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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."

Revealing the details of how OpenAI agents hacked Hugging Face

https://swarmtraces.org/
193•specked-citrus•4h ago•118 comments

Ollaya – Ollama for open-source, Jev-style decision models

https://ollaya.dev/
331•Ardakilic•6h ago•97 comments

Show HN: Jev Plays Pokémon Red

https://jev-pokemon.vercel.app/
148•pancomplex•10h ago•67 comments

What even is an OS now?

https://sockpuppet.org/blog/2026/09/25/what-even-is-an-os-now/
72•fratellobigio•3h ago•95 comments

Plan mode is dead

https://www.aymannadeem.com/artificial/intelligence,/developer/tools/2026/09/24/plan-mode-is-dead...
67•jmvldz•21h ago•68 comments

Platform-independent SIMD in Go

https://go.dev/blog/simd-experiment
359•yurivish•13h ago•133 comments

Why didn't anybody tell me about Redis hash slots?

https://blog.verygoodsoftwarenotvirus.dev/posts/2026/09/23/why-didnt-anybody-tell-me-about-hash-s...
13•badrequest•2d ago•2 comments

Excel now supports multiple values in a single cell

https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/microsoft365insiderblog/put-multiple-values-in-one-cell-...
90•luispa•4h ago•64 comments

Git-bug: Distributed, offline-first bug tracker embedded in Git

https://github.com/git-bug/git-bug
304•alentred•13h ago•100 comments

Show HN: A game about fake news and memes

https://unspin.app/
6•azermite•1h ago•2 comments

Remembering Johannes Doerfert

https://blog.llvm.org/posts/2026-09-24-rememberingjohannesdoerfert/
51•sdko•1d ago•1 comments

Gravity seems holographic. What does that mean for reality?

https://www.quantamagazine.org/gravity-seems-holographic-what-does-that-mean-for-reality-20260925/
119•ibobev•9h ago•123 comments

U.S. appeals court upholds designation of Anthropic as supply chain risk

https://www.cnbc.com/2026/09/25/pentagon-anthropic-ai-risk-appeals-court.html
380•cramer4next•9h ago•692 comments

First Principles Thinking

https://sunilsadasivan.com/writing/first-principles-thinking/
213•sunils34•11h ago•97 comments

I wrote a ray tracer in Brainfuck

https://epestr.com/blog/writing-a-ray-tracer-in-brainfuck/
28•epestr•15h ago•9 comments

Show HN: Make math automatic with Mathy

https://gmays.com/making-math-automatic-with-mathy/
73•gmays•4d ago•19 comments

How video games inspire great UX (2019)

https://jenson.org/games/
96•andsoitis•5d ago•16 comments

How we learned to stop worrying and love campus surveillance

https://fnl.mit.edu/how-we-learned-to-stop-worrying-and-love-campus-surveillance/
101•cdrnsf•5h ago•71 comments

Show HN: Ekselio – Loveable for finance workflows (local first)

https://www.gptbeyond.com/try?home=1
6•kdautaj•4h ago•0 comments

Ink and Switch interactive homepage

https://www.inkandswitch.com/
230•iFreilicht•15h ago•25 comments

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5•andrearitossa•11h ago•0 comments

Alan Kay: Shannon gave us a way of dealing with noisy channels [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cjntrqhn8pk
120•behoove•6h ago•23 comments

An airport cooled by natural ventilation

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/sep/25/didnt-need-air-conditioning-airport-cooled-na...
47•Geekette•15h ago•20 comments

Microsoft abandons personal AI chatbot race with Copilot reboot

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-09-25/microsoft-abandons-personal-ai-chatbot-race-wi...
78•sbulaev•11h ago•67 comments

What happens when you analyze your favorite college football team like the CIA?

https://www.cultivatelabs.com/posts/what-happens-when-you-analyze-college-football-like-the-cia
36•adam•11h ago•22 comments

Lab on a Contact Lens Can Measure Stress Through Serotonin

https://spectrum.ieee.org/serotonin-stress-smart-contact-lens
5•marc__1•2h ago•0 comments

Amiga Screens: A Primer

https://www.datagubbe.se/amscr/
129•msephton•17h ago•38 comments

Ask HN: Who's still keeping a DOS machine up because the business depends on it?

82•mlaux•5h ago•68 comments

Bwbach, My Guardian Goblin

https://robertmay.photography/journal/bwbach-my-guardian-goblin
23•robotmay•3d ago•15 comments

Meta's Muse appears to use an OpenAI model labeled muse-special

https://mouse.dev/blog/muse-special/
111•Aeroi•7h ago•46 comments