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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."

CRISPR tech selectively shreds cancer cells, including "undruggable" cancers

https://innovativegenomics.org/news/crispr-technique-selectively-shreds-cancer-cells/
364•gmays•4h ago•92 comments

I Am Not a Reverse Centaur

https://blog.miguelgrinberg.com/post/i-am-not-a-reverse-centaur
87•ibobev•1h ago•42 comments

How to Setup a Local Coding Agent on macOS

https://ikyle.me/blog/2026/how-to-setup-a-local-coding-agent-on-macos
56•kkm•1h ago•18 comments

Pirates, a naval warfare game inspired by Sid Meier's Pirates

https://piwodlaiwo.github.io/pirates/
55•iweczek•2h ago•23 comments

A PDF that changes based on how its read

https://sgaud.com/texts/pdf
69•SarthakGaud•2h ago•30 comments

Slightly reducing the sloppiness of AI generated front end

https://envs.net/~volpe/blog/posts/reduce-slop.html
119•FergusArgyll•4h ago•78 comments

Malware developers added nuclear and biological weapons text to to their spyware

https://twitter.com/jsrailton/status/2064661778978533571
114•marc__1•22h ago•81 comments

Looking Forward to Postgres 19: It's About Time

https://www.pgedge.com/blog/looking-forward-to-postgres-19-its-about-time
58•xngbuilds•2h ago•17 comments

A dumpster arrived behind my university's library

https://yalereview.org/article/sheila-liming-the-end-of-books
116•mooreds•4h ago•91 comments

Law Enforcement's "Warrior" Problem (2015)

https://harvardlawreview.org/forum/vol-128/law-enforcements-warrior-problem/
29•bookofjoe•2h ago•19 comments

Launch HN: BitBoard (YC P25) – Analytics Workspace for Agents

https://bitboard.work/
16•arcb•2h ago•5 comments

There Is Life Before Main in Rust

https://grack.com/blog/2026/06/11/life-before-main/
31•mmastrac•1d ago•9 comments

Where Did Earth Get Its Oceans? Maybe It Made Them Itself

https://www.quantamagazine.org/where-did-earth-get-its-oceans-maybe-it-made-them-itself-20260612/
66•ibobev•3h ago•43 comments

AI agent bankrupted their operator while trying to scan DN42

https://lantian.pub/en/article/fun/ai-agent-bankrupted-their-operator-scan-dn42lantian.lantian/
1307•xiaoyu2006•14h ago•475 comments

Cosmodial Sky Atlas

https://killedbyapixel.github.io/Cosmodial/
8•memalign•57m ago•1 comments

Introduction to UEFI HTTP(s) Boot with QEMU/OVMF

https://blog.yadutaf.fr/2026/06/12/introduction-to-uefi-https-boot-qemu-ovmf/
35•jtlebigot•4h ago•8 comments

Keygen.music

https://keygen.music
100•soupspaces•3h ago•61 comments

Hazel (YC W24) Is Hiring a Full Stack Engineer

https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/hazel-2/jobs/3epPWgu-full-stack-engineer-ts-sci
1•augustschen•6h ago

Maxproof

https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.13473
110•ilreb•7h ago•8 comments

I Won't Buy You a Coffee

https://hakkerman.eu/blog/i-wont-buy-you-a-coffee/
32•speckx•40m ago•27 comments

A Call to Action: Stop the FCC's KYC Regime

https://blog.lopp.net/call-to-action-stop-the-fcc-kyc-regime/
269•FergusArgyll•4h ago•174 comments

WASI 0.3

https://bytecodealliance.org/articles/WASI-0.3
194•mavdol04•5h ago•80 comments

Show HN: StackScope – I crawled over 40k indie launches to see what they ship

https://stackscope.dev/
27•datafreak_•3h ago•8 comments

"Don't You Just Upload It to ChatGPT?"

https://correresmidestino.com/dont-you-just-upload-it-to-chatgpt/
86•speckx•1h ago•82 comments

If you are asking for human attention, demonstrate human effort

https://tombedor.dev/human-attention-and-human-effort/
1388•jjfoooo4•20h ago•440 comments

A Peter Thiel-Backed Tribunal Is Putting Journalists on Trial

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/business-news/peter-thiel-tribunal-journalists-trial-1...
29•cdrnsf•37m ago•3 comments

New privacy frontier: Europe eyes crackdown on smart glasses

https://www.politico.com/www.politico.eu/article/new-privacy-frontier-europe-eyes-crackdown-smart...
47•1vuio0pswjnm7•2h ago•29 comments

How we made hit video game Prince of Persia

https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2026/jan/05/raiders-of-the-lost-ark-hit-video-game-prince-of-...
247•msephton•2d ago•97 comments

Encrypted Spaces An architecture for collaborative applications

https://encryptedspaces.org/
46•_____k•6h ago•5 comments

Show HN: Script to bulk delete Claude chats from the web UI

https://github.com/MatteoLeonesi/bulk-delete-claude-chat
41•ML0037•4h ago•12 comments