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Building my npx business card

https://ashley.dev/posts/turning-feedback-into-features/
8•edent•6mo ago

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steele•6mo ago
Ooh, free real estate, let's colonize and gentrify package management
aabhay•6mo ago
Lmao, gentrify cracked me up
neilv•6mo ago
Do these npx business cards run arbitrary code on your computer?
cypherpunks01•6mo 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•6mo 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•6mo ago
Yeah, this seems like a very smart but inherently flawed idea.
cypherpunks01•6mo 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•6mo ago
May as well just release an executable tbh.
theamk•6mo 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•6mo 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•6mo 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."

The Joy of Playing Grandia, on Sega Saturn

https://www.segasaturnshiro.com/2025/11/27/the-joy-of-playing-grandia-on-sega-saturn/
25•tosh•1h ago•2 comments

No ARIA is better than bad ARIA

https://www.w3.org/WAI/ARIA/apg/practices/read-me-first/
49•robin_reala•6d ago•12 comments

LLM from scratch, part 28 – training a base model from scratch on an RTX 3090

https://www.gilesthomas.com/2025/12/llm-from-scratch-28-training-a-base-model-from-scratch
16•gpjt•6d ago•0 comments

Epsilon: A WASM virtual machine written in Go

https://github.com/ziggy42/epsilon
43•ziggy42•1w ago•10 comments

Icons in Menus Everywhere – Send Help

https://blog.jim-nielsen.com/2025/icons-in-menus/
553•ArmageddonIt•15h ago•227 comments

The universal weight subspace hypothesis

https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.05117
287•lukeplato•10h ago•101 comments

Kroger acknowledges that its bet on robotics went too far

https://www.grocerydive.com/news/kroger-ocado-close-automated-fulfillment-centers-robotics-grocer...
173•JumpCrisscross•11h ago•152 comments

Manual: Spaces

https://type.today/en/journal/spaces
62•doener•10h ago•7 comments

Jepsen: NATS 2.12.1

https://jepsen.io/analyses/nats-2.12.1
368•aphyr•16h ago•133 comments

Strong earthquake hits northern Japan, tsunami warning issued

https://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/news/20251209_02/
318•lattis•20h ago•146 comments

Microsoft increases Office 365 and Microsoft 365 license prices

https://office365itpros.com/2025/12/08/microsoft-365-pricing-increase/
384•taubek•21h ago•453 comments

Horses: AI progress is steady. Human equivalence is sudden

https://andyljones.com/posts/horses.html
412•pbui•10h ago•317 comments

AMD GPU Debugger

https://thegeeko.me/blog/amd-gpu-debugging/
253•ibobev•18h ago•42 comments

Let's put Tailscale on a jailbroken Kindle

https://tailscale.com/blog/tailscale-jailbroken-kindle
288•Quizzical4230•18h ago•66 comments

Launch HN: Nia (YC S25) – Give better context to coding agents

https://www.trynia.ai/
113•jellyotsiro•17h ago•75 comments

A thousand-year-long composition turns 25 (2024)

https://longplayer.org/news/2024/12/31/a-thousand-year-long-composition-turns-25/
22•1659447091•3h ago•4 comments

IBM to acquire Confluent

https://www.confluent.io/blog/ibm-to-acquire-confluent/
401•abd12•21h ago•322 comments

Has the cost of building software dropped 90%?

https://martinalderson.com/posts/has-the-cost-of-software-just-dropped-90-percent/
286•martinald•15h ago•432 comments

Trials avoid high risk patients and underestimate drug harms

https://www.nber.org/papers/w34534
125•bikenaga•15h ago•38 comments

The Lost Machine Automats and Self-Service Cafeterias of NYC (2023)

https://www.untappedcities.com/automats-cafeterias-nyc/
77•walterbell•10h ago•24 comments

Paramount launches hostile bid for Warner Bros

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/12/08/paramount-skydance-hostile-bid-wbd-netflix.html
323•gniting•20h ago•327 comments

Hunting for North Korean Fiber Optic Cables

https://nkinternet.com/2025/12/08/hunting-for-north-korean-fiber-optic-cables/
259•Bezod•18h ago•91 comments

Periodic Spaces

https://ianthehenry.com/posts/periodic-spaces/
17•surprisetalk•5d ago•5 comments

Cassette tapes are making a comeback?

https://theconversation.com/cassette-tapes-are-making-a-comeback-yes-really-268108
94•devonnull•5d ago•148 comments

OSHW: Small tablet based on RK3568 and AMOLED screen

https://oshwhub.com/oglggc/rui-xin-wei-rk3568-si-ceng-jia-li-chuang-mian-fei-gong-yi
80•thenthenthen•5d ago•33 comments

Show HN: Fanfa – Interactive and animated Mermaid diagrams

https://fanfa.dev/
112•bairess•4d ago•24 comments

AI should only run as fast as we can catch up

https://higashi.blog/2025/12/07/ai-verification/
165•yuedongze•17h ago•143 comments

Microsoft Download Center Archive

https://legacyupdate.net/download-center/
167•luu•3d ago•24 comments

A series of tricks and techniques I learned doing tiny GLSL demos

https://blog.pkh.me/p/48-a-series-of-tricks-and-techniques-i-learned-doing-tiny-glsl-demos.html
185•ibobev•18h ago•24 comments

GitHub Actions has a package manager, and it might be the worst

https://nesbitt.io/2025/12/06/github-actions-package-manager.html
407•robin_reala•1d ago•236 comments