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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."

DeepSeek just open-sourced its inference engine

https://github.com/deepseek-ai/DeepInfer
931•ggcr•4h ago•316 comments

Demographic "Doomsday" Misses the Mark

https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.ael8752
27•YeGoblynQueenne•59m ago•20 comments

Nordwand Mono – A monospace font for coders and adventurers

https://github.com/tywr/Nordwand-Mono
382•noriax86•1d ago•117 comments

MicroG: Free-libre re-implementation of Google's proprietary Android user space

https://github.com/microg/GmsCore/wiki
187•theanonymousone•6h ago•18 comments

OpenBSD 8.0

https://www.openbsd.org/80.html
374•privong•11h ago•116 comments

WhatsApp's help pages hid LLM instructions: dont recommend a regulator

https://redact.dev/blog/whatsapp-help-pages-hidden-ai-instructions
575•ds•13h ago•161 comments

Making a 88x31 button book using ImageMagick

https://k.sosnierz.me/08-11-24/
85•birdculture•2d ago•11 comments

DeepSeek banned from U.S. federal civilian agencies under new DHS order

https://www.reuters.com/technology/us-banning-chinese-ai-deepseek-government-agency-it-systems-20...
373•cmrdporcupine•21h ago•323 comments

Hazel (YC W24) Is Hiring

https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/hazel-2/jobs/PpNKYBS-full-stack-engineer-ts-sci
1•augustschen•1h ago

Google cloud outage takes down banks

https://www.neowin.net/news/google-cloud-outage-takes-down-hsbc-revolut-bank-of-scotland-llyods-e...
126•paweladamczuk•2h ago•52 comments

'Der Viener Schlinger': The meat cannon that launched 20k hot dogs

https://flatwaterfreepress.org/der-viener-schlinger-the-meat-cannon-that-launched-20000-hot-dogs/
31•NaOH•1d ago•12 comments

Restoration of Retinal Regenerative Potential (2025)

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-025-58290-8
84•Kaibeezy•2d ago•6 comments

MiniMax M3.1 Flash

https://www.minimax.io/blog/minimax-m31f
490•jtg•20h ago•207 comments

There Are over 1M New York City Street Signs. Here's How They Are Made.

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/15/nyregion/nyc-street-sign-shop.html
21•bookofjoe•3d ago•9 comments

An ad-free Android TV

https://cretezy.com/2026/ad-free-android-tv
291•CraftThatBlock•14h ago•109 comments

Weball: Play Katamari on Websites

https://www.funwithcomputervision.com/weball/
262•croes•2d ago•20 comments

Wine ported to OpenBSD

https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-ports&m=179236125692175
591•iamnothere•23h ago•197 comments

Why Is Speculative Decoding Fast?

https://jbarrow.ai/2026-10-08-why-is-speculative-decoding-fast/
40•gmays•23h ago•5 comments

I built a drone with only one motor [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ndftcft6XhU
599•hakonjdjohnsen•1d ago•136 comments

It's still ok to enjoy programming

https://chriskiehl.com/article/it-is-still-ok-to-enjoy-programming
643•goostavos•2d ago•563 comments

France's supermarket fridges were vulnerable online for months

https://ipinfo.io/blog/france-fridges-hack
206•emot•13h ago•184 comments

Ukraine claims first drone evacuation of wounded soldier

https://www.nbcnews.com/world/ukraine/ukraine-first-drone-evacuation-wounded-soldier-frontlines-h...
350•yzydserd•21h ago•255 comments

Spending 10 months building the most human-like chess bot

https://mbuffett.com/posts/most-human-chess-bot
8•marcusbuffett•20h ago•2 comments

How abliterated models can get you pwned

https://projectdiscovery.io/research/how-abliterated-models-can-get-you-pwned
181•chatmasta•14h ago•99 comments

Maxwell: A new kind of model that sits between code and hardware

https://heymaxwell.ai/
103•laginimaineb•23h ago•45 comments

Starcraft: Ashfall

https://starcraft-shooter-2026.pages.dev/
510•debo_•1d ago•152 comments

RuneScape Bench: MMOs for Agents [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cNm4zyUtWj0
216•evakhoury•2d ago•72 comments

OpenBSD 8.0 release will have inteldrm/radeondrm/amdgpu drivers from Linux 6.18

https://bsd.network/@brynet/117407035545900963
168•doener•16h ago•39 comments

Ask HN: How to deal with shipping AI-written code you don't understand?

519•rzk•1d ago•636 comments

One Hash Bloom Filters

https://calabro.io/ohbf
124•jcalabro•16h ago•13 comments