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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."

GoDaddy Gave a Domain to a Stranger Without Any Documentation

https://anchor.host/godaddy-gave-a-domain-to-a-stranger-without-any-documentation/
324•jamesponddotco•3h ago•112 comments

A.I. is creating engineers who can't think without it

https://www.koshyjohn.com/blog/ai-should-elevate-your-thinking-not-replace-it/
32•koshyjohn•12m ago•12 comments

Dillo Browser Release 3.3.0

https://dillo-browser.org/release/3.3.0/
88•rodarima•2h ago•15 comments

Asahi Linux Progress Linux 7.0

https://asahilinux.org/2026/04/progress-report-7-0/
541•elisaado•9h ago•233 comments

An AI agent deleted our production database. The agent's confession is below

https://twitter.com/lifeof_jer/status/2048103471019434248
175•jeremyccrane•3h ago•231 comments

Clay PCB Tutorial

https://feministhackerspaces.cargo.site/Clay-PCB-Tutorial
144•j0r0b0•4h ago•94 comments

Why SWE-bench Verified no longer measures frontier coding capabilities

https://openai.com/index/why-we-no-longer-evaluate-swe-bench-verified/
180•kmdupree•6h ago•114 comments

The Visible Zorker: Zork 1

https://eblong.com/infocom/visi/zork1/
58•PLenz•3h ago•2 comments

Free Textbook on Engineering Thermodynamics

https://thermodynamicsbook.com/
64•2DcAf•4h ago•26 comments

Statecharts: hierarchical state machines

https://statecharts.dev/
253•sph•10h ago•73 comments

Amateur armed with ChatGPT solves an Erdős problem

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/amateur-armed-with-chatgpt-vibe-maths-a-60-year-old-pr...
690•pr337h4m•1d ago•475 comments

Waymo says expecting driverless taxis to stay out of bike lanes is unrealistic

https://road.cc/news/driverless-taxis-veering-into-cycle-lanes-normal-practice-says-waymo
115•randycupertino•1h ago•112 comments

Plants can sense the sound of rain, a new study finds

https://news.mit.edu/2026/plants-can-sense-sound-rain-new-study-finds-0422
42•paulpauper•2h ago•5 comments

Why has there been so little progress on Alzheimer's disease?

https://freakonomics.com/podcast/why-has-there-been-so-little-progress-on-alzheimers-disease/
377•chiefalchemist•20h ago•255 comments

Show HN: Turning a Gaussian Splat into a videogame

https://blog.playcanvas.com/turning-a-gaussian-splat-into-a-videogame/
170•yak32•3d ago•34 comments

Orinoco: Young Generation Garbage Collection

https://v8.dev/blog/orinoco-parallel-scavenger
13•plow-tycoon•3d ago•0 comments

GitHub unwanted UX change: issue links now open in a popup

https://github.com/orgs/community/discussions/192666
194•luckman212•5h ago•98 comments

Sloppy Copies

https://www.markround.com/blog/2026/04/19/sloppy-copies/
38•dev_hugepages•2d ago•10 comments

Tell HN: An app is silently installing itself on my iPhone every day

485•_-x-_•19h ago•173 comments

USB Cheat Sheet (2022)

https://fabiensanglard.net/usbcheat/index.html
465•gwerbret•22h ago•81 comments

QNX on the Commodore 900 – Raiders of the lost hard drive [video]

https://archive.fosdem.org/2025/schedule/event/fosdem-2025-5479-raiders-of-the-lost-hard-drive/
36•rbanffy•7h ago•0 comments

GnuPG – post-quantum crypto landing in mainline

https://lists.gnupg.org/pipermail/gnupg-announce/2026q2/000504.html
151•zdkaster•16h ago•45 comments

The West forgot how to make things, now it’s forgetting how to code

https://techtrenches.dev/p/the-west-forgot-how-to-make-things
1018•milkglass•13h ago•694 comments

Terra API (YC W21) Hiring: Applied AI Strategist(Health Intelligence)

https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/terra-api/jobs/DY7BCZU-applied-ai-strategist-market-intelli...
1•kyriakosel•13h ago

Mine, a Coalton and Common Lisp IDE

https://coalton-lang.github.io/20260424-mine/
92•Jach•2d ago•4 comments

Flickr: The first and last great photo platform

https://petapixel.com/2026/04/22/flickr-the-first-and-last-great-photo-platform/
269•Nrbelex•4d ago•145 comments

Mahjong: A Visual Guide

https://themahjong.guide/
192•iamwil•2d ago•53 comments

Exposing Floating Point – Bartosz Ciechanowski (2019)

https://ciechanow.ski/exposing-floating-point/
76•subset•12h ago•10 comments

OpenAI Privacy Filter

https://openai.com/index/introducing-openai-privacy-filter/
284•tanelpoder•3d ago•59 comments

Using coding assistance tools to revive projects you never were going to finish

https://blog.matthewbrunelle.com/its-ok-to-use-coding-assistance-tools-to-revive-the-projects-you...
339•speckx•1d ago•216 comments