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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."

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https://decipher.sc/2026/04/19/vercel-says-internal-systems-hit-in-breach/
282•whiteyford•3h ago•56 comments

Archive of Byte magazine, starting with issue #1 in 1975

https://archive.org/details/byte-magazine-1975-09
439•DamnInteresting•2d ago•111 comments

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https://www.vincentgregoire.com/faceoff/
20•vcf•1h ago•4 comments

Notion leaks email addresses of all editors of any public page

https://twitter.com/weezerOSINT/status/2045849358462222720
170•Tiberium•3h ago•48 comments

Nanopass Framework: Clean Compiler Creation Language

https://nanopass.org/
88•NordStreamYacht•4d ago•14 comments

Game devs explain the tricks involved with letting you pause a game

https://kotaku.com/video-game-devs-explain-how-pausing-works-and-sometimes-it-gets-weird-2000686339
342•speckx•3d ago•191 comments

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https://warontherocks.com/cogs-of-war/the-bromine-chokepoint-how-strife-in-the-middle-east-could-...
5•crescit_eundo•1h ago•0 comments

The seven programming ur-languages (2022)

https://madhadron.com/programming/seven_ur_languages.html
198•helloplanets•11h ago•78 comments

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https://www.usenix.org/system/files/conference/woot17/woot17-paper-guri.pdf
133•Eridanus2•10h ago•58 comments

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https://eng.basement.studio/tools/shader-lab
103•ragojose•3d ago•26 comments

543 Hours: What happens when AI runs while you sleep

https://michael.roth.rocks/research/543-hours/
6•pramodbiligiri•2h ago•0 comments

Reverse Engineering ME2's USB with a Heat Gun and a Knife

https://github.com/coremaze/ME2-Writeup
13•Bawoosette•1d ago•1 comments

What are skiplists good for?

https://antithesis.com/blog/2026/skiptrees/
226•mfiguiere•2d ago•46 comments

College instructor turns to typewriters to curb AI-written work

https://sentinelcolorado.com/uncategorized/a-college-instructor-turns-to-typewriters-to-curb-ai-w...
416•gnabgib•23h ago•374 comments

NIST scientists create 'any wavelength' lasers

https://www.nist.gov/news-events/news/2026/04/any-color-you-nist-scientists-create-any-wavelength...
387•rbanffy•21h ago•171 comments

Reading Input from an USB RFID Card Reader

https://kevwe.com/blog/usb-rfid-reader
15•kevwedotse•2d ago•4 comments

Turtle WoW classic server announces shutdown after Blizzard wins injunction

https://www.pcgamer.com/games/world-of-warcraft/turtle-wow-classic-server-announces-shutdown-afte...
79•Brajeshwar•2h ago•56 comments

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https://morwenn.github.io//presortedness/2026/04/11/TSB010-pairwise-order-of-a-sequence-of-elemen...
19•ibobev•2d ago•1 comments

Show HN: Prompt-to-Excalidraw demo with Gemma 4 E2B in the browser (3.1GB)

https://teamchong.github.io/turboquant-wasm/draw.html
57•teamchong•7h ago•25 comments

Anonymous request-token comparisons from Opus 4.6 and Opus 4.7

https://tokens.billchambers.me/leaderboard
589•anabranch•1d ago•554 comments

KTaO3-Based Supercurrent Diode

https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.nanolett.5c05590
4•PaulHoule•3d ago•0 comments

The electromechanical angle computer inside the B-52 bomber's star tracker

https://www.righto.com/2026/04/B-52-star-tracker-angle-computer.html
394•NelsonMinar•1d ago•100 comments

Notes from the SF Peptide Scene

https://12gramsofcarbon.com/p/notes-from-the-sf-peptide-scene
91•theahura•4h ago•69 comments

Binary GCD

https://en.algorithmica.org/hpc/algorithms/gcd/#binary-gcd
62•tosh•10h ago•1 comments

When moving fast, talking is the first thing to break

https://daverupert.com/2026/04/more-talk-less-grok/
72•Brajeshwar•4h ago•33 comments

Why Japan has such good railways

https://worksinprogress.co/issue/why-japan-has-such-good-railways/
512•RickJWagner•1d ago•473 comments

Minimal Viable Programs (2014)

https://joearms.github.io/published/2014-06-25-minimal-viable-program.html
28•bachmeier•4d ago•6 comments

Ask HN: How did you land your first projects as a solo engineer/consultant?

200•modelcroissant•9h ago•92 comments

The world in which IPv6 was a good design (2017)

https://apenwarr.ca/log/20170810
166•signa11•15h ago•64 comments

Uber's AI Push Hits a Wall–CTO Says Budget Struggles Despite $3.4B Spend

https://finance.yahoo.com/sectors/technology/articles/ubers-anthropic-ai-push-hits-223109852.html
4•dakiol•34m ago•1 comments