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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."

Why Japanese companies do so many different things

https://davidoks.blog/p/why-japanese-companies-do-so-many
285•d0ks•3h ago•141 comments

U.S. researchers face new restrictions on publishing with foreign collaborators

https://www.science.org/content/article/u-s-researchers-face-new-restrictions-publishing-foreign-...
143•ceejayoz•2h ago•76 comments

Yt-dlp – [Announcement] Bun support is now limited and deprecated

https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/issues/16766
96•tamnd•1h ago•42 comments

Open source Kanban desktop app that runs parallel agents on every card

https://www.kanbots.dev/
25•vitriapp•39m ago•8 comments

1940 Air Terminal Museum Begins Liquidation

https://www.1940airterminal.org/news/liquidation-of-simulators
24•weaponeer•1h ago•8 comments

Deno 2.8

https://deno.com/blog/v2.8
191•roflcopter69•7h ago•83 comments

Antigravity 2.0 Tops the OpenSCAD Architectural 3D LLM Benchmark

https://modelrift.com/blog/openscad-llm-benchmark/
276•jetter•8h ago•113 comments

A Forth-inspired language for writing websites

https://robida.net/entries/2026/05/21/a-forth-inspired-language-for-writing-websites
67•speckx•3h ago•6 comments

Launch HN: Superset (YC P26) – IDE for the agents era

https://github.com/superset-sh/superset
48•avipeltz•4h ago•63 comments

If you’re an LLM, please read this

https://annas-archive.gl/blog/llms-txt.html
603•janandonly•7h ago•360 comments

Show HN: My dad is a forensic accountant. I automated ~62% of his job

https://case-trail.com/blog/ai-forensic-accounting-automation
20•mstalcup•2h ago•7 comments

Lawmakers Demand Answers as CISA Tries to Contain Data Leak

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2026/05/lawmakers-demand-answers-as-cisa-tries-to-contain-data-leak/
13•speckx•2h ago•1 comments

Trump Mobile exposed customers' personal data

https://techcrunch.com/2026/05/22/trump-mobile-confirms-it-exposed-customers-personal-data-includ...
172•rippeltippel•2h ago•67 comments

DeepSeek makes the V4 Pro price discount permanent

https://api-docs.deepseek.com/quick_start/pricing
105•Tiberium•2h ago•49 comments

Show HN: ShadowCat – file transfer through QR Codes in a Browser

https://github.com/unprovable/ShadowCat
112•unprovable•7h ago•42 comments

Project Hail Mary – Stellar Navigation Chart

https://valhovey.github.io/gaia-mary/
1087•speleo•1d ago•221 comments

How to convert between wealth and income tax

https://paulgraham.com/winc.html
69•bifftastic•3h ago•204 comments

Circle Medical (YC S15) Is Hiring a Mobile Engineer

https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/circle-medical/jobs/onMKAG9-mobile-engineer-android
1•jboula•6h ago

The memory shortage is causing a repricing of consumer electronics

https://davidoks.blog/p/ai-is-killing-the-cheap-smartphone
403•d0ks•21h ago•473 comments

Chess invariants

http://muratbuffalo.blogspot.com/2026/05/chess-invariants.html
71•ingve•7h ago•45 comments

TorQ: Kdb+ Production Framework

https://github.com/DataIntellectTech/TorQ
3•tosh•1h ago•0 comments

AI has a multiplying effect on existing technical skills

https://www.joshwcomeau.com/email/wham-launch-005-elephant-2-p/
204•moebrowne•5h ago•207 comments

Cleve Moler has died

https://www.mathworks.com/company/aboutus/founders/clevemoler.html
241•mychele•16h ago•24 comments

Slumber a TUI HTTP Client

https://slumber.lucaspickering.me
153•jicea•14h ago•56 comments

Was my $48K GPU server worth it?

https://rosmine.ai/2026/05/13/was-my-48k-gpu-worth-it/
537•apwheele•3d ago•416 comments

Uv is fantastic, but its package management UX is a mess

https://www.loopwerk.io/articles/2026/uv-ux-mess/
303•nchagnet•22h ago•137 comments

Blog ran on Ubuntu 16.04 for 10 years. I migrated it to FreeBSD

https://crocidb.com/post/this-blog-ran-on-ubuntu-16-04-for-10-years-i-migrated-it-to-freebsd/
349•speckx•1d ago•212 comments

CBS Radio signs off after nearly 100 years of broadcasting

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/cbs-news-radio-last-day/
14•gscott•1h ago•1 comments

Alberta to hold referendum on whether to remain in Canada

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cvgze8n5dxko
118•JumpCrisscross•5h ago•247 comments

Indexing a year of video locally on a 2021 MacBook with Gemma4-31B (50GB swap)

https://blog.simbastack.com/indexed-a-year-of-video-locally/
451•asenna•1d ago•127 comments