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Building my npx business card

https://ashley.dev/posts/turning-feedback-into-features/
8•edent•10mo 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."

Willingness to look stupid

https://sharif.io/looking-stupid
224•Samin100•3d ago•79 comments

Malus – Clean Room as a Service

https://malus.sh
1214•microflash•18h ago•445 comments

Executing programs inside transformers with exponentially faster inference

https://www.percepta.ai/blog/can-llms-be-computers
22•u1hcw9nx•22h ago•3 comments

Vite 8.0 Is Out

https://vite.dev/blog/announcing-vite8
195•kothariji•3h ago•32 comments

“This is not the computer for you”

https://samhenri.gold/blog/20260312-this-is-not-the-computer-for-you/
341•MBCook•6h ago•142 comments

Hyperlinks in Terminal Emulators

https://gist.github.com/egmontkob/eb114294efbcd5adb1944c9f3cb5feda
38•nvahalik•4h ago•23 comments

Prefix sums at gigabytes per second with ARM NEON

https://lemire.me/blog/2026/03/08/prefix-sums-at-tens-of-gigabytes-per-second-with-arm-neon/
22•mfiguiere•4d ago•2 comments

Bubble Sorted Amen Break

https://parametricavocado.itch.io/amen-sorting
316•eieio•14h ago•96 comments

Shall I implement it? No

https://gist.github.com/bretonium/291f4388e2de89a43b25c135b44e41f0
1197•breton•11h ago•452 comments

ATMs didn’t kill bank teller jobs, but the iPhone did

https://davidoks.blog/p/why-the-atm-didnt-kill-bank-teller
399•colinprince•17h ago•426 comments

Understanding the Go Runtime: The Scheduler

https://internals-for-interns.com/posts/go-runtime-scheduler/
94•valyala•3d ago•7 comments

Reversing memory loss via gut-brain communication

https://med.stanford.edu/news/all-news/2026/03/gut-brain-cognitive-decline.html
296•mustaphah•15h ago•117 comments

Celebrating Interesting Flickr Technologies

https://medium.com/@brightcarvings/celebrating-flickr-technology-3c93c8ddecc2
30•steerpike•23h ago•6 comments

IMG_0416 (2024)

https://ben-mini.com/2024/img-0416
70•TigerUniversity•3d ago•12 comments

The Met releases high-def 3D scans of 140 famous art objects

https://www.openculture.com/2026/03/the-met-releases-high-definition-3d-scans-of-140-famous-art-o...
274•coloneltcb•16h ago•51 comments

Document poisoning in RAG systems: How attackers corrupt AI's sources

https://aminrj.com/posts/rag-document-poisoning/
112•aminerj•18h ago•41 comments

US private credit defaults hit record 9.2% in 2025, Fitch says

https://www.marketscreener.com/news/us-private-credit-defaults-hit-record-9-2-in-2025-fitch-says-...
345•JumpCrisscross•19h ago•402 comments

Never Snooze a Future

https://jacko.io/snooze.html
4•vinhnx•4d ago•0 comments

Bringing Chrome to ARM64 Linux Devices

https://blog.chromium.org/2026/03/bringing-chrome-to-arm64-linux-devices.html
98•ingve•11h ago•44 comments

Grief and the AI split

https://blog.lmorchard.com/2026/03/11/grief-and-the-ai-split/
131•avernet•9h ago•196 comments

Can you instruct a robot to make a PBJ sandwich?

https://pbj.deliberateinc.com/
24•mooreds•4h ago•26 comments

Innocent woman jailed after being misidentified using AI facial recognition

https://www.grandforksherald.com/news/north-dakota/ai-error-jails-innocent-grandmother-for-months...
578•rectang•11h ago•296 comments

Big data on the cheapest MacBook

https://duckdb.org/2026/03/11/big-data-on-the-cheapest-macbook
346•bcye•20h ago•278 comments

WolfIP: Lightweight TCP/IP stack with no dynamic memory allocations

https://github.com/wolfssl/wolfip
123•789c789c789c•16h ago•19 comments

Are LLM merge rates not getting better?

https://entropicthoughts.com/no-swe-bench-improvement
142•4diii•20h ago•128 comments

Launch HN: IonRouter (YC W26) – High-throughput, low-cost inference

https://ionrouter.io
62•vshah1016•13h ago•25 comments

The Unpredicted vs. the Over-Expected

https://kevinkelly.substack.com/p/the-unpredicted-vs-the-over-expected
12•surprisetalk•2d ago•0 comments

Show HN: Axe – A 12MB binary that replaces your AI framework

https://github.com/jrswab/axe
183•jrswab•18h ago•101 comments

Show HN: OneCLI – Vault for AI Agents in Rust

https://github.com/onecli/onecli
141•guyb3•15h ago•41 comments

Long overlooked as crucial to life, fungi start to get their due

https://e360.yale.edu/features/fungi-kingdom
129•speckx•18h ago•39 comments