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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."

GitHub is having issues now

https://www.githubstatus.com
119•SenHeng•1h ago•42 comments

Microsoft and OpenAI end their exclusive and revenue-sharing deal

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-04-27/microsoft-to-stop-sharing-revenue-with-main-ai...
496•helsinkiandrew•5h ago•420 comments

Super ZSNES – GPU Powered SNES Emulator

https://zsnes.com/
53•haunter•1h ago•12 comments

Open-Source KiCad PCBs for Common Arduino, ESP32, RP2040 Boards

https://github.com/Hanqaqa/Easyduino
51•Hanqaqa•1h ago•1 comments

“Why not just use Lean?”

https://lawrencecpaulson.github.io//2026/04/23/Why_not_Lean.html
180•ibobev•4h ago•98 comments

Networking changes coming in macOS 27

https://eclecticlight.co/2026/04/23/networking-changes-coming-in-macos-27/
119•pvtmert•3h ago•93 comments

GitHub Copilot is moving to usage-based billing

https://github.blog/news-insights/company-news/github-copilot-is-moving-to-usage-based-billing/
309•frizlab•2h ago•242 comments

The woes of sanitizing SVGs

https://muffin.ink/blog/scratch-svg-sanitization/
109•varun_ch•3h ago•39 comments

4TB of voice samples just stolen from 40k AI contractors at Mercor

https://app.oravys.com/blog/mercor-breach-2026
316•Oravys•9h ago•121 comments

Show HN: OSS Agent I built topped the TerminalBench on Gemini-3-flash-preview

https://github.com/dirac-run/dirac
238•GodelNumbering•6h ago•84 comments

Pgbackrest is no longer being maintained

https://github.com/pgbackrest/pgbackrest
357•c0l0•8h ago•185 comments

Dutch central bank ditches AWS and chooses Lidl for European Cloud

https://www.techzine.eu/news/infrastructure/140634/dutch-central-bank-chooses-lidl-for-european-c...
248•benterix•3h ago•93 comments

Canada's first sovereign wealth fund

https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/sovereign-wealth-fund-carney-major-projects-9.7178238
115•geox•2h ago•50 comments

Men who stare at walls

https://www.alexselimov.com/posts/men_who_stare_at_walls/
272•aselimov3•7h ago•138 comments

The Quiet Resurgence of RF Engineering

https://atempleton.bearblog.dev/quiet-resurgence-of-rf-engineering/
13•merlinq•2d ago•0 comments

Magic by Return of Post: How Mail Order Delivered the Occult

https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/magic-by-return-of-post/
6•Vigier•1d ago•0 comments

Fully Featured Audio DSP Firmware for the Raspberry Pi Pico

https://github.com/WeebLabs/DSPi
209•BoingBoomTschak•2d ago•45 comments

Adding a team was the wrong strategic decision

https://learnings.aleixmorgadas.dev/p/adding-a-team-was-the-wrong-strategic
33•milkglass•1d ago•8 comments

FDA approves first gene therapy for treatment of genetic hearing loss

https://www.fda.gov/news-events/press-announcements/fda-approves-first-ever-gene-therapy-treatmen...
160•JeanKage•8h ago•61 comments

Decoupled DiLoCo: Resilient, Distributed AI Training at Scale

https://deepmind.google/blog/decoupled-diloco/
19•metadat•2h ago•3 comments

United Wizards of the Coast

https://unitedwizardsofthecoast.com/news/announcing-united-wizards-coast-cwa
5•d4mi3n•24m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Utilyze – an open source GPU monitoring tool more accurate than nvtop

https://www.systalyze.com/utilyze
42•ManyaGhobadi•5h ago•8 comments

Tendril – a self-extending agent that builds and registers its own tools

https://github.com/serverless-dna/tendril
54•walmsles•5h ago•19 comments

Flipdiscs

https://flipdisc.io
494•skogstokig•4d ago•82 comments

I bought Friendster for $30k – Here's what I'm doing with it

https://ca98am79.medium.com/i-bought-friendster-for-30k-heres-what-i-m-doing-with-it-d5e8ddb3991d
1041•ca98am79•22h ago•555 comments

US Supreme Court reviews police use of cell location data

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/27/us/politics/supreme-court-cell-data-geofence.html
131•unethical_ban•3h ago•79 comments

Quarkdown – Markdown with Superpowers

https://quarkdown.com/
183•amai•10h ago•49 comments

Den stora Älgvandringen – The great moose migration (live)

https://www.svtplay.se/video/jXv3A5G/den-stora-algvandringen/idag-00-00
57•donjoe•3d ago•5 comments

Managing the Unmanaged Switch

https://watchmysys.com/blog/2026/03/managing-the-unmanaged-switch/
43•luu•2d ago•21 comments

AI should elevate your thinking, not replace it

https://www.koshyjohn.com/blog/ai-should-elevate-your-thinking-not-replace-it/
780•koshyjohn•22h ago•556 comments