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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."

Claude Opus 5

https://www.anthropic.com/news/claude-opus-5
1361•alvis•10h ago•737 comments

Postgres LISTEN/NOTIFY actually scales

https://www.dbos.dev/blog/postgres-listen-notify-scalability
229•KraftyOne•8h ago•38 comments

Sperm Whales blow bubbles to achieve restful, vertical sleep

https://news.st-andrews.ac.uk/archive/sperm-whales-blow-bubbles-to-achieve-restful-vertical-sleep/
44•hhs•4h ago•3 comments

India's first privately-developed rocket reaches orbit on debut launch

https://arstechnica.com/space/2026/07/indias-first-privately-developed-rocket-reaches-orbit-on-dr...
521•sohkamyung•5d ago•149 comments

My security camera shipped a GitHub admin token in its login page

https://hhh.hn/hanwha-github-token/
528•hhh•15h ago•182 comments

Opus 5 is currently #1 on Artificial Analysis Intelligence Leaderboard

https://artificialanalysis.ai/models
169•aarondong•7h ago•110 comments

Show HN: I simulated closing the Strait of Hormuz on real oil trade data

https://globaloilnetwork.staffinganalytics.io/
114•eliotho•1d ago•60 comments

If coding has been solved, why does software keep getting worse?

https://ptrchm.com/posts/nothing-works-and-everyone-is-euphoric/
588•pchm•18h ago•457 comments

Designing an Ethernet Switch ASIC

https://essenceia.github.io/projects/ethernet_switch_asic/
128•random__duck•4d ago•36 comments

An old patent inspired the new "Y-zipper", a three-sided fastener

https://news.mit.edu/2026/three-sided-y-zipper-design-0504
149•crescit_eundo•2d ago•32 comments

Nvidia, Microsoft, Meta warn against overregulating open-weight models

https://www.cnbc.com/2026/07/24/nvidia-microsoft-meta-open-weight-ai-models.html
536•louiereederson•13h ago•241 comments

Kimi K3 exploited the latest Redis server

https://twitter.com/fried_rice/status/2080059356322918777
159•Alifatisk•1d ago•43 comments

Firefox Containers Preview

https://blog.mozilla.org/en/firefox/firefox-containers-preview/
243•twapi•3d ago•86 comments

Don't Take the Black Pill [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zLZwpH5lCD4
145•signa11•10h ago•105 comments

Half-Life 2 running natively on HaikuOS

https://discuss.haiku-os.org/t/haiku-nvidia-porting-nvidia-driver-for-turing-gpus/16520?page=18
280•m0do1•14h ago•53 comments

Fil-C: Garbage In, Memory Safety Out [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5F-2Y1LPRek
112•Bootvis•1d ago•103 comments

A concrete explanation of how a cache works

https://parksb.github.io/en/article/29.html
5•parksb•3d ago•0 comments

Marimo now runs in PyCharm

https://marimo.io/blog/pycharm
85•cantdutchthis•2d ago•16 comments

IRGC claims it destroyed Amazon's Bahrain data center

https://houseofsaud.com/irgc-claims-destroyed-amazon-bahrain-data-center/
255•thisislife2•17h ago•319 comments

Future euro banknote design proposals

https://www.ecb.europa.eu/euro/banknotes/future_banknotes/html/all-design-proposals.en.html
139•robin_reala•17h ago•125 comments

Gsxui – Shadcn-style components for Go

https://ui.gsxhq.dev/
57•jackielii•9h ago•8 comments

The case for MUDs in modern times (2018)

https://www.andrewzigler.com/feed/the-case-for-muds-in-modern-times
88•bw86•15h ago•71 comments

Be skeptical of OpenAI's rogue hacker agent story

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/jul/24/openai-rogue-hacker
444•rwmj•10h ago•248 comments

Government orders GitHub to remove Bluetooth-based chat app Bitchat: Jack Dorsey

https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/government-orders-github-to-remove-bluetooth-based-chat-ap...
398•rootkea•12h ago•293 comments

Unitree As2-W

https://www.unitree.com/As2-W/
102•MehrdadKhnzd•10h ago•41 comments

The footprints of every building in NYC

https://www.beautifulpublicdata.com/the-footprints-of-every-building-in-nyc/
55•jonathanmkeegan•4d ago•6 comments

Show HN: Max Studio Tools – C++ DSP Modules for Max and Ableton Live

https://github.com/apresta/max-studio-tools
26•apresta•6h ago•0 comments

Buz – A fork of Bun using modern Zig, with sub-1s incremental builds

https://ziggit.dev/t/buz-a-drop-in-replacement-for-bun-using-modern-zig-with-sub-1s-incremental-b...
232•kristoff_it•17h ago•163 comments

Show HN: Lucen a Python compiler that parallelizes for-loops via comment pragmas

https://github.com/fcmv/lucen
8•soumik15630m•3d ago•0 comments

Programming language file extensions that match ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country codes

https://www.bruh.ltd/blog/programming-language-file-extensions-that-match-an-iso-3166-1-alpha-2-c...
42•speckx•14h ago•21 comments