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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."

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https://arkm.com/explorer/entity/21a94755-f604-45e5-9501-6542e23005e8
542•Tiberium•2h ago•307 comments

We're releasing the weights of Mistral Large 4

https://mistral.ai/news/mistral-large-4-oss/
1142•kuberwastaken•9h ago•325 comments

We ran AI agent swarms in Minecraft and Mindustry

https://labs.ycombinator.com/projects/games/index.html
105•sandslash•2h ago•38 comments

The Great American Rascal: Tom Sawyer at 150

https://claremontreviewofbooks.com/the-great-american-rascal/
23•beatstop•1h ago•5 comments

A tiny world model running games on a Raspberry Pi Pico 2 W

https://github.com/SheepSeb/tinyworldformer
82•airinei•3h ago•7 comments

A Pig, the State, and War: Porco Rosso (Kurenai No Buta) (2014)

https://journal.animationstudies.org/article/id/66/
24•simonebrunozzi•1h ago•1 comments

H.264 Is Magic (2016)

https://sidbala.com/h-264-is-magic/
305•ea016•8h ago•118 comments

El Niño Is Flooding California's Coasts with the Highest Tides to Come

https://gizmodo.com/el-nino-is-already-flooding-californias-coasts-and-the-years-highest-tides-ha...
38•gumby•2h ago•5 comments

Patrick Stewart has died

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/10/29/arts/television/patrick-stewart-dead.html
2182•j4mie•4h ago•439 comments

Show HN: Auto Dismiss Mac OS "Allow <app> to find devices on local networks?"

https://github.com/johncassil/dontallow
87•johncassil•4h ago•67 comments

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https://github.com/mottopanikeiku/doomformer
7•falperc•40m ago•1 comments

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https://convo.casa/@b/117525936178835007
26•ColinWright•2h ago•8 comments

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https://projects.freehackers.org/sylphide-os/
27•iamnothere•3h ago•6 comments

LLM Voice

https://martinfowler.com/bliki/LLM-Voice.html
321•ibobev•9h ago•164 comments

DoorDash to acquire Instacart

https://about.doordash.com/en-us/news/doordash-to-acquire-instacart
401•WalterSobchak•11h ago•587 comments

ElementaryUI – Swift, in the Browser

https://elementary.codes
42•frizlab•3h ago•8 comments

Scattered thoughts on how doing math feels these days

https://dynomight.net/math/
48•surprisetalk•3d ago•35 comments

Chained PHP2Shell exploit roots 25 servers, including US Government servers

https://dreamgroup.com/blog/chained-php2shell-exploit-roots-25-servers
272•882542F3884314B•13h ago•135 comments

Historical Scientific Instruments

https://nealstephenson.substack.com/p/historical-scientific-instruments
6•peteforde•2d ago•0 comments

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https://lumi.codeberg.page/blog/software-community.html
94•amcclure•4h ago•87 comments

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https://divergencelabs.com/publications/ige-preprint.pdf
33•matco11•4h ago•21 comments

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https://github.com/emmilco/us-tax-model
56•RGS1811•1d ago•9 comments

Launch HN: Simantic (YC F26) – Firmware Simulation for AI Agents

47•shong0504•8h ago•14 comments

Claude Duet is the first personal-assistant-type harness that feels useful

https://fig.blue/posts/duet-is-the-future/
92•nathanfig•6h ago•72 comments

If IPv4 were land

https://iptrust.co/blog/if-ipv4-were-land
218•rokostik•11h ago•279 comments

Grace Blackwell needs a new scheduler: 27% more usable GPUs from the same racks

https://skypilot.ai/blog/grace-blackwell-needs-a-new-scheduler
121•wondersky•8h ago•21 comments

16colo.rs – ANSI/ASCII art archive

https://16colo.rs/
80•memalign•7h ago•7 comments

Zombie stats: Where the numbers AI quotes come from

https://trakkr.ai/trakkr-research/zombie-stats
136•mektrik•9h ago•60 comments

Alleged Chinese spy had 'close relationship' with Nvidia boss Jensen Huang

https://nypost.com/2026/10/29/business/alleged-chinese-spy-had-close-relationship-with-nvidia-bos...
263•mgh2•6h ago•178 comments

What we know so far about Spain train crash

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cm8xz7pkd0jjo
140•ZeljkoS•15h ago•287 comments