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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 Don't Understand Quantum Physics (2018)

https://www.southampton.ac.uk/~doug/quantum_physics/index.html
94•rramadass•2h ago•56 comments

OBS Studio 33

https://github.com/obsproject/obs-studio/releases/tag/33.0.0
200•pentagrama•7h ago•64 comments

Kimi K3.1 Pro and K3.1 Pro Highspeed

https://www.kimi.ai/blog/kimi-k3-1-pro
941•Jowsey•19h ago•563 comments

Physicists trap a single antimatter particle for a month

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/physicists-trap-a-single-antimatter-particle-for-a-month/
87•mooreds•2d ago•31 comments

Around a dozen banking apps began specifically permitting GrapheneOS

https://grapheneos.social/@GrapheneOS/117492375462459244
184•privacyishuman•10h ago•43 comments

Today, we hacked what we'd set out to hack: the iPhone

https://blog.calif.io/p/iphone
922•pavel_lishin•19h ago•593 comments

Twelve years of distributed SQLite

https://philipotoole.com/twelve-years-of-distributed-sqlite/
231•otoolep•10h ago•35 comments

Node2Shell evolves to HTTP2Shell, blast radius affects many HTTP libs and apps

https://www.aikido.dev/blog/python-packages-vulnerable-node2shell-brotli-cve-2026-111497
36•theanonymousone•4h ago•18 comments

How close can pure functional programming get to C?

https://rtfeldman.com/fp-vs-c
142•stmonty•8h ago•23 comments

Apple Music 404 Not Found

https://music.apple.com/this-url-doesnt-exist
799•frizlab•23h ago•240 comments

AI-Assisted Paper on Z-Library Cites a TorrentFreak Article That Doesn't Exist

https://torrentfreak.com/ai-assisted-paper-on-z-library-cites-a-torrentfreak-article-that-doesnt-...
24•TangerineDream•49m ago•0 comments

How to run a city builder on 16 MHz

https://larstofus.com/2025/11/16/how-to-run-a-city-builder-on-12-5-mhz/
30•rex64•1d ago•10 comments

Local Wikipedia: Wikipedia, but only for things a half hour walk from you

https://edjefferson.com/localwiki/
1402•sohkamyung•1d ago•237 comments

Appreciating the beauty of all your body's scars and scratches

https://1000awesomethings.com/2026/10/08/576-appreciating-the-beauty-of-all-your-bodys-scars-and-...
4•surprisetalk•2d ago•1 comments

A practical guide to AI image generation, from diffusion to agents

https://danielball.com/notes/ai_image_generation.html
115•westsmith•3d ago•32 comments

Bringing uv and ty together

https://astral.sh/blog/uv-ty-integration
181•Ravencentric•3d ago•53 comments

Dessa: Conversation Model trained only on speech

https://block.xyz/dessa
407•dsr12•16h ago•149 comments

Apple Security Research Device

https://security.apple.com/research-device/
83•neom•9h ago•34 comments

Show HN: Autonomous root for Tcl Android TV via CVE-2022-22706

https://gitlab.com/c4psu13/mali-pagecache-root
3•t20n•1h ago•0 comments

Hacker reverses Samsung TV, finds on-board AI listening OpenAI account suspended

https://www.reddit.com/r/antiai/comments/1xdv3e5/hacker_reverse_engineers_his_samsung_tv_and_finds/
227•testing22321•6h ago•64 comments

The Chalk and the Airplane

https://unintendedconsequenc.es/chalk-and-the-airplane/
7•paulorlando•2d ago•0 comments

Canadians are running out of time to oppose Bill C-22

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/10/canadians-are-running-out-time-oppose-dangerous-c-22-survei...
430•hn_acker•1d ago•226 comments

CVE Tracker

https://cve.0xosprey.com/
179•Group_B•14h ago•69 comments

The Real Kevin Bacon

https://pudding.cool/2026/10/kevin-bacon/
324•xnx•3d ago•79 comments

C vs. C#: racing VLC's Gaussian blur

https://martinfinkel.com/blog/gaussian-blur-c-vs-csharp/
97•martz•3d ago•25 comments

The Best Monopoly Strategy, Tested on 300M Games [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S_2eVAaw1UM
30•zdw•3d ago•29 comments

The Quake Fan who built the map editor everybody uses

https://funcarena.com/articles/the-quake-fan-who-built-the-map-editor-everybody-uses
135•klaussilveira•2d ago•17 comments

How Block Blast harvests its players for ad money

https://ayoships.com/breakdowns/block-blast
59•motionlessveloc•9h ago•25 comments

Air Purifiers as White Noise Machines

https://www.jefftk.com/p/air-purifiers-as-white-noise-machines
141•luu•18h ago•132 comments

One Man's Pan Am 747 Replica [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vAFwHGGfPz4
43•Teever•14h ago•3 comments