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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."

Windows 3.1 tiled background .bmp archive

https://github.com/andreasjansson/win-3.1-backgrounds
178•justsomehnguy•4h ago•50 comments

Autoresearch on an old research idea

https://ykumar.me/blog/eclip-autoresearch/
291•ykumards•8h ago•67 comments

US bans new foreign-made consumer Internet routers

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c74787w149zo
10•g-mork•24m ago•1 comments

FCC Updates Covered List to Include Foreign-Made Consumer Routers

https://www.fcc.gov/document/fcc-updates-covered-list-include-foreign-made-consumer-routers
205•moonka•5h ago•139 comments

iPhone 17 Pro Demonstrated Running a 400B LLM

https://twitter.com/anemll/status/2035901335984611412
500•anemll•12h ago•246 comments

Pompeii's battle scars linked to an ancient 'machine gun'

https://phys.org/news/2026-03-pompeii-scars-linked-ancient-machine.html
32•pseudolus•3d ago•1 comments

Epoch confirms GPT5.4 Pro solved a Frontier Math Open Problem for the first time

https://epoch.ai/frontiermath/open-problems/ramsey-hypergraphs
12•in-silico•1h ago•1 comments

The Resolv hack: How one compromised key printed $23M

https://www.chainalysis.com/blog/lessons-from-the-resolv-hack/
66•timbowhite•5h ago•87 comments

Abusing Customizable Selects

https://css-tricks.com/abusing-customizable-selects/
36•speckx•5d ago•1 comments

Ju Ci: The Art of Repairing Porcelain

https://thesublimeblog.org/2025/03/13/ju-ci-the-ancient-art-of-repairing-porcelain/
63•lawrenceyan•2d ago•7 comments

Show HN: Cq – Stack Overflow for AI coding agents

https://blog.mozilla.ai/cq-stack-overflow-for-agents/
80•peteski22•11h ago•28 comments

IRIX 3dfx Voodoo driver and glide2x IRIX port

https://sdz-mods.com/index.php/2026/03/23/irix-3dfx-voodoo-driver-glide2x-irix-port/
36•zdw•4h ago•0 comments

Finding all regex matches has always been O(n²)

https://iev.ee/blog/the-quadratic-problem-nobody-fixed/
169•lalitmaganti•4d ago•44 comments

Claude Code Cheat Sheet

https://cc.storyfox.cz
188•phasE89•5h ago•69 comments

Dune3d: A parametric 3D CAD application

https://github.com/dune3d/dune3d
110•luu•1d ago•34 comments

Local Stack Archived their GitHub repo and requires an account to run

https://github.com/localstack/localstack
165•ecshafer•8h ago•93 comments

Trivy under attack again: Widespread GitHub Actions tag compromise secrets

https://socket.dev/blog/trivy-under-attack-again-github-actions-compromise
166•jicea•1d ago•60 comments

TI-89 Height-Mapped Raycaster

https://github.com/dzoba/ti-89-raycasting-with-z
30•zoba•4d ago•4 comments

Two pilots dead after plane and ground vehicle collide at LaGuardia

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cy01g522ww4o
362•mememememememo•19h ago•558 comments

An incoherent Rust

https://www.boxyuwu.blog/posts/an-incoherent-rust/
133•emschwartz•11h ago•59 comments

A retro terminal music player inspired by Winamp

https://github.com/bjarneo/cliamp
58•mkagenius•6h ago•10 comments

BIO: The Bao I/O Coprocessor

https://www.bunniestudios.com/blog/2026/bio-the-bao-i-o-coprocessor/
131•zdw•3d ago•26 comments

I built an AI receptionist for a mechanic shop

https://www.itsthatlady.dev/blog/building-an-ai-receptionist-for-my-brother/
226•mooreds•16h ago•255 comments

An unsolicited guide to being a researcher [pdf]

https://emerge-lab.github.io/papers/an-unsolicited-guide-to-good-research.pdf
171•sebg•4d ago•21 comments

US and TotalEnergies reach 'nearly $1B' deal to end offshore wind projects

https://www.lemonde.fr/en/international/article/2026/03/23/us-and-totalenergies-reach-nearly-1-bi...
361•lode•9h ago•264 comments

How I'm Productive with Claude Code

https://neilkakkar.com/productive-with-claude-code.html
126•neilkakkar•6h ago•90 comments

Bombadil: Property-based testing for web UIs

https://github.com/antithesishq/bombadil
224•Klaster_1•4d ago•89 comments

I created my first AI-assisted pull request

https://nelson.cloud/i-created-my-first-ai-assisted-pull-request-and-i-feel-like-a-fraud/
46•nelsonfigueroa•1h ago•56 comments

America tells private firms to “hack back”

https://www.economist.com/united-states/2026/03/22/america-tells-private-firms-to-hack-back
122•andsoitis•13h ago•129 comments

Designing AI for Disruptive Science

https://www.asimov.press/p/ai-science
65•mailyk•8h ago•38 comments