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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•8mo ago
Ooh, free real estate, let's colonize and gentrify package management
aabhay•8mo ago
Lmao, gentrify cracked me up
neilv•8mo ago
Do these npx business cards run arbitrary code on your computer?
cypherpunks01•8mo 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•8mo 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•8mo ago
Yeah, this seems like a very smart but inherently flawed idea.
cypherpunks01•8mo 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•8mo ago
May as well just release an executable tbh.
theamk•8mo 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•8mo 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•8mo 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."

Discord/Twitch/Snapchat age verification bypass

https://age-verifier.kibty.town/
281•JustSkyfall•2h ago•147 comments

GPT-5 outperforms federal judges 100% to 52% in legal reasoning experiment

https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=6155012
110•droidjj•2h ago•84 comments

Fluorite – A console-grade game engine fully integrated with Flutter

https://fluorite.game/
393•bsimpson•9h ago•230 comments

Text classification with Python 3.14's ZSTD module

https://maxhalford.github.io/blog/text-classification-zstd/
77•alexmolas•2d ago•11 comments

GLM-5: Targeting complex systems engineering and long-horizon agentic tasks

https://z.ai/blog/glm-5
243•CuriouslyC•11h ago•397 comments

Reports of Telnet's Death Have Been Greatly Exaggerated

https://www.terracenetworks.com/blog/2026-02-11-telnet-routing
32•ericpauley•5h ago•6 comments

"Nothing" is the secret to structuring your work

https://www.vangemert.dev/blog/nothing
51•spmvg•3d ago•13 comments

NetNewsWire Turns 23

https://netnewswire.blog/2026/02/11/netnewswire-turns.html
201•robin_reala•7h ago•47 comments

Claude Code is being dumbed down?

https://symmetrybreak.ing/blog/claude-code-is-being-dumbed-down/
734•WXLCKNO•7h ago•504 comments

Microwave Oven Failure: Spontaneously turned on by its LED display (2024)

https://blog.stuffedcow.net/2024/06/microwave-failure-spontaneously-turns-on/
66•arm•5h ago•26 comments

WiFi Could Become an Invisible Mass Surveillance System

https://scitechdaily.com/researchers-warn-wifi-could-become-an-invisible-mass-surveillance-system/
297•mgh2•5d ago•146 comments

Hacking the last Z80 computer – FOSDEM 2026 [video]

https://fosdem.org/2026/schedule/event/FEHLHY-hacking_the_last_z80_computer_ever_made/
19•michalpleban•4d ago•2 comments

Components will kill pages

https://bitsandbytes.dev/posts/components-will-kill-pages
34•cmsparks•6h ago•24 comments

Amazon Ring's lost dog ad sparks backlash amid fears of mass surveillance

https://www.theverge.com/tech/876866/ring-search-party-super-bowl-ad-online-backlash
413•jedberg•6h ago•231 comments

Ireland rolls out basic income scheme for artists

https://www.reuters.com/world/ireland-rolls-out-pioneering-basic-income-scheme-artists-2026-02-10/
123•abe94•9h ago•116 comments

GLM-OCR – A multimodal OCR model for complex document understanding

https://github.com/zai-org/GLM-OCR
217•ms7892•4d ago•67 comments

Sekka Zusetsu: A Book of Snowflakes (1832)

https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/japanese-snowflake-book/
6•prismatic•2d ago•0 comments

We rendered and embedded one million CAD files

https://cad-search-three.vercel.app/
95•DavidFerris•1d ago•41 comments

Show HN: CodeRLM – Tree-sitter-backed code indexing for LLM agents

https://github.com/JaredStewart/coderlm/blob/main/server/REPL_to_API.md
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Show HN: Agent framework that generates its own topology and evolves at runtime

https://github.com/adenhq/hive/blob/main/README.md
33•vincentjiang•5h ago•11 comments

Officials Claim Drone Incursion Led to Shutdown of El Paso Airport

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/11/us/faa-el-paso-flight-restrictions.html
327•edward•16h ago•512 comments

Why vampires live forever

https://machielreyneke.com/blog/vampires-longevity/
313•machielrey•9h ago•152 comments

Show HN: AI agents play SimCity through a REST API

https://hallucinatingsplines.com
169•aed•2d ago•68 comments

Show HN: Agent Alcove – Claude, GPT, and Gemini debate across forums

https://agentalcove.ai
19•nickvec•5h ago•8 comments

A shortage of tenors

https://www.economist.com/culture/2026/02/09/the-world-is-suffering-from-a-shortage-of-tenors
60•petethomas•1d ago•56 comments

Covering electricity price increases from our data centers

https://www.anthropic.com/news/covering-electricity-price-increases
18•ryanhn•4h ago•0 comments

iOS 26.3 and macOS 26.3 Fix Dozens of Vulnerabilities, Including Zero-Day

https://www.macrumors.com/2026/02/11/ios-26-3-security-vulnerabilities/
126•akyuu•6h ago•77 comments

Q&A: New UK onshore wind and solar is '50% cheaper' than new gas

https://www.carbonbrief.org/qa-new-uk-onshore-wind-and-solar-is-50-cheaper-than-new-gas/
59•DamonHD•4h ago•48 comments

Typing for Love or Money: The Hidden Labor Behind Modern Literary Masterpieces

https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/typing-for-love-or-money/
25•prismatic•4d ago•6 comments

Exposure Simulator

http://www.andersenimages.com/tutorials/exposure-simulator/
127•sneela•14h ago•65 comments