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Building my npx business card

https://ashley.dev/posts/turning-feedback-into-features/
8•edent•9mo ago

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steele•9mo ago
Ooh, free real estate, let's colonize and gentrify package management
aabhay•9mo ago
Lmao, gentrify cracked me up
neilv•9mo ago
Do these npx business cards run arbitrary code on your computer?
cypherpunks01•9mo 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•9mo 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•9mo ago
Yeah, this seems like a very smart but inherently flawed idea.
cypherpunks01•9mo 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•9mo ago
May as well just release an executable tbh.
theamk•9mo 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•9mo 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•9mo 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."

Leaving Google has actively improved my life

https://pseudosingleton.com/leaving-google-improved-my-life/
285•speckx•3h ago•153 comments

OpenAI raises $110B on $730B pre-money valuation

https://techcrunch.com/2026/02/27/openai-raises-110b-in-one-of-the-largest-private-funding-rounds...
238•zlatkov•7h ago•370 comments

NASA announces overhaul of Artemis program amid safety concerns, delays

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/nasa-artemis-moon-program-overhaul/
148•voxadam•5h ago•164 comments

A better streams API is possible for JavaScript

https://blog.cloudflare.com/a-better-web-streams-api/
330•nnx•8h ago•111 comments

A new California law says all operating systems need to have age verification

https://www.pcgamer.com/software/operating-systems/a-new-california-law-says-all-operating-system...
180•WalterSobchak•7h ago•188 comments

Dan Simmons, author of Hyperion, has died

https://www.dignitymemorial.com/obituaries/longmont-co/daniel-simmons-12758871
373•throw0101a•4h ago•158 comments

Let's discuss sandbox isolation

https://www.shayon.dev/post/2026/52/lets-discuss-sandbox-isolation/
65•shayonj•3h ago•19 comments

Writing a Guide to SDF Fonts

https://www.redblobgames.com/blog/2026-02-26-writing-a-guide-to-sdf-fonts/
48•chunkles•4h ago•4 comments

Show HN: Claude-File-Recovery, recover files from your ~/.claude sessions

https://github.com/hjtenklooster/claude-file-recovery
16•rikk3rt•6h ago•6 comments

Open source calculator firmware DB48X forbids CA/CO use due to age verification

https://github.com/c3d/db48x/commit/7819972b641ac808d46c54d3f5d1df70d706d286
104•iamnothere•6h ago•43 comments

PCB Tracer

https://pcbtracer.com
19•Luc•3d ago•7 comments

Allocating on the Stack

https://go.dev/blog/allocation-optimizations
100•spacey•5h ago•43 comments

Otters as Bioindicators of Estuarine Health

https://emt.pensoft.net/article/185117/
3•PaulHoule•15m ago•0 comments

Kyber (YC W23) Is Hiring an Enterprise Account Executive

https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/kyber/jobs/59yPaCs-enterprise-account-executive-ae
1•asontha•3h ago

Modeling cycles of grift with evolutionary game theory

https://www.oranlooney.com/post/grifters-skeptics-marks/
69•ibobev•3d ago•29 comments

Get free Claude max 20x for open-source maintainers

https://claude.com/contact-sales/claude-for-oss
357•zhisme•13h ago•173 comments

Building secure, scalable agent sandbox infrastructure

https://browser-use.com/posts/two-ways-to-sandbox-agents
37•gregpr07•7h ago•9 comments

Court finds Fourth Amendment doesn’t support broad search of protesters’ devices

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/02/victory-tenth-circuit-finds-fourth-amendment-doesnt-support...
427•hn_acker•7h ago•74 comments

Reading English from 1000 AD

https://lewiscampbell.tech/blog/260224.html
91•LAC-Tech•3d ago•31 comments

Implementing a Z80 / ZX Spectrum emulator with Claude Code

https://antirez.com/news/160
109•antirez•2d ago•55 comments

The Robotic Dexterity Deadlock

https://www.origami-robotics.com/blog/dexterity-deadlocks.html
60•shmublu•2h ago•36 comments

"Just a little detail that wouldn't sell anything"

https://unsung.aresluna.org/just-a-little-detail-that-wouldnt-sell-anything/
79•bobbiechen•3d ago•17 comments

Can you reverse engineer our neural network?

https://blog.janestreet.com/can-you-reverse-engineer-our-neural-network/
243•jsomers•2d ago•177 comments

A Chinese official’s use of ChatGPT revealed an intimidation operation

https://www.cnn.com/2026/02/25/politics/chatgpt-china-intimidation-operation
73•cwwc•6h ago•51 comments

Tell HN: MitID, Denmark's digital ID, was down

109•mousepad12•11h ago•154 comments

We gave terabytes of CI logs to an LLM

https://www.mendral.com/blog/llms-are-good-at-sql
141•shad42•6h ago•83 comments

Show HN: I built a self-hosted course platform in Clojure

https://clojure.stream
6•jacekschae•1d ago•1 comments

Show HN: RetroTick – Run classic Windows EXEs in the browser

https://retrotick.com/
161•lqs_•9h ago•46 comments

Statement from Dario Amodei on our discussions with the Department of War

https://www.anthropic.com/news/statement-department-of-war
2821•qwertox•23h ago•1502 comments

Sprites on the Web

https://www.joshwcomeau.com/animation/sprites/
93•vinhnx•3d ago•17 comments