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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."

Gemma 4 12B: A unified, encoder-free multimodal model

https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/technology/developers-tools/introducing-gemma-4-12b/
422•rvz•3h ago•147 comments

I was recently diagnosed with anti-NMDA receptor encephalitis

https://burntsushi.net/encephalitis/
217•Tomte•5h ago•42 comments

Elixir v1.20 released: now a gradually typed language

https://elixir-lang.org/blog/2026/06/03/elixir-v1-20-0-released/
22•cloud8421•16m ago•1 comments

ESP32-S31

https://www.espressif.com/en/products/socs/esp32-s31
171•volemo•3h ago•81 comments

DaVinci Resolve 21

https://www.blackmagicdesign.com/products/davinciresolve/whatsnew
259•pentagrama•5h ago•131 comments

Gooey: A GPU-accelerated UI framework for Zig

https://github.com/duanebester/gooey
53•ksec•2h ago•7 comments

Stop Killing Games

https://jxself.org/stop-killing-games.shtml
23•amcclure•2d ago•3 comments

Hacking your PC using your speaker without ever touching it

https://blog.nns.ee/2026/06/03/katana-badusb/
530•xx_ns•8h ago•90 comments

Launch HN: Hyper (YC P26) – Company brain to power agentic development

24•shalinshah•1h ago•18 comments

A Post-Quantum Future for Let's Encrypt

https://letsencrypt.org/2026/06/03/pq-certs
141•SGran•4h ago•74 comments

Skyvern (YC S23) Is Hiring Open-Source Loving DevRel Engineers

https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/skyvern/jobs/1qRTlVx-founding-developer-marketing-open-sour...
1•suchintan•2h ago

Uber's $1,500/month AI limit is a useful signal for AI tool pricing

https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jun/3/uber-caps-usage/
130•pdyc•6h ago•152 comments

Angular v22

https://blog.angular.dev/announcing-angular-v22-c52bb83a4664
42•Klaster_1•2h ago•15 comments

Fluid Simulation for Dummies

https://www.mikeash.com/pyblog/fluid-simulation-for-dummies.html
39•sebg•4d ago•10 comments

MacBook Neo Is So Popular That Apple Doubled Production

https://www.macrumors.com/2026/06/03/macbook-neo-production-doubled-says-kuo/
134•tosh•2h ago•102 comments

Embryos shape their limbs: a key discovery of "genetic brakes"

https://nouvelles.umontreal.ca/en/article/2026/06/02/how-embryos-shape-their-limbs-a-key-discover...
13•gmays•1h ago•0 comments

Every Byte Matters

https://fzakaria.com/2026/06/01/every-byte-matters
198•ingve•8h ago•99 comments

Bot vs human traffic

https://radar.cloudflare.com/traffic#bot-vs-human
94•jmsflknr•1h ago•40 comments

Meta workers can opt out of being tracked at work up to 30 min

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c93x0k194yno
545•reconnecting•6h ago•512 comments

PlayStation Architecture

https://www.copetti.org/writings/consoles/playstation/
198•gregsadetsky•8h ago•40 comments

Rootshell: A new E2EE email service hosted in Iceland

https://rootshell.is
3•sc0rt•21m ago•1 comments

What I've learned about the trombone

http://bryanhu.com/blog/posts/what-ive-learned-about-the-trombone/
65•bookofjoe•8h ago•55 comments

Mathematicians issue warning as AI rapidly gains ground

https://www.science.org/content/article/mathematicians-issue-warning-ai-rapidly-gains-ground
83•pseudolus•9h ago•116 comments

1-Click GitHub Token Stealing via a VSCode Bug

https://blog.ammaraskar.com/github-token-stealing/
611•ammar2•1d ago•95 comments

Show HN: Rscrypto, pure-Rust crypto with industry leading public benches

https://github.com/loadingalias/rscrypto
18•LoadingALIAS•2h ago•6 comments

32GB of DDR5 now costs $375 – AI shortage continues to squeeze PC building

https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/ddr5/32gb-of-ddr5-now-costs-usd375-minimum-ai-shortage...
301•papersail•6h ago•282 comments

Show HN: Edsger – A handwritten Clojure REPL for the reMarkable 2

https://handwritten.danieljanus.pl/2026-06-01-edsger.html
211•nathell•1d ago•28 comments

Nabokov's pale fire: the lost 'father of all hypertext demos'? (2011)

https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/1995966.1996008
104•aragonite•2d ago•24 comments

Show HN: Nutrepedia – nutrition info in 29 locales built with Clojure and Htmx

https://nutrepedia.com/en-us/
35•llovan•2h ago•17 comments

How turkey hacked the hair-transplant industry

https://www.wired.com/story/how-turkey-hacked-the-hair-transplant-industry/
78•joozio•2d ago•109 comments