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Building my npx business card

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

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steele•8mo ago
Ooh, free real estate, let's colonize and gentrify package management
aabhay•8mo ago
Lmao, gentrify cracked me up
neilv•8mo ago
Do these npx business cards run arbitrary code on your computer?
cypherpunks01•8mo 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•8mo 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•8mo ago
Yeah, this seems like a very smart but inherently flawed idea.
cypherpunks01•8mo 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•8mo ago
May as well just release an executable tbh.
theamk•8mo 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•8mo 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•8mo 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."

Antirender: remove the glossy shine on architectural renderings

https://antirender.com/
1023•iambateman•11h ago•243 comments

Show HN: I trained a 9M speech model to fix my Mandarin tones

https://simedw.com/2026/01/31/ear-pronunication-via-ctc/
183•simedw•6h ago•64 comments

Show HN: Phage Explorer

https://phage-explorer.org/
25•eigenvalue•2h ago•2 comments

Ashcan Comic

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ashcan_comic
15•benbreen•23h ago•0 comments

Peerweb: Decentralized website hosting via WebTorrent

https://peerweb.lol/
236•dtj1123•10h ago•83 comments

A novelist who took on the Italian mafia and lived

https://www.thetimes.com/culture/books/article/sicilian-man-leonardo-sciascia-rise-mafia-struggle...
13•Thevet•3d ago•0 comments

Stonebraker on CAP theorem and Databases (2010)

https://perspectives.mvdirona.com/2010/04/stonebraker-on-cap-theorem-and-databases/
57•onurkanbkrc•7h ago•19 comments

Moltbook

https://www.moltbook.com/
1412•teej•1d ago•668 comments

Disrupting the largest residential proxy network

https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/threat-intelligence/disrupting-largest-residential-proxy-net...
150•cdrnsf•2d ago•122 comments

HTTP Cats

https://http.cat/
314•surprisetalk•17h ago•53 comments

Kimi K2.5 Technical Report [pdf]

https://github.com/MoonshotAI/Kimi-K2.5/blob/master/tech_report.pdf
279•vinhnx•14h ago•109 comments

The $100B megadeal between OpenAI and Nvidia is on ice

https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/the-100-billion-megadeal-between-openai-and-nvidia-is-on-ice-aa3025e3
259•pixelesque•7h ago•165 comments

Naples' 1790s civil war was intensified by moral panic over Real Analysis (2023)

https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/foundational-anxieties-modern-mathematics-and-the-political-i...
14•OgsyedIE•3h ago•1 comments

Declassifying JUMPSEAT: an American pioneer in space

https://www.nro.gov/news-media-featured-stories/news-media-archive/News-Article/Article/4392223/d...
32•mkmk•2d ago•11 comments

The engineer who invented the Mars rover suspension in his garage [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QKSPk_0N4Jc
310•UltraSane•4d ago•44 comments

Designing a Passively Safe API

https://www.danealbaugh.com/articles/passively-safe-apis
6•dalbaugh•4d ago•2 comments

P vs. NP and the Difficulty of Computation: A ruliological approach

https://writings.stephenwolfram.com/2026/01/p-vs-np-and-the-difficulty-of-computation-a-ruliologi...
64•tzury•10h ago•28 comments

Surely the crash of the US economy has to be soon

https://wilsoniumite.com/2026/01/27/surely-it-has-to-be-soon/
260•Wilsoniumite•21h ago•381 comments

I trapped an AI model inside an art installation (2025) [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7fNYj0EXxMs
79•handfuloflight•9h ago•25 comments

International Collection of Tongue Twisters (2018)

https://tongue-twister.net
13•NaOH•4d ago•4 comments

Starlink updates privacy policy to allow consumer data to train

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/musks-starlink-updates-privacy-policy-230853500.html
19•malchow•1h ago•6 comments

Ask HN: Do you also "hoard" notes/links but struggle to turn them into actions?

175•item007•15h ago•96 comments

Code is cheap. Show me the talk

https://nadh.in/blog/code-is-cheap/
205•ghostfoxgod•19h ago•183 comments

Roots is a game server daemon that manages Docker containers for game servers

https://github.com/SproutPanel/roots
30•Kerrick•4d ago•6 comments

How to explain Generative AI in the classroom

https://dalelane.co.uk/blog/?p=5847
50•thinkingaboutit•1d ago•16 comments

Self Driving Car Insurance

https://www.lemonade.com/car/explained/self-driving-car-insurance/
125•KellyCriterion•15h ago•271 comments

The National Herbarium of Ireland digital collection of Irish plants

https://dri.ie/news/new-collection-in-dri-the-national-herbarium-of-ireland-digital-collection-of...
104•gnabgib•3d ago•10 comments

Show HN: I built an AI conversation partner to practice speaking languages

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/talkbits-speak-naturally/id6756824177
60•omarisbuilding•9h ago•45 comments

Show HN: Amla Sandbox – WASM bash shell sandbox for AI agents

https://github.com/amlalabs/amla-sandbox
132•souvik1997•16h ago•71 comments

Email experiments: filtering out external images

https://www.terracrypt.net/posts/email-experiments-image-filtering.html
58•todsacerdoti•19h ago•29 comments