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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."

Binance-hacker-1029 – $5.6B stolen from Binance

https://arkm.com/explorer/entity/21a94755-f604-45e5-9501-6542e23005e8
1164•Tiberium•9h ago•693 comments

We're releasing the weights of Mistral Large 4

https://mistral.ai/news/mistral-large-4-oss/
1375•kuberwastaken•17h ago•368 comments

Cuis: The Modern Smalltalk-80

https://cuis.st/
78•theanonymousone•3d ago•12 comments

Astroterm: A Planetarium for Your Terminal

https://github.com/da-luce/astroterm
91•nvmdbljstm•1d ago•6 comments

Herdr has released native app

https://github.com/herdrdev/herdr-app
144•cherioo•6h ago•86 comments

I'm so bad at billiards that I ended up in the hyperbolic plane [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kL9BTbIGxLg
82•surprisetalk•1d ago•7 comments

Wasmer (YC S19) Is Hiring OS/Hypervisor Experts in Europe

https://www.workatastartup.com/jobs/98722
1•syrusakbary•29m ago

We ran AI agent swarms in Minecraft and Mindustry

https://labs.ycombinator.com/projects/games/index.html
251•sandslash•9h ago•82 comments

A tiny world model running games on a Raspberry Pi Pico 2 W

https://github.com/SheepSeb/tinyworldformer
191•airinei•10h ago•11 comments

H.264 Is Magic (2016)

https://sidbala.com/h-264-is-magic/
391•ea016•15h ago•144 comments

LLM Voice

https://martinfowler.com/bliki/LLM-Voice.html
438•ibobev•16h ago•228 comments

Show HN: I Turned DOOM into a Transformer

https://github.com/mottopanikeiku/doomformer
73•falperc•8h ago•23 comments

Python on My Wrist

https://tildeweb.nl/~michiel/python-on-my-wrist.html
31•roywashere•3d ago•3 comments

A Pig, the State, and War: Porco Rosso (Kurenai No Buta) (2014)

https://journal.animationstudies.org/article/id/66/
101•simonebrunozzi•9h ago•25 comments

An illustrated online book on Hewlett-Packard equipment

https://blog.adafruit.com/2026/10/27/an-illustrated-online-book-on-hewlett-packard-equipment/
11•sohkamyung•2d ago•3 comments

Pico CSS is no longer maintained

https://github.com/picocss/pico/discussions/754
103•henrid•5h ago•37 comments

Launch HN: Simantic (YC F26) – Firmware Simulation for AI Agents

65•shong0504•15h ago•17 comments

Patrick Stewart has died

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/10/29/arts/television/patrick-stewart-dead.html
2803•j4mie•11h ago•593 comments

Iterating Backwards in C

https://www.davidpriver.com/Iterating-backwards-in-C.html
92•cremno•3d ago•49 comments

Solving Postgres' Count Problem

https://www.paradedb.com/blog/opening-a-closed-tin-part-2
26•philippemnoel•2d ago•2 comments

Should a medical diagnosis reshape the past? (2025)

https://chengela.substack.com/p/should-a-medical-diagnosis-reshape
31•wyndham•9h ago•2 comments

The Great American Rascal: Tom Sawyer at 150

https://claremontreviewofbooks.com/the-great-american-rascal/
64•beatstop•9h ago•32 comments

If IPv4 were land

https://iptrust.co/blog/if-ipv4-were-land
270•rokostik•19h ago•373 comments

Show HN: Auto Dismiss Mac OS "Allow <app> to find devices on local networks?"

https://github.com/johncassil/dontallow
123•johncassil•12h ago•94 comments

Historical Scientific Instruments

https://nealstephenson.substack.com/p/historical-scientific-instruments
32•peteforde•2d ago•1 comments

What we know so far about Spain train crash

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cm8xz7pkd0jjo
180•ZeljkoS•22h ago•351 comments

Cormac McCarthy's Library

https://cormacmccarthy.lib.utk.edu/
44•maitland•6h ago•19 comments

Sylphide OS: a general-purpose OS for microcontroller-based computers

https://projects.freehackers.org/sylphide-os/
58•iamnothere•10h ago•15 comments

ElementaryUI – Swift, in the Browser

https://elementary.codes
92•frizlab•10h ago•20 comments

16colo.rs – ANSI/ASCII art archive

https://16colo.rs/
110•memalign•15h ago•8 comments