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Building my npx business card

https://ashley.dev/posts/turning-feedback-into-features/
8•edent•9mo ago

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steele•9mo ago
Ooh, free real estate, let's colonize and gentrify package management
aabhay•9mo ago
Lmao, gentrify cracked me up
neilv•9mo ago
Do these npx business cards run arbitrary code on your computer?
cypherpunks01•9mo 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•9mo 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•9mo ago
Yeah, this seems like a very smart but inherently flawed idea.
cypherpunks01•9mo 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•9mo ago
May as well just release an executable tbh.
theamk•9mo 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•9mo 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•9mo 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."

Tony Hoare has died

https://blog.computationalcomplexity.org/2026/03/tony-hoare-1934-2026.html
644•speckx•2h ago•67 comments

Debian decides not to decide on AI-generated contributions

https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/1061544/125f911834966dd0/
129•jwilk•2h ago•92 comments

Show HN: RunAnwhere – Faster AI Inference on Apple Silicon

https://github.com/RunanywhereAI/rcli
9•sanchitmonga22•14m ago•0 comments

Intel Demos Chip to Compute with Encrypted Data

https://spectrum.ieee.org/fhe-intel
141•sohkamyung•4h ago•48 comments

I built a programming language using Claude Code

https://ankursethi.com/blog/programming-language-claude-code/
11•GeneralMaximus•51m ago•12 comments

I put my whole life into a single database

https://howisfelix.today/
329•lukakopajtic•7h ago•155 comments

Launch HN: Didit (YC W26) – Stripe for Identity Verification

29•rosasalberto•2h ago•28 comments

Show HN: How I Topped the HuggingFace Open LLM Leaderboard on Two Gaming GPUs

https://dnhkng.github.io/posts/rys/
109•dnhkng•4h ago•41 comments

Meta acquires Moltbook

https://www.axios.com/2026/03/10/meta-facebook-moltbook-agent-social-network
167•mmayberry•2h ago•98 comments

Online age-verification tools for child safety are surveilling adults

https://www.cnbc.com/2026/03/08/social-media-child-safety-internet-ai-surveillance.html
307•bilsbie•4h ago•177 comments

Rebasing in Magit

https://entropicthoughts.com/rebasing-in-magit
124•ibobev•3h ago•84 comments

The Gervais Principle, or the Office According to "The Office" (2009)

https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2009/10/07/the-gervais-principle-or-the-office-according-to-the-office/
218•janandonly•3d ago•93 comments

Amazon is holding a mandatory meeting about AI breaking its systems

https://twitter.com/lukolejnik/status/2031257644724342957
208•lwhsiao•2h ago•139 comments

PgAdmin 4 9.13 with AI Assistant Panel

https://www.pgadmin.org/docs/pgadmin4/9.13/query_tool.html#ai-assistant-panel
58•__natty__•5h ago•18 comments

Yann LeCun's AI startup raises $1B in Europe's largest ever seed round

https://www.ft.com/content/e5245ec3-1a58-4eff-ab58-480b6259aaf1
369•ottomengis•6h ago•193 comments

Sending Jabber/XMPP Messages via HTTP

https://gultsch.de/posts/xmpp-via-http/
36•inputmice•3h ago•5 comments

How many options fit into a boolean?

https://herecomesthemoon.net/2025/11/how-many-options-fit-into-a-boolean/
25•luu•3d ago•5 comments

Show HN: DD Photos – open-source photo album site generator (Go and SvelteKit)

https://github.com/dougdonohoe/ddphotos
37•dougdonohoe•4h ago•9 comments

I used pulsar detection techniques to turn a phone into a watch timegrapher

https://www.chronolog.watch/timegrapher
10•tylerjaywood•2d ago•2 comments

A New Version of Our Oracle Solaris Environment for Developers

https://blogs.oracle.com/solaris/announcing-a-new-version-of-our-oracle-solaris-environment-for-d...
32•naves•2d ago•17 comments

Caxlsx: Ruby gem for xlsx generation with charts, images, schema validation

https://github.com/caxlsx/caxlsx
53•earcar•4d ago•3 comments

Practical Guide to Bare Metal C++

https://arobenko.github.io/bare_metal_cpp/#_abstract_classes
89•ibobev•3d ago•31 comments

Two Years of Emacs Solo

https://www.rahuljuliato.com/posts/emacs-solo-two-years
329•celadevra_•17h ago•122 comments

LoGeR – 3D reconstruction from extremely long videos (DeepMind, UC Berkeley)

https://loger-project.github.io
119•helloplanets•11h ago•26 comments

$3 ChromeOS Flex stick will revive old and outdated computers

https://9to5google.com/2026/03/10/this-3-chromeos-stick-will-revive-old-and-outdated-computers/
15•pentagrama•1h ago•13 comments

Lotus 1-2-3 on the PC with DOS

https://stonetools.ghost.io/lotus123-dos/
161•TMWNN•3d ago•63 comments

Traffic from Russia to Cloudflare is 60% down from last year

https://radar.cloudflare.com/traffic/ru?dateRange=52w
93•secondary_op•4h ago•47 comments

TCXO Failure Analysis

https://serd.es/2026/03/06/TCXO-failure-analysis.html
87•zdw•3d ago•38 comments

No, it doesn't cost Anthropic $5k per Claude Code user

https://martinalderson.com/posts/no-it-doesnt-cost-anthropic-5k-per-claude-code-user/
401•jnord•18h ago•293 comments

Microsoft Copilot Update Hijacks Default Browser Links

https://reclaimthenet.org/microsoft-copilot-update-hijacks-default-browser-links
9•miohtama•24m ago•0 comments