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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."

Why TUIs Are Back

https://wiki.alcidesfonseca.com/blog/why-tuis-are-back/
99•rickcarlino•1h ago•66 comments

BYOMesh – New LoRa mesh radio offers 100x the bandwidth

https://partyon.xyz/@nullagent/116499715071759135
105•nullagent•2h ago•32 comments

Southwest Headquarters Tour

https://katherinemichel.github.io/blog/travel/southwest-headquarters-tour-2026.html
108•KatiMichel•3h ago•15 comments

OpenAI's o1 correctly diagnosed 67% of ER patients vs. 50-55% by triage doctors

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/apr/30/ai-outperforms-doctors-in-harvard-trial-of-eme...
111•donsupreme•19h ago•38 comments

A desktop made for one

https://isene.org/2026/05/Audience-of-One.html
118•xngbuilds•4h ago•43 comments

US–Indian space mission maps extreme subsidence in Mexico City

https://phys.org/news/2026-04-usindian-space-mission-extreme-subsidence.html
21•leopoldj•2d ago•2 comments

Statue of a man blinded by a flag put up by Banksy in central London

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/attributed-to-banksy-a-new-statue-of-a-suited-man-blind...
25•dryadin•1h ago•0 comments

Mercedes-Benz commits to bringing back physical buttons

https://www.drive.com.au/news/mercedes-benz-commits-to-bringing-back-phycial-buttons/
472•teleforce•5h ago•283 comments

I recreated the Apple Lisa computer inside an FPGA [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8jNQDcpHc68
25•cyrc•2h ago•2 comments

Bad Connection: Global telecom exploitation by covert surveillance actors

https://citizenlab.ca/research/uncovering-global-telecom-exploitation-by-covert-surveillance-actors/
45•miohtama•4h ago•3 comments

How far behind is each major Chromium browser?

https://chromium-drift.pages.dev/
124•skaul•3h ago•43 comments

Security through obscurity is not bad

https://mobeigi.com/blog/security/security-through-obscurity-is-not-bad/
69•mobeigi•5h ago•77 comments

Show HN: Ableton Live MCP

https://github.com/bschoepke/ableton-live-mcp
17•bschoepke•2h ago•6 comments

I built my own hair electrolysis machine

https://www.scd31.com/posts/diy-hair-electrolysis-machine
93•y1n0•4d ago•17 comments

Metal Gear Solid 2's source code has been leaked on 4chan

https://www.thegamer.com/mgs2-hd-edition-source-code-massive-leak/
133•rishabhd•3h ago•45 comments

Text-to-CAD

https://github.com/earthtojake/text-to-cad
24•softservo•2d ago•9 comments

Alert-driven monitoring

https://simpleobservability.com/docs/alert-driven-monitoring
81•khazit•6h ago•36 comments

Talking to Transformers

https://miraos.org/blog/2026/05/02/talking-to-transformers
10•taylorsatula•1h ago•1 comments

What is Z-Angle Memory and why is Intel developing it?

https://www.hpcwire.com/2026/02/05/what-is-z-angle-memory-and-why-is-intel-developing-it/
61•rbanffy•2d ago•24 comments

Brain scans reveal 3 ADHD subtypes

https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2026/04/30/adhd-subtype-extreme-brain-scans/
48•brandonb•2d ago•20 comments

Make Your Own Microforest

https://ambrook.com/offrange/environment/a-forest-in-your-pocket
3•bookofjoe•45m ago•0 comments

Cordouan Lighthouse

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cordouan_Lighthouse
22•Petiver•4d ago•2 comments

Nuclear receptor 4A1 linked to health effects of coffee: study

https://sciencex.com/news/2026-04-coffee-doesnt-key-biological-pathway.html
91•pseudolus•9h ago•67 comments

Infrasound waves stop kitchen fires, but can they replace sprinklers?

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026/05/startup-says-sound-waves-can-replace-fire-sprinklers-expe...
31•0in•1d ago•21 comments

Show HN: Apple's SHARP running in the browser via ONNX runtime web

https://github.com/bring-shrubbery/ml-sharp-web
139•bring-shrubbery•11h ago•36 comments

Modern jet engine turbines: each blade a single crystal (2015)

https://www.americanscientist.org/article/each-blade-a-single-crystal
24•whycome•6h ago•1 comments

Denuvo has been cracked in all single-player games it previously protected

https://www.tomshardware.com/video-games/pc-gaming/denuvo-has-been-bypassed-in-all-single-player-...
145•oceansky•4d ago•49 comments

Underwater robot tracks sperm whale conversations in real time

https://www.reuters.com/business/environment/underwater-robot-tracks-sperm-whale-conversations-re...
14•thedebuglife•3h ago•0 comments

How Kepler built verifiable AI for financial services with Claude

https://claude.com/blog/how-kepler-built-verifiable-ai-for-financial-services-with-claude
22•eddiehammond•2h ago•11 comments

A couple million lines of Haskell: Production engineering at Mercury

https://blog.haskell.org/a-couple-million-lines-of-haskell/
390•unignorant•20h ago•191 comments