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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."

Your Website Is Not for You

https://websmith.studio/blog/your-website-is-not-for-you/
41•pumbaa•1h ago•21 comments

Running Adobe's 1991 PostScript Interpreter in the Browser

https://www.pagetable.com/?p=1854
8•ingve•26m ago•1 comments

Show HN: Perfect Bluetooth MIDI for Windows

44•mayerwin•2h ago•8 comments

Show HN: WhatCable, a tiny menu bar app for inspecting USB-C cables

https://github.com/darrylmorley/whatcable
161•sleepingNomad•3h ago•50 comments

How Mark Klein told the EFF about Room 641A [book excerpt]

https://thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/the-whistleblower-who-uncovered-the-nsas-big-brother-machine/
624•the-mitr•19h ago•209 comments

Grok 4.3

https://docs.x.ai/developers/models/grok-4.3
144•simianwords•3h ago•189 comments

New copy of earliest poem in English, written 1,3k years ago, discovered in Rome

https://www.tcd.ie/news_events/articles/2026/caedmons-hymn-discovery/
93•giuliomagnifico•2d ago•58 comments

For Linux kernel vulnerabilities, there is no heads-up to distributions

https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2026/04/30/10
530•ori_b•19h ago•422 comments

Apple accidentally left Claude.md files Apple Support app

https://xcancel.com/aaronp613/status/2049986504617820551
38•andruby•1h ago•11 comments

OpenWarp

https://openwarp.zerx.dev
115•zero-lab•10h ago•97 comments

Show HN: Site Mogging

https://sitemogging.com
5•jilles•52m ago•0 comments

If I could make my own GitHub

https://matduggan.com/if-i-could-make-my-own-github/
27•matricaria•22h ago•60 comments

Shai-Hulud Themed Malware Found in the PyTorch Lightning AI Training Library

https://semgrep.dev/blog/2026/malicious-dependency-in-pytorch-lightning-used-for-ai-training/
407•j12y•20h ago•147 comments

Opus 4.7 knows the real Kelsey

https://www.theargumentmag.com/p/i-can-never-talk-to-an-ai-anonymously
373•ilamont•1d ago•195 comments

Softmax, can you derive the Jacobian? And should you care?

https://idlemachines.co.uk/essays/softmax
65•smaddrellmander•3d ago•9 comments

After dissing Anthropic for limiting Mythos, OpenAI restricts access to Cyber

https://techcrunch.com/2026/04/30/after-dissing-anthropic-for-limiting-mythos-openai-restricts-ac...
66•gbourne1•1h ago•38 comments

Maladaptive Frugality

https://herbertlui.net/maladaptive-frugality/
124•herbertl•2d ago•97 comments

The Rotary Un-Smartphone (2023)

https://skysedge.com/telecom/RUSP/index.html
36•tzury•2h ago•5 comments

A beginner's guide to Sourcehut (2025)

https://btxx.org/posts/beginners-guide-sourcehut/
28•bradley_taunt•2h ago•6 comments

How an oil refinery works

https://www.construction-physics.com/p/how-an-oil-refinery-works
446•chmaynard•22h ago•139 comments

Claude Code refuses requests or charges extra if your commits mention "OpenClaw"

https://twitter.com/theo/status/2049645973350363168
1199•elmean•21h ago•660 comments

CPanel and WHM Authentication Bypass – CVE-2026-41940

https://labs.watchtowr.com/the-internet-is-falling-down-falling-down-falling-down-cpanel-whm-auth...
119•zikani_03•13h ago•48 comments

I Got Sick of Remembering Port Numbers

https://gregraiz.com/blog/local-vibe/
90•graiz•2d ago•84 comments

Auto Polo

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auto_polo
75•canjobear•2d ago•20 comments

I built a Game Boy emulator in F#

https://nickkossolapov.github.io/fame-boy/building-a-game-boy-emulator-in-fsharp/
291•elvis70•19h ago•67 comments

Can I disable all data collection from my vehicle?

https://rivian.com/support/article/can-i-disable-all-data-collection-from-my-vehicle
645•Cider9986•15h ago•270 comments

Our agent found a bug with WireGuard in Google Kubernetes Engine

https://lovable.dev/blog/hunting-networking-bugs-in-kubernetes
27•vikeri•4h ago•1 comments

Advanced Quantization Algorithm for LLMs

https://github.com/intel/auto-round
5•lastdong•3h ago•0 comments

Roboticist-Turned-Teacher Built a Life-Size Replica of Eniac

https://spectrum.ieee.org/roboticist-turned-teacher-eniac-replica
37•oldnetguy•1d ago•8 comments

You can beat the binary search

https://lemire.me/blog/2026/04/27/you-can-beat-the-binary-search/
334•vok•3d ago•144 comments