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Building my npx business card

https://ashley.dev/posts/turning-feedback-into-features/
8•edent•6mo ago

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steele•6mo ago
Ooh, free real estate, let's colonize and gentrify package management
aabhay•6mo ago
Lmao, gentrify cracked me up
neilv•6mo ago
Do these npx business cards run arbitrary code on your computer?
cypherpunks01•6mo 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•6mo 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•6mo ago
Yeah, this seems like a very smart but inherently flawed idea.
cypherpunks01•6mo 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•6mo ago
May as well just release an executable tbh.
theamk•6mo 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•6mo 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•6mo 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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https://dosaygo-studio.github.io/hn-front-page-2035/news
3028•keepamovin•23h ago•862 comments

Map of All the Buildings in the World

https://gizmodo.com/literally-a-map-showing-all-the-buildings-in-the-world-2000694696
62•dr_dshiv•5d ago•23 comments

Revisiting "Let's Build a Compiler"

https://eli.thegreenplace.net/2025/revisiting-lets-build-a-compiler/
165•cui•8h ago•24 comments

Rust in the kernel is no longer experimental

https://lwn.net/Articles/1049831/
742•rascul•11h ago•499 comments

PeerTube is recognized as a digital public good by Digital Public Goods Alliance

https://www.digitalpublicgoods.net/r/peertube
594•fsflover•21h ago•120 comments

Putting email in its place with Emacs and Mu4e

https://eamonnsullivan.co.uk/posts-output/email-setup/2025-12-3-putting-email-in-its-place/
76•eamonnsullivan•6d ago•23 comments

Amazon EC2 M9g Instances

https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/instance-types/m9g/
92•AlexClickHouse•4d ago•29 comments

When a video codec wins an Emmy

https://blog.mozilla.org/en/mozilla/av1-video-codec-wins-emmy/
205•todsacerdoti•4d ago•42 comments

Bruno Simon – 3D Portfolio

https://bruno-simon.com/
666•razzmataks•22h ago•153 comments

Mistral releases Devstral2 and Mistral Vibe CLI

https://mistral.ai/news/devstral-2-vibe-cli
670•pember•1d ago•315 comments

Cloth Simulation

https://cloth.mikail-khan.com/
84•adamch•1w ago•15 comments

New benchmark shows top LLMs struggle in real mental health care

https://swordhealth.com/newsroom/sword-introduces-mindeval
5•RicardoRei•1h ago•1 comments

If you're going to vibe code, why not do it in C?

https://stephenramsay.net/posts/vibe-coding.html
553•sramsay•21h ago•506 comments

Tech for Small vs. Big Firms

https://lexifina.com/blog/technology-for-firms-big-and-small
9•alansaber•4d ago•5 comments

Running Linux on a RiscPC – why is it so hard?

https://thejpster.org.uk/blog/blog-2025-12-02/
31•zdw•1w ago•7 comments

Django: what’s new in 6.0

https://adamj.eu/tech/2025/12/03/django-whats-new-6.0/
326•rbanffy•18h ago•103 comments

The New Kindle Scribes Are Great, but Not Great Enough

https://www.wired.com/review/kindle-scribe-colorsoft-2025/
7•thm•13m ago•0 comments

Pebble Index 01 – External memory for your brain

https://repebble.com/blog/meet-pebble-index-01-external-memory-for-your-brain
529•freshrap6•23h ago•515 comments

10 Years of Let's Encrypt

https://letsencrypt.org/2025/12/09/10-years
724•SGran•19h ago•299 comments

Are the Three Musketeers allergic to muskets? (2014)

https://www.ox.ac.uk/news/arts-blog/are-three-musketeers-allergic-muskets
48•rolph•8h ago•36 comments

Donating the Model Context Protocol and establishing the Agentic AI Foundation

https://www.anthropic.com/news/donating-the-model-context-protocol-and-establishing-of-the-agenti...
262•meetpateltech•21h ago•114 comments

Italy's longest-serving barista reflects on six decades behind the counter

https://www.reuters.com/lifestyle/culture-current/anna-possi-six-decades-behind-counter-italys-ba...
234•NaOH•5d ago•134 comments

Passing the Torch: James Gross on the Next Chapter of Micromobility Industries

https://micromobility.io/news/how-charging-is-reshaping-the-business-of-shared-scooters-and-e-bikes
16•prabinjoel•6d ago•1 comments

So you want to speak at software conferences?

https://dylanbeattie.net/2025/12/08/so-you-want-to-speak-at-software-conferences.html
209•speckx•20h ago•104 comments

Writing our own Cheat Engine in Rust

https://lonami.dev/blog/woce-1/
97•hu3•5d ago•17 comments

A supersonic engine core makes the perfect power turbine

https://boomsupersonic.com/flyby/ai-needs-more-power-than-the-grid-can-deliver-supersonic-tech-ca...
141•simonebrunozzi•23h ago•227 comments

Cloudflare error page generator

https://github.com/donlon/cloudflare-error-page
75•sawirricardo•12h ago•14 comments

I Tried the New Android XR Smart Glasses from Google and XReal

https://www.pcmag.com/news/i-tried-the-new-android-xr-smart-glasses-from-google-they-impressed-me
6•fcpguru•1h ago•0 comments

The stack circuitry of the Intel 8087 floating point chip, reverse-engineered

https://www.righto.com/2025/12/8087-stack-circuitry.html
125•elpocko•20h ago•55 comments

Linux CVEs, more than you ever wanted to know

http://www.kroah.com/log/blog/2025/12/08/linux-cves-more-than-you-ever-wanted-to-know/
79•voxadam•16h ago•39 comments