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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."

Claude Code Unpacked : A visual guide

https://ccunpacked.dev/
563•autocracy101•7h ago•164 comments

CERN levels up with new superconducting karts

https://home.cern/news/news/engineering/cern-levels-new-superconducting-karts
176•fnands•4h ago•46 comments

Intuiting Pratt Parsing

https://louis.co.nz/2026/03/26/pratt-parsing.html
38•signa11•1d ago•10 comments

Show HN: CLI to order groceries via reverse-engineered REWE API (Haskell)

https://github.com/yannick-cw/korb
109•wazHFsRy•2d ago•38 comments

Claude Wrote a Full FreeBSD Remote Kernel RCE with Root Shell (CVE-2026-4747)

https://github.com/califio/publications/blob/main/MADBugs/CVE-2026-4747/write-up.md
80•ishqdehlvi•6h ago•26 comments

Wasmer (YC S19) Is Hiring – Rust and DevRel Positions

https://www.workatastartup.com/companies/wasmer
1•syrusakbary•16m ago

Chess in SQL

https://www.dbpro.app/blog/chess-in-pure-sql
85•upmostly•2d ago•19 comments

A dot a day keeps the clutter away

https://scottlawsonbc.com/post/dot-system
371•scottlawson•15h ago•101 comments

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https://prismml.com/
296•PrismML•15h ago•118 comments

TinyLoRA – Learning to Reason in 13 Parameters

https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.04118
190•sorenjan•5d ago•23 comments

I Quit. The Clankers Won

https://dbushell.com/2026/04/01/i-quit-the-clankers-won/
15•domysee•3h ago•10 comments

TruffleRuby

https://chrisseaton.com/truffleruby/
144•tosh•3d ago•16 comments

In Case of Emergency, Make Burrito Bison 3 (2017)

https://juicybeast.com/2017/08/03/in-case-of-emergency-make-burrito-bison-3/
14•amarcheschi•1d ago•5 comments

MiniStack (replacement for LocalStack)

https://ministack.org/
248•kerblang•15h ago•46 comments

The Claude Code Source Leak: fake tools, frustration regexes, undercover mode

https://alex000kim.com/posts/2026-03-31-claude-code-source-leak/
1227•alex000kim•23h ago•499 comments

Bring Back MiniDV with This Raspberry Pi FireWire Hat

https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2026/minidv-with-raspberry-pi-firewire-hat/
72•ingve•3d ago•12 comments

Why the US Navy won't blast the Iranians and 'open' Strait of Hormuz

https://responsiblestatecraft.org/iran-strait-of-hormuz/
367•KoftaBob•1d ago•997 comments

Slop is not necessarily the future

https://www.greptile.com/blog/ai-slopware-future
255•dakshgupta•21h ago•410 comments

OpenAI closes funding round at an $852B valuation

https://www.cnbc.com/2026/03/31/openai-funding-round-ipo.html
466•surprisetalk•16h ago•410 comments

Neanderthals survived on a knife's edge for 350k years

https://www.science.org/content/article/neanderthals-survived-knife-s-edge-350-000-years
163•Hooke•11h ago•127 comments

4D Doom

https://github.com/danieldugas/HYPERHELL
224•chronolitus•4d ago•53 comments

Open source CAD in the browser (Solvespace)

https://solvespace.com/webver.pl
342•phkahler•23h ago•104 comments

Digitizing photos from the 1998 Game Boy Camera

https://swiftrocks.com/digitizing-photos-from-the-1998-game-boy-camera
56•rockbruno•3d ago•10 comments

6o6 v1.1: Faster 6502-on-6502 virtualization for a C64/Apple II Apple-1 emulator

http://oldvcr.blogspot.com/2026/03/6o6-v11-faster-6502-on-6502.html
12•classichasclass•3d ago•0 comments

Axios compromised on NPM – Malicious versions drop remote access trojan

https://www.stepsecurity.io/blog/axios-compromised-on-npm-malicious-versions-drop-remote-access-t...
1859•mtud•1d ago•747 comments

Teenage Engineering's PO-32 acoustic modem and synth implementation

https://github.com/ericlewis/libpo32
127•ericlewis•4d ago•26 comments

Ordinary Lab Gloves May Have Skewed Microplastic Data

https://nautil.us/ordinary-lab-gloves-may-have-skewed-microplastic-data-1279386
111•WaitWaitWha•14h ago•43 comments

Analyzing Geekbench 6 under Intel's BOT

https://www.geekbench.com/blog/2026/03/analyzing-geekbench-6-under-intels-bot/
35•hajile•8h ago•13 comments

Show HN: Postgres extension for BM25 relevance-ranked full-text search

https://github.com/timescale/pg_textsearch
165•tjgreen•19h ago•47 comments

Remembering Magnetic Memories and the Apollo AGC

https://2earth.github.io/website/20260304.html
10•2earth•4h ago•2 comments