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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."

SQLite is all you need for durable workflows

https://obeli.sk/blog/sqlite-is-all-you-need-for-durable-workflows/
258•tomasol•4h ago•141 comments

The dead economy theory

https://www.owenmcgrann.com/p/the-dead-economy-theory
509•WillDaSilva•6h ago•688 comments

Notes from the Mistral AI Now Summit in Paris

https://koenvangilst.nl/lab/mistral-ai-now-summit
280•vnglst•5h ago•89 comments

On Rendering Diffs

https://pierre.computer/writing/on-rendering-diffs
106•amadeus•3h ago•27 comments

Shift will clean homes for free to train future robots

https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/939765/ai-training-data-startup-shift-free-cl...
43•evilsimon•3h ago•63 comments

EV Stupidity Checklist

http://hypercritical.co/2026/05/29/ev-stupidity-checklist
26•pchristensen•49m ago•11 comments

The California state assembly has passed the 'Protect Our Games Act'

https://www.invenglobal.com/articles/22330/stop-killing-games-movement-gains-momentum-california-...
131•TechTechTech•2h ago•125 comments

Bijou64: A variable-length integer encoding

https://www.inkandswitch.com/tangents/bijou64/
192•justinweiss•7h ago•70 comments

Show HN: Tiny-vLLM – high performance LLM inference engine in C++ and CUDA

https://github.com/jmaczan/tiny-vllm
45•yu3zhou4•2h ago•6 comments

It's hard to justify buying a Framework 12

https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2026/its-hard-to-justify-framework-12/
172•watermelon0•7h ago•322 comments

Liquid AI reveals 8B-A1B MoE trained on 38T

https://www.liquid.ai/blog/lfm2-5-8b-a1b
119•simjnd•5h ago•35 comments

Rothko for your current weather conditions

https://rothko.joonas.wtf/
93•jxmorris12•3h ago•10 comments

GTA 6 Developers Unionize

https://rockstarintel.com/gta-6-developers-announce-rockstar-games-union/
507•AndrewKemendo•6h ago•328 comments

Show HN: Zot – Yet another coding agent harness

https://www.zot.sh
42•patriceckhart•16h ago•53 comments

Show HN: TV Explorer. Adding advanced UI to free online TV

https://tvexplorer.live
82•dtagames•5h ago•17 comments

Print with dozens of colors: Our new open-source ColorMix for PrusaSlicer

https://blog.prusa3d.com/our-new-open-source-colormix-model-in-prusaslicer-and-easyprint_136079/
10•rented_mule•3d ago•0 comments

Is AI causing a repeat of frontend’s lost decade?

https://mastrojs.github.io/blog/2026-05-23-is-AI-causing-a-repeat-of-frontends-lost-decade/
249•xyzal•11h ago•211 comments

Why I collect DLES

https://dles.gg/blog/dles-gg-manifesto
15•trizoza•1h ago•4 comments

CAPTCHAs can still detect AI agents

https://research.roundtable.ai/captchas-detect-ai/
55•timshell•6h ago•45 comments

The mysterious Hy3 LLM is topping OpenRouter Model Rankings by a large margin

https://minimaxir.com/2026/05/openrouter-hy3/
92•freediver•22h ago•87 comments

Citing 'severe' math deficits, UC faculty demand a return to SAT tests for STEM

https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2026-05-27/uc-math-professors-demand-return-of-sat-for-s...
405•brandonb•1d ago•637 comments

Letter from the Duke of Wellington to the British Foreign Office (1809)

https://wellsoc.org/society-member-pages/anecdotes-of-wellington/
34•backuprestore•4h ago•7 comments

Microsoft 0-day feud escalates as researcher threatens another exploit dump

https://www.theregister.com/security/2026/05/28/microsoft-0-day-feud-escalates-as-researcher-thre...
98•Cider9986•2h ago•20 comments

We should be more tired than the model

https://vickiboykis.com/2026/05/28/we-should-be-more-tired-than-the-model/
135•tosh•10h ago•120 comments

High Density Living, 2000 Years Ago: Inside the Roman Apartment Building

https://commonedge.org/high-density-living-2000-years-ago-inside-the-roman-apartment-building/
139•surprisetalk•9h ago•58 comments

A Trillion Characters

https://characters.fastserial.com
20•andersmurphy•1h ago•12 comments

Cedana (YC S23) Is Hiring

https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/cedana/jobs/d1vYocG-forward-deployed-engineer-ai-hpc
1•neelm•10h ago

Expertise in the age of AI

https://www.moderndescartes.com/essays/ai_and_expertise/
95•brilee•8h ago•94 comments

I am retiring from tech to live offline

https://openpath.quest/2026/i-am-retiring-from-tech-to-live-offline/
701•PinkG•7h ago•482 comments

Someone used my open source project to phish people

https://andrej.sh/posts/phishing-through-my-open-source-project
82•andrejsshell•9h ago•47 comments