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Building my npx business card

https://ashley.dev/posts/turning-feedback-into-features/
8•edent•7mo 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://www.dbpro.app/blog/sqlite-json-virtual-columns-indexing
135•upmostly•3h ago•50 comments

4 billion if statements (2023)

https://andreasjhkarlsson.github.io//jekyll/update/2023/12/27/4-billion-if-statements.html
349•damethos•6d ago•110 comments

Fedora: Open-source repository for long-term digital preservation

https://fedorarepository.org/
53•cernocky•3h ago•29 comments

From text to token: How tokenization pipelines work

https://www.paradedb.com/blog/when-tokenization-becomes-token
72•philippemnoel•1d ago•8 comments

America's Betting Craze Has Spread to Its News Networks

https://www.newyorker.com/news/the-lede/americas-betting-craze-has-spread-to-its-news-networks
7•FinnLobsien•12m ago•2 comments

The tiniest yet real telescope I've built

https://lucassifoni.info/blog/miniscope-tiny-telescope/
199•chantepierre•9h ago•48 comments

Microservices Should Form a Polytree

https://bytesauna.com/post/microservices
18•mapehe•4d ago•9 comments

GPT-5.2

https://openai.com/index/introducing-gpt-5-2/
1114•atgctg•22h ago•982 comments

Show HN: Tripwire: A new anti evil maid defense

https://github.com/fr33-sh/Tripwire
46•DoctorFreeman•1d ago•27 comments

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https://www.phoronix.com/news/Framework-50p-DDR5-Memory
24•mikece•57m ago•12 comments

Koralm Railway

https://infrastruktur.oebb.at/en/projects-for-austria/railway-lines/southern-line-vienna-villach/...
267•fzeindl•6h ago•150 comments

BpfJailer: eBPF Mandatory Access Control [pdf]

https://lpc.events/event/19/contributions/2159/attachments/1833/3929/BpfJailer%20LPC%202025.pdf
24•voxadam•2h ago•3 comments

Nokia N900 Necromancy

https://yaky.dev/2025-12-11-nokia-n900-necromancy/
417•yaky•16h ago•163 comments

Google de-indexed Bear Blog and I don't know why

https://journal.james-zhan.com/google-de-indexed-my-entire-bear-blog-and-i-dont-know-why/
315•nafnlj•15h ago•130 comments

Guarding My Git Forge Against AI Scrapers

https://vulpinecitrus.info/blog/guarding-git-forge-ai-scrapers/
106•todsacerdoti•9h ago•69 comments

Berlin Approves New Expansion of Police Surveillance Powers

https://reclaimthenet.org/berlin-approves-new-expansion-of-police-surveillance-powers
46•robtherobber•1h ago•18 comments

The Tor Project is switching to Rust

https://itsfoss.com/news/tor-rust-rewrite-progress/
226•giuliomagnifico•4h ago•148 comments

Octo: A Chip8 IDE

https://github.com/JohnEarnest/Octo
49•tosh•6d ago•5 comments

Epic celebrates "the end of the Apple Tax" after court win in iOS payments case

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/12/epic-celebrates-the-end-of-the-apple-tax-after-appeal...
26•nobody9999•51m ago•11 comments

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https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/2025/12/05/karl-bushby-walk-around-world/
190•wallflower•5d ago•155 comments

CRISPR fungus: Protein-packed, sustainable, and tastes like meat

https://www.isaaa.org/kc/cropbiotechupdate/article/default.asp?ID=21607
247•rguiscard•15h ago•177 comments

Training LLMs for Honesty via Confessions

https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.08093
30•arabello•6h ago•21 comments

Rivian Unveils Custom Silicon, R2 Lidar Roadmap, and Universal Hands Free

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358•doctoboggan•22h ago•504 comments

The highest quality codebase

https://gricha.dev/blog/the-highest-quality-codebase
603•Gricha•3d ago•371 comments

Denial of service and source code exposure in React Server Components

https://react.dev/blog/2025/12/11/denial-of-service-and-source-code-exposure-in-react-server-comp...
322•sangeeth96•20h ago•200 comments

Show HN: Autofix Bot – Hybrid static analysis and AI code review agent

21•sanketsaurav•19h ago•7 comments

Programmers and software developers lost the plot on naming their tools

https://larr.net/p/namings.html
371•todsacerdoti•22h ago•481 comments

An SVG is all you need

https://jon.recoil.org/blog/2025/12/an-svg-is-all-you-need.html
307•sadiq•21h ago•127 comments

Senator endorses discredited book that claims chemical treats autism, cancer

https://www.propublica.org/article/ron-johnson-wisconsin-chlorine-dioxide-pierre-kory-endorsement
8•duxup•18m ago•0 comments

What folk can do

https://folk.computer/guides/what-folk-can-do
33•luu•4d ago•15 comments