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Building my npx business card

https://ashley.dev/posts/turning-feedback-into-features/
8•edent•10mo ago

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steele•10mo ago
Ooh, free real estate, let's colonize and gentrify package management
aabhay•10mo ago
Lmao, gentrify cracked me up
neilv•10mo ago
Do these npx business cards run arbitrary code on your computer?
cypherpunks01•10mo 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•10mo 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•10mo ago
Yeah, this seems like a very smart but inherently flawed idea.
cypherpunks01•10mo 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•10mo ago
May as well just release an executable tbh.
theamk•10mo 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•10mo 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•10mo 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."

Git commands I run before reading any code

https://piechowski.io/post/git-commands-before-reading-code/
465•grepsedawk•4h ago•107 comments

Veracrypt project update

https://sourceforge.net/p/veracrypt/discussion/general/thread/9620d7a4b3/
500•super256•5h ago•150 comments

I've sold out

https://mariozechner.at/posts/2026-04-08-ive-sold-out/
156•doppp•3h ago•91 comments

Škoda DuoBell: A bicycle bell that penetrates noise-cancelling headphones

https://www.skoda-storyboard.com/en/skoda-world/skoda-duobell-a-bicycle-bell-that-outsmarts-even-...
138•ra•4h ago•196 comments

Revision Demoparty 2026: Razor1911 [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lw4W9V57SKs&t=5716s
234•tetrisgm•7h ago•81 comments

Project Glasswing: Securing critical software for the AI era

https://www.anthropic.com/glasswing
1351•Ryan5453•18h ago•685 comments

MegaTrain: Full Precision Training of 100B+ Parameter LLMs on a Single GPU

https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.05091
9•chrsw•40m ago•1 comments

Audio Reactive LED Strips Are Diabolically Hard

https://scottlawsonbc.com/post/audio-led
41•surprisetalk•23h ago•7 comments

Explore union types in C# 15

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/dotnet/csharp-15-union-types/
43•0x00C0FFEE•3d ago•13 comments

Lunar Flyby

https://www.nasa.gov/gallery/lunar-flyby/
794•kipi•21h ago•191 comments

Show HN: We built a camera only robot vacuum for less than 300$ (Well almost)

https://indraneelpatil.github.io/blog/2026/robot-vacuum/
51•indraneelpatil•2d ago•9 comments

Your File System Is Already A Graph Database

https://rumproarious.com/2026/04/04/your-file-system-is-already-a-graph-database/
52•alxndr•2d ago•17 comments

Protect your shed

https://dylanbutler.dev/blog/protect-your-shed/
200•baely•9h ago•58 comments

System Card: Claude Mythos Preview [pdf]

https://www-cdn.anthropic.com/53566bf5440a10affd749724787c8913a2ae0841.pdf
743•be7a•18h ago•545 comments

GLM-5.1: Towards Long-Horizon Tasks

https://z.ai/blog/glm-5.1
560•zixuanlimit•20h ago•229 comments

How to get better at guitar

https://www.jakeworth.com/posts/how-to-get-better-at-guitar/
379•jwworth•2d ago•184 comments

Native Americans had dice 12k years ago

https://www.nbcnews.com/science/science-news/native-americans-dice-games-probability-study-rcna26...
88•delichon•4d ago•36 comments

Cambodia unveils statue to honour famous landmine-sniffing rat

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c0rx7xzd10xo
425•speckx•19h ago•101 comments

Slightly safer vibecoding by adopting old hacker habits

http://addxorrol.blogspot.com/2026/03/slightly-safer-vibecoding-by-adopting.html
130•transpute•5d ago•75 comments

S3 Files

https://www.allthingsdistributed.com/2026/04/s3-files-and-the-changing-face-of-s3.html
327•werner•17h ago•94 comments

Mario and Earendil

https://lucumr.pocoo.org/2026/4/8/mario-and-earendil/
15•doppp•3h ago•7 comments

A truck driver spent 20 years making a scale model of every building in NYC

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/a-truck-drive-spent-20-years-making-this-astonishing-sc...
355•1659447091•2d ago•59 comments

US cities are axing Flock Safety surveillance technology

https://www.cnet.com/home/security/when-flock-comes-to-town-why-cities-are-axing-the-controversia...
10•giuliomagnifico•32m ago•1 comments

Show HN: An interactive map of Tolkien's Middle-earth

https://middle-earth-interactive-map.web.app/
230•frasermarlow•16h ago•47 comments

Binary obfuscation used in AAA Games

https://blog.farzon.org/2026/04/binary-obfuscation-that-doesnt-kill-lto.html
111•noztol•2d ago•51 comments

Cloudflare targets 2029 for full post-quantum security

https://blog.cloudflare.com/post-quantum-roadmap/
355•ilreb•22h ago•108 comments

The Clock

https://blog.senko.net/the-clock
85•senko•4d ago•30 comments

A database of analog cameras that can be 3D printed

https://printed.analogcamera.space/
129•thomasjb•5d ago•21 comments

US and Iran agree to provisional ceasefire

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/apr/07/trump-iran-war-ceasefire
536•g-b-r•14h ago•1588 comments

Xilem – An experimental Rust native UI framework

https://github.com/linebender/xilem
120•Levitating•13h ago•54 comments