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Building my npx business card

https://ashley.dev/posts/turning-feedback-into-features/
8•edent•12mo ago

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steele•12mo ago
Ooh, free real estate, let's colonize and gentrify package management
aabhay•12mo ago
Lmao, gentrify cracked me up
neilv•12mo ago
Do these npx business cards run arbitrary code on your computer?
cypherpunks01•12mo 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•12mo 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•12mo ago
Yeah, this seems like a very smart but inherently flawed idea.
cypherpunks01•12mo 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•12mo ago
May as well just release an executable tbh.
theamk•12mo 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•12mo 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•12mo 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."

Mullvad exit IPs are surprisingly identifying

https://tmctmt.com/posts/mullvad-exit-ips-as-a-fingerprinting-vector/
81•RGBCube•1h ago•19 comments

Removing the modem and GPS from my 2024 RAV4 hybrid

https://arkadiyt.com/2026/05/13/removing-the-modem-and-gps-from-my-rav4/
677•arkadiyt•10h ago•395 comments

A few words on DS4

https://antirez.com/news/165
196•caust1c•5h ago•61 comments

First public macOS kernel memory corruption exploit on Apple M5

https://blog.calif.io/p/first-public-kernel-memory-corruption
292•quadrige•9h ago•54 comments

Codex is now in the ChatGPT mobile app

https://openai.com/index/work-with-codex-from-anywhere/
220•mikeevans•7h ago•110 comments

RTX 5090 and M4 MacBook Air: Can It Game?

https://scottjg.com/posts/2026-05-05-egpu-mac-gaming/
506•allenleee•11h ago•139 comments

New Nginx Exploit

https://github.com/DepthFirstDisclosures/Nginx-Rift
312•hetsaraiya•10h ago•67 comments

Gyroflow: Video stabilization using gyroscope data

https://github.com/gyroflow/gyroflow
8•nateb2022•2d ago•0 comments

Tesla Wall Connector bootloader bypasses the firmware downgrade ratchet

https://www.synacktiv.com/en/publications/exploiting-the-tesla-wall-connector-from-its-charge-por...
72•p_stuart82•7h ago•28 comments

RISC-V Router

https://router.start9.com/
86•janandonly•7h ago•51 comments

UFerris a Versatile Learner Board for Rust Embedded Beginners

https://www.theembeddedrustacean.com/uferris
13•stmw•2h ago•1 comments

More than sixty percent of the United States is experiencing drought conditions

https://news.vt.edu/articles/2026/05/drought-united-states-la-nina-expert.html
125•littlexsparkee•5h ago•56 comments

OVMS: Open source electric vehicle remote monitoring, diagnosis and control

https://www.openvehicles.com/home
47•BHSPitMonkey•5h ago•5 comments

Porting 3D Movie Maker to Linux

https://benstoneonline.com/posts/porting-3d-movie-maker-to-linux/
89•speckx•3d ago•14 comments

New arXiv policy: 1-year ban for hallucinated references

https://twitter.com/tdietterich/status/2055000956144935055
355•gjuggler•7h ago•113 comments

HDD Firmware Hacking

https://icode4.coffee/?p=1465
145•jsploit•11h ago•17 comments

What's in a GGUF, besides the weights – and what's still missing?

https://nobodywho.ooo/posts/whats-in-a-gguf/
111•bashbjorn•10h ago•42 comments

Rewrite Bun in Rust has been merged

https://github.com/oven-sh/bun/pull/30412
528•Chaoses•19h ago•616 comments

Infracost (YC W21) Is Hiring Sr Dev Advocate to make agents cloud cost-aware

https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/infracost/jobs/NzwUQ7c-senior-developer-advocate
1•akh•6h ago

Ontario auditors find doctors' AI note takers routinely blow basic facts

https://www.theregister.com/ai-ml/2026/05/14/ontario-auditors-find-doctors-ai-note-takers-routine...
147•sohkamyung•5h ago•67 comments

Computer Hobby Movement in Canada

https://museum.eecs.yorku.ca/exhibits/show/hobby_canada/hobby_canada
191•rbanffy•14h ago•74 comments

Show HN: GridTravel- A community based travel app for users to share routes

https://www.gridtravel.app
28•knuaym9•5h ago•14 comments

Show HN: Race to the Bottom

https://race-to-the-bottom.onrender.com
39•maxwellito•13h ago•20 comments

The Power of a Free Popsicle (2018)

https://www.gsb.stanford.edu/insights/power-free-popsicle
78•NaOH•9h ago•34 comments

Velonus – Open-source AppSec scanner that deduplicates SAST noise

https://github.com/AliAmmar15/Velonus
7•AliAmmar15•2h ago•1 comments

A message from President Kornbluth about funding and the talent pipeline

https://president.mit.edu/writing-speeches/video-transcript-message-president-kornbluth-about-fun...
585•dmayo•12h ago•651 comments

LLM Policy for Rust Compiler

https://github.com/rust-lang/rust-forge/pull/1040
17•liyanage•4h ago•4 comments

Fossils show millipede and centipede ancestors evolved legs underwater

https://phys.org/news/2026-05-ancient-sea-fossils-millipede-centipede.html
78•gmays•3d ago•2 comments

Amazonbot is finally respecting robots.txt

https://xeiaso.net/notes/2026/amazonbot-respecting-robots-txt/
146•xena•7h ago•33 comments

DIY open-source ultrasound hardware on the rp2040/rp2350

http://un0rick.cc/pic0rick
70•kelu124•9h ago•6 comments