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Building my npx business card

https://ashley.dev/posts/turning-feedback-into-features/
8•edent•1y ago

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steele•1y ago
Ooh, free real estate, let's colonize and gentrify package management
aabhay•1y ago
Lmao, gentrify cracked me up
neilv•1y ago
Do these npx business cards run arbitrary code on your computer?
cypherpunks01•1y 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•1y 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•1y ago
Yeah, this seems like a very smart but inherently flawed idea.
cypherpunks01•1y 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•1y ago
May as well just release an executable tbh.
theamk•1y 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•1y 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•1y 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."

The Structural Barriers to AI Lawyers

https://www.diffuseai.pub/p/the-structural-barriers-to-ai-lawyers
13•benbreen•5d ago•3 comments

Cloudflare Flagship

https://developers.cloudflare.com/flagship/
196•tjek•8h ago•91 comments

What Gets Kept

https://www.newyorker.com/culture/the-weekend-essay/what-jack-kerouac-left-behind
9•lermontov•2d ago•1 comments

BadHost – CVE-2026-48710: Starlette Host-Header Auth Bypass

https://badhost.org/
24•ylk•22h ago•4 comments

That Methyl Methacrylate Tank

https://www.science.org/content/blog-post/methyl-methacrylate-tank
317•nooks•12h ago•119 comments

The Melancholy of Slaying Monsters

https://thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/the-strange-melancholy-of-slaying-monsters/
10•prismatic•12h ago•0 comments

A few interesting modern pixel fonts

https://unsung.aresluna.org/a-few-interesting-modern-pixel-fonts/
332•zdw•1d ago•69 comments

I built a Git-tracked book production pipeline

https://www.djspeckhals.com/posts/2026-05-22-how-i-bypassed-adobe-and-microsoft-to-build-a-git-tr...
225•dustin1114•4d ago•58 comments

The worst job interview I ever had

https://www.oliverio.dev/blog/the-worst-job-interview-i-had
220•oliverio•11h ago•185 comments

A history of obituaries in American newspapers

https://blogs.loc.gov/headlinesandheroes/2026/05/mourn-not-a-history-of-obituaries-in-american-ne...
18•NaOH•2d ago•0 comments

IBM Confidential: System/360 File Organization [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zokKqP0plrM
34•DaiPlusPlus•2d ago•9 comments

A portentous reunion

https://bcantrill.dtrace.org/2026/05/25/a-portentous-reunion/
95•cafkafk•1d ago•26 comments

TSDuck: Open-source toolkit for MPEG-TS analysis and manipulation

https://tsduck.io/
18•phantomathkg•5h ago•1 comments

What I've Learned (So Far) Building Online Mini Games with Elixir and Swift

https://calvinflegal.com/2026/05/24/what-ive-learned-so-far-building-online-mini-games-with-elixi...
39•calflegal•2d ago•17 comments

Launch HN: Minicor (YC P26) – Windows desktop automations at scale

https://www.minicor.com/
87•fchishtie•16h ago•54 comments

Cate v1.0 is out: The Infinite canvas workspace for developers

https://github.com/0-AI-UG/cate
14•BlueBerry2001•1d ago•6 comments

Rosalind: A genomics toolkit in Rust running whole-genome pipelines on a laptop

https://github.com/logannye/rosalind
152•samuell•5d ago•37 comments

Tunecat: Simple Internet Radio

https://codeberg.org/lindenii/tunecat/
46•croottree•6h ago•2 comments

Spain blocks prediction markets Polymarket, Kalshi over lack of gambling licence

https://www.reuters.com/business/spain-blocks-prediction-markets-polymarket-kalshi-over-lack-gamb...
886•thm•18h ago•409 comments

C array types are weird

https://anselmschueler.com/blogposts/2025-c-pointers/
77•signa11•2d ago•72 comments

Show HN: Posthorn, self-hosted mail without the mail server

https://github.com/craigmccaskill/posthorn
10•craigmccaskill•3h ago•5 comments

The Forgotten Art of the LAN Party (2023)

https://www.superjumpmagazine.com/the-forgotten-art-of-the-lan-party/
114•susam•3d ago•37 comments

Stripe is friendly to “friendly fraud”

https://www.gingerlime.com/2026/stripe-seem-friendly-to-friendly-fraud/
246•gingerlime•6h ago•154 comments

Dropbox CEO Drew Houston to step down

https://www.cnbc.com/2026/05/26/dropbox-ceo-drew-houston-ashraf-alkarmi.html
336•aghuang•18h ago•359 comments

Splinter Cell veteran says realistic modern lighting has screwed up stealth game

https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/splinter-cell-veteran-says-realistic-modern-lighting-has-screwed...
58•Tomte•2d ago•39 comments

The Steinwinter Supercargo

https://www.thedrive.com/article/12603/the-forgotten-steinwinter-supercargo-is-unlike-anything-on...
64•itronitron•3d ago•17 comments

Erin Brockovich made a map to track data centers around the country

https://www.niemanlab.org/2026/05/erin-brockovich-made-a-map-to-track-data-centers-around-the-cou...
207•cratermoon•7h ago•194 comments

Sonny Rollins, jazz saxophonist, has died

https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/sonny-rollins-jazz-legend-saxophone-colossus-dead-o...
103•boarsofcanada•7h ago•14 comments

What color is your function? (2015)

https://journal.stuffwithstuff.com/2015/02/01/what-color-is-your-function/
118•tosh•15h ago•150 comments

Outsourcing plus local AI will soon become more economical vs. frontier labs

https://www.signalbloom.ai/posts/outsourcing-plus-localai-will-soon-become-more-economical-vs-fro...
279•GodelNumbering•19h ago•297 comments