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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."

Pebble Watch software is now 100% open source

https://ericmigi.com/blog/pebble-watch-software-is-now-100percent-open-source
667•Larrikin•6h ago•112 comments

Claude Advanced Tool Use

https://www.anthropic.com/engineering/advanced-tool-use
323•lebovic•6h ago•123 comments

Unpowered SSDs slowly lose data

https://www.xda-developers.com/your-unpowered-ssd-is-slowly-losing-your-data/
157•amichail•5h ago•68 comments

Shai-Hulud Returns: Over 300 NPM Packages Infected

https://helixguard.ai/blog/malicious-sha1hulud-2025-11-24
856•mrdosija•14h ago•689 comments

Three Years from GPT-3 to Gemini 3

https://www.oneusefulthing.org/p/three-years-from-gpt-3-to-gemini
177•JumpCrisscross•1d ago•104 comments

Cool-retro-term: terminal emulator which mimics look and feel of the old CRTs

https://github.com/Swordfish90/cool-retro-term
157•michalpleban•7h ago•64 comments

Claude Opus 4.5

https://www.anthropic.com/news/claude-opus-4-5
742•adocomplete•6h ago•336 comments

Neopets.com changed my life (2019)

https://annastreetman.com/2019/05/19/how-neopets-com-changed-my-life/
52•bariumbitmap•6d ago•32 comments

Show HN: I built an interactive HN Simulator

https://news.ysimulator.run/news
148•johnsillings•7h ago•82 comments

Moving from OpenBSD to FreeBSD for firewalls

https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/sysadmin/OpenBSDToFreeBSDMove
141•zdw•5d ago•66 comments

Random lasers from peanut kernel doped with birch leaf–derived carbon dots

https://www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi/10.1515/nanoph-2025-0312/html
11•PaulHoule•5d ago•1 comments

The Bitter Lesson of LLM Extensions

https://www.sawyerhood.com/blog/llm-extension
78•sawyerjhood•6h ago•34 comments

Show HN: OCR Arena – A playground for OCR models

https://www.ocrarena.ai/battle
50•kbyatnal•3d ago•16 comments

What OpenAI did when ChatGPT users lost touch with reality

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/23/technology/openai-chatgpt-users-risks.html
94•nonprofiteer•19h ago•97 comments

How sea turtles learn locations using Earth’s magnetic field: research

https://uncnews.unc.edu/2025/02/13/sea-turtles-secret-gps-researchers-uncover-how-sea-turtles-lea...
10•hhs•3d ago•1 comments

PS5 now costs less than 64GB of DDR5 memory. RAM jumps to $600 due to shortage

https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/ddr5/64gb-of-ddr5-memory-now-costs-more-than-an-entire...
260•speckx•5h ago•158 comments

Everything you need to know about hard drive vibration (2016)

https://www.ept.ca/features/everything-need-know-hard-drive-vibration/
21•asdefghyk•4d ago•6 comments

Bytes before FLOPS: your algorithm is (mostly) fine, your data isn't

https://www.bitsdraumar.is/bytes-before-flops/
40•bofersen•1d ago•8 comments

Chrome Jpegxl Issue Reopened

https://issues.chromium.org/issues/40168998
212•markdog12•13h ago•79 comments

Mind-reading devices can now predict preconscious thoughts

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-03714-0
117•srameshc•6h ago•79 comments

TSMC Arizona outage saw fab halt, Apple wafers scrapped

https://www.culpium.com/p/tsmc-arizona-outage-saw-fab-halt
170•speckx•6h ago•64 comments

Building the largest known Kubernetes cluster

https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/containers-kubernetes/how-we-built-a-130000-node-gke-cluster/
103•TangerineDream•3d ago•64 comments

Corvus Robotics (YC S18): Hiring Head of Mfg/Ops, Next Door to YC Mountain View

1•robot_jackie•8h ago

Google's new 'Aluminium OS' project brings Android to PC

https://www.androidauthority.com/aluminium-os-android-for-pcs-3619092/
44•jmsflknr•6h ago•48 comments

Launch HN: Karumi (YC F25) – Personalized, agentic product demos

http://karumi.ai/
28•tonilopezmr•6h ago•10 comments

Inside Rust's std and parking_lot mutexes – who wins?

https://blog.cuongle.dev/p/inside-rusts-std-and-parking-lot-mutexes-who-win
127•signa11•4d ago•54 comments

You can see a working Quantum Computer in IBM's London office

https://www.ianvisits.co.uk/articles/you-can-see-a-working-quantum-computer-in-ibms-london-office...
35•thinkingemote•2d ago•7 comments

Fifty Shades of OOP

https://lesleylai.info/en/fifty_shades_of_oop/
43•todsacerdoti•15h ago•6 comments

The history of Indian science fiction

https://altermag.com/articles/the-secret-history-of-indian-science-fiction
85•adityaathalye•2d ago•6 comments

GrapheneOS migrates server infrastructure from France

https://www.privacyguides.org/news/2025/11/22/grapheneos-migrates-server-infrastructure-from-fran...
218•01-_-•6h ago•80 comments