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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."

Reverse engineering my Coway air purifier to ditch the cloud

https://scottjg.com/posts/2026-11-11-reverse-engineering-my-coway-air-purifier-to-ditch-the-cloud/
466•scottjg•20h ago•132 comments

A technical vision for the Haskell ecosystem

https://discourse.haskell.org/t/a-technical-vision-for-the-haskell-ecosystem/15078
108•cosmic_quanta•3h ago•39 comments

After 600 experiments, here's what I discovered about JEPA world models

https://haddyalchaer.com/jepa
12•halcdev•33m ago•1 comments

AI unlocks Gödel's notebooks, said to contain hundreds of proved theorems

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2026/nov/13/kurt-godel-notebooks-ai-helps-unlock-hidden-disco...
91•bookofjoe•58m ago•6 comments

Lonewolf 0.3 – A standalone XMPP server written in Rust

https://github.com/lonewolf-im/lonewolf/releases/tag/v0.3.0
79•ortuman•4h ago•15 comments

Doomsday: Friday, 13 November, A.D. 2026 (1960)

https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.132.3436.1291
355•voxleone•6h ago•248 comments

Palmfrets, Minnesota guitarist's invention, strikes a new chord

https://www.echopress.com/business/minnesota-guitarists-invention-strikes-a-new-chord
50•bookofjoe•3h ago•38 comments

Show HN: Isometric SF – A pixel-art map of the SF Bay Area

https://isometricsf.com/
8•juscha1•30m ago•1 comments

Why Zig over C for Systems Programming

https://www.mtsoukalos.eu/2026/11/why-zig-over-c-for-systems-programming/
181•torutofu•4h ago•132 comments

"LibreOffice works 365 days a year. Just saying."

https://twitter.com/LibreOffice/status/2121205272479998268
383•mksaunders2•1h ago•135 comments

Brazil's Caixa insurer breach exposes names and tax IDs of all 7.6M customers

https://filemanager-cdn.mziq.com/published/3972906b-e50b-4f74-ab74-4d0d32125d11/9567a559-d20a-486...
127•dvaplima•2h ago•43 comments

IceWM

https://ice-wm.org/
333•inatreecrown2•13h ago•184 comments

CERN Built the Large Hadron Collider's Next-Gen Magnets

https://spectrum.ieee.org/large-hadron-collider-superconducting-magnets
29•marc__1•4h ago•1 comments

Apify Security Incident

https://status.apify.com/incidents/sxd1dj5j6749
43•cynicalpeace•1h ago•7 comments

Elevated errors on claude.ai, Claude Code, and platform.claude.com

https://status.claude.com/incidents/nn11wk485zfn
449•__vivek•8h ago•362 comments

Jensen Huang resigns

https://apnews.com/article/nvidia-megaspeed-china-singapore-huang-5403f152a601cf82ce939f1d24fffa0f
3954•lldb•1d ago•3363 comments

Rust 1.100

https://blog.rust-lang.org/2026/11/12/Rust-1.100.0/
847•mbStavola•23h ago•305 comments

Brave Search API now accepts agentic payments via the x402 protocol

https://brave.com/blog/search-api-agentic-payments/
234•sjdh76•15h ago•132 comments

EU Digital Identity Wallet rollout: every EU state on one board

https://myid.ie/business/eu-digital-wallet-tracker/
101•mooreds•3h ago•54 comments

Switcher (2004)

https://folklore.org/Switcher.html
136•sammatilda•15h ago•41 comments

North Korean hackers used fake video calls in $400M crypto hack, says FBI

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cqdj1ellpd70o
37•saikiran91•1h ago•9 comments

Show HN: My $300 embroidery machine needed a subscription, so I built my own app

https://github.com/simpsoka/zigzag
697•simpsoka•1d ago•226 comments

Concurrent Shell Command Queues

https://emmer.dev/blog/concurrent-shell-command-queues/
3•speckx•1h ago•0 comments

Gnomon. Git for Postgres data, built for agents

https://github.com/bitsinfra/gnomon
4•shawkisukkar•1h ago•0 comments

AI Is Destroying the Trust Between Writers and Readers

https://www.theatlantic.com/books/2026/11/ai-literary-scams-amazon/689391/
225•FinnLobsien•7h ago•118 comments

Former Nvidia CEO Huang had a relationship with a second employee, sources say

https://www.reuters.com/technology/former-nvidia-ceo-huang-had-relationship-with-second-employee-...
424•jbredeche•22h ago•456 comments

Gemini 4 Hydrogen and Orchestrator

https://antigravity.google/blog/gemini-4-hydrogen-in-google-antigravity/
484•jonbaer•23h ago•159 comments

Dwarf planet candidate appears which takes roughly 280 years to orbit our sun

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/astronomers-found-a-mysterious-object-orbiting-far-beyo...
381•cybermango•23h ago•169 comments

Arm boss Rene Haas approached in Nvidia CEO search

https://www.ft.com/content/2a64f698-46dd-4178-a3f4-4c5f4c0a0926
47•bazzmt•1h ago•44 comments

Edge0-145B: Frontier AI Capabilities on Your Own Computer

https://edge0.ai/blog/introducing-edge0-145b-frontier-ai-capabilities-on-your-own-computer
325•sroussey•19h ago•97 comments