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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."

Does the Sumerian King List Align with Paleoclimate Events?

https://www.vectorian.be/articles/2026-06-07/sumerian-king-list-paleoclimate-alignment-explorer/
40•dev_l1x_be•1h ago•9 comments

Boot a Virtual iPhone via Apple's Virtualization.framework

https://github.com/Lakr233/vphone-cli
61•hentrep•2h ago•15 comments

GUIs should be fully keyboard-driven

https://ckardaris.com/blog/2026/08/28/keyboard-driven-guis.html
607•ckardaris•10h ago•304 comments

9th Circuit sides with states in Kalshi gambling fight

https://azmirror.com/2026/08/28/9th-circuit-sides-with-states-in-kalshi-gambling-fight-potentiall...
27•hungryhobbit•2h ago•12 comments

Htmx 4.0

https://four.htmx.org/announcements/2026-08-28-htmx-4.0.0-is-released
532•rmsaksida•12h ago•127 comments

U.S. sanctions against the A/I Collective

https://www.inventati.org/
482•exiguus•12h ago•459 comments

Just the rumour of a bug is enough to find an exploit these days

https://anil.recoil.org/notes/rumour-is-the-exploit
259•avsm•9h ago•92 comments

PPWR lands another blow to an precarious tabletop industry

https://www.rascal.news/ppwr-lands-another-blow-to-an-already-precarious-tabletop-industry/
18•healsdata•1h ago•8 comments

Inception-style curved map for turn-by-turn directions

https://www.orbify.eu/demo/
427•smoser•13h ago•144 comments

Identifying fake cosmetics using AI

https://groverlab.org/hnbfpr/2026-08-26-ai-counterfeit-cosmetics.html
30•wgrover•3h ago•12 comments

Judge rules Trump administration’s blacklisting of Anthropic was illegal

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/27/technology/anthropic-government-blacklisting-ruling.html
529•jbegley•23h ago•394 comments

Curvature Beziers: Improving on a timeless recipe

https://acko.net/blog/curvature-beziers/
78•leephillips•4d ago•11 comments

I accidentally turned LLM memory into program analysis

https://pwning.systems/posts/llm-memory-program-analysis/
15•matt_d•2h ago•3 comments

The Twelve-Factor App (2025)

https://12factor.net/
221•jxmorris12•1d ago•121 comments

Processing in Memory: DRAM Is About to Do Math

https://ben3d.ca/blog/processing-in-memory
71•bhouston•2d ago•23 comments

GLM-5.3 is now open-weight

https://huggingface.co/zai-org/GLM-5.3
593•jeudesprits•10h ago•206 comments

Autonomous Mathematical Discovery in an Open-World Multi-Agent Environment

https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.23691
81•stephenchung•8h ago•20 comments

Experiments with Plotter Art

https://sometimes.digital/posts/experiments-with-plotter-art/
4•surprisetalk•4d ago•0 comments

Luanti removed from Google Play due to baseless AI copyright notice

https://blog.luanti.org/2026/08/27/luanti-dmca-tracer-ai/
448•miniBill•19h ago•138 comments

Visual Analysis of Binary Files

https://binvis.io/#/
60•vismit2000•2d ago•18 comments

Show HN: Sesame - a local-first, open-source password manager

https://usesesame.app/
37•d0mkaaa•6h ago•41 comments

Attimet (YC F24) Is Hiring Members of Technical Staff – Engineering and Research

https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/attimet/jobs/6btZFDg-member-of-technical-staff-engineering
1•kbanothu•8h ago

Verschlimmbesserung: The Word Your Software Updates Need

https://geekyschmidt.com/post/2026-08-25-verschlimmbesserung/
109•speckx•11h ago•71 comments

EasyEffects can improve laptop speaker sound quality

https://www.osnews.com/story/145883/easyeffects-should-be-part-of-every-linux-distribution-and-de...
99•birdculture•10h ago•47 comments

Migrating to HTTPX2

https://github.com/openai/openai-python/blob/main/httpx2.md
185•tosh•13h ago•78 comments

Aspirational Clownmaxxing and Joey's cadillac todo list

https://charlesleifer.com/blog/aspirational-clownmaxxing-and-joey-s-cadillac-todo-list/
22•farlight•6h ago•9 comments

Global demand for sand spawned a worldwide boom in illegal mining (2015)

https://www.wired.com/2015/03/illegal-sand-mining/
57•EndXA•3d ago•24 comments

An investigation into the state of corvid–human relations

https://www.audubon.org/magazine/are-crows-really-our-friends
114•speckx•12h ago•65 comments

State of the Map 2026

https://2026.stateofthemap.org/
143•lode•11h ago•51 comments

Sloc Cloc and Code 4.0 (scc) – Finding the files that need the most attention

https://boyter.org/posts/sloc-cloc-code-hotspots-finding-files-that-need-attention/
27•boyter•4d ago•1 comments