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Building my npx business card

https://ashley.dev/posts/turning-feedback-into-features/
8•edent•11mo ago

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steele•11mo ago
Ooh, free real estate, let's colonize and gentrify package management
aabhay•11mo ago
Lmao, gentrify cracked me up
neilv•11mo ago
Do these npx business cards run arbitrary code on your computer?
cypherpunks01•11mo 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•11mo 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•11mo ago
Yeah, this seems like a very smart but inherently flawed idea.
cypherpunks01•11mo 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•11mo ago
May as well just release an executable tbh.
theamk•11mo 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•11mo 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•11mo 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."

Vercel April 2026 security incident

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/vercel-confirms-breach-as-hackers-claim-to-be-sell...
509•colesantiago•10h ago•303 comments

A Brief History of Fish Sauce

https://www.legalnomads.com/fish-sauce/
44•vinhnx•16h ago•13 comments

The Bromine Chokepoint

https://warontherocks.com/cogs-of-war/the-bromine-chokepoint-how-strife-in-the-middle-east-could-...
143•crescit_eundo•7h ago•72 comments

Show HN: How context engineering works, a runnable reference

https://github.com/outcomeops/context-engineering
19•linsys•2d ago•6 comments

2,100 Swiss municipalities showing which provider handles their official email

https://mxmap.ch/
51•doener•2h ago•13 comments

Ex-CEO, ex-CFO of bankrupt AI company charged with fraud

https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/ex-ceo-ex-cfo-bankrupt-ai-company-charged-with-fraud-202...
66•1vuio0pswjnm7•2h ago•25 comments

Changes in the system prompt between Claude Opus 4.6 and 4.7

https://simonwillison.net/2026/Apr/18/opus-system-prompt/
193•pretext•14h ago•115 comments

Show HN: TRELLIS.2 image-to-3D running on Mac Silicon – no Nvidia GPU needed

https://github.com/shivampkumar/trellis-mac
8•shivampkumar•1h ago•0 comments

Swiss AI Initiative (2023)

https://www.swiss-ai.org
8•doener•2h ago•2 comments

Show HN: Faceoff – A terminal UI for following NHL games

https://www.vincentgregoire.com/faceoff/
94•vcf•7h ago•33 comments

Six Levels of Dark Mode (2024)

https://cssence.com/2024/six-levels-of-dark-mode/
42•Akcium•6h ago•11 comments

Prove you are a robot: CAPTCHAs for agents

https://browser-use.com/posts/prove-you-are-a-robot
40•lukasec•4d ago•27 comments

Archive of BYTE magazine, starting with issue #1 in 1975

https://archive.org/details/byte-magazine-1975-09
526•DamnInteresting•2d ago•135 comments

Scientific datasets are riddled with copy-paste errors

https://www.sciencedetective.org/scientific-datasets-are-riddled-with-copy-paste-errors/
27•jruohonen•5h ago•2 comments

Got an Old Kindle? It Might Not Work Anymore

https://www.nytimes.com/wirecutter/reviews/older-kindle-support-ending/
36•eigenhombre•2h ago•17 comments

The seven programming ur-languages (2022)

https://madhadron.com/programming/seven_ur_languages.html
279•helloplanets•17h ago•105 comments

The RAM shortage could last years

https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/914672/the-ram-shortage-could-last-years
184•omer_k•17h ago•189 comments

I wrote a CHIP-8 emulator in my own programming language

https://github.com/navid-m/chip8emu
37•pizza_man•5h ago•12 comments

Nanopass Framework: Clean Compiler Creation Language

https://nanopass.org/
113•NordStreamYacht•4d ago•26 comments

Recovering Windows Live Writer Files

https://benovermyer.com/blog/2026/04/recovering-windows-live-writer-files/
4•bovermyer•5d ago•1 comments

Interesting Map Geometry and Mathematics

https://www.markrjohnsongames.com/2026/04/11/ultima-ratio-regum-0-11-update-57-interesting-map-ge...
4•Hooke•1d ago•0 comments

SPEAKE(a)R: Turn Speakers to Microphones for Fun and Profit [pdf] (2017)

https://www.usenix.org/system/files/conference/woot17/woot17-paper-guri.pdf
158•Eridanus2•16h ago•67 comments

Notion leaks email addresses of all editors of any public page

https://twitter.com/weezerOSINT/status/2045849358462222720
319•Tiberium•9h ago•109 comments

What are skiplists good for?

https://antithesis.com/blog/2026/skiptrees/
260•mfiguiere•2d ago•63 comments

Hot Wiring the Lisp Machine

https://scheatkode.com/blog/019d463d-38b3-7e63-80fd-6ed97bd8815e/hot-wiring-the-lisp-machine/
24•spudlyo•8h ago•1 comments

Show HN: Prompt-to-Excalidraw demo with Gemma 4 E2B in the browser (3.1GB)

https://teamchong.github.io/turboquant-wasm/draw.html
85•teamchong•13h ago•43 comments

A. J. Ayer – ‘What I Saw When I Was Dead’ (1988)

https://www.philosopher.eu/others-writings/a-j-ayer-what-i-saw-when-i-was-dead/
67•isomorphy•5h ago•78 comments

Stop trying to engineer your way out of listening to people

https://ashley.rolfmore.com/stop-trying-to-engineer-your-way-out-of-listening-to-people/
11•walterbell•4h ago•1 comments

Aliens.gov will be running as a WordPress multisite

https://aliens.gov/
26•johnnyApplePRNG•2h ago•29 comments

4-bit floating point FP4

https://www.johndcook.com/blog/2026/04/17/fp4/
73•chmaynard•1d ago•50 comments