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Building my npx business card

https://ashley.dev/posts/turning-feedback-into-features/
8•edent•7mo ago

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steele•7mo ago
Ooh, free real estate, let's colonize and gentrify package management
aabhay•7mo ago
Lmao, gentrify cracked me up
neilv•7mo ago
Do these npx business cards run arbitrary code on your computer?
cypherpunks01•7mo 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•7mo 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•7mo ago
Yeah, this seems like a very smart but inherently flawed idea.
cypherpunks01•7mo 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•7mo ago
May as well just release an executable tbh.
theamk•7mo 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•7mo 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•7mo 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."

Python 3.15’s interpreter for Windows x86-64 should hopefully be 15% faster

https://fidget-spinner.github.io/posts/no-longer-sorry.html
259•lumpa•8h ago•82 comments

CUDA Tile Open Sourced

https://github.com/NVIDIA/cuda-tile
86•JonChesterfield•6d ago•17 comments

The entire New Yorker archive is now digitized

https://www.newyorker.com/news/press-room/the-entire-new-yorker-archive-is-now-fully-digitized
250•thm•5d ago•37 comments

Archiving Git Branches as Tags

https://etc.octavore.com/2025/12/archiving-git-branches-as-tags/
37•octavore•3d ago•11 comments

I sell onions on the Internet (2019)

https://www.deepsouthventures.com/i-sell-onions-on-the-internet/
290•sogen•5h ago•80 comments

Show HN: Lamp Carousel – DIY kinetic sculpture powered by lamp heat (2024)

https://evan.widloski.com/posts/spinners/
41•Evidlo•1d ago•3 comments

All I Want for Christmas Is Your Secrets: LangGrinch hits LangChain Core

https://cyata.ai/blog/langgrinch-langchain-core-cve-2025-68664/
28•shahartal•3h ago•10 comments

Asahi Linux with Sway on the MacBook Air M2 (2024)

https://daniel.lawrence.lu/blog/2024-12-01-asahi-linux-with-sway-on-the-macbook-air-m2/
130•andsoitis•7h ago•102 comments

Alzheimer’s disease can be reversed in animal models? Study

https://case.edu/news/new-study-shows-alzheimers-disease-can-be-reversed-achieve-full-neurologica...
377•thunderbong•6h ago•81 comments

Phoenix: A modern X server written from scratch in Zig

https://git.dec05eba.com/phoenix/about/
600•snvzz•22h ago•351 comments

Geometric Algorithms for Translucency Sorting in Minecraft [pdf]

https://douira.dev/assets/document/douira-master-thesis.pdf
14•HeliumHydride•6d ago•2 comments

We invited a man into our home at Christmas and he stayed with us for 45 years

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cdxwllqz1l0o
796•rajeshrajappan•10h ago•194 comments

Tell HN: Merry Christmas

1803•basilikum•22h ago•395 comments

Clearspace (YC W23) Is Hiring a Founding Network Engineer (VPN and Proxy)

https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/clearspace/jobs/5LtM86I-founding-network-engineer-at-clears...
1•anteloper•4h ago

Toys with the highest play-time and lowest clean-up-time

https://joannabregan.substack.com/p/toys-with-the-highest-play-time-and
212•surprisetalk•1w ago•128 comments

The Inner-Platform Effect (2006)

https://thedailywtf.com/articles/The_Inner-Platform_Effect
27•birdculture•3d ago•4 comments

URL Pattern API

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/URL_Pattern_API
12•thunderbong•1h ago•4 comments

Show HN: Spice Cayenne – SQL acceleration built on Vortex

https://spice.ai/blog/introducing-spice-cayenne-data-accelerator
30•lukekim•1w ago•3 comments

The First Photographs of Snowflakes Discover the Groundbreaking Microphotography (2017)

https://www.openculture.com/2017/12/the-first-photographs-of-snowflakes.html
81•_____k•6d ago•13 comments

Show HN: Minimalist editor that lives in browser, stores everything in the URL

https://github.com/antonmedv/textarea
419•medv•1d ago•154 comments

Who Watches the Waymos? I do [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oYU2hAbx_Fc
253•notgloating•21h ago•88 comments

Fabrice Bellard Releases MicroQuickJS

https://github.com/bellard/mquickjs/blob/main/README.md
1424•Aissen•2d ago•537 comments

Asterisk AI Voice Agent

https://github.com/hkjarral/Asterisk-AI-Voice-Agent
176•akrulino•22h ago•99 comments

Ruby 4.0.0

https://www.ruby-lang.org/en/news/2025/12/25/ruby-4-0-0-released/
640•FBISurveillance•17h ago•144 comments

Show HN: Exploring Mathematics with Python

https://coe.psu.ac.th/ad/explore/
207•Andrew2565•6d ago•20 comments

Ask HN: How do I bridge the gap between PhD and SWE experiences?

59•ecophyseis•1w ago•49 comments

Fabrice Bellard: Biography (2009) [pdf]

https://www.ipaidia.gr/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/117-2020-fabrice-bellard.pdf
334•lioeters•1d ago•114 comments

Self-referencing Page Tables for the x86-Architecture

https://0l.de/blog/2015/01/bachelor-thesis-abstract/
53•stv0g•12h ago•8 comments

CSRF protection without tokens or hidden form fields

https://blog.miguelgrinberg.com/post/csrf-protection-without-tokens-or-hidden-form-fields
284•adevilinyc•3d ago•101 comments

Quantum Error Correction Goes FOOM

https://algassert.com/post/2503
55•EvgeniyZh•12h ago•14 comments