

Linux Basics for Hackers (2019)

https://github.com/ahegazy0/linux-basics-for-hackers-notes
123•ibobev•10h ago•22 comments

Handmade Hawaiian Islands Map

https://www.notesfromtheroad.com/roam/hawaiian-islands-map.html
49•bovermyer•2d ago•16 comments

Show HN: A free Linux adaptation of NETworkManager by BornToBeRoot

https://github.com/thongor77/nmlinux
14•magetriste•2d ago•3 comments