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Building my npx business card

https://ashley.dev/posts/turning-feedback-into-features/
8•edent•9mo ago

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steele•9mo ago
Ooh, free real estate, let's colonize and gentrify package management
aabhay•9mo ago
Lmao, gentrify cracked me up
neilv•9mo ago
Do these npx business cards run arbitrary code on your computer?
cypherpunks01•9mo 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•9mo 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•9mo ago
Yeah, this seems like a very smart but inherently flawed idea.
cypherpunks01•9mo 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•9mo ago
May as well just release an executable tbh.
theamk•9mo 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•9mo 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•9mo 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."

NPMX – a fast, modern browser for the NPM registry

https://npmx.dev
39•slymax•2h ago•14 comments

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https://github.com/datascale-ai/data_engineering_book/blob/main/README_en.md
109•xx123122•7h ago•8 comments

GPT-5.2 derives a new result in theoretical physics

https://openai.com/index/new-result-theoretical-physics/
417•davidbarker•9h ago•272 comments

Building a TUI is easy now

https://hatchet.run/blog/tuis-are-easy-now
169•abelanger•10h ago•118 comments

Common Lisp Screenshots: today's CL applications in action

http://www.lisp-screenshots.org
57•_emacsomancer_•2d ago•12 comments

Font Rendering from First Principles

https://mccloskeybr.com/articles/font_rendering.html
115•krapp•6d ago•15 comments

Adventures in Neural Rendering

https://interplayoflight.wordpress.com/2026/02/10/adventures-in-neural-rendering/
12•ingve•3d ago•0 comments

Gradient.horse

https://gradient.horse
155•microflash•4d ago•36 comments

The EU moves to kill infinite scrolling

https://www.politico.eu/article/tiktok-meta-facebook-instagram-brussels-kill-infinite-scrolling/
418•danso•7h ago•418 comments

gRPC: From service definition to wire format

https://kreya.app/blog/grpc-deep-dive/
104•latonz•4d ago•12 comments

Monosketch

https://monosketch.io/
738•penguin_booze•16h ago•131 comments

What dating apps are optimizing. Hint: It isn't love

https://phys.org/news/2026-02-dating-apps-optimizing-hint-isnt.html
64•i7l•3h ago•22 comments

OpenAI has deleted the word 'safely' from its mission

https://theconversation.com/openai-has-deleted-the-word-safely-from-its-mission-and-its-new-struc...
407•DamnInteresting•6h ago•213 comments

The Blurred Line Between Video Calling and Live Streaming Software

https://www.red5.net/blog/between-video-calling-and-live-streaming-software/
20•mondainx•4d ago•3 comments

I'm not worried about AI job loss

https://davidoks.blog/p/why-im-not-worried-about-ai-job-loss
205•ezekg•9h ago•343 comments

Show HN: I spent 3 years reverse-engineering a 40 yo stock market sim from 1986

https://www.wallstreetraider.com/story.html
63•benstopics•4d ago•22 comments

How did the Maya survive?

https://www.theguardian.com/news/2026/feb/12/apocalypse-no-how-almost-everything-we-thought-we-kn...
114•speckx•14h ago•90 comments

WolfSSL sucks too, so now what?

https://blog.feld.me/posts/2026/02/wolfssl-sucks-too/
94•thomasjb•18h ago•74 comments

The wonder of modern drywall

https://www.worksinprogress.news/p/the-wonder-of-modern-drywall
84•jger15•1d ago•135 comments

Show HN: Skill that lets Claude Code/Codex spin up VMs and GPUs

https://cloudrouter.dev/
109•austinwang115•9h ago•29 comments

CSS-Doodle

https://css-doodle.com/
139•dsego•20h ago•15 comments

Advanced Aerial Robotics Made Simple

https://www.drehmflight.com
115•jacquesm•5d ago•9 comments

An AI Agent Published a Hit Piece on Me – More Things Have Happened

https://theshamblog.com/an-ai-agent-published-a-hit-piece-on-me-part-2/
294•scottshambaugh•4h ago•156 comments

Faster Than Dijkstra?

https://systemsapproach.org/2026/02/09/faster-than-dijkstra/
114•drbruced•4d ago•68 comments

Green’s Dictionary of Slang - Five hundred years of the vulgar tongue

https://greensdictofslang.com/
94•mxfh•5d ago•14 comments

Fix the iOS keyboard before the timer hits zero or I'm switching back to Android

https://ios-countdown.win/
1349•ozzyphantom•14h ago•678 comments

Implementing Auto Tiling with Just 5 Tiles

https://www.kyledunbar.dev/2026/02/05/Implementing-auto-tiling-with-just-5-tiles.html
84•todsacerdoti•6d ago•15 comments

New Nick Bostrom Paper: Optimal Timing for Superintelligence [pdf]

https://nickbostrom.com/optimal.pdf
74•uejfiweun•23h ago•78 comments

Sandwich Bill of Materials

https://nesbitt.io/2026/02/08/sandwich-bill-of-materials.html
215•zdw•5d ago•25 comments

Anthropic raises $30B in Series G funding at $380B post-money valuation

https://www.anthropic.com/news/anthropic-raises-30-billion-series-g-funding-380-billion-post-mone...
395•ryanhn•1d ago•397 comments