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Building my npx business card

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

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steele•8mo ago
Ooh, free real estate, let's colonize and gentrify package management
aabhay•8mo ago
Lmao, gentrify cracked me up
neilv•8mo ago
Do these npx business cards run arbitrary code on your computer?
cypherpunks01•8mo 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•8mo 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•8mo ago
Yeah, this seems like a very smart but inherently flawed idea.
cypherpunks01•8mo 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•8mo ago
May as well just release an executable tbh.
theamk•8mo 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•8mo 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•8mo 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."

The URL shortener that makes your links look as suspicious as possible

https://creepylink.com/
407•dreadsword•7h ago•75 comments

Raspberry Pi's New AI Hat Adds 8GB of RAM for Local LLMs

https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2026/raspberry-pi-ai-hat-2/
83•ingve•3h ago•55 comments

Claude Cowork exfiltrates files

https://www.promptarmor.com/resources/claude-cowork-exfiltrates-files
689•takira•15h ago•308 comments

A letter to those who fired tech writers because of AI

https://passo.uno/letter-those-who-fired-tech-writers-ai/
42•theletterf•3h ago•24 comments

The <Geolocation> HTML Element

https://developer.chrome.com/blog/geolocation-html-element
60•enz•1d ago•39 comments

Z80 Mem­ber­ship Card

https://sunrise-ev.com/z80.htm
22•exvi•3d ago•3 comments

Ask HN: How are you doing RAG locally?

173•tmaly•20h ago•66 comments

Ask HN: Share your personal website

636•susam•18h ago•1789 comments

Photos Capture the Breathtaking Scale of China's Wind and Solar Buildout

https://e360.yale.edu/digest/china-renewable-photo-essay
48•mrtksn•1h ago•22 comments

New Safari developer tools provide insight into CSS Grid Lanes

https://webkit.org/blog/17746/new-safari-developer-tools-provide-insight-into-css-grid-lanes/
71•feross•10h ago•32 comments

Nao Labs (Open-Source Analytics Agent, YC X25) Is Hiring

https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/nao-labs/jobs/KjOBhf5-founding-software-engineer
1•ClaireGz•2h ago

Handy – Free open source speech-to-text app

https://github.com/cjpais/Handy
100•tin7in•6h ago•56 comments

Scaling long-running autonomous coding

https://cursor.com/blog/scaling-agents
209•samwillis•13h ago•126 comments

Furiosa: 3.5x efficiency over H100s

https://furiosa.ai/blog/introducing-rngd-server-efficient-ai-inference-at-data-center-scale
175•written-beyond•10h ago•116 comments

Bubblewrap: A nimble way to prevent agents from accessing your .env files

https://patrickmccanna.net/a-better-way-to-limit-claude-code-and-other-coding-agents-access-to-se...
105•0o_MrPatrick_o0•9h ago•81 comments

Ask HN: What did you find out or explore today?

105•blahaj•17h ago•153 comments

Project SkyWatch (a.k.a. Wescam at Home)

https://ianservin.com/2026/01/13/project-skywatch-aka-wescam-at-home/
60•jjwiseman•18h ago•13 comments

Show HN: Sparrow-1 – Audio-native model for human-level turn-taking without ASR

https://www.tavus.io/post/sparrow-1-human-level-conversational-timing-in-real-time-voice
75•code_brian•17h ago•17 comments

The State of OpenSSL for pyca/cryptography

https://cryptography.io/en/latest/statements/state-of-openssl/
144•SGran•13h ago•27 comments

Show HN: WebTiles – create a tiny 250x250 website with neighbors around you

https://webtiles.kicya.net/
191•dimden•5d ago•29 comments

San Remo Pasta Measurer

https://www.toxel.com/tech/2025/09/17/san-remo-pasta-measurer/
6•surprisetalk•5d ago•0 comments

SparkFun Officially Dropping AdaFruit due to CoC Violation

https://www.sparkfun.com/official-response
468•yaleman•20h ago•466 comments

Sun Position Calculator

https://drajmarsh.bitbucket.io/earthsun.html
118•sanbor•13h ago•25 comments

Find a pub that needs you

https://www.ismypubfucked.com/
306•thinkingemote•19h ago•256 comments

Crafting Interpreters

https://craftinginterpreters.com/
115•tosh•12h ago•18 comments

Show HN: Webctl – Browser automation for agents based on CLI instead of MCP

https://github.com/cosinusalpha/webctl
99•cosinusalpha•20h ago•32 comments

Bare metal programming with RISC-V guide (2023)

https://popovicu.com/posts/bare-metal-programming-risc-v/
28•todsacerdoti•4d ago•5 comments

Have Taken Up Farming

https://dylan.gr/1768295794
124•djnaraps•3h ago•80 comments

Generate QR Codes with Pure SQL in PostgreSQL

https://tanelpoder.com/posts/generate-qr-code-with-pure-sql-in-postgres/
88•tanelpoder•4d ago•7 comments

How can I build a simple pulse generator to demonstrate transmission lines

https://electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/764155/how-can-i-build-a-simple-pulse-generator-t...
52•alphabetter•6d ago•11 comments