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Building my npx business card

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

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steele•8mo ago
Ooh, free real estate, let's colonize and gentrify package management
aabhay•8mo ago
Lmao, gentrify cracked me up
neilv•8mo ago
Do these npx business cards run arbitrary code on your computer?
cypherpunks01•8mo 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•8mo 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•8mo ago
Yeah, this seems like a very smart but inherently flawed idea.
cypherpunks01•8mo 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•8mo ago
May as well just release an executable tbh.
theamk•8mo 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•8mo 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•8mo 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."

East Germany balloon escape

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East_Germany_balloon_escape
107•robertvc•4h ago•19 comments

Cloudflare acquires Astro

https://astro.build/blog/joining-cloudflare/
617•todotask2•7h ago•305 comments

6-Day and IP Address Certificates Are Generally Available

https://letsencrypt.org/2026/01/15/6day-and-ip-general-availability
280•jaas•6h ago•178 comments

Michelangelo's first painting, created when he was 12 or 13

https://www.openculture.com/2026/01/discover-michelangelos-first-painting.html
263•bookofjoe•8h ago•144 comments

Cursor's latest “browser experiment” implied success without evidence

https://embedding-shapes.github.io/cursor-implied-success-without-evidence/
280•embedding-shape•7h ago•122 comments

Just the Browser

https://justthebrowser.com/
442•cl3misch•10h ago•225 comments

LLM Structured Outputs Handbook

https://nanonets.com/cookbooks/structured-llm-outputs
10•vitaelabitur•1d ago•0 comments

Lock-Picking Robot

https://github.com/etinaude/Lock-Picking-Robot
216•p44v9n•4d ago•98 comments

Slop is everywhere for those with eyes to see

https://www.fromjason.xyz/p/notebook/slop-is-everywhere-for-those-with-eyes-to-see/
89•speckx•2h ago•46 comments

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https://pieterma.es/syntopic-reading-claude/
25•gmays•3h ago•9 comments

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https://www.shimmer.care/indy-redirect
55•christalwang•5h ago•62 comments

STFU

https://github.com/Pankajtanwarbanna/stfu
496•tanelpoder•4h ago•358 comments

Why DuckDB is my first choice for data processing

https://www.robinlinacre.com/recommend_duckdb/
169•tosh•11h ago•66 comments

Dev-owned testing: Why it fails in practice and succeeds in theory

https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3780063.3780066
92•rbanffy•8h ago•113 comments

LWN is currently under the heaviest scraper attack seen yet

https://social.kernel.org/notice/B2JlhcxNTfI8oDVoyO
105•luu•1h ago•47 comments

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https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/zep-ai/jobs/
1•roseway4•5h ago

Elasticsearch was never a database

https://www.paradedb.com/blog/elasticsearch-was-never-a-database
73•jamesgresql•5d ago•64 comments

Read_once(), Write_once(), but Not for Rust

https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/1053142/8ec93e58d5d3cc06/
95•todsacerdoti•7h ago•30 comments

Independent Guest Virtual Machine (IGVM) File Format

https://github.com/microsoft/igvm
13•ingve•1d ago•0 comments

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https://github.com/21st-dev/1code
37•Bunas•1d ago•22 comments

The Alignment Game (2023)

https://dmvaldman.github.io/alignment-game/
26•dmvaldman•22h ago•4 comments

The First PC Virus

https://www.bbc.com/audio/play/w3ct7479
9•andsoitis•4d ago•1 comments

Emoji Use in the Electronic Health Record is Increasing

https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamanetworkopen/fullarticle/2843883
35•giuliomagnifico•4h ago•34 comments

Our approach to advertising

https://openai.com/index/our-approach-to-advertising-and-expanding-access/
159•rvz•4h ago•116 comments

Feature Selection: A Primer

https://ikromshi.com/2025/12/30/feature-selection-primer.html
17•ikromshi•4d ago•0 comments

psc: The ps utility, with an eBPF twist and container context

https://github.com/loresuso/psc
70•tanelpoder•8h ago•25 comments

How to wrangle non-deterministic AI outputs into conventional software? (2025)

https://www.domainlanguage.com/articles/ai-components-deterministic-system/
22•druther•15h ago•14 comments

Interactive eBPF

https://ebpf.party/
198•samuel246•14h ago•9 comments

Ask HN: Claude Opus performance affected by time of day?

14•scaredreally•4h ago•15 comments

Earth from Space: The Fate of a Giant

https://www.esa.int/ESA_Multimedia/Images/2026/01/Earth_from_Space_The_fate_of_a_giant
21•geox•3h ago•2 comments