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Building my npx business card

https://ashley.dev/posts/turning-feedback-into-features/
8•edent•11mo ago

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steele•11mo ago
Ooh, free real estate, let's colonize and gentrify package management
aabhay•11mo ago
Lmao, gentrify cracked me up
neilv•11mo ago
Do these npx business cards run arbitrary code on your computer?
cypherpunks01•11mo 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•11mo 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•11mo ago
Yeah, this seems like a very smart but inherently flawed idea.
cypherpunks01•11mo 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•11mo ago
May as well just release an executable tbh.
theamk•11mo 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•11mo 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•11mo 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."

Claude Code Routines

https://code.claude.com/docs/en/routines
502•matthieu_bl•11h ago•294 comments

Rare concert recordings are landing on the Internet Archive

https://techcrunch.com/2026/04/13/thousands-of-rare-concert-recordings-are-landing-on-the-interne...
573•jrm-veris•14h ago•169 comments

Dependency cooldowns turn you into a free-rider

https://calpaterson.com/deps.html
23•pabs3•2h ago•3 comments

A communist Apple II and fourteen years of not knowing what you're testing

https://llama.gs/blog/index.php/2026/04/10/friday-archaeology-a-communist-apple-ii-and-fourteen-y...
76•major4x•4d ago•7 comments

The Orange Pi 6 Plus

https://taoofmac.com/space/reviews/2026/04/11/1900
141•rcarmo•3d ago•100 comments

Stop Flock

https://stopflock.com
480•cdrnsf•6h ago•118 comments

Understanding Clojure's Persistent Vectors, pt. 1 (2013)

https://hypirion.com/musings/understanding-persistent-vector-pt-1
33•mirzap•4d ago•4 comments

Installing OpenBSD on the Pomera DM250 Writerdeck

https://jcs.org/2026/04/09/openbsd-dm250
10•djfergus•4d ago•2 comments

Picasso's Guernica (Gigapixel)

https://guernica.museoreinasofia.es/gigapixel/#3/63.11/-120.59
78•guigar•3d ago•18 comments

Ask HN: Easiest UX for Seniors

43•khoury•3d ago•38 comments

5NF and Database Design

https://kb.databasedesignbook.com/posts/5nf/
143•petalmind•12h ago•56 comments

Turn your best AI prompts into one-click tools in Chrome

https://blog.google/products-and-platforms/products/chrome/skills-in-chrome/
132•xnx•11h ago•61 comments

Let's talk space toilets

https://mceglowski.substack.com/p/lets-talk-space-toilets
158•zdw•1d ago•47 comments

The dangers of California's legislation to censor 3D printing

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/04/dangers-californias-legislation-censor-3d-printing
307•salkahfi•1d ago•315 comments

Tell HN: Fiverr left customer files public and searchable

444•morpheuskafka•9h ago•89 comments

Trusted access for the next era of cyber defense

https://openai.com/index/scaling-trusted-access-for-cyber-defense/
70•surprisetalk•8h ago•49 comments

guide.world: A compendium of travel guides

https://guide.world/
87•firloop•5d ago•13 comments

I wrote to Flock's privacy contact to opt out of their domestic spying program

https://honeypot.net/2026/04/14/i-wrote-to-flocks-privacy.html
544•speckx•10h ago•226 comments

OpenAI's $852B valuation faces investor scrutiny amid strategy shift, FT reports

https://www.reuters.com/legal/transactional/openai-investors-question-852-billion-valuation-strat...
84•abdelhousni•2h ago•79 comments

Backblaze has stopped backing up OneDrive and Dropbox folders and maybe others

https://rareese.com/posts/backblaze/
1007•rrreese•19h ago•612 comments

Game: Print Gallery Of An Artist, A brief exploration of recursive spaces

https://managore.itch.io/print-gallery-of-an-artist
3•zdw•4d ago•0 comments

Don't feel like exercising? Maybe it's the wrong time of day for you

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cd6lzpxwx50o
11•tagawa•4h ago•5 comments

Show HN: Plain – The full-stack Python framework designed for humans and agents

https://github.com/dropseed/plain
76•focom•10h ago•27 comments

Free, fast diagnostic tools for DNS, email authentication, and network security

https://mrdns.com/
44•dogsnews•7h ago•4 comments

OpenSSL 4.0.0

https://github.com/openssl/openssl/releases/tag/openssl-4.0.0
223•petecooper•10h ago•75 comments

Apple App Store threatened to remove Grok over deepfakes: Letter

https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/apple-threat-remove-grok-app-store-deepfake-letter-musk-x-...
62•donohoe•4h ago•29 comments

Show HN: LangAlpha – what if Claude Code was built for Wall Street?

https://github.com/ginlix-ai/langalpha
121•zc2610•13h ago•39 comments

Not all elementary functions can be expressed with exp-minus-log

https://www.stylewarning.com/posts/not-all-elementary/
6•mmastrac•2h ago•0 comments

Introspective Diffusion Language Models

https://introspective-diffusion.github.io/
246•zagwdt•20h ago•45 comments

Troubleshooting Email Delivery to Microsoft Users

https://rozumem.xyz/posts/14
49•rozumem•2d ago•13 comments