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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."

FAA issues national ground stop

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/faa-orders-nationwide-ground-stop-departing-flights-reasons-...
1268•zulln•4h ago•765 comments

Amtrak booking system experiencing major issues amid nationwide FAA ground stop

https://www.fox5dc.com/news/amtrak-outage-ticket-booking-faa-ground-stop-november-13-2026
14•snow_mac•18m ago•0 comments

Live airband on all frequencies from KORS. Victoria, CA also ground stopped

https://orcasairband.com/
176•mmaunder•3h ago•44 comments

What Happened to 3Com?

https://dfarq.homeip.net/what-happened-to-3com/
23•gvieri•1h ago•6 comments

Terminal borders that don't cost a cell

https://www.joshka.net/cell-borders/
48•vinhnx•2h ago•27 comments

FM-1 Workbench

https://open.m-vave.com/fm1-workbench
179•simonebrunozzi•5h ago•102 comments

Found: A protein that drives ageing without unleashing inflammation

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-03638-3
122•gumby•5h ago•18 comments

Reverse engineering my Coway air purifier to ditch the cloud

https://scottjg.com/posts/2026-11-11-reverse-engineering-my-coway-air-purifier-to-ditch-the-cloud/
670•scottjg•1d ago•198 comments

After 600 experiments, here's what I discovered about JEPA world models

https://haddyalchaer.com/jepa
210•halcdev•7h ago•35 comments

Perplexity Decider v1.3: Training, eval, and use cases

https://www.perplexity.ai/hub/blog/perplexity-decider
94•gmays•5h ago•19 comments

Doomsday: Friday, 13 November, A.D. 2026 (1960)

https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.132.3436.1291
445•voxleone•13h ago•306 comments

How Not to Build a Music Player

https://alichraghi.github.io/blog/how-not-to-build-a-music-player/
22•vinhnx•2h ago•4 comments

Live-migration support in FreeBSD and bhyve coming

https://gyptazy.com/blog/freebsd-bhyve-live-migration-support-rfc/
64•JohnDohnBohn•5h ago•15 comments

Autonomous (YC F25) is hiring MTS to build AI agents that manage your wealth

https://atg.science/careers
1•dkobran•4h ago

Ctrl+C, Ctrl+v, Ctrl+cve: Bypassing Android's Clipboard Read Security Measures

https://toninoble.com/post/ctrlc-ctrlv-ctrlcve
68•dethmasque•6h ago•30 comments

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https://isometricsf.com/
147•juscha1•7h ago•53 comments

A technical vision for the Haskell ecosystem

https://discourse.haskell.org/t/a-technical-vision-for-the-haskell-ecosystem/15078
177•cosmic_quanta•10h ago•84 comments

All US airports are currently ground stopped

https://twitter.com/flightradar24/status/2121347654714077605
160•defly•4h ago•31 comments

Lying to Zed to get its remote server running on FreeBSD

https://hayzam.com/blog/03-lying-to-zeds-remote-editor/
10•arch1e•2h ago•1 comments

$11.4M in Nvidia hardware vanishes during shipment from CA to TX

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/11-4-million-in-nvidia-hardware-vanishes-during-shipment-from-c...
280•crescit_eundo•6h ago•159 comments

Minnesota guitarist's "palmfrets" invention strikes a new chord

https://www.echopress.com/business/minnesota-guitarists-invention-strikes-a-new-chord
133•bookofjoe•10h ago•83 comments

Weight Space Misfolding

https://www.alphaxiv.org/abs/2611.weight-space-misfolding
130•mkglees•6h ago•46 comments

AI unlocks Gödel's notebooks, said to contain hundreds of proved theorems

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2026/nov/13/kurt-godel-notebooks-ai-helps-unlock-hidden-disco...
321•bookofjoe•7h ago•91 comments

It Takes 16 Clicks for a Student to Open a PowerPoint on an iPad

https://www.reddit.com/r/Teachers/comments/1xuup7a/technology_sucks_it_literally_takes_16_clicks_...
275•BobaFloutist•6h ago•137 comments

Lonewolf 0.3 – A standalone XMPP server written in Rust

https://github.com/lonewolf-im/lonewolf/releases/tag/v0.3.0
128•ortuman•10h ago•38 comments

FAA issues nationwide ground stop due to "extraordinary circumstances"

https://www.axios.com/2026/11/13/faa-nationwide-ground-stop
112•owenshen24•4h ago•34 comments

CERN Built the Large Hadron Collider's Next-Gen Magnets

https://spectrum.ieee.org/large-hadron-collider-superconducting-magnets
74•marc__1•10h ago•7 comments

Show HN: Live map of U.S. flights during tonight's FAA nationwide ground stop

https://grounds.top/
8•gvsi•1h ago•0 comments

Microsoft outage gives customers a crash course in dependence on Redmond

https://www.theregister.com/saas/2026/11/13/microsoft-outage-gives-customers-a-crash-course-in-de...
127•nephihaha•6h ago•42 comments

Apify Security Incident

https://status.apify.com/incidents/sxd1dj5j6749
91•cynicalpeace•8h ago•10 comments