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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."

BYOMesh – New LoRa mesh radio offers 100x the bandwidth

https://partyon.xyz/@nullagent/116499715071759135
262•nullagent•8h ago•85 comments

Let's Buy Spirit Air

https://letsbuyspiritair.com/
157•bjhess•3h ago•103 comments

The 'Hidden' Costs of Great Abstractions

https://jdgr.net/the-hidden-costs-of-great-abstractions
62•jdgr•3h ago•16 comments

Using "underdrawings" for accurate text and numbers

https://samcollins.blog/underdrawings/
37•samcollins•2d ago•5 comments

DeepClaude – Claude Code agent loop with DeepSeek V4 Pro, 17x cheaper

https://github.com/aattaran/deepclaude
175•alattaran•4h ago•79 comments

Southwest Headquarters Tour

https://katherinemichel.github.io/blog/travel/southwest-headquarters-tour-2026.html
196•KatiMichel•9h ago•61 comments

US–Indian space mission maps extreme subsidence in Mexico City

https://phys.org/news/2026-04-usindian-space-mission-extreme-subsidence.html
102•leopoldj•2d ago•42 comments

Tar Files Created on macOS Display Errors When Extracting on Linux (2024)

https://aruljohn.com/blog/macos-created-tar-files-linux-errors/
45•heresie-dabord•3d ago•32 comments

A desktop made for one

https://isene.org/2026/05/Audience-of-One.html
242•xngbuilds•11h ago•96 comments

K3sup – bootstrap K3s over SSH in < 60s

https://github.com/alexellis/k3sup
13•rickcarlino•2d ago•1 comments

Agentic Coding Is a Trap

https://larsfaye.com/articles/agentic-coding-is-a-trap
206•ayoisaiah•3h ago•136 comments

Introduction to Atom

https://validator.w3.org/feed/docs/atom.html
31•susam•4h ago•7 comments

The text mode lie: why modern TUIs are a nightmare for accessibility

https://xogium.me/the-text-mode-lie-why-modern-tuis-are-a-nightmare-for-accessibility
112•SpyCoder77•2h ago•44 comments

OpenAI's o1 correctly diagnosed 67% of ER patients vs. 50-55% by triage doctors

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/apr/30/ai-outperforms-doctors-in-harvard-trial-of-eme...
287•donsupreme•1d ago•249 comments

LLMs Are Not a Higher Level of Abstraction

https://www.lelanthran.com/chap15/content.html
61•lelanthran•8h ago•51 comments

Bad Connection: Global telecom exploitation by covert surveillance actors

https://citizenlab.ca/research/uncovering-global-telecom-exploitation-by-covert-surveillance-actors/
102•miohtama•10h ago•7 comments

Discovering Hard Disk Physical Geometry Through Microbenchmarking (2019)

https://blog.stuffedcow.net/2019/09/hard-disk-geometry-microbenchmarking/
5•TapamN•3d ago•0 comments

New statue in London, attributed to Banksy, of a suited man, blinded by a flag

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/attributed-to-banksy-a-new-statue-of-a-suited-man-blind...
276•dryadin•7h ago•276 comments

Why TUIs are back

https://wiki.alcidesfonseca.com/blog/why-tuis-are-back/
266•rickcarlino•7h ago•289 comments

Mercedes-Benz commits to bringing back physical buttons

https://www.drive.com.au/news/mercedes-benz-commits-to-bringing-back-phycial-buttons/
610•teleforce•11h ago•353 comments

Text-to-CAD

https://github.com/earthtojake/text-to-cad
80•softservo•3d ago•26 comments

I recreated the Apple Lisa computer inside an FPGA [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8jNQDcpHc68
75•cyrc•8h ago•15 comments

Denuvo has been cracked in all single-player games it previously protected

https://www.tomshardware.com/video-games/pc-gaming/denuvo-has-been-bypassed-in-all-single-player-...
242•oceansky•5d ago•148 comments

Security through obscurity is not bad

https://mobeigi.com/blog/security/security-through-obscurity-is-not-bad/
121•mobeigi•11h ago•145 comments

I built my own hair electrolysis machine

https://www.scd31.com/posts/diy-hair-electrolysis-machine
188•y1n0•4d ago•49 comments

What is Z-Angle Memory and why is Intel developing it?

https://www.hpcwire.com/2026/02/05/what-is-z-angle-memory-and-why-is-intel-developing-it/
87•rbanffy•2d ago•35 comments

Lost in translation: The linguistic challenges facing N. Korean defectors (2025)

https://www.dailynk.com/english/lost-in-translation-the-linguistic-challenges-facing-n-korean-def...
34•spzb•2d ago•22 comments

Show HN: Apple's SHARP running in the browser via ONNX runtime web

https://github.com/bring-shrubbery/ml-sharp-web
159•bring-shrubbery•17h ago•41 comments

Make your own microforest (2025)

https://ambrook.com/offrange/environment/a-forest-in-your-pocket
66•bookofjoe•7h ago•15 comments

Metal Gear Solid 2's source code has been leaked on 4chan

https://www.thegamer.com/mgs2-hd-edition-source-code-massive-leak/
233•rishabhd•9h ago•106 comments