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Building my npx business card

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

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steele•8mo ago
Ooh, free real estate, let's colonize and gentrify package management
aabhay•8mo ago
Lmao, gentrify cracked me up
neilv•8mo ago
Do these npx business cards run arbitrary code on your computer?
cypherpunks01•8mo 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•8mo 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•8mo ago
Yeah, this seems like a very smart but inherently flawed idea.
cypherpunks01•8mo 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•8mo ago
May as well just release an executable tbh.
theamk•8mo 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•8mo 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•8mo 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://newsroom.porsche.com/en/2026/company/porsche-deliveries-2025-41516.html
160•m463•2h ago•153 comments

Level S4 solar radiation event

https://www.swpc.noaa.gov/news/g4-severe-geomagnetic-storm-levels-reached-19-jan-2026
280•WorldPeas•7h ago•104 comments

Nova Launcher Added Facebook and Google Ads Tracking

https://lemdro.id/post/lemdro.id/35049920
76•celsoazevedo•2h ago•27 comments

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https://www.science.org/content/article/nearly-third-social-media-research-has-undisclosed-ties-i...
248•bikenaga•9h ago•103 comments

F-16 Falcon Strike, modern combat flight SIM for Atari XL/XE

https://webchrono.pl/F16FalconStrike/index.html
7•starkparker•23m ago•1 comments

Reticulum, a secure and anonymous mesh networking stack

https://github.com/markqvist/Reticulum
69•brogu•3h ago•11 comments

Nanolang: A tiny experimental language designed to be targeted by coding LLMs

https://github.com/jordanhubbard/nanolang
93•Scramblejams•6h ago•63 comments

What came first: the CNAME or the A record?

https://blog.cloudflare.com/cname-a-record-order-dns-standards/
306•linolevan•10h ago•109 comments

Scaling long-running autonomous coding

https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jan/19/scaling-long-running-autonomous-coding/
35•srameshc•3h ago•8 comments

Legal Structures for Latin American Startups (2021)

https://latamlist.com/legal-structures-for-latin-american-startups/
12•walterbell•2h ago•1 comments

Opening the AWS European Sovereign Cloud

https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/opening-the-aws-european-sovereign-cloud/
15•notmine1337•3d ago•12 comments

The coming industrialisation of exploit generation with LLMs

https://sean.heelan.io/2026/01/18/on-the-coming-industrialisation-of-exploit-generation-with-llms/
87•long•19h ago•59 comments

Selling SaaS in Japan

https://embedworkflow.com/blog/what-saas-founders-should-know-about-entering-the-japanese-market/
25•ewf•4d ago•12 comments

The assistant axis: situating and stabilizing the character of LLMs

https://www.anthropic.com/research/assistant-axis
61•mfiguiere•6h ago•11 comments

Use Social Media Mindfully

https://danielleheberling.xyz/blog/mindful-social-media/
41•mooreds•6h ago•23 comments

From Nevada to Kansas by Glider

https://www.weglide.org/flight/978820
116•sammelaugust•4d ago•35 comments

How we made Python's packaging library 3x faster

https://iscinumpy.dev/post/packaging-faster/
43•rbanffy•3d ago•6 comments

British redcoat's lost memoir reveals realities of life as a disabled veteran

https://phys.org/news/2026-01-british-redcoat-lost-memoir-reveals.html
51•wglb•4d ago•41 comments

Notes on Apple's Nano Texture (2025)

https://jon.bo/posts/nano-texture/
153•dsr12•9h ago•84 comments

Show HN: An interactive physics simulator with 1000’s of balls, in your terminal

https://github.com/minimaxir/ballin
37•minimaxir•10h ago•8 comments

Conditions in the Intel 8087 floating-point chip's microcode

https://www.righto.com/2025/12/8087-microcode-conditions.html
92•diogotozzi•4d ago•31 comments

Sending Data over Offline Finding Networks

https://cc-sw.com/find-my-and-find-hub-network-research/
72•findmysanity•5d ago•8 comments

Go 1.26 Interactive Tour

https://antonz.org/go-1-26/
19•phren0logy•1h ago•0 comments

San Francisco coyote swims to Alcatraz

https://www.sfgate.com/local/article/san-francisco-coyote-alcatraz-21302218.php
160•kaycebasques•1d ago•49 comments

CSS Web Components for marketing sites (2024)

https://hawkticehurst.com/2024/11/css-web-components-for-marketing-sites/
104•zigzag312•12h ago•50 comments

Weight Transfer for RL Post-Training in under 2 seconds

https://research.perplexity.ai/articles/weight-transfer-for-rl-post-training-in-under-2-seconds
29•jxmorris12•7h ago•1 comments

Graphics In Flatland – 2D ray tracing [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WYTOykSqf2Y
67•evakhoury•3d ago•11 comments

Upgrading DrizzleORM logging with AsyncLocalStorage

https://numeric.substack.com/p/upgrading-drizzleorm-logging-with
24•bihla•5d ago•3 comments

Show HN: Pipenet – A Modern Alternative to Localtunnel

https://pipenet.dev/
87•punkpeye•11h ago•16 comments

Simple Sabotage Field Manual (1944) [pdf]

https://www.cia.gov/static/5c875f3ec660e092cf893f60b4a288df/SimpleSabotage.pdf
127•praptak•6h ago•52 comments