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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."

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https://tonisagrista.com/blog/2025/google-unkills-jpegxl/
60•speckx•1h ago•33 comments

Why xor eax, eax?

https://xania.org/202512/01-xor-eax-eax
293•hasheddan•4h ago•103 comments

Ask HN: Who is hiring? (December 2025)

58•whoishiring•1h ago•61 comments

A New AI Winter Is Coming

https://taranis.ie/llms-are-a-failure-a-new-ai-winter-is-coming/
34•voxleone•36m ago•25 comments

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123•mhb•3h ago•26 comments

Search tool that only returns content created before ChatGPT's public release

https://tegabrain.com/Slop-Evader
703•dmitrygr•13h ago•279 comments

Better Auth (YC X25) Is Hiring

https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/better-auth/jobs/eKk5nLt-developer-relation-engineer
1•bekacru•17m ago

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https://stratechery.com/2025/google-nvidia-and-openai/
35•tambourine_man•1h ago•21 comments

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https://github.com/soufianekhiat/ImAnim
24•klaussilveira•1h ago•3 comments

A vector graphics workstation from the 70s

https://justanotherelectronicsblog.com/?p=1429
68•ibobev•3h ago•6 comments

Self-hosting a Matrix server for 5 years

https://yaky.dev/2025-11-30-self-hosting-matrix/
177•the-anarchist•5h ago•66 comments

The Penicillin Myth

https://www.asimov.press/p/penicillin-myth
61•surprisetalk•3h ago•31 comments

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https://rarehistoricalphotos.com/engineering-methods-from-the-past/
56•dxs•6d ago•11 comments

Games using anti-cheats and their compatibility with GNU/Linux or Wine/Proton

https://areweanticheatyet.com/
184•doener•10h ago•246 comments

It’s been a very hard year

https://bell.bz/its-been-a-very-hard-year/
268•surprisetalk•11h ago•354 comments

How to Run Profitable Pricing Experiments?

https://cleancommit.io/blog/pricing-experiments/
18•mrkaluzny•5d ago•6 comments

A Love Letter to FreeBSD

https://www.tara.sh/posts/2025/2025-11-25_freebsd_letter/
388•rbanffy•19h ago•251 comments

Writing a good Claude.md

https://www.humanlayer.dev/blog/writing-a-good-claude-md
658•objcts•23h ago•252 comments

Detection of triboelectric discharges during dust events on Mars

https://gizmodo.com/weve-detected-lightning-on-mars-for-the-first-time-2000691996
84•domofutu•4d ago•45 comments

Isn't WSL2 just a VM?

https://ssg.dev/isnt-wsl2-just-a-vm/
11•sedatk•6d ago•4 comments

Trifold is a tool to quickly and cheaply host static websites using a CDN

https://www.jpt.sh/projects/trifold/
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https://obr.uk/docs/dlm_uploads/01122025-Investigation-into-November-2025-EFO-publication-error.pdf
76•robtaylor•2h ago•73 comments

Advent of Sysadmin 2025

https://sadservers.com/advent
310•lazyant•16h ago•96 comments

Victorian-style lines for the web: Elements of identical width

https://jacobfilipp.com/victorian-line/
35•surprisetalk•1w ago•3 comments

SmartTube Compromised

https://www.aftvnews.com/smarttubes-official-apk-was-compromised-with-malware-what-you-should-do-...
132•akersten•12h ago•105 comments

Boring Laser Eyes Simulator: Add laser beams to your eyes with your webcam

14•frankhsu•1w ago•3 comments

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https://www.tpart.net/about-x210ai/
156•walterbell•14h ago•66 comments

DeepSeekMath-V2: Towards Self-Verifiable Mathematical Reasoning

https://huggingface.co/deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-Math-V2
225•victorbuilds•8h ago•75 comments

Netflix Kills Casting from Its Mobile App to Most Modern TVs

https://www.macrumors.com/2025/12/01/netflix-kills-casting-from-mobile-app-to-tvs/
122•Brajeshwar•2h ago•103 comments

Algorithms for Optimization [pdf]

https://algorithmsbook.com/optimization/files/optimization.pdf
327•Anon84•17h ago•28 comments