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Building my npx business card

https://ashley.dev/posts/turning-feedback-into-features/
8•edent•1y ago

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steele•1y ago
Ooh, free real estate, let's colonize and gentrify package management
aabhay•1y ago
Lmao, gentrify cracked me up
neilv•1y ago
Do these npx business cards run arbitrary code on your computer?
cypherpunks01•1y 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•1y 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•1y ago
Yeah, this seems like a very smart but inherently flawed idea.
cypherpunks01•1y 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•1y ago
May as well just release an executable tbh.
theamk•1y 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•1y 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•1y 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."

The newest Instagram “exploit” is the goofiest I've seen

https://www.0xsid.com/blog/meta-account-takeover-fiasco
1542•ssiddharth•13h ago•362 comments

macOS needs its grid back

https://blog.hopefullyuseful.com/blog/macos-needs-its-grid-back/
167•ranebo•4h ago•83 comments

Can the stockmarket swallow Anthropic, SpaceX and OpenAI?

https://www.economist.com/finance-and-economics/2026/06/01/can-the-stockmarket-swallow-anthropic-...
228•1vuio0pswjnm7•6h ago•433 comments

OpenAI frontier models and Codex are now available on AWS

https://openai.com/index/openai-frontier-models-and-codex-are-now-available-on-aws/
213•typpo•8h ago•73 comments

Chipotlai Max

https://github.com/cyberpapiii/chipotlai-max
145•nigelgutzmann•6h ago•27 comments

How is Groq raising more money?

https://www.zach.be/p/how-the-hell-is-groq-raising-more
73•hasheddan•4h ago•32 comments

Fooling around with encrypted reasoning blobs

https://blog.cryptographyengineering.com/2026/05/29/fooling-around-with-encrypted-reasoning-blobs/
46•supermatou•3d ago•5 comments

Debug Project

https://debug.com/
185•Eridanus2•9h ago•78 comments

KL Zero: KL divergence intuition game

https://klzero.sarna.dev
18•psarna•2d ago•8 comments

AI Agent Guidelines for CS336 at Stanford

https://github.com/stanford-cs336/assignment1-basics/blob/main/CLAUDE.md
372•prakashqwerty•13h ago•124 comments

Squillions: How Money Laundering Won

https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v48/n09/john-lanchester/squillions
55•rwmj•1d ago•31 comments

CS336: Language Modeling from Scratch

https://cs336.stanford.edu/
417•kristianpaul•15h ago•44 comments

Should you normalize RGB values by 255 or 256?

https://30fps.net/pages/255-vs-256-division/
229•pplanu•12h ago•97 comments

Launch HN: Expanse (YC P26) – Unlock Wasted GPU Capacity

76•ismaeel_bashir•16h ago•23 comments

Crystal Nights (2008)

https://www.gregegan.net/MISC/CRYSTAL/Crystal.html
26•rorylawless•4h ago•4 comments

Microsoft builds MacBook Pro rival with NVIDIA-powered Surface Laptop Ultra

https://www.windowslatest.com/2026/06/01/microsoft-builds-its-ultimate-macbook-pro-rival-with-the...
189•jbk•17h ago•395 comments

Nvidia RTX Spark

https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/products/rtx-spark/
370•shenli3514•1d ago•359 comments

What appear to be biochemical processes may be a natural feature of geology

https://www.quantamagazine.org/the-dirt-that-refused-to-die-20260601/
211•speckx•14h ago•71 comments

A new way to build chips: Sequentially stacking silicon to extend Moore's Law

https://matse.illinois.edu/news/85775
35•hhs•2d ago•15 comments

Alphabet announces $80B equity capital raise to expand AI infra and compute

https://abc.xyz/investor/news/news-details/2026/Alphabet-Announces-Proposed-80-Billion-Equity-Cap...
153•gregschlom•8h ago•140 comments

Show HN: AI Simulaionen Based on FEP

https://aic-ai-lab.site/login
4•luzifer333•2d ago•0 comments

Ask HN: Who is hiring? (June 2026)

175•whoishiring•14h ago•254 comments

Florida sues OpenAI and Sam Altman over AI risks

https://www.politico.com/news/2026/06/01/openai-hit-with-florida-lawsuit-00944215
201•cyunker•13h ago•165 comments

I made my phone slow on purpose

https://vinewallapp.com/notes/i-made-my-phone-slow-on-purpose/
180•gcampos•4d ago•165 comments

Age verification for social media, the beginning of the end for a free internet?

https://mullvad.net/en/blog/age-verification-for-social-media-the-beginning-of-the-end-for-a-free...
165•StrLght•6h ago•94 comments

Stealing from Biologists to Compile Haskell Faster

https://www.iankduncan.com/engineering/2026-05-30-stealing-from-biologists-to-compile-haskell-fas...
107•mooreds•2d ago•4 comments

Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (June 2026)

110•whoishiring•14h ago•297 comments

Flipper Zero Zig Template

https://github.com/NishantJoshi00/flipper-template
136•Nars088•16h ago•11 comments

Windows GOG DOS Games on M-Series Macs

https://f055.net/technology/windows-gog-dos-games-on-m-series-macs/
144•f055•16h ago•82 comments

Palindromes by Eric Harshbarger

http://www.ericharshbarger.org/cgi-bin/palindrome_viewer.cgi
7•jruohonen•1d ago•4 comments