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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."

I turned my security cameras into an automatic bird identification system

https://jasontucker.blog/how-i-turned-my-security-cameras-into-an-automatic-bird-identification-s...
174•speckx•2h ago•56 comments

Playa Phone

https://playaphone.com/
323•cutoff•4h ago•136 comments

A walkable ASCII cyberpunk city in one HTML file [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3YtygAx_C6A
44•keithcarolus•1h ago•9 comments

Show HN: Laser Graffiti

https://laser.consti.de
28•con•2d ago•9 comments

Tmp.0ut, Vol. 5

https://tmpout.sh/5/
40•kmstout•6d ago•2 comments

ChatGPT Work Tool and Skill Reference

https://codex-tool-reference.simonw.chatgpt.site/
127•ijidak•5h ago•45 comments

Cheap GPS jammers are filling the world with navigation dead zones

https://www.wsj.com/tech/gps-jammers-dead-zones-e76f3261
34•vinnyglennon•1d ago•22 comments

Weave (YC W25) is hiring ML, AI, product, & design engineers

https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/workweave
1•adchurch•1h ago

Smartphone LED detects hidden cameras with AI

https://www.chosun.com/english/industry-en/2026/08/30/SBFXUIJQYZEARKP5T4FBAY25HQ/
29•geox•1d ago•8 comments

Apple caught off guard by AI demand for Mac Mini and Mac Studio

https://www.macrumors.com/2026/08/30/apple-unexpected-mac-mini-and-studio-demand/
138•thm•6h ago•157 comments

ravynOS: Pre-alpha open-source OS based on Darwin, FreeBSD, Apple open-source

https://ravynos.com/
92•Bluestein•3h ago•67 comments

Dwarf Fortress is getting the mother of all magic updates

https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/dwarf-fortress-is-getting-the-mother-of-all-magic-updates-extend...
107•Tomte•4d ago•18 comments

Launch HN: Almanac (YC S26) – AI that knows your company

https://usealmanac.com/
25•kushagrchitkar•3h ago•34 comments

Show HN: We built the smallest dual-band aircraft tracker

https://pantsforbirds.com/the-worlds-smallest-dual-band-ads-b-receiver-module/
50•CoolNamesAllTkn•4d ago•12 comments

Dimethyl Mercury Exposure Incident at MIT

https://twitter.com/andrew_n_carr/status/2093524390390694232
53•notRobot•2d ago•34 comments

C++26: Standard Library Hardening Experiments

https://www.cppstories.com/2026/hardening-experiments/
60•ibobev•4h ago•37 comments

Show HN: Corporate Mind Games – logic puzzles with a sarcastic corporate theme

https://corporatemindgames.com/
9•dontwordle•3h ago•2 comments

I think the military commissary's freezers were hacked

https://signalandsilence.substack.com/p/i-think-someone-hacked-the-commissary
129•jcurbo•7h ago•72 comments

Show HN: SlideOps – slides from a repo that flag when they drift from the code

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9•lukicov•7h ago•5 comments

The Snow/Leavis ‘two cultures’ clash

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55•Hooke•4h ago•29 comments

Launch HN: Hebbian Robotics (YC S26) – Build scalable robotics data pipelines

https://github.com/Hebbian-Robotics/hflow
28•kstonekuan•4h ago•10 comments

Internet centralization and the original sin of NAT

https://dreamstation.systems/personal/ntppost.html
103•robinpie•17h ago•68 comments

Accidental Aesthetics and Romance of Power Wires

https://www.governance.fyi/p/accidental-aesthetics-and-romance
17•crescit_eundo•20h ago•4 comments

Konrad Zuse Museum shutting down due to lack of funding

https://www.heise.de/en/news/Zuse-Computer-Museum-ZCOM-in-Hoyerswerda-faces-closure-11344513.html
95•virtualritz•2h ago•51 comments

'Stunning' percolation proof solves decades-old puzzle about phase transitions

https://www.quantamagazine.org/stunning-percolation-proof-solves-decades-old-puzzle-about-phase-t...
12•tzury•2h ago•1 comments

OpenShot 4.0 – Open-source video editor

https://www.openshot.org/blog/2026/08/30/openshot-40-record-edit-color-like-never-before/
463•metrofun•9h ago•105 comments

No country for mediocre mathematicians

https://garvvee.substack.com/p/no-country-for-mediocre-mathematicians
78•reasonableklout•1d ago•51 comments

Agent memory as a file format

https://calpaterson.com/memoryfields.html
135•ingve•8h ago•70 comments

Show HN: FnScribe – Open-source, offline dictation for macOS

https://github.com/AlgorithmicResearchGroup/fnscribe
23•modagent•3d ago•19 comments

Kids These Days

https://smallpotatoes.paulbloom.net/p/kids-these-days
7•speckx•1h ago•8 comments