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•11mo ago

Comments

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."

Canvas is down as ShinyHunters threatens to leak schools’ data

https://www.theverge.com/tech/926458/canvas-shinyhunters-breach
650•stefanpie•11h ago•396 comments

Cloudflare to cut about 20% workforce

https://www.reuters.com/business/world-at-work/cloudflare-cut-over-1100-jobs-2026-05-07/
751•PriorityLeft•13h ago•487 comments

Maybe you shouldn't install new software for a bit

https://xeiaso.net/blog/2026/abstain-from-install/
526•psxuaw•11h ago•278 comments

ClojureScript Gets Async/Await

https://clojurescript.org/news/2026-05-07-release
63•Borkdude•3h ago•15 comments

Dirtyfrag: Universal Linux LPE

https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2026/05/07/8
647•flipped•14h ago•261 comments

Nintendo announces price increases for Nintendo Switch 2

https://www.nintendo.co.jp/corporate/release/en/2026/260508.html
17•razorbeamz•3h ago•10 comments

The map that keeps Burning Man honest

https://www.not-ship.com/burning-man-moop/
652•speckx•20h ago•319 comments

The surprisingly complex journey to text-selectable client-side generated PDFs

https://sdocs.dev/blogs/journey-to-pdf-generation
14•FailMore•1d ago•2 comments

Pinocchio is weirder than you remembered

https://storica.club/blog/pinocchio-in-italian/
150•cemsakarya•1d ago•66 comments

A polynomial autoencoder beats PCA on transformer embeddings

https://ivanpleshkov.dev/blog/polynomial-autoencoder/
44•timvisee•2d ago•14 comments

Agents need control flow, not more prompts

https://bsuh.bearblog.dev/agents-need-control-flow/
470•bsuh•17h ago•228 comments

Dithering with CSS

https://ikesau.co/blog/dithering-with-css/
12•speckx•3d ago•6 comments

Floats Don't Agree with Themselves

https://docs.merca.earth/blog/floats-dont-agree-with-themselves
14•cremer•1d ago•3 comments

Blaise – A modern self-hosting zero-legacy Object Pascal compiler targeting QBE

https://github.com/graemeg/blaise
48•peter_d_sherman•5h ago•16 comments

Natural Language Autoencoders: Turning Claude's Thoughts into Text

https://www.anthropic.com/research/natural-language-autoencoders
281•instagraham•16h ago•94 comments

Ask HN: We just had an actual UUID v4 collision...

25•mittermayr•2h ago•25 comments

DeepSeek 4 Flash local inference engine for Metal

https://github.com/antirez/ds4
390•tamnd•18h ago•109 comments

AlphaEvolve: Gemini-powered coding agent scaling impact across fields

https://deepmind.google/blog/alphaevolve-impact/
294•berlianta•19h ago•123 comments

Brazil's Pix payment system faces pressure from Visa and Mastercard

https://www.elciudadano.com/en/brazils-pix-payment-system-faces-pressure-from-visa-and-mastercard...
203•wslh•16h ago•179 comments

Singapore introduces caning for boys who bully others at school

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/may/06/singapore-caning-school-bullies
186•rustoo•2d ago•260 comments

Plasticity and language in the anaesthetized human hippocampus

https://www.bcm.edu/news/researchers-discover-advanced-language-processing-in-the-unconscious-hum...
108•hhs•11h ago•42 comments

GNU IFUNC is the real culprit behind CVE-2024-3094

https://github.com/robertdfrench/ifuncd-up
80•foltik•10h ago•35 comments

Digging into Drama at the Document Foundation

https://lwn.net/Articles/1066418/
32•signa11•6h ago•3 comments

How to make SSE token streams resumable, cancellable, and multi-device

https://zknill.io/posts/everyone-said-sse-token-streaming-was-easy/
34•zknill•1d ago•4 comments

AI slop is killing online communities

https://rmoff.net/2026/05/06/ai-slop-is-killing-online-communities/
666•thm•15h ago•572 comments

Hardening Firefox with Claude Mythos Preview

https://hacks.mozilla.org/2026/05/behind-the-scenes-hardening-firefox/
193•HieronymusBosch•18h ago•91 comments

Rumors of my death are slightly exaggerated

295•CliffStoll•1d ago•48 comments

Two Home Affairs officials suspended after AI 'hallucinations' found

https://www.citizen.co.za/news/home-affairs-officials-suspended-ai-hallucinations/
99•jruohonen•14h ago•22 comments

Nonprofit hospitals spend billions on consultants with no clear effect

https://www.uchicagomedicine.org/forefront/research-and-discoveries-articles/nonprofit-hospitals-...
155•hhs•11h ago•53 comments

Los Alamos and the long path to detecting neutrinos

https://www.lanl.gov/media/publications/1663/from-ghost-particle-to-cosmic-messenger
32•LAsteNERD•1d ago•3 comments