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Building my npx business card

https://ashley.dev/posts/turning-feedback-into-features/
8•edent•10mo 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."

Founder of GitLab battles cancer by founding companies

https://sytse.com/cancer/
1111•bob_theslob646•17h ago•214 comments

Technology: The (nearly) perfect USB cable tester does exist

https://blog.literarily-starved.com/2026/02/technology-the-nearly-perfect-usb-cable-tester-does-e...
88•birdculture•3d ago•27 comments

AI overly affirms users asking for personal advice

https://news.stanford.edu/stories/2026/03/ai-advice-sycophantic-models-research
662•oldfrenchfries•21h ago•516 comments

CSS is DOOMed

https://nielsleenheer.com/articles/2026/css-is-doomed-rendering-doom-in-3d-with-css/
366•msephton•14h ago•83 comments

Siclair Microvision (1977)

https://r-type.org/articles/art-452.htm
12•joebig•2d ago•3 comments

I turned my Kindle into my own personal newspaper

https://manualdousuario.net/en/how-to-kindle-personal-newspaper/
41•rpgbr•1d ago•19 comments

Alzheimer's disease mortality among taxi and ambulance drivers (2024)

https://www.bmj.com/content/387/bmj-2024-082194
139•bookofjoe•10h ago•90 comments

Show HN: Public transit systems as data – lines, stations, railcars, and history

https://publictransit.systems
13•qwertykb•3h ago•6 comments

Lat.md: Agent Lattice: a knowledge graph for your codebase, written in Markdown

https://github.com/1st1/lat.md
16•doppp•2h ago•3 comments

OpenBSD on Motorola 88000 Processors

http://miod.online.fr/software/openbsd/stories/m88k1.html
102•rbanffy•1d ago•11 comments

A Verilog to Factorio Compiler and Simulator (Working RISC-V CPU)

https://github.com/ben-j-c/verilog2factorio
82•signa11•3d ago•10 comments

Further human + AI + proof assistant work on Knuth's "Claude Cycles" problem

https://twitter.com/BoWang87/status/2037648937453232504
220•mean_mistreater•16h ago•144 comments

I decompiled the White House's new app

https://thereallo.dev/blog/decompiling-the-white-house-app
536•amarcheschi•19h ago•195 comments

What if AI doesn't need more RAM but better math?

https://adlrocha.substack.com/p/adlrocha-what-if-ai-doesnt-need-more
45•adlrocha•3h ago•12 comments

Nonfiction Publishing, Under Threat, Is More Important

https://newrepublic.com/article/207659/non-fiction-publishing-threat-important-ever
14•Hooke•3d ago•4 comments

The ANSI art "telecomics" of the 1992 election

https://breakintochat.com/blog/2026/03/25/don-lokke-and-mack-the-mouse/
50•Kirkman14•2d ago•1 comments

I Built an Open-World Engine for the N64 [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lXxmIw9axWw
405•msephton•23h ago•68 comments

A laser-based process that enables adhesive-free paper packaging

https://www.fraunhofer.de/en/press/research-news/2026/march-2026/sealing-paper-packaging-without-...
84•gnabgib•12h ago•36 comments

Android’s new sideload settings will carry over to new devices

https://www.androidauthority.com/android-sideload-carry-over-3652845/
100•croemer•15h ago•142 comments

OpenCiv1 – open-source rewrite of Civ1

https://github.com/rajko-horvat/OpenCiv1
155•caminanteblanco•17h ago•44 comments

The Loneliness of a Room of One's Own

https://newrepublic.com/article/206731/loneliness-room-one-virginia-woolf-hold-up
24•prismatic•3d ago•2 comments

Linux is an interpreter

https://astrid.tech/2026/03/28/0/linux-is-an-interpreter/
210•frizlab•18h ago•52 comments

The Last Contract: William T. Vollmann's Battle to Publish an Epic (2025)

https://www.metropolitanreview.org/p/the-last-contract
29•benbreen•3d ago•6 comments

Spanish legislation as a Git repo

https://github.com/EnriqueLop/legalize-es
750•enriquelop•23h ago•223 comments

The Hackers Who Tracked My Sleep Cycle

https://glama.ai/blog/2026-03-26-the-hackers-who-tracked-my-sleep-cycle
13•statements•2d ago•3 comments

The Many Roots of Our Suffering: Reflections on Robert Trivers (1943–2026)

https://quillette.com/2026/03/25/the-many-roots-of-our-suffering-reflections-on-robert-trivers-19...
19•Petiver•2d ago•6 comments

Cat Itecture: Better Cat Window Boxes (2023)

https://gwern.net/catitecture
56•gggscript•1d ago•10 comments

InpharmD (YC W21) Is Hiring – Senior Ruby on Rails Developer

https://inpharmd.com/jobs/senior-ruby-on-rails-engineer
1•tulasichintha•13h ago

1929: Inside the Greatest Crash in Wall Street History

https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2026/03/26/tick-tick-boom-1929-andrew-ross-sorkin/
74•mitchbob•4d ago•63 comments

South Korea Mandates Solar Panels for Public Parking Lots

https://www.reutersconnect.com/item/south-korea-mandates-solar-panels-for-public-parking-lots/dGF...
309•_____k•12h ago•175 comments