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Building my npx business card

https://ashley.dev/posts/turning-feedback-into-features/
8•edent•10mo ago

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steele•10mo ago
Ooh, free real estate, let's colonize and gentrify package management
aabhay•10mo ago
Lmao, gentrify cracked me up
neilv•10mo ago
Do these npx business cards run arbitrary code on your computer?
cypherpunks01•10mo 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•10mo 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•10mo ago
Yeah, this seems like a very smart but inherently flawed idea.
cypherpunks01•10mo 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•10mo ago
May as well just release an executable tbh.
theamk•10mo 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•10mo 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•10mo 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."

Simple self-distillation improves code generation

https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.01193
299•Anon84•5h ago•88 comments

Author of "Careless People" banned from saying anything negative about Meta

https://www.thetimes.com/uk/technology-uk/article/sarah-wynn-williams-careless-people-meta-nrffdfpmf
168•macleginn•1h ago•79 comments

Some Unusual Trees

https://thoughts.wyounas.com/p/some-unusual-trees
135•simplegeek•6h ago•38 comments

Tell HN: Anthropic no longer allowing Claude Code subscriptions to use OpenClaw

894•firloop•17h ago•694 comments

Components of a Coding Agent

https://magazine.sebastianraschka.com/p/components-of-a-coding-agent
24•MindGods•2h ago•2 comments

Artemis II crew take “spectacular” image of Earth

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/ce8jzr423p9o
905•andsoitis•20h ago•312 comments

Show HN: TurboQuant-WASM – Google's vector quantization in the browser

https://github.com/teamchong/turboquant-wasm
11•teamchong•1h ago•0 comments

The Cathedral, the Bazaar, and the Winchester Mystery House

https://www.dbreunig.com/2026/03/26/winchester-mystery-house.html
84•dbreunig•3d ago•31 comments

Training mRNA Language Models Across 25 Species for $165

24•maziyar•2d ago•7 comments

The most-disliked people in the publishing industry

https://www.woman-of-letters.com/p/the-most-disliked-people-in-the-publishing
56•Caiero•3d ago•17 comments

Claude Code Found a Linux Vulnerability Hidden for 23 Years

https://mtlynch.io/claude-code-found-linux-vulnerability/
195•eichin•16h ago•117 comments

Mbodi AI (YC P25) Is Hiring

https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/mbodi-ai/jobs/mf9L3sy-senior-robotics-engineer-systems-cont...
1•chitianhao•4h ago

iNaturalist

https://www.inaturalist.org/
490•bookofjoe•22h ago•115 comments

OpenClaw privilege escalation vulnerability

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-33579
467•kykeonaut•23h ago•220 comments

The Indie Internet Index – submit your favorite sites

https://iii.social
5•freshman_dev•1h ago•0 comments

Herbie: Automatically improve imprecise floating point formulas

https://herbie.uwplse.org/doc/latest/tutorial.html
172•summarity•4d ago•33 comments

Why Inventing Color TV Was So Difficult [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hyjCmIbRRvs
31•DamnInteresting•3d ago•8 comments

Run Linux containers on Android, no root required

https://github.com/ExTV/Podroid
184•politelemon•17h ago•61 comments

The smallest ELF executable (2021)

https://nathanotterness.com/2021/10/tiny_elf_modernized.html
16•michelangelo•3d ago•0 comments

Improving my focus by giving up my big monitor

https://ounapuu.ee/posts/2026/04/01/focus/
148•Fudgel•3d ago•154 comments

We replaced RAG with a virtual filesystem for our AI documentation assistant

https://www.mintlify.com/blog/how-we-built-a-virtual-filesystem-for-our-assistant
361•denssumesh•1d ago•140 comments

The Technocracy Movement of the 1930s

https://donotresearch.substack.com/p/welcome-to-the-technocracy
148•lazydogbrownfox•1d ago•113 comments

What changes when you turn a Linux box into a router

https://patrickmccanna.net/7-configuration-changes-that-turn-a-multi-homed-host-into-a-switch-rou...
200•0o_MrPatrick_o0•4d ago•52 comments

German men 18-45 need military permit to leave country for longer than 3 months

https://www.dw.com/en/german-men-need-military-permit-for-extended-stays-abroad/a-76662677
6•L_226•23m ago•1 comments

No One at Waffle House Remembers FEMA Official Who Says He Teleported In

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/03/us/fema-gregg-phillips-waffle-house-teleportation.html
12•planewave•1h ago•1 comments

Go on Embedded Systems and WebAssembly

https://tinygo.org/
184•uticus•23h ago•25 comments

F-15E jet shot down over Iran

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/apr/03/us-fighter-jet-confirmed-shot-down-over-iran
556•tjwds•1d ago•1249 comments

Big-Endian Testing with QEMU

https://www.hanshq.net/big-endian-qemu.html
104•jandeboevrie•1d ago•115 comments

Build your own Dial-up ISP with a Raspberry Pi

https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2026/build-your-own-dial-up-isp-with-a-raspberry-pi/
187•arjunbajaj•1d ago•32 comments

Delve removed from Y Combinator

https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/delve
428•carabiner•14h ago•261 comments