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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."

Doing gigabit Ethernet over my British phone wires

https://thehftguy.com/2026/01/22/doing-gigabit-ethernet-over-my-british-phone-wires/
123•user5994461•2h ago•68 comments

Show HN: I built a space travel calculator using Vanilla JavaScript

https://cosmic-odometer.vercel.app/
37•captainnemo729•2h ago•22 comments

Internet Archive's Storage

https://blog.dshr.org/2026/01/internet-archives-storage.html
182•zdw•3d ago•42 comments

Show HN: Coi – A language that compiles to WASM, beats React/Vue

68•io_eric•3d ago•27 comments

Unrolling the Codex agent loop

https://openai.com/index/unrolling-the-codex-agent-loop/
360•tosh•15h ago•164 comments

80386 Multiplication and Division

https://nand2mario.github.io/posts/2026/80386_multiplication_and_division/
56•nand2mario•6h ago•10 comments

Proof of Corn

https://proofofcorn.com/
402•rocauc•18h ago•276 comments

Modetc: Move your dotfiles from kernel space

https://maxwell.eurofusion.eu/git/rnhmjoj/modetc
20•todsacerdoti•4h ago•8 comments

Traintrackr – Live LED Maps

https://www.traintrackr.co.uk/
58•recursion•5d ago•22 comments

Extracting verified C++ from the Rocq theorem prover at Bloomberg

https://bloomberg.github.io/crane/
63•clarus•4d ago•4 comments

Gas Town's agent patterns, design bottlenecks, and vibecoding at scale

https://maggieappleton.com/gastown
348•pavel_lishin•20h ago•353 comments

Some C habits I employ for the modern day

https://www.unix.dog/~yosh/blog/c-habits-for-me.html
169•signa11•5d ago•100 comments

“Let people help” – Advice that made a big difference to a grieving widow

https://www.npr.org/2026/01/20/nx-s1-5683170/let-them-the-small-bit-of-advice-that-made-a-big-dif...
74•NaOH•9h ago•12 comments

Telli (YC F24) is hiring eng, design, growth [on-site, Berlin]

https://careers.telli.com/
1•sebselassie•5h ago

Management Time: Who's Got the Monkey? [pdf]

https://www.med.unc.edu/uncaims/wp-content/uploads/sites/764/2014/03/Oncken-_-Wass-Who_s-Got-the-...
7•rintrah•4d ago•1 comments

Banned C++ features in Chromium

https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/src/+/main/styleguide/c++/c++-features.md
188•szmarczak•16h ago•156 comments

Comma openpilot – Open source driver-assistance

https://comma.ai
294•JumpCrisscross•11h ago•161 comments

Ask HN: What's the current best local/open speech-to-speech setup?

177•dsrtslnd23•1d ago•42 comments

Microsoft gave FBI set of BitLocker encryption keys to unlock suspects' laptops

https://techcrunch.com/2026/01/23/microsoft-gave-fbi-a-set-of-bitlocker-encryption-keys-to-unlock...
891•bookofjoe•18h ago•571 comments

New YC homepage

https://www.ycombinator.com/
263•sarreph•18h ago•132 comments

Booting from a vinyl record (2020)

https://boginjr.com/it/sw/dev/vinyl-boot/
323•yesturi•1d ago•110 comments

Mental Models (2018)

https://fs.blog/mental-models/
104•hahahacorn•15h ago•14 comments

Unveiling Firestore Pipeline operations – Firestore's powerful new query engine

https://firebase.blog/posts/2026/01/firestore-enterprise-pipeline-operations
6•reimertz•5d ago•2 comments

Air traffic control: the IBM 9020

https://computer.rip/2026-01-17-air-traffic-control-9020.html
45•pinewurst•5d ago•4 comments

Proton spam and the AI consent problem

https://dbushell.com/2026/01/22/proton-spam/
523•dbushell•1d ago•372 comments

KORG phase8 – Acoustic Synthesizer

https://www.korg.com/us/products/dj/phase8/
239•bpierre•22h ago•106 comments

The tech monoculture is finally breaking

http://www.jasonwillems.com/technology/2025/12/17/Tech-Is-Fun-Again/
205•at1as•21h ago•271 comments

Route leak incident on January 22, 2026

https://blog.cloudflare.com/route-leak-incident-january-22-2026/
150•nomaxx117•18h ago•48 comments

Show HN: Whosthere: A LAN discovery tool with a modern TUI, written in Go

https://github.com/ramonvermeulen/whosthere
252•rvermeulen98•1d ago•85 comments

The strange case of the underestimated Merge Join node

https://blog.dalibo.com/2026/01/12/under-estimated-mergejoin.html
15•daamien•4d ago•0 comments