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Building my npx business card

https://ashley.dev/posts/turning-feedback-into-features/
8•edent•9mo ago

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steele•9mo ago
Ooh, free real estate, let's colonize and gentrify package management
aabhay•9mo ago
Lmao, gentrify cracked me up
neilv•9mo ago
Do these npx business cards run arbitrary code on your computer?
cypherpunks01•9mo 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•9mo 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•9mo ago
Yeah, this seems like a very smart but inherently flawed idea.
cypherpunks01•9mo 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•9mo ago
May as well just release an executable tbh.
theamk•9mo 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•9mo 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•9mo 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."

I love the work of the ArchWiki maintainers

https://k7r.eu/i-love-the-work-of-the-archwiki-maintainers/
120•panic•3h ago•24 comments

My smart sleep mask broadcasts users' brainwaves to an open MQTT broker

https://aimilios.bearblog.dev/reverse-engineering-sleep-mask/
371•minimalthinker•13h ago•183 comments

Ooh.directory: a place to find good blogs that interest you

https://ooh.directory/
469•hisamafahri•15h ago•121 comments

Zvec: A lightweight, fast, in-process vector database

https://github.com/alibaba/zvec
102•dvrp•1d ago•17 comments

Instagram's URL Blackhole

https://medium.com/@shredlife/instagrams-url-blackhole-c1733e081664
118•tkp-415•1d ago•18 comments

5,300-year-old 'bow drill' rewrites story of ancient Egyptian tools

https://www.ncl.ac.uk/press/articles/latest/2026/02/ancientegyptiandrillbit/
90•geox•4d ago•10 comments

uBlock filter list to hide all YouTube Shorts

https://github.com/i5heu/ublock-hide-yt-shorts/
731•i5heu•11h ago•244 comments

News publishers limit Internet Archive access due to AI scraping concerns

https://www.niemanlab.org/2026/01/news-publishers-limit-internet-archive-access-due-to-ai-scrapin...
444•ninjagoo•10h ago•288 comments

NewPipe: YouTube client without vertical videos and algorithmic feed

https://newpipe.net/
171•nvader•3h ago•42 comments

Flood Fill vs. The Magic Circle

https://www.robinsloan.com/winter-garden/magic-circle/
52•tobr•3d ago•16 comments

Breaking the spell of vibe coding

https://www.fast.ai/posts/2026-01-28-dark-flow/
163•arjunbanker•1d ago•120 comments

Amsterdam Compiler Kit

https://github.com/davidgiven/ack
109•andsoitis•12h ago•29 comments

Show HN: Off Grid – Run AI text, image gen, vision offline on your phone

https://github.com/alichherawalla/off-grid-mobile
68•ali_chherawalla•6h ago•26 comments

I'm building a clarity-first language (compiles to C++)

https://github.com/taman-islam/rox
4•hedayet•4d ago•3 comments

OpenAI should build Slack

https://www.latent.space/p/ainews-why-openai-should-build-slack
118•swyx•21h ago•115 comments

The consequences of task switching in supervisory programming

https://martinfowler.com/fragments/2026-02-13.html
57•bigwheels•1d ago•26 comments

How often do full-body MRIs find cancer?

https://www.usatoday.com/story/life/health-wellness/2026/02/11/full-body-mris-cancer-aneurysm/883...
74•brandonb•1d ago•79 comments

Can my SPARC server host a website?

https://rup12.net/posts/can-my-sparc-server-host-my-website/
40•e145bc455f1•4d ago•31 comments

Show HN: Sameshi – a ~1200 Elo chess engine that fits within 2KB

https://github.com/datavorous/sameshi
204•datavorous_•15h ago•62 comments

Connes Embedding Problem

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Connes_embedding_problem
9•jerlendds•2d ago•1 comments

Linear Representations and Superposition

http://ternarysearch.blogspot.com/2026/02/linear-representations-and-superposition.html
4•paladin314159•49m ago•0 comments

Show HN: MOL – A programming language where pipelines trace themselves

https://github.com/crux-ecosystem/mol-lang
27•MouneshK•3d ago•9 comments

A review of M Disc archival capability with long term testing results (2016)

http://www.microscopy-uk.org.uk/mag/artsep16/mol-mdisc-review.html
71•1970-01-01•13h ago•88 comments

Unicorn Jelly

https://unicornjelly.com/
53•avaer•16h ago•12 comments

YouTube as Storage

https://github.com/PulseBeat02/yt-media-storage
182•saswatms•20h ago•135 comments

The Perfect Device

https://sometimes.digital/posts/the-perfect-device/
15•surprisetalk•3d ago•2 comments

MDST Engine: run GGUF models in the browser with WebGPU/WASM

https://mdst.app/blog/mdst_engine_run_gguf_models_in_your_browser
3•vmirnv•3d ago•2 comments

Colored Petri Nets, LLMs, and distributed applications

https://blog.sao.dev/cpns-llms-distributed-apps/
31•stuartaxelowen•8h ago•4 comments

Descent, ported to the web

https://mrdoob.github.io/three-descent/
188•memalign•9h ago•40 comments

Launching Interop 2026

https://hacks.mozilla.org/2026/02/launching-interop-2026/
56•linolevan•1d ago•3 comments