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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."

F-Droid 2.0

https://f-droid.org/2026/09/24/f-droid-2.0-a-new-chapter-for-android-freedom.html
901•daveoc64•9h ago•258 comments

Show HN: Make cursed fonts like Times New Bastard

https://bastardica.mitpit.com
452•MitPitt•1d ago•61 comments

Show HN: Whiteboard (YC W26) – An open-source IDE for thoughtful software design

https://github.com/devdotfast/whiteboard
182•sidharthkmenon•7h ago•78 comments

Why is the liver so weirdly regenerative?

https://dynomight.substack.com/p/liver
226•jbotz•8h ago•148 comments

Fearless SIMD v1.0

https://linebender.org/blog/fearless-simd-1-0/
169•verdagon•2d ago•31 comments

2DWillNeverDie

https://2dwillneverdie.com/
89•surprisetalk•2d ago•7 comments

Rails World 2026 Opening Keynote [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vDjW_dRyKXY
218•an0malous•1d ago•243 comments

My weird new hobby: Wandering around Tokyo on Google Maps

https://ahmedhossamdev.com/writing/my-weird-new-hobby-wandering-around-tokyo/
207•ahmedhossamdev•2d ago•85 comments

Toyota is taking the Corolla electric

https://electrek.co/2026/09/23/toyota-best-selling-corolla-electric/
198•cisc•1d ago•309 comments

Using LLMs to trace alchemical knowledge and decode 17th century letters

https://resobscura.substack.com/p/ai-labs-need-to-start-funding-historical
58•benbreen•5h ago•9 comments

Back and shoulder surgery is often worse than useless

https://www.economist.com/leaders/2026/09/24/back-and-shoulder-surgery-is-often-worse-than-useless
59•burntcaramel•2h ago•43 comments

Show HN: Koi.rest – watch some fish and regain your balance

https://koi.rest
114•hxii•3h ago•27 comments

Google’s Project Suncatcher to put ML infrastructure in space

https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/models-and-research/google-research/google-project-suncatch...
94•xnx•10h ago•187 comments

California is chasing wealth that has feet

https://blog.landeconomics.org/p/california-is-chasing-wealth-that
115•idbnstra•4h ago•359 comments

Book review: Is parallel programming hard, and, if so, what can you do about it?

https://ahelwer.ca/post/2026-09-21-concurrency-textbook/
83•ahelwer•3d ago•24 comments

GitLab Outage

https://status.gitlab.com/
45•kunley•1h ago•17 comments

The Board Game of the Alpha Nerds (2014)

https://grantland.com/features/diplomacy-the-board-game-of-the-alpha-nerds/
41•neonate•3h ago•20 comments

Sourcehut account takeover via build logs (XSS in ansi2html)

https://blog.arusekk.pl/posts/srht-account-takeover/
59•arusekk•4h ago•10 comments

Stable (YC W20) Is Hiring Product Engineers

https://www.usestable.com/careers/product-engineer
1•collinpham•6h ago

Two-tier encryption in the UK

https://macanorak.com/two-tier-encryption-in-the-uk/
371•ReturnoftheHack•14h ago•369 comments

Writing Parquet files using Haskell

https://www.datahaskell.org/blog/2026/09/18/writing-parquet-files-using-haskell.html
5•cosmic_quanta•2d ago•0 comments

Motor Characterization for Small Running Robots (2016)

https://robot-daycare.com/posts/2016-01-06-motor-characterization-for-small-running-robots/
26•loughnane•3d ago•0 comments

Security auditing in the age of (good enough) AI

https://blog.trailofbits.com/2026/09/18/auditing-in-the-age-of-good-enough-ai/
53•aray07•3d ago•2 comments

Forging 1024-bit RSA signatures in nearly SNFS time [pdf]

https://eprint.iacr.org/2026/2131.pdf
49•int0x29•10h ago•6 comments

The forgotten battle of East Lansing

https://eastlansinginfo.news/the-forgotten-battle-of-east-lansing/
79•rmason•3d ago•13 comments

Early rogue AI agent activity and attempts to hack found on urlquery.net

https://transluce.org/agent-activity
242•snikolaev•19h ago•229 comments

Geothermal heat map of US hot springs

https://www.soakingsprings.com/hot-springs/geothermal-map
82•armenarmen•1d ago•33 comments

Opus 5.5 is good at explainer videos

https://launchvideo.io
125•iacguy•4h ago•87 comments

WaveDigger: Dig into wireless signals to discover their physical locations

https://github.com/christianrowlands/wavedigger
89•882542F3884314B•1d ago•14 comments

Tutoring company tells parents to save their money and 'use AI instead'

https://www.afr.com/policy/health-and-education/tutoring-company-tell-parents-to-save-their-money...
73•theanonymousone•9h ago•124 comments