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Building my npx business card

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

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steele•8mo ago
Ooh, free real estate, let's colonize and gentrify package management
aabhay•8mo ago
Lmao, gentrify cracked me up
neilv•8mo ago
Do these npx business cards run arbitrary code on your computer?
cypherpunks01•8mo 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•8mo 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•8mo ago
Yeah, this seems like a very smart but inherently flawed idea.
cypherpunks01•8mo 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•8mo ago
May as well just release an executable tbh.
theamk•8mo 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•8mo 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•8mo 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."

Grid: Forever free, local-first, browser-based 3D printing/CNC/laser slicer

https://grid.space/stem/
209•cyrusradfar•6h ago•67 comments

The Dank Case for Scrolling Window Managers

https://tedium.co/2026/01/29/niri-danklinux-scrolling-window-managers/
10•todsacerdoti•33m ago•3 comments

PlayStation 2 Recompilation Project Is Absolutely Incredible

https://redgamingtech.com/playstation-2-recompilation-project-is-absolutely-incredible/
348•croes•9h ago•145 comments

Project Genie: Experimenting with infinite, interactive worlds

https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/models-and-research/google-deepmind/project-genie/
504•meetpateltech•11h ago•248 comments

Moltbook

https://www.moltbook.com/
8•teej•55m ago•1 comments

Claude Code daily benchmarks for degradation tracking

https://marginlab.ai/trackers/claude-code/
594•qwesr123•14h ago•294 comments

AGENTS.md outperforms skills in our agent evals

https://vercel.com/blog/agents-md-outperforms-skills-in-our-agent-evals
235•maximedupre•15h ago•100 comments

The WiFi only works when it's raining (2024)

https://predr.ag/blog/wifi-only-works-when-its-raining/
127•epicalex•8h ago•42 comments

Backseat Software

https://blog.mikeswanson.com/backseat-software/
33•zdw•6h ago•0 comments

CISA’s acting head uploaded sensitive files into public version of ChatGPT

https://www.politico.com/news/2026/01/27/cisa-madhu-gottumukkala-chatgpt-00749361
80•rurp•2d ago•192 comments

Flameshot

https://github.com/flameshot-org/flameshot
148•OsrsNeedsf2P•9h ago•55 comments

Launch HN: AgentMail (YC S25) – An API that gives agents their own email inboxes

132•Haakam21•12h ago•142 comments

My Mom and Dr. DeepSeek (2025)

https://restofworld.org/2025/ai-chatbot-china-sick/
150•kieto•10h ago•88 comments

A lot of population numbers are fake

https://davidoks.blog/p/a-lot-of-population-numbers-are-fake
294•bookofjoe•15h ago•256 comments

Is the RAM shortage killing small VPS hosts?

https://www.fourplex.net/2026/01/29/is-the-ram-shortage-killing-small-vps-hosts/
141•neelc•13h ago•179 comments

Software is mostly all you need

https://softwarefordays.com/post/software-is-mostly-all-you-need/
38•jbmilgrom•5h ago•29 comments

Cutting Up Curved Things

https://campedersen.com/tessellation
35•ecto•6h ago•6 comments

Interesting facts I've learned about wildfires over the years

https://madole.xyz/blog/things-i-learned-about-wildfires
3•speckx•6d ago•0 comments

Moltworker: a self-hosted personal AI agent, minus the minis

https://blog.cloudflare.com/moltworker-self-hosted-ai-agent/
181•ghostwriternr•14h ago•58 comments

Waymo robotaxi hits a child near an elementary school in Santa Monica

https://techcrunch.com/2026/01/29/waymo-robotaxi-hits-a-child-near-an-elementary-school-in-santa-...
379•voxadam•14h ago•615 comments

The Value of Things

https://journal.stuffwithstuff.com/2026/01/24/the-value-of-things/
83•vinhnx•4d ago•35 comments

Deep dive into Turso, the “SQLite rewrite in Rust”

https://kerkour.com/turso-sqlite
138•unsolved73•13h ago•105 comments

Two days of oatmeal reduce cholesterol level

https://www.uni-bonn.de/en/news/017-2026
50•brandonb•2h ago•41 comments

County pays $600k to pentesters it arrested for assessing courthouse security

https://arstechnica.com/security/2026/01/county-pays-600000-to-pentesters-it-arrested-for-assessi...
355•MBCook•10h ago•172 comments

How to choose colors for your CLI applications (2023)

https://blog.xoria.org/terminal-colors/
162•kruuuder•14h ago•83 comments

EmulatorJS

https://github.com/EmulatorJS/EmulatorJS
96•avaer•6d ago•15 comments

Ask HN: How do you keep up with tech news or any news without doomscrolling?

3•digi_wares•26m ago•3 comments

Propositions about the New Romanticism

https://www.honest-broker.com/p/25-propositions-about-the-new-romanticism
18•dom2•5d ago•0 comments

Box64 Expands into RISC-V and LoongArch territory

https://boilingsteam.com/box64-expands-into-risc-v-and-loong-arch-territory/
43•ekianjo•4d ago•4 comments

Reflex (YC W23) Senior Software Engineer Infra

https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/reflex/jobs/Jcwrz7A-lead-software-engineer-infra
1•apetuskey•11h ago