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Building my npx business card

https://ashley.dev/posts/turning-feedback-into-features/
8•edent•9mo ago

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steele•9mo ago
Ooh, free real estate, let's colonize and gentrify package management
aabhay•9mo ago
Lmao, gentrify cracked me up
neilv•9mo ago
Do these npx business cards run arbitrary code on your computer?
cypherpunks01•9mo 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•9mo 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•9mo ago
Yeah, this seems like a very smart but inherently flawed idea.
cypherpunks01•9mo 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•9mo ago
May as well just release an executable tbh.
theamk•9mo 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•9mo 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•9mo 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."

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188•scrlk•2h ago•121 comments

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https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2420092122
92•peyton•2h ago•28 comments

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https://16bpp.net/blog/post/faster-asin-was-hiding-in-plain-sight/
69•def-pri-pub•1h ago•17 comments

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https://github.com/microsoft/BitNet
157•redm•3h ago•84 comments

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https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2026/03/10/social-security-data-breach-doge-2/
331•raldi•1h ago•124 comments

PeppyOS: A simpler alternative to ROS 2 (now with containers support)

https://peppy.bot/
45•Ekami•3d ago•15 comments

AI Agent Hacks McKinsey

https://codewall.ai/blog/how-we-hacked-mckinseys-ai-platform
120•mycroft_4221•5h ago•39 comments

Building a TB-303 from Scratch

https://loopmaster.xyz/tutorials/tb303-from-scratch
159•stagas•3d ago•61 comments

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https://ziglang.org/devlog/2026/#2026-03-10
346•Retro_Dev•14h ago•181 comments

Ask HN: Is Claude Down Again?

27•coderbants•1h ago•23 comments

Cloudflare crawl endpoint

https://developers.cloudflare.com/changelog/post/2026-03-10-br-crawl-endpoint/
404•jeffpalmer•17h ago•154 comments

Create value for others and don’t worry about the returns

https://geohot.github.io//blog/jekyll/update/2026/03/11/running-69-agents.html
558•ppew•9h ago•387 comments

Yann LeCun raises $1B to build AI that understands the physical world

https://www.wired.com/story/yann-lecun-raises-dollar1-billion-to-build-ai-that-understands-the-ph...
551•helloplanets•1d ago•451 comments

Tony Hoare has died

https://blog.computationalcomplexity.org/2026/03/tony-hoare-1934-2026.html
1920•speckx•1d ago•252 comments

U+237C ⍼ Is Azimuth

https://ionathan.ch/2026/02/16/angzarr.html
366•cokernel_hacker•17h ago•64 comments

TADA: Fast, Reliable Speech Generation Through Text-Acoustic Synchronization

https://www.hume.ai/blog/opensource-tada
81•smusamashah•10h ago•21 comments

Julia Snail – An Emacs Development Environment for Julia Like Clojure's Cider

https://github.com/gcv/julia-snail
126•TheWiggles•3d ago•16 comments

Agents that run while I sleep

https://www.claudecodecamp.com/p/i-m-building-agents-that-run-while-i-sleep
384•aray07•20h ago•434 comments

SSH Secret Menu

https://twitter.com/rebane2001/status/2031037389347406054
292•piccirello•1d ago•132 comments

RISC-V Is Sloooow

https://marcin.juszkiewicz.com.pl/2026/03/10/risc-v-is-sloooow/
288•todsacerdoti•19h ago•305 comments

Let yourself fall down more

https://ntietz.com/blog/let-yourself-fall-down-more/
12•Brajeshwar•40m ago•9 comments

Hurricane Electric (HE.NET) IPv6 tunnelbroker page offline due to expired domain

https://tunnelbroker.net
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When the chain becomes the product: Seven years inside a token-funded venture

https://markmhendrickson.com/posts/when-the-chain-becomes-the-product/
40•mhendric•3d ago•17 comments

Debian decides not to decide on AI-generated contributions

https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/1061544/125f911834966dd0/
360•jwilk•1d ago•271 comments

Why the Global Elite Gave Up on Spelling and Grammar

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6•matthieu_bl•22m ago•1 comments

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248•bombastic311•1d ago•118 comments

Roblox is minting teen millionaires

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-03-06/roblox-s-teen-millionaires-are-disrupting-the-...
201•petethomas•3d ago•240 comments

Where did you think the training data was coming from?

https://idiallo.com/blog/where-did-the-training-data-come-from-meta-ai-rayban-glasses
33•speckx•2h ago•5 comments

Launch HN: RunAnywhere (YC W26) – Faster AI Inference on Apple Silicon

https://github.com/RunanywhereAI/rcli
231•sanchitmonga22•22h ago•143 comments

Writing my own text editor, and daily-driving it

https://blog.jsbarretto.com/post/text-editor
162•todsacerdoti•13h ago•77 comments