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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•10mo ago
Ooh, free real estate, let's colonize and gentrify package management
aabhay•10mo ago
Lmao, gentrify cracked me up
neilv•10mo ago
Do these npx business cards run arbitrary code on your computer?
cypherpunks01•10mo 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•10mo 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•10mo ago
Yeah, this seems like a very smart but inherently flawed idea.
cypherpunks01•10mo 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•10mo ago
May as well just release an executable tbh.
theamk•10mo 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•10mo 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•10mo 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."

Fedware: Government apps that spy harder than the apps they ban

https://www.sambent.com/the-white-house-app-has-huawei-spyware-and-an-ice-tip-line/
383•speckx•6h ago•118 comments

Android Developer Verification

https://android-developers.googleblog.com/2026/03/android-developer-verification-rolling-out-to-a...
114•ingve•2h ago•82 comments

Do your own writing

https://alexhwoods.com/dont-let-ai-write-for-you/
335•karimf•12h ago•102 comments

Turning a MacBook into a touchscreen with $1 of hardware (2018)

https://anishathalye.com/macbook-touchscreen/
180•HughParry•5h ago•81 comments

How to turn anything into a router

https://nbailey.ca/post/router/
573•yabones•11h ago•207 comments

Learn Claude Code by doing, not reading

https://claude.nagdy.me/
128•taubek•4h ago•76 comments

Agents of Chaos

https://agentsofchaos.baulab.info/report.html
63•luu•3d ago•5 comments

Bird brains (2023)

https://www.dhanishsemar.com/writing/bird-brains
289•DiffTheEnder•11h ago•182 comments

Cherri – programming language that compiles to an Apple Shortuct

https://github.com/electrikmilk/cherri
245•mihau•3d ago•47 comments

Researchers find 3,500-year-old loom that reveals textile revolution

https://web.ua.es/en/actualidad-universitaria/2026/marzo2026/23-31/ua-researchers-find-3-500-year...
66•geox•3d ago•5 comments

Why I'm betting on ATProto (and why you should, too)

https://brittanyellich.com/atproto/
48•speckx•5h ago•21 comments

Roulette Computers: Hidden Devices That Predict Spins

https://www.roulette-computers.com/
61•o4c•2d ago•17 comments

OpenGridWorks: The Electricity Infrasctructure, Mapped

https://www.opengridworks.com
21•jonbraun•3h ago•0 comments

William Blake, Remote by the Sea

https://www.laphamsquarterly.org/roundtable/william-blake-remote-sea
52•occurrence•5h ago•1 comments

Seeing Like a Spreadsheet

https://davidoks.blog/p/how-the-spreadsheet-reshaped-america
68•paulpauper•2d ago•25 comments

CodingFont: A game to help you pick a coding font

https://www.codingfont.com/
299•nvahalik•9h ago•173 comments

Recover Apple Keychain

https://arkoinad.com/posts/apple_keychain_recovery.html
53•speckx•7h ago•16 comments

Show HN: Coasts – Containerized Hosts for Agents

https://github.com/coast-guard/coasts
52•jsunderland323•9h ago•20 comments

I am definitely missing the pre-AI writing era

https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/BJ4pnropWdnzzgeJc/i-am-definitely-missing-the-pre-ai-writing-era
255•joozio•17h ago•198 comments

A sea of sparks: Seeing radioactivity

https://maurycyz.com/projects/spinthariscope/
47•maurycyz•6h ago•17 comments

In math, rigor is vital, but are digitized proofs taking it too far?

https://www.quantamagazine.org/in-math-rigor-is-vital-but-are-digitized-proofs-taking-it-too-far-...
100•isaacfrond•4d ago•91 comments

IronGlass Brings Legendary Soviet Cinema Lenses to Mirrorless Cameras

https://petapixel.com/2026/02/19/ironglass-brings-legendary-soviet-cinema-lenses-to-mirrorless-ca...
18•PaulHoule•4d ago•9 comments

Build123d: A Python CAD programming library

https://github.com/gumyr/build123d
115•Ivoah•1d ago•45 comments

Mathematical methods and human thought in the age of AI

https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.26524
192•zaikunzhang•13h ago•76 comments

Take better notes, by hand

https://brianschrader.com/archive/take-better-notes-by-hand/
169•sonicrocketman•8h ago•79 comments

FTC action against Match and OkCupid for deceiving users, sharing personal data

https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/news/press-releases/2026/03/ftc-takes-action-against-match-okcupi...
250•gnabgib•9h ago•118 comments

The Digital Leviathan

https://brownstone.org/articles/the-digital-leviathan/
10•sediment•1d ago•2 comments

From Proxmox to FreeBSD and Sylve in our office lab

https://www.iptechnics.com/blogs/from-proxmox-to-freebsd-and-sylve-in-our-office-lab
77•arch1e•2d ago•70 comments

The ladder is missing rungs – Engineering Progression When AI Ate the Middle

https://negroniventurestudios.com/2026/03/19/the-ladder-is-missing-rungs/
74•sorenvrist•11h ago•23 comments

Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman Equation: Reinforcement Learning and Diffusion Models

https://dani2442.github.io/posts/continuous-rl/
146•sebzuddas•17h ago•45 comments