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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."

Tell HN: Anthropic no longer allowing Claude Code subscriptions to use OpenClaw

640•firloop•10h ago•531 comments

Artemis II crew take “spectacular” image of Earth

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/ce8jzr423p9o
739•andsoitis•13h ago•258 comments

Emotion concepts and their function in a large language model

https://www.anthropic.com/research/emotion-concepts-function
42•dnw•2h ago•28 comments

iNaturalist

https://www.inaturalist.org/
416•bookofjoe•15h ago•107 comments

Delve removed from Y Combinator

https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/delve
277•carabiner•7h ago•168 comments

OpenClaw privilege escalation vulnerability

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-33579
360•kykeonaut•16h ago•187 comments

Herbie: Automatically improve imprecise floating point formulas

https://herbie.uwplse.org/doc/latest/tutorial.html
113•summarity•3d ago•14 comments

Run Linux containers on Android, no root required

https://github.com/ExTV/Podroid
114•politelemon•10h ago•38 comments

What changes when you turn a Linux box into a router

https://patrickmccanna.net/7-configuration-changes-that-turn-a-multi-homed-host-into-a-switch-rou...
169•0o_MrPatrick_o0•3d ago•42 comments

Improving my focus by giving up my big monitor

https://ounapuu.ee/posts/2026/04/01/focus/
83•Fudgel•3d ago•102 comments

Post Mortem: axios NPM supply chain compromise

https://github.com/axios/axios/issues/10636
248•Kyro38•1d ago•115 comments

Gold overtakes U.S. Treasuries as the largest foreign reserve asset

https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/international/us/gold-overtakes-u-s-treasuries-as-the-w...
172•lxm•6h ago•108 comments

We replaced RAG with a virtual filesystem for our AI documentation assistant

https://www.mintlify.com/blog/how-we-built-a-virtual-filesystem-for-our-assistant
297•denssumesh•1d ago•118 comments

The Technocracy Movement of the 1930s

https://donotresearch.substack.com/p/welcome-to-the-technocracy
96•lazydogbrownfox•1d ago•82 comments

Show HN: Travel Hacking Toolkit – Points search and trip planning with AI

https://github.com/borski/travel-hacking-toolkit
69•borski•6h ago•30 comments

Go on Embedded Systems and WebAssembly

https://tinygo.org/
158•uticus•16h ago•20 comments

Remembering Magnetic Memories and the Apollo AGC

https://2earth.github.io/website/20260304.html
14•2earth•3d ago•3 comments

The house is a work of art: Frank Lloyd Wright

https://aeon.co/essays/frank-lloyd-wright-as-a-mirror-of-the-american-condition
83•midnightfish•10h ago•35 comments

How to make a sliding, self-locking, and predator-proof chicken coop door (2020)

https://www.backyardchickens.com/articles/how-to-make-a-sliding-self-locking-and-predator-proof-c...
103•uticus•14h ago•46 comments

Big-Endian Testing with QEMU

https://www.hanshq.net/big-endian-qemu.html
92•jandeboevrie•19h ago•99 comments

F-15E jet shot down over Iran

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/apr/03/us-fighter-jet-confirmed-shot-down-over-iran
480•tjwds•17h ago•1081 comments

Build your own Dial-up ISP with a Raspberry Pi

https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2026/build-your-own-dial-up-isp-with-a-raspberry-pi/
153•arjunbajaj•17h ago•29 comments

Scientists are working on "everything vaccines"

https://economist.com/science-and-technology/2026/04/01/scientists-are-working-on-everything-vacc...
20•andsoitis•3h ago•15 comments

Fake Fans

https://www.wordsfromeliza.com/p/fake-fans
108•performative•10h ago•20 comments

Why are we still using Markdown?

https://bgslabs.org/blog/why-are-we-using-markdown/
120•veqq•15h ago•182 comments

Claude Code Found a Linux Vulnerability Hidden for 23 Years

https://mtlynch.io/claude-code-found-linux-vulnerability/
35•eichin•9h ago•14 comments

Charge Robotics (YC S21) Is Hiring Software and Hardware Engineers

https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/charge-robotics
1•banks_h•11h ago

The FAA’s flight restriction for drones is an attempt to criminalize filming ICE

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/04/faas-temporary-flight-restriction-drones-blatant-attempt-cr...
382•detaro•9h ago•109 comments

Sequential Optimal Packing for PCB Placement

https://blog.autorouting.com/p/sequential-optimal-packing-for-pcb
5•seveibar•2d ago•1 comments

SSH certificates: the better SSH experience

https://jpmens.net/2026/04/03/ssh-certificates-the-better-ssh-experience/
241•jandeboevrie•23h ago•103 comments