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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."

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang's letter to staff about affair

https://www.axios.com/2026/11/08/nvidia-ceo-jensen-huang-affair-email-to-company
123•karimf•52m ago•85 comments

Dux: Free, open-source Wayland desktop shell with file manager and theming

https://duxlabs.dev/
148•indigodaddy•4h ago•45 comments

Ask HN: What are you working on? (November 2026)

63•david927•1h ago•288 comments

Declarative Dragging

https://declarative-dragging.github.io/
245•smusamashah•4d ago•30 comments

Chimera Vocal Synth

https://chimera-vocal-synth.vercel.app/
11•nmstoker•36m ago•2 comments

Goldman Sachs is pulling Claude Code from its bankers and traders

https://www.thestateofai.com/news/goldman-sachs-claude-code-traders-bankers
518•TheWiggles•4h ago•317 comments

Outlook.com Is Quietly Rejecting Email from Domains Without DMARC

https://mailroute.net/blog/outlook-rejecting-email-without-dmarc
176•xmddmx•3h ago•148 comments

The Web Is More Than Enough, by Paul Ford

https://ftrain.com/aboard-the-web-is-more-than-enough
35•edward•3h ago•11 comments

Llama-modchip: 284B DeepSeek on 64GB RAM, no GPU

https://github.com/synchopate/llama-modchip
331•joshcsimmons•12h ago•134 comments

Designing Rust APIs around KEM, AEAD and key derivation workflows

https://github.com/lecodev-26/nexus-q
5•lecodev•2d ago•0 comments

Edward Hopper's Iconic Painting, "Nighthawks

https://lithub.com/the-story-behind-edward-hoppers-iconic-painting-nighthawks/
54•prismatic•3d ago•16 comments

Writing as a thinking tool

http://muratbuffalo.blogspot.com/2026/11/writing-as-thinking-tool.html
251•jruohonen•12h ago•76 comments

The History of Djgpp

https://www.delorie.com/djgpp/history.html
24•atan2•5d ago•8 comments

Playing with the STM32MP2

https://serd.es/2026/11/08/playing-with-stm32mp2.html
20•dverlaeckt80•4h ago•7 comments

Show HN: Vegetable Gardening for Engineers

https://jrcpl.us/contrib/2020/gardening-for-engineers/
141•jrcplus•4d ago•27 comments

A Little Snitch for Windows

https://packethound.app/
79•BadBoyBubby•5h ago•37 comments

How I Fight AI Brain Fry

https://sergeykuhne.com/blog/fighting-ai-brain-fry
118•kyunez•3h ago•104 comments

I'm not a fan of Deno's security model (2024)

https://goldstein.lol/posts/deno-security/
76•maxloh•8h ago•34 comments

Nvidia Board of Directors Is Investigating Jensen Huang

https://nvidianews.nvidia.com/news/statement-from-nvidia-board-of-directors
308•vincentchau•2h ago•242 comments

Goodbye Claude, hello Pi

https://caleb.software/posts/claude-to-pi.html
665•karagenit•20h ago•422 comments

The Reconstruction of Torn Documents

https://www.bundesarchiv.de/en/stasi-records-archive/the-reconstruction-of-torn-documents/
84•jacquesm•2d ago•48 comments

Porting Android 16 to my blind mother's keypad phone

https://z1x.us/blog/four-hundred-bucks-of-e-waste
141•z1xus•4d ago•41 comments

Playing Zork 1 on a CP/M emulator on Linux (2021)

https://kevinboone.me/cpmzork.html
22•linuxkernal•4h ago•11 comments

Claude Code's "Don't Ask Again" exposes passwords in 1,122 public GitHub files

https://apiiro.com/blog/coding-agents-leaking-secrets-github-dont-ask-again
571•shmulc•1d ago•387 comments

Starship Flight 15 on 11/13 plans to catch both booster and ship

https://www.spacex.com/launches/starship-flight-15
59•spikels•3h ago•27 comments

How to prove equations using diagrams, part 1

https://www.epatters.org/post/e-graphs-1/
58•frostbyte7•10h ago•4 comments

JIT bitmap text rendering for microcontrollers

https://linebender.org/blog/jit-bitmap-text/
91•dmit•12h ago•17 comments

Agent memory needs its OpenTelemetry moment

https://www.lorekit.io/blog/open-agent-memory-format
163•mthines•14h ago•102 comments

A field guide to CAPTCHA types and how they break

https://github.com/vsmutok/FuckCaptcha
42•vasylsmutok•6h ago•12 comments

Clj.rs – a Clojure dialect implemented in Rust

https://clj.rs/
161•simonpure•4d ago•61 comments