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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."

Cloudflare acquires Astro

https://astro.build/blog/joining-cloudflare/
539•todotask2•6h ago•280 comments

Michelangelo's first painting, created when he was 12 or 13

https://www.openculture.com/2026/01/discover-michelangelos-first-painting.html
221•bookofjoe•6h ago•128 comments

6-Day and IP Address Certificates Are Generally Available

https://letsencrypt.org/2026/01/15/6day-and-ip-general-availability
231•jaas•4h ago•142 comments

Just the Browser

https://justthebrowser.com/
399•cl3misch•8h ago•215 comments

Cursor's latest "browser experiment" implied success without evidence

https://embedding-shapes.github.io/cursor-implied-success-without-evidence/
182•embedding-shape•5h ago•83 comments

Lock-Picking Robot

https://github.com/etinaude/Lock-Picking-Robot
187•p44v9n•4d ago•83 comments

STFU

https://github.com/Pankajtanwarbanna/stfu
398•tanelpoder•2h ago•289 comments

Launch HN: Indy (YC S21) – A support app designed for ADHD brains

https://www.shimmer.care/indy-redirect
46•christalwang•4h ago•52 comments

Elasticsearch Was Never a Database

https://www.paradedb.com/blog/elasticsearch-was-never-a-database
46•jamesgresql•4d ago•41 comments

Read_once(), Write_once(), but Not for Rust

https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/1053142/8ec93e58d5d3cc06/
88•todsacerdoti•5h ago•25 comments

Dev-owned testing: Why it fails in practice and succeeds in theory

https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3780063.3780066
73•rbanffy•6h ago•91 comments

Feature Selection: A Primer

https://ikromshi.com/2025/12/30/feature-selection-primer.html
10•ikromshi•4d ago•0 comments

Zep AI (Agent Context Engineering, YC W24) Is Hiring Forward Deployed Engineers

https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/zep-ai/jobs/
1•roseway4•3h ago

Why DuckDB is my first choice for data processing

https://www.robinlinacre.com/recommend_duckdb/
127•tosh•9h ago•52 comments

The Alignment Game

https://dmvaldman.github.io/alignment-game/
15•dmvaldman•20h ago•2 comments

Show HN: 1Code – Open-source Cursor-like UI for Claude Code

https://github.com/21st-dev/1code
29•Bunas•1d ago•16 comments

OpenBSD-current now runs as guest under Apple Hypervisor

https://www.undeadly.org/cgi?action=article;sid=20260115203619
385•gpi•17h ago•51 comments

Emoji Use in the Electronic Health Record is Increasing

https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamanetworkopen/fullarticle/2843883
17•giuliomagnifico•2h ago•5 comments

List of individual trees

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_individual_trees
326•wilson090•20h ago•105 comments

Zorgdomein Integration: A Guide to Secure .NET and Azure Architecture

https://plakhlani.in/healthcare/bidirectional-patient-data-exchange-with-zorgdomein/
14•prashantl•4d ago•8 comments

Training my smartwatch to track intelligence

https://dmvaldman.github.io/rooklift/
115•dmvaldman•1d ago•52 comments

psc: The ps utility, with an eBPF twist and container context

https://github.com/loresuso/psc
60•tanelpoder•7h ago•25 comments

Interactive eBPF

https://ebpf.party/
187•samuel246•12h ago•8 comments

How to wrangle non-deterministic AI outputs into conventional software? (2025)

https://www.domainlanguage.com/articles/ai-components-deterministic-system/
13•druther•13h ago•4 comments

Reading across books with Claude Code

https://pieterma.es/syntopic-reading-claude/
5•gmays•1h ago•0 comments

Dell UltraSharp 52 Thunderbolt Hub Monitor

https://www.dell.com/en-us/shop/dell-ultrasharp-52-thunderbolt-hub-monitor-u5226kw/apd/210-bthw/m...
86•cebert•3h ago•106 comments

Our approach to advertising and expanding access to ChatGPT

https://openai.com/index/our-approach-to-advertising-and-expanding-access/
102•rvz•2h ago•76 comments

Earth from Space: The Fate of a Giant

https://www.esa.int/ESA_Multimedia/Images/2026/01/Earth_from_Space_The_fate_of_a_giant
15•geox•2h ago•2 comments

Slop Is Everywhere for Those with Eyes to See

https://www.fromjason.xyz/p/notebook/slop-is-everywhere-for-those-with-eyes-to-see/
8•speckx•26m ago•2 comments

The spectrum of isolation: From bare metal to WebAssembly

https://buildsoftwaresystems.com/post/guide-to-execution-environments/
86•ThierryBuilds•11h ago•31 comments