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Building my npx business card

https://ashley.dev/posts/turning-feedback-into-features/
8•edent•1y ago

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steele•1y ago
Ooh, free real estate, let's colonize and gentrify package management
aabhay•1y ago
Lmao, gentrify cracked me up
neilv•1y ago
Do these npx business cards run arbitrary code on your computer?
cypherpunks01•1y 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•1y 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•1y ago
Yeah, this seems like a very smart but inherently flawed idea.
cypherpunks01•1y 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•1y ago
May as well just release an executable tbh.
theamk•1y 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•1y 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•1y 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."

Need for Speed Underground 2 online in the browser

https://nfsu2.xyz/
154•fluxusars•4h ago•44 comments

Libghostty 1.0

https://mitchellh.com/writing/libghostty-1-0
773•mfiguiere•14h ago•123 comments

Upload Your RAM

https://uploadyourram.org
182•susanthenerd•3h ago•131 comments

Every Mac comes with an (undocumented) family member classifier

https://8rank.ai/game/apple-intelligence-personal-knowledge-graph
226•infwhispers•3h ago•106 comments

Tesla to wind down Cybertruck production

https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/tesla-wind-cybertruck-production-years-poor-sales-markets-...
1058•PLenz•1d ago•1907 comments

A Jev that can ask Opus for help gives Opus accuracy at 4x lower cost

https://hightouch.com/blog/llm-judges-identity-resolution
513•theanomaly•17h ago•122 comments

Running a law firm on Free software

https://decoded.legal/blog/2026/11/running-a-law-firm-on-free-software-2026-edition/
28•DeepLogin•4h ago•4 comments

Every Windows 11 app should kill Electron, and Discord just showed why

https://www.windowslatest.com/2026/11/06/every-windows-11-app-should-kill-electron-and-discord-ju...
50•thunderbong•2h ago•40 comments

The Components of Agent Memory

https://www.anthropic.com/research/components-of-agent-memory
76•geoffbp•7h ago•40 comments

ToothPaste

https://brisk4t.github.io/blog/toothpaste/
23•speckx•3d ago•6 comments

Greece has its own Pompeii: Thera buried Akrotiri in ash 17th-16th century BCE

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/greece-has-its-own-pompeii-and-the-ruins-tell-a-captivatin...
139•derbOac•3d ago•15 comments

RealPage rent-pricing case wraps with nearly $360M to renters

https://www.multifamilydive.com/news/realpage-rent-pricing-case-360m-renters/873553/
143•raybb•14h ago•85 comments

US FAA says it will phase out floppy disks from air traffic control by 2028

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-faa-says-it-will-phase-out-floppy-disks-air-traffic-control-b...
356•ChrisArchitect•1d ago•289 comments

Port 0: The Port That Does Not Exist

https://acid.vegas/blog/the-port-that-does-not-exist/
23•NewCzech•4h ago•4 comments

PostgreSQL Internals [pdf]

https://edu.postgrespro.com/postgresql_internals-14_en.pdf
45•Foe•3d ago•5 comments

Show HN: Spindle – a full-featured, type-safe web framework for OCaml 5

https://github.com/hyphatech/spindle
8•zaiev•2d ago•0 comments

Firecracker VM Escape: PwnEscape Part 2

https://pwn.ai/blog/firecracker-escape
257•SerCe•18h ago•110 comments

A barbarian tribe's mythic origin story is true, ancient DNA reveals

https://www.science.org/content/article/barbarian-tribe-s-mythic-origin-story-true-ancient-dna-re...
136•benbreen•8h ago•104 comments

Building the NBC News Big Board

https://ejfox.com/projects/nbc-big-board
3•whalesalad•3d ago•0 comments

Notes on San Marino

https://mattlakeman.org/2026/11/05/notes-on-san-marino/
91•yorwba•20h ago•34 comments

8088 Domination Post-Mortem

https://trixter.oldskool.org/2014/06/19/8088-domination-post-mortem-part-1/
30•cosmojg•2d ago•5 comments

The Flash C Compiler

https://blog.adafruit.com/2026/10/31/flash-c-compiler/
66•AlexeyBrin•3d ago•20 comments

The great butter and cheese fire of 1991

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43•subroutine•2d ago•16 comments

First steps in bare-metal programming using UEFI

https://kevinboone.me/efitest_index.html
233•LaSombra•20h ago•46 comments

GitHub's new Git storage architecture

https://github.blog/engineering/architecture-optimization/inside-githubs-new-git-storage-architec...
169•DAlperin•18h ago•38 comments

Gemini Omni 1.2 Flash

https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/technology/developers-tools/introducing-gemini-omni-1-2-flash/
347•thisisauserid•1d ago•234 comments

Can GROUP BY still be optimized after all these years?

https://pivotlake.io/blog/know-your-limit-faster-top-k-aggregation/
95•ntur1337•3d ago•16 comments

Google has acquired Crusoe's data center site in southeast Wyoming

https://www.crusoe.ai/resources/newsroom/crusoe-wyoming-data-center-campus-update
86•rexbee•17h ago•33 comments

Devvm.dev: One VM for every project

https://devvm.dev/
169•luispa•20h ago•64 comments

Restaurant Delivery Payment-Skimming Campaign

https://www.infohawk.com/news/2026-11-05-scamwich-restaurant-skimming
138•fiej•18h ago•72 comments