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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•10mo ago
Ooh, free real estate, let's colonize and gentrify package management
aabhay•10mo ago
Lmao, gentrify cracked me up
neilv•10mo ago
Do these npx business cards run arbitrary code on your computer?
cypherpunks01•10mo 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•10mo 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•10mo ago
Yeah, this seems like a very smart but inherently flawed idea.
cypherpunks01•10mo 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•10mo ago
May as well just release an executable tbh.
theamk•10mo 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•10mo 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•10mo 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."

Small models also found the vulnerabilities that Mythos found

https://aisle.com/blog/ai-cybersecurity-after-mythos-the-jagged-frontier
764•dominicq•7h ago•208 comments

Apple Silicon and Virtual Machines: Beating the 2 VM Limit (2023)

https://khronokernel.com/macos/2023/08/08/AS-VM.html
111•krackers•3h ago•54 comments

447 TB/cm² at zero retention energy – atomic-scale memory on fluorographane

https://zenodo.org/records/19513269
117•iliatoli•4h ago•59 comments

How We Broke Top AI Agent Benchmarks: And What Comes Next

https://rdi.berkeley.edu/blog/trustworthy-benchmarks-cont/
177•Anon84•5h ago•48 comments

Dark Castle

https://darkcastle.co.uk/
98•evo_9•4h ago•12 comments

Pijul a FOSS distributed version control system

https://pijul.org/
59•kouosi•4d ago•7 comments

Advanced Mac Substitute is an API-level reimplementation of 1980s-era Mac OS

https://www.v68k.org/advanced-mac-substitute/
181•zdw•8h ago•49 comments

How to build a `Git diff` driver

https://www.jvt.me/posts/2026/04/11/how-git-diff-driver/
66•zdw•6h ago•4 comments

Cirrus Labs to join OpenAI

https://cirruslabs.org/
225•seekdeep•11h ago•113 comments

Surelock: Deadlock-Free Mutexes for Rust

https://notes.brooklynzelenka.com/Blog/Surelock
160•codetheweb•3d ago•50 comments

What Is a Property?

https://alperenkeles.com/posts/what-is-a-property/
43•alpaylan•4d ago•14 comments

The Life and Death of the Book Review

https://libertiesjournal.com/articles/the-life-and-death-of-the-book-review/
7•lermontov•2d ago•1 comments

Show HN: Pardonned.com – A searchable database of US Pardons

356•vidluther•17h ago•186 comments

Keeping a Postgres Queue Healthy

https://planetscale.com/blog/keeping-a-postgres-queue-healthy
74•tanelpoder•7h ago•21 comments

Starfling: A one-tap endless orbital slingshot game in a single HTML file

https://playstarfling.com
554•iceberger2001•2d ago•136 comments

Every plane you see in the sky – you can now follow it from the cockpit in 3D

https://flight-viz.com/cockpit.html?lat=40.64&lon=-73.78&alt=3000&hdg=220&spd=130&cs=DAL123
210•coolwulf•3d ago•44 comments

Volunteers turn a fan's recordings of 10K concerts into an online treasure trove

https://apnews.com/article/aadam-jacobs-collection-concerts-internet-archive-chicago-b1c9c4466a2d...
345•geox•3d ago•66 comments

Optimal Strategy for Connect 4

https://2swap.github.io/WeakC4/explanation/
246•marvinborner•3d ago•30 comments

The Problem That Built an Industry

https://ajitem.com/blog/iron-core-part-1-the-problem-that-built-an-industry/
99•ShaggyHotDog•10h ago•35 comments

Metrics SQL: A SQL-based semantic layer for humans and agents

https://www.rilldata.com/blog/introducing-metrics-sql-a-sql-based-semantic-layer-for-humans-and-a...
11•sebg•2d ago•0 comments

The APL programming language source code (2012)

https://computerhistory.org/blog/the-apl-programming-language-source-code/
35•tosh•6h ago•9 comments

The Soul of an Old Machine

https://skalski.dev/the-soul-of-an-old-machine/
7•mskalski•4d ago•1 comments

The future of everything is lies, I guess – Part 5: Annoyances

https://aphyr.com/posts/415-the-future-of-everything-is-lies-i-guess-annoyances
200•aphyr•9h ago•127 comments

New synthesis of astronomical measurements shows Hubble tension is real

https://noirlab.edu/public/news/noirlab2611/?nocache=true&lang=en
24•anigbrowl•5h ago•4 comments

South Korea introduces universal basic mobile data access

https://www.theregister.com/2026/04/10/south_korea_data_access_universal/
302•saikatsg•10h ago•84 comments

Phone Trips

http://www.wideweb.com/phonetrips/
54•bookofjoe•7h ago•5 comments

Filing the corners off my MacBooks

https://kentwalters.com/posts/corners/
1294•normanvalentine•1d ago•609 comments

Artemis II safely splashes down

https://www.cbsnews.com/live-updates/artemis-ii-splashdown-return/
1232•areoform•1d ago•399 comments

How Passive Radar Works

https://www.passiveradar.com/how-passive-radar-works/
148•surprisetalk•2d ago•47 comments

Previously unknown verses by Empedocles found on papyrus

https://www.thehistoryblog.com/archives/75792
62•danielam•3d ago•13 comments