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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."

Gemini 4 Argon

https://deepmind.google/models/gemini/
1077•737max•11h ago•797 comments

Show HN: Guitoro, a virtual guitar you strum with your keyboard

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327•talccc•8h ago•92 comments

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495•thm•1d ago•362 comments

Redesigning source control at Anthropic

https://www.anthropic.com/engineering/redesigning-source-control
590•Philpax•11h ago•561 comments

Apple HomeView

https://www.apple.com/apple-homeview/
691•etothet•14h ago•804 comments

Show HN: Pulse Local, a Mac budgeting app whose AI models run on your machine

https://pulseos.finance
77•niztk•4h ago•37 comments

900-Page Pre-Pantone Guide to Color from 1692 (With Complete High-Res Scan)

https://www.openculture.com/2026/10/a-900-page-pre-pantone-guide-to-color-from-1692.html
70•mdp2021•1d ago•5 comments

Thunderbird for iOS

https://blog.thunderbird.net/2026/10/thunderbird-for-ios-a-first-look-at-the-native-iphone-email-...
366•mjorgers•12h ago•162 comments

Grace Hopper Celebration Cancelled

https://anitab.org/press-release
8•mooreds•4h ago•1 comments

I built a tool to track what AI leaders say and how their views change on video

https://blumify.io/people
21•gcsydney•2h ago•13 comments

High-speed video reveals how honey bee stingers pump venom

https://arstechnica.com/science/2026/10/honey-bee-stingers-are-double-piston-venom-pumps/
28•gumby•2h ago•5 comments

Show HN: How random are you?

https://lab.specr.net/rigged-draw/
85•vunderba•10h ago•49 comments

Recreational Programming

https://www.cphiri.dev/presentations/recreational-programming
83•jslakro•4h ago•31 comments

I posted to HN, and then my website was flooded with AI bot traffic

https://www.sammystraus.com/#i-posted-to-hn-and-then-my-website-was-flooded-with-ai-bot-traffic
274•sammy0910•11h ago•153 comments

The United Kingdom generates less electricity per person than in the 1970s

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225•karakoram•12h ago•316 comments

AlphaNIST

https://alpha-nist.github.io/
53•jasonjmcghee•5h ago•14 comments

New Apple TV 4K

https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2026/10/apple-unveils-the-new-apple-tv-4k/
309•corvad•14h ago•566 comments

Apple's new 'Switch to Safari' campaign details why you should ditch Chrome

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208•ivell•12h ago•351 comments

PostEra (YC W20) Is Hiring AI Researchers for Drug Discovery

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1•morraa•6h ago

MIT class project turns into an FDA-cleared treatment for tremors

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170•zdw•1d ago•31 comments

Maybe a better way to track the release history of a Git repo

https://blog.plover.com/prog/git/history-proposal.html
6•evakhoury•1d ago•0 comments

OpenAI engineer arrested in bugging of executive conference room

https://sfstandard.com/2026/10/13/openai-engineer-arrested-alleged-bugging-executive-conference-r...
447•forthwall•6h ago•394 comments

Show HN: XY Music Notation

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52•jmole•9h ago•40 comments

Physical Intelligence API Beta: Frontier Models for Every Robot

https://www.pi.website/blog/api-beta
41•modeless•5h ago•0 comments

Hiking the world in search of rare cheeses

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72•tosh•1d ago•17 comments

A Dynamic and Distributed Virtual GPU Cloud Built on Idle Apple Silicon Devices

https://machinelearning.apple.com/research/distributed-gpu-cloud
236•acossta•14h ago•96 comments

Show HN: Spotatui, a Spotify TUI/GUI without web API rate limits

https://github.com/LargeModGames/spotatui
60•LargeModGames•15h ago•9 comments

Character.ai has initiated voluntary Chapter 11 bankruptcy

https://blog.character.ai/an-update-on-character-ai/
304•nryoo•19h ago•272 comments

How Do Cuttlefish Hide?

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/10/12/science/cuttlefish-brain-camouflage.html
14•marojejian•1d ago•3 comments

11 year old unsoundness bugs found in Rust borrow checker

https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/164250
690•formerly_proven•16h ago•386 comments