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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."

DeepSeek v4

https://api-docs.deepseek.com/
869•impact_sy•5h ago•520 comments

Composition Shouldn't be this Hard

https://www.cambra.dev/blog/announcement/
37•larelli•1h ago•22 comments

Why I Write (1946)

https://www.orwellfoundation.com/the-orwell-foundation/orwell/essays-and-other-works/why-i-write/
161•RyanShook•6h ago•33 comments

An update on recent Claude Code quality reports

https://www.anthropic.com/engineering/april-23-postmortem
726•mfiguiere•15h ago•542 comments

GPT-5.5

https://openai.com/index/introducing-gpt-5-5/
1356•rd•14h ago•892 comments

US special forces soldier arrested after allegedly winning $400k on Maduro raid

https://www.cnn.com/2026/04/23/politics/us-special-forces-soldier-arrested-maduro-raid-trade
218•nkrisc•11h ago•269 comments

Bitwarden CLI compromised in ongoing Checkmarx supply chain campaign

https://socket.dev/blog/bitwarden-cli-compromised
748•tosh•18h ago•365 comments

Spinel: Ruby AOT Native Compiler

https://github.com/matz/spinel
5•dluan•30m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Gova – The declarative GUI framework for Go

https://github.com/NV404/gova
18•aliezsid•2h ago•2 comments

Show HN: How LLMs Work – Interactive visual guide based on Karpathy's lecture

https://ynarwal.github.io/how-llms-work/
16•ynarwal__•2h ago•2 comments

Habitual coffee intake shapes the microbiome, modifies physiology and cognition

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-026-71264-8
140•scubakid•4h ago•71 comments

MeshCore development team splits over trademark dispute and AI-generated code

https://blog.meshcore.io/2026/04/23/the-split
216•wielebny•16h ago•112 comments

Meta tells staff it will cut 10% of jobs

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-04-23/meta-tells-staff-it-will-cut-10-of-jobs-in-pus...
592•Vaslo•14h ago•569 comments

Why Not Venus?

https://mceglowski.substack.com/p/why-not-venus
25•zdw•3h ago•6 comments

Show HN: Tolaria – Open-source macOS app to manage Markdown knowledge bases

https://github.com/refactoringhq/tolaria
191•lucaronin•10h ago•72 comments

Familiarity is the enemy: On why Enterprise systems have failed for 60 years

https://felixbarbalet.com/familiarity-is-the-enemy/
36•adityaathalye•4h ago•18 comments

TorchTPU: Running PyTorch Natively on TPUs at Google Scale

https://developers.googleblog.com/torchtpu-running-pytorch-natively-on-tpus-at-google-scale/
133•mji•12h ago•9 comments

Using the internet like it's 1999

https://joshblais.com/blog/using-the-internet-like-its-1999/
155•joshuablais•12h ago•97 comments

UK Biobank health data keeps ending up on GitHub

https://biobank.rocher.lc
121•Cynddl•19h ago•32 comments

Ubuntu 26.04

https://lwn.net/Articles/1069399/
188•lxst•4h ago•101 comments

My phone replaced a brass plug

https://drobinin.com/posts/my-phone-replaced-a-brass-plug/
129•valzevul•16h ago•30 comments

Show HN: Agent Vault – Open-source credential proxy and vault for agents

https://github.com/Infisical/agent-vault
105•dangtony98•1d ago•37 comments

Show HN: Honker – Postgres NOTIFY/LISTEN Semantics for SQLite

https://github.com/russellromney/honker
257•russellthehippo•21h ago•62 comments

A programmable watch you can actually wear

https://www.hackster.io/news/a-diy-watch-you-can-actually-wear-8f91c2dac682
181•sarusso•3d ago•86 comments

Astronomers find the edge of the Milky Way

https://skyandtelescope.org/astronomy-news/astronomers-find-the-edge-of-the-milky-way/
120•bookofjoe•14h ago•26 comments

Alberta startup sells no-tech tractors for half price

https://wheelfront.com/this-alberta-startup-sells-no-tech-tractors-for-half-price/
2190•Kaibeezy•1d ago•745 comments

Used La Marzocco machines are coveted by cafe owners and collectors

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/20/dining/la-marzocco-espresso-machine.html
67•mitchbob•3d ago•118 comments

Incident with multple GitHub services

https://www.githubstatus.com/incidents/myrbk7jvvs6p
244•bwannasek•16h ago•117 comments

Writing a C Compiler, in Zig (2025)

https://ar-ms.me/thoughts/c-compiler-1-zig/
161•tosh•23h ago•44 comments

I am building a cloud

https://crawshaw.io/blog/building-a-cloud
1060•bumbledraven•1d ago•532 comments