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Building my npx business card

https://ashley.dev/posts/turning-feedback-into-features/
8•edent•11mo ago

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steele•10mo ago
Ooh, free real estate, let's colonize and gentrify package management
aabhay•10mo ago
Lmao, gentrify cracked me up
neilv•10mo ago
Do these npx business cards run arbitrary code on your computer?
cypherpunks01•10mo 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•10mo 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•10mo ago
Yeah, this seems like a very smart but inherently flawed idea.
cypherpunks01•10mo 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•10mo ago
May as well just release an executable tbh.
theamk•10mo 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•10mo 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•10mo 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."

Nothing Ever Happens: Polymarket bot that always buys No on non-sports markets

https://github.com/sterlingcrispin/nothing-ever-happens
172•m-hodges•2h ago•53 comments

The Future of Everything Is Lies, I Guess: Safety

https://aphyr.com/posts/417-the-future-of-everything-is-lies-i-guess-safety
71•aphyr•1h ago•24 comments

Building a CLI for All of Cloudflare

https://blog.cloudflare.com/cf-cli-local-explorer/
98•soheilpro•1h ago•27 comments

Servo is now available on crates.io

https://servo.org/blog/2026/04/13/servo-0.1.0-release/
284•ffin•5h ago•90 comments

Make Tmux Pretty and Usable (2024)

https://hamvocke.com/blog/a-guide-to-customizing-your-tmux-conf/
166•speckx•2h ago•124 comments

Tracking down a 25% Regression on LLVM RISC-V

https://blog.kaving.me/blog/tracking-down-a-25-regression-on-llvm-risc-v/
20•luu•21h ago•3 comments

MEMS Array Chip Can Project Video the Size of a Grain of Sand

https://spectrum.ieee.org/mems-photonics
32•bookofjoe•3h ago•7 comments

All elementary functions from a single binary operator

https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.21852
714•pizza•15h ago•209 comments

Initial mainline video capture and camera support for Rockchip RK3588

https://www.collabora.com/news-and-blog/news-and-events/mainline-video-capture-and-camera-support...
40•mfilion•4h ago•11 comments

Microsoft isn't removing Copilot from Windows 11, it's just renaming it

https://www.neowin.net/opinions/microsoft-isnt-removing-copilot-from-windows-11-its-just-renaming...
161•bundie•3h ago•114 comments

US appeals court declares 158-year-old home distilling ban unconstitutional

https://nypost.com/2026/04/11/us-news/us-appeals-court-declares-158-year-old-home-distilling-ban-...
200•t-3•4h ago•113 comments

Michigan 'digital age' bills pulled after privacy concerns raised

https://www.thecentersquare.com/michigan/article_7ca4e268-4a68-42fb-9042-f9d8604ebd7f.html
146•iamnothere•5h ago•75 comments

The Rational Conclusion of Doomerism Is Violence

https://www.campbellramble.ai/p/the-rational-conclusion
37•thedudeabides5•1h ago•44 comments

The economics of software teams: Why most engineering orgs are flying blind

https://www.viktorcessan.com/the-economics-of-software-teams/
350•kiyanwang•11h ago•202 comments

We May Be Living Through the Most Consequential Hundred Days in Cyber History

https://ringmast4r.substack.com/p/we-may-be-living-through-the-most
128•laurex•2h ago•49 comments

Taking on CUDA with ROCm: 'One Step After Another'

https://www.eetimes.com/taking-on-cuda-with-rocm-one-step-after-another/
237•mindcrime•19h ago•180 comments

Missouri town fires half its city council over data center deal

https://www.politico.com/news/2026/04/13/missouri-city-council-data-center-00867259
60•impish9208•1h ago•50 comments

DIY Soft Drinks

https://blinry.org/diy-soft-drinks/
627•_Microft•1d ago•183 comments

Bring Back Idiomatic Design (2023)

https://essays.johnloeber.com/p/4-bring-back-idiomatic-design
646•phil294•1d ago•356 comments

Android now stops you sharing your location in photos

https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2026/04/android-now-stops-you-sharing-your-location-in-photos/
260•edent•5h ago•229 comments

Show HN: boringBar – a taskbar-style dock replacement for macOS

https://boringbar.app/
465•a-ve•1d ago•264 comments

Most people can't juggle one ball

https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/jTGbKKGqs5EdyYoRc/most-people-can-t-juggle-one-ball
464•surprisetalk•4d ago•164 comments

Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (April 2026)

294•david927•1d ago•979 comments

I gave every train in New York an instrument

https://www.trainjazz.com/
363•joshuawolk•3d ago•70 comments

A perfectable programming language

https://alok.github.io/lean-pages/perfectable-lean/
191•yuppiemephisto•20h ago•101 comments

I ran Gemma 4 as a local model in Codex CLI

https://blog.danielvaughan.com/i-ran-gemma-4-as-a-local-model-in-codex-cli-7fda754dc0d4
197•dvaughan•20h ago•87 comments

We have a 99% email reputation, but Gmail disagrees

https://blogfontawesome.wpcomstaging.com/we-have-a-99-email-reputation-gmail-disagrees/
334•em-bee•1d ago•286 comments

Claude.ai down

https://status.claude.com/incidents/6jd2m42f8mld
110•rob•2h ago•104 comments

Tell HN: Docker pull fails in Spain due to football Cloudflare block

1076•littlecranky67•1d ago•393 comments

Show HN: I built a social media management tool in 3 weeks with Claude and Codex

https://github.com/brightbeanxyz/brightbean-studio
161•JanSchu•8h ago•109 comments