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Building my npx business card

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

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steele•7mo ago
Ooh, free real estate, let's colonize and gentrify package management
aabhay•7mo ago
Lmao, gentrify cracked me up
neilv•7mo ago
Do these npx business cards run arbitrary code on your computer?
cypherpunks01•7mo 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•7mo 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•7mo ago
Yeah, this seems like a very smart but inherently flawed idea.
cypherpunks01•7mo 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•7mo ago
May as well just release an executable tbh.
theamk•7mo 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•7mo 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•7mo 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."

Cowork: Claude Code for the rest of your work

https://claude.com/blog/cowork-research-preview
724•adocomplete•8h ago•360 comments

TimeCapsuleLLM: LLM trained only on data from 1800-1875

https://github.com/haykgrigo3/TimeCapsuleLLM
518•admp•12h ago•211 comments

The Cray-1 Computer System (1977) [pdf]

https://s3data.computerhistory.org/brochures/cray.cray1.1977.102638650.pdf
40•LordGrey•3d ago•21 comments

Postal Arbitrage

https://walzr.com/postal-arbitrage
308•The28thDuck•10h ago•155 comments

The chess bot on Delta Air Lines will destroy you (2024) [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c0mLhHDcY3I
180•cjaackie•8h ago•137 comments

Some ecologists fear their field is losing touch with nature

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-04150-w
68•Growtika•4d ago•32 comments

Floppy disks turn out to be the greatest TV remote for kids

https://blog.smartere.dk/2026/01/floppy-disks-the-best-tv-remote-for-kids/
529•mchro•14h ago•308 comments

Unauthenticated remote code execution in OpenCode

https://cy.md/opencode-rce/
258•CyberShadow•1d ago•76 comments

Fabrice Bellard's TS Zip (2024)

https://www.bellard.org/ts_zip/
120•everlier•7h ago•46 comments

Date is out, Temporal is in

https://piccalil.li/blog/date-is-out-and-temporal-is-in/
334•alexanderameye•12h ago•124 comments

LLVM: The bad parts

https://www.npopov.com/2026/01/11/LLVM-The-bad-parts.html
298•vitaut•13h ago•57 comments

Show HN: AI in SolidWorks

https://www.trylad.com
138•WillNickols•11h ago•77 comments

Show HN: Yolobox – Run AI coding agents with full sudo without nuking home dir

https://github.com/finbarr/yolobox
63•Finbarr•9h ago•49 comments

Show HN: Agent-of-empires: OpenCode and Claude Code session manager

https://github.com/njbrake/agent-of-empires
72•river_otter•13h ago•20 comments

Anthropic made a mistake in cutting off third-party clients

https://archaeologist.dev/artifacts/anthropic
241•codesparkle•17h ago•184 comments

Perlsecret – Perl secret operators and constants

https://metacpan.org/dist/perlsecret/view/lib/perlsecret.pod
68•mjs•6d ago•24 comments

F2 (YC S25) Is Hiring

https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/f2/jobs/cJsc7Fe-product-designer
1•arctech•5h ago

Why BM25 queries with more terms can be faster (and other scaling surprises)

https://turbopuffer.com/blog/bm25-latency-musings
7•_peregrine_•4d ago•0 comments

A deep dive on agent sandboxes

https://pierce.dev/notes/a-deep-dive-on-agent-sandboxes
3•icyfox•5h ago•0 comments

Apple picks Google's Gemini to power Siri

https://www.cnbc.com/2026/01/12/apple-google-ai-siri-gemini.html
705•stygiansonic•12h ago•412 comments

Windows 8 Desktop Environment for Linux

https://github.com/er-bharat/Win8DE
163•edent•14h ago•154 comments

Google removes AI health summaries after investigation finds dangerous flaws

https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/01/google-removes-some-ai-health-summaries-after-investigation-fi...
110•barishnamazov•4h ago•62 comments

Message Queues: A Simple Guide with Analogies (2024)

https://www.cloudamqp.com/blog/message-queues-exaplined-with-analogies.html
82•byt3h3ad•10h ago•25 comments

Tell HN: DigitalOcean's managed services broke each other after update

45•neilfrndes•3h ago•21 comments

Show HN: Fall asleep by watching JavaScript load

https://github.com/sarusso/bedtime
56•sarusso•9h ago•17 comments

What old tennis players teach us (2017)

https://www.raphkoster.com/2017/09/22/31098/
42•surprisetalk•4d ago•22 comments

Personal thoughts/notes from working on Zootopia 2

https://blog.yiningkarlli.com/2025/12/zootopia-2.html
329•pantalaimon•5d ago•73 comments

Ozempic is changing the foods Americans buy

https://news.cornell.edu/stories/2025/12/ozempic-changing-foods-americans-buy
347•giuliomagnifico•15h ago•616 comments

Zen-C: Write like a high-level language, run like C

https://github.com/z-libs/Zen-C
171•simonpure•15h ago•98 comments

Building a 25 Gbit/s workstation for the SCION Association

https://github.com/scionassociation/blog-25gbit-workstation
68•romshark•11h ago•26 comments