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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."

Agents can now create Cloudflare accounts, buy domains, and deploy

https://blog.cloudflare.com/agents-stripe-projects/
58•rolph•1h ago•15 comments

.de TLD offline due to DNSSEC?

https://dnssec-analyzer.verisignlabs.com/nic.de
570•warpspin•8h ago•276 comments

Telus Uses AI to Alter Call-Agent Accents

https://letsdatascience.com/news/telus-uses-ai-to-alter-call-agent-accents-a3868f63
65•debo_•2h ago•30 comments

StarFighter 16-Inch

https://us.starlabs.systems/pages/starfighter
104•signa11•2h ago•64 comments

Accelerating Gemma 4: faster inference with multi-token prediction drafters

https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/technology/developers-tools/multi-token-prediction-gemma-4/
497•amrrs•12h ago•222 comments

Update on "Co-authored-by: Copilot" in commit messages

https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/314311
33•extesy•1h ago•14 comments

Write some software, give it away for free

https://nonogra.ph/write-some-software-give-it-away-for-free-05-05-2026
177•nohell•6h ago•126 comments

Three Inverse Laws of AI

https://susam.net/inverse-laws-of-robotics.html
390•blenderob•12h ago•265 comments

Computer Use is 45x more expensive than structured APIs

https://reflex.dev/blog/computer-use-is-45x-more-expensive-than-structured-apis/
351•palashawas•11h ago•205 comments

EEVblog: The 555 Timer is 55 years old [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6JhK8iCQuqI
254•brudgers•12h ago•64 comments

Ombudsman column: The Pentagon is trying to silence me

https://www.stripes.com/opinion/2026-04-23/stripes-former-ombudsman-pentagon-trying-to-silence-21...
46•petethomas•59m ago•1 comments

Wiki Builder: Skill to Build LLM Knowledge Bases

https://academy.dair.ai/blog/wiki-builder-claude-code-plugin
30•omarsar•2d ago•2 comments

Why most product tours get skipped

https://productonboarding.com/articles/why-product-tours-get-skipped
100•pancomplex•7h ago•88 comments

Show HN: Explore color palettes inspired by 3000 master painter artworks

https://paletteinspiration.com/
130•ouli•10h ago•45 comments

YouTube, your RSS feeds are broken

https://openrss.org/blog/youtube-your-feeds-are-broken
15•veeti•3h ago•5 comments

Agents for financial services and insurance

https://www.anthropic.com/news/finance-agents
216•louiereederson•13h ago•166 comments

GLM-5V-Turbo: Toward a Native Foundation Model for Multimodal Agents

https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.26752
128•gmays•10h ago•26 comments

Google Chrome silently installs a 4 GB AI model on your device without consent

https://www.thatprivacyguy.com/blog/chrome-silent-nano-install/
1318•john-doe•20h ago•885 comments

Show HN: Airbyte Agents – context for agents across multiple data sources

105•mtricot•13h ago•27 comments

Today I've made the difficult decision to reduce the size of Coinbase by ~14%

https://twitter.com/brian_armstrong/status/2051616759145185723
301•adrianmsmith•16h ago•444 comments

I'm scared about biological computing

https://kuber.studio/blog/Reflections/I%27m-Scared-About-Biological-Computing
169•kuberwastaken•12h ago•145 comments

Feds Fine Durham Energy Efficiency Co $722M

https://www.theassemblync.com/news/business/american-efficient-ferc-durham-fine/
7•ChuckMcM•1d ago•6 comments

When everyone has AI and the company still learns nothing

https://www.robert-glaser.de/when-everyone-has-ai-and-the-company-still-learns-nothing/
333•youngbrioche•18h ago•224 comments

Should I run plain Docker Compose in production in 2026?

https://distr.sh/blog/running-docker-in-production/
373•pmig•5d ago•266 comments

I completed 100 Days of Java over 5 years and mapped the journey as a graph

https://mohibulsblog.netlify.app/java/100daysofjava/graph/
38•celurian92•2d ago•10 comments

California farmers to destroy 420k peach trees following Del Monte bankruptcy

https://www.sfgate.com/centralcoast/article/usda-aid-california-farmers-22240694.php
298•littlexsparkee•10h ago•350 comments

Simulating Cells Fighting to the Death

https://jamiesimon.io/blog/cell-fight/
19•jamie-simon•2d ago•3 comments

iOS 27 is adding a 'Create a Pass' button to Apple Wallet

https://walletwallet.alen.ro/blog/ios-27-wallet-create-pass/
396•alentodorov•15h ago•294 comments

Proliferate (YC S25) Is Hiring- 200k for junior engineers

https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/proliferate/jobs/L3copvK-founding-engineer
1•pablo24602•11h ago

Zuckerberg 'Personally Authorized and Encouraged' Meta's Copyright Infringement

https://variety.com/2026/digital/news/meta-ai-mark-zuckerberg-copyright-infringement-lawsuit-publ...
308•spankibalt•10h ago•282 comments