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Building my npx business card

https://ashley.dev/posts/turning-feedback-into-features/
8•edent•6mo ago

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steele•6mo ago
Ooh, free real estate, let's colonize and gentrify package management
aabhay•6mo ago
Lmao, gentrify cracked me up
neilv•6mo ago
Do these npx business cards run arbitrary code on your computer?
cypherpunks01•6mo 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•6mo 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•6mo ago
Yeah, this seems like a very smart but inherently flawed idea.
cypherpunks01•6mo 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•6mo ago
May as well just release an executable tbh.
theamk•6mo 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•6mo 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•6mo 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."

NSA and IETF, part 3: Dodging the issues at hand

https://blog.cr.yp.to/20251123-dodging.html
117•upofadown•2h ago•24 comments

Show HN: Cynthia – Reliably play MIDI music files – MIT / Portable / Windows

https://www.blaizenterprises.com/cynthia.html
21•blaiz2025•40m ago•6 comments

Shai-Hulud Returns: Over 300 NPM Packages Infected

https://helixguard.ai/blog/malicious-sha1hulud-2025-11-24
389•mrdosija•3h ago•313 comments

US 'Homeland Security' Twitter account seemingly run from Israel

https://www.thecanary.co/trending/2025/11/23/twitter-location-data/
29•botanical•12m ago•8 comments

I built an faster Notion in Rust

https://imedadel.com/outcrop/
64•PaulHoule•4d ago•34 comments

Slicing Is All You Need: Towards a Universal One-Sided Distributed MatMul

https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.08874
47•matt_d•4d ago•2 comments

Fran Sans – font inspired by San Francisco light rail displays

https://emilysneddon.com/fran-sans-essay
1007•ChrisArchitect•20h ago•127 comments

RuBee

https://computer.rip/2025-11-22-RuBee.html
281•Sniffnoy•11h ago•47 comments

We stopped roadmap work for a week and fixed bugs

https://lalitm.com/fixits-are-good-for-the-soul/
100•lalitmaganti•22h ago•205 comments

Disney Lost Roger Rabbit

https://pluralistic.net/2025/11/18/im-not-bad/
300•leephillips•5d ago•115 comments

Fast Lua runtime written in Rust

https://astra.arkforge.net/
4•akagusu•40m ago•5 comments

Serflings is a remake of The Settlers 1

https://www.simpleguide.net/serflings.xhtml
17•doener•2d ago•3 comments

Japan's gamble to turn island of Hokkaido into global chip hub

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c8676qpxgnqo
138•1659447091•11h ago•301 comments

Building the largest known Kubernetes cluster, with 130k nodes

https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/containers-kubernetes/how-we-built-a-130000-node-gke-cluster/
49•TangerineDream•2d ago•30 comments

µcad: New open source programming language that can generate 2D sketches and 3D

https://microcad.xyz/
296•todsacerdoti•17h ago•94 comments

Ask HN: Hearing aid wearers, what's hot?

245•pugworthy•12h ago•128 comments

Lambda Calculus – Animated Beta Reduction of Lambda Diagrams

https://cruzgodar.com/applets/lambda-calculus
74•perryprog•9h ago•7 comments

The Rust Performance Book (2020)

https://nnethercote.github.io/perf-book/
158•vinhnx•5d ago•24 comments

General principles for the use of AI at CERN

https://home.web.cern.ch/news/official-news/knowledge-sharing/general-principles-use-ai-cern
63•singiamtel•4h ago•50 comments

Native Secure Enclave backed SSH keys on macOS

https://gist.github.com/arianvp/5f59f1783e3eaf1a2d4cd8e952bb4acf
421•arianvanp•20h ago•169 comments

Chrome Jpegxl Issue Reopened

https://issues.chromium.org/issues/40168998
7•markdog12•2h ago•1 comments

Bureau of Meteorology's new boss asked to examine $96M bill for website redesign

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11-23/bureau-of-meteorology-new-website-cost-blowout-to-96-milli...
47•OuterVale•2h ago•27 comments

The only GM EV1 ever publicly sold, and where it's going next

https://www.theautopian.com/how-the-only-gm-ev1-ever-sold-didnt-get-crushed-and-where-its-going-now/
34•zdw•4d ago•29 comments

New magnetic component discovered in the Faraday effect

https://phys.org/news/2025-11-magnetic-component-faraday-effect-centuries.html
166•rbanffy•4d ago•54 comments

Show HN: Stun LLMs with thousands of invisible Unicode characters

https://gibberifier.com
143•wdpatti•11h ago•67 comments

Set theory with types

https://lawrencecpaulson.github.io//2025/11/21/Typed_Set_Theory.html
82•baruchel•2d ago•13 comments

Calculus for Mathematicians, Computer Scientists, and Physicists [pdf]

https://mathcs.holycross.edu/~ahwang/print/calc.pdf
326•o4c•22h ago•69 comments

Ego, empathy, and humility at work

https://matthogg.fyi/a-unified-theory-of-ego-empathy-and-humility-at-work/
93•mrmatthogg•12h ago•33 comments

The Cloudflare outage might be a good thing

https://gist.github.com/jbreckmckye/32587f2907e473dd06d68b0362fb0048
184•radeeyate•11h ago•136 comments

Liva AI (YC S25) Is Hiring

https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/liva-ai/jobs/fYP8QP8-growth-intern
1•ashlleymo•16h ago