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Building my npx business card

https://ashley.dev/posts/turning-feedback-into-features/
8•edent•11mo ago

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steele•11mo ago
Ooh, free real estate, let's colonize and gentrify package management
aabhay•11mo ago
Lmao, gentrify cracked me up
neilv•11mo ago
Do these npx business cards run arbitrary code on your computer?
cypherpunks01•11mo 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•11mo 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•11mo ago
Yeah, this seems like a very smart but inherently flawed idea.
cypherpunks01•11mo 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•11mo ago
May as well just release an executable tbh.
theamk•11mo 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•11mo 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•11mo 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."

I Cancelled Claude: Token Issues, Declining Quality, and Poor Support

https://nickyreinert.de/en/2026/2026-04-24-claude-critics/
98•y42•46m ago•33 comments

Sabotaging projects by overthinking, scope creep, and structural diffing

https://kevinlynagh.com/newsletter/2026_04_overthinking/
148•alcazar•2h ago•33 comments

Norway Set to Become Latest Country to Ban Social Media for Under 16s

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-04-24/norway-wants-kids-to-be-kids-with-social-media...
168•1vuio0pswjnm7•2h ago•120 comments

Different Language Models Learn Similar Number Representations

https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.20817
42•Anon84•2h ago•11 comments

Why I'm Done Making Desktop Applications (2009)

https://www.kalzumeus.com/2009/09/05/desktop-aps-versus-web-apps/
50•claxo•1h ago•27 comments

Spinel: Ruby AOT Native Compiler

https://github.com/matz/spinel
229•dluan•8h ago•60 comments

Mounting tar archives as a filesystem in WebAssembly

https://jeroen.github.io/notes/webassembly-tar/
78•datajeroen•6h ago•25 comments

US special forces soldier arrested after allegedly winning $400k on Maduro raid

https://www.cnn.com/2026/04/23/politics/us-special-forces-soldier-arrested-maduro-raid-trade
524•nkrisc•18h ago•559 comments

DeepSeek v4

https://api-docs.deepseek.com/
1531•impact_sy•13h ago•1163 comments

Show HN: How LLMs Work – Interactive visual guide based on Karpathy's lecture

https://ynarwal.github.io/how-llms-work/
222•ynarwal__•9h ago•54 comments

Hear your agent suffer through your code

https://github.com/AndrewVos/endless-toil
119•AndrewVos•5h ago•53 comments

Machine Learning Reveals Unknown Transient Phenomena in Historic Images

https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.18799
14•solarist•2h ago•10 comments

An update on recent Claude Code quality reports

https://www.anthropic.com/engineering/april-23-postmortem
852•mfiguiere•22h ago•648 comments

Physicists revive 1990s laser concept to propose a next-generation atomic clock

https://phys.org/news/2026-04-physicists-revive-1990s-laser-concept.html
5•wglb•15h ago•2 comments

Bitwarden CLI compromised in ongoing Checkmarx supply chain campaign

https://socket.dev/blog/bitwarden-cli-compromised
828•tosh•1d ago•404 comments

Why I Write (1946)

https://www.orwellfoundation.com/the-orwell-foundation/orwell/essays-and-other-works/why-i-write/
239•RyanShook•14h ago•60 comments

GPT-5.5

https://openai.com/index/introducing-gpt-5-5/
1481•rd•22h ago•988 comments

8087 Emulation on 8086 Systems

https://www.os2museum.com/wp/learn-something-old-every-day-part-xx-8087-emulation-on-8086-systems/
38•ingve•5h ago•13 comments

Show HN: Gova – The declarative GUI framework for Go

https://github.com/NV404/gova
94•aliezsid•10h ago•17 comments

MeshCore development team splits over trademark dispute and AI-generated code

https://blog.meshcore.io/2026/04/23/the-split
257•wielebny•23h ago•138 comments

Meta tells staff it will cut 10% of jobs

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-04-23/meta-tells-staff-it-will-cut-10-of-jobs-in-pus...
745•Vaslo•21h ago•760 comments

Show HN: Atomic – Local-first, AI-augmented personal knowledge base

https://atomicapp.ai/
27•kenforthewin•4h ago•7 comments

South Korea police arrest man for posting AI photo of runaway wolf

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c4gx1n0dl9no
201•giuliomagnifico•7h ago•124 comments

Researchers Simulated a Delusional User to Test Chatbot Safety

https://www.404media.co/delusion-using-chatgpt-gemini-claude-grok-safety-ai-psychosis-study/
12•Brajeshwar•1h ago•2 comments

Using the internet like it's 1999

https://joshblais.com/blog/using-the-internet-like-its-1999/
211•joshuablais•20h ago•151 comments

How to be anti-social – a guide to incoherent and isolating social experiences

https://nate.leaflet.pub/3mk4xkaxobc2p
157•calcifer•5h ago•170 comments

TorchTPU: Running PyTorch Natively on TPUs at Google Scale

https://developers.googleblog.com/torchtpu-running-pytorch-natively-on-tpus-at-google-scale/
180•mji•19h ago•16 comments

UK Biobank health data keeps ending up on GitHub

https://biobank.rocher.lc
179•Cynddl•1d ago•50 comments

Affirm Retooled for Agentic Software Development in One Week

https://medium.com/@affirmtechnology/how-affirm-retooled-its-engineering-organization-for-agentic...
23•brd529•2h ago•11 comments

Show HN: leaf – a terminal Markdown previewer with a GUI-like experience

https://github.com/RivoLink/leaf
13•RivoLink•5h ago•3 comments