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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."

John Ternus to become Apple CEO

https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2026/04/tim-cook-to-become-apple-executive-chairman-john-ternus-to...
1752•schappim•12h ago•895 comments

Anthropic says OpenClaw-style Claude CLI usage is allowed again

https://docs.openclaw.ai/providers/anthropic
167•jmsflknr•5h ago•91 comments

A Roblox cheat and one AI tool brought down Vercel's platform

https://webmatrices.com/post/how-a-roblox-cheat-and-one-ai-tool-brought-down-vercel-s-entire-plat...
138•bishwasbh•4h ago•60 comments

Louis Zocchi, inventor of the d100, has died

https://icv2.com/articles/news/view/62176/r-i-p-louis-zocchi-the-godfather-dice
31•sgbeal•2h ago•7 comments

The Beauty of Bonsai Styles

https://longwoodgardens.org/blog/2023-05-17/beauty-bonsai-styles
55•lagniappe•4h ago•15 comments

How to make a fast dynamic language interpreter

https://zef-lang.dev/implementation
162•pizlonator•8h ago•22 comments

Salmon exposed to cocaine and its main byproduct roam more widely

https://www.science.org/content/article/cocaine-pollution-gives-salmon-wanderlust
22•1659447091•3h ago•5 comments

Show HN: Mediator.ai – Using Nash bargaining and LLMs to systematize fairness

https://mediator.ai/
58•sanity•17h ago•26 comments

Qwen3.6-Max-Preview: Smarter, Sharper, Still Evolving

https://qwen.ai/blog?id=qwen3.6-max-preview
619•mfiguiere•18h ago•328 comments

Types and Neural Networks

https://www.brunogavranovic.com/posts/2026-04-20-types-and-neural-networks.html
18•bgavran•2h ago•4 comments

How a subsea cable is repaired

https://www.onesteppower.com/post/subsea-cable-repair
64•slicktux•4d ago•12 comments

Kimi vendor verifier – verify accuracy of inference providers

https://www.kimi.com/blog/kimi-vendor-verifier
253•Alifatisk•14h ago•22 comments

Ternary Bonsai: Top Intelligence at 1.58 Bits

https://prismml.com/news/ternary-bonsai
141•nnx•3d ago•40 comments

MNT Reform is an open hardware laptop, designed and assembled in Germany

http://mnt.stanleylieber.com/reform/
10•speckx•18h ago•2 comments

A mad undertaking: An undefinitive guide to the Aadam Jacobs collection

https://aadamjacobscollection.org/
11•wise_blood•2h ago•1 comments

Jujutsu megamerges for fun and profit

https://isaaccorbrey.com/notes/jujutsu-megamerges-for-fun-and-profit
222•icorbrey•11h ago•108 comments

Using Changesets in a polyglot monorepo

https://luke.hsiao.dev/blog/changesets-polyglot-monorepo/
8•lwhsiao•2h ago•3 comments

Air is full of DNA

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-01099-2
90•howrude•2d ago•18 comments

ggsql: A Grammar of Graphics for SQL

https://opensource.posit.co/blog/2026-04-20_ggsql_alpha_release/
409•thomasp85•20h ago•80 comments

Japan's cherry blossom database, 1,200 years old, has a new keeper

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/17/climate/japan-cherry-blossom-database-scientist.html
99•caycep•3d ago•12 comments

Quantum Computers Are Not a Threat to 128-Bit Symmetric Keys

https://words.filippo.io/128-bits/
220•hasheddan•16h ago•78 comments

Soul Player C64 – A real transformer running on a 1 MHz Commodore 64

https://github.com/gizmo64k/soulplayer-c64
125•adunk•13h ago•33 comments

Brussels launched an age checking app. Hackers took 2 minutes to break it

https://www.politico.eu/article/eu-brussels-launched-age-checking-app-hackers-say-took-them-2-min...
218•axbyte•1d ago•115 comments

Monero Community Crowdfunding System

https://ccs.getmonero.org/ideas/
91•OsrsNeedsf2P•11h ago•56 comments

Modern Rendering Culling Techniques

https://krupitskas.com/posts/modern_culling_techniques/
143•krupitskas•2d ago•34 comments

All phones sold in the EU to have replaceable batteries from 2027

https://www.theolivepress.es/spain-news/2026/04/20/eu-to-force-replaceable-batteries-in-phones-an...
1227•ramonga•19h ago•1021 comments

Bullshit About Bullshit Machines [pdf]

https://aphyr.com/data/posts/411/the-future-of-everything-is-lies.pdf
14•hedayet•2d ago•2 comments

Prediction markets are breaking the news and becoming their own beat

https://www.niemanlab.org/2026/04/prediction-markets-are-breaking-the-news-and-becoming-their-own...
39•gnabgib•7h ago•42 comments

Kefir C17/C23 Compiler

https://sr.ht/~jprotopopov/kefir/
152•conductor•3d ago•15 comments

WebUSB Extension for Firefox

https://github.com/ArcaneNibble/awawausb
239•tuananh•21h ago•209 comments