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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•7mo ago
Ooh, free real estate, let's colonize and gentrify package management
aabhay•7mo ago
Lmao, gentrify cracked me up
neilv•7mo ago
Do these npx business cards run arbitrary code on your computer?
cypherpunks01•7mo 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•7mo 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•7mo ago
Yeah, this seems like a very smart but inherently flawed idea.
cypherpunks01•7mo 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•7mo ago
May as well just release an executable tbh.
theamk•7mo 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•7mo 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•7mo 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."

Late night pizzeria nearby The Pentagon has suddenly surged in traffic

https://twitter.com/PenPizzaReport/status/2007347706017251535
51•nomilk•17m ago•26 comments

Publish on your own site, syndicate elsewhere

https://indieweb.org/POSSE#
661•47thpresident•14h ago•158 comments

Daft Punk Easter Egg in the BPM Tempo of Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger?

https://www.madebywindmill.com/tempi/blog/hbfs-bpm/
489•simonw•13h ago•78 comments

Of Boot Vectors and Double Glitches: Bypassing RP2350's Secure Boot

https://streaming.media.ccc.de/39c3/relive/2149
76•aberoham•6d ago•4 comments

IQuest-Coder: A new open-source code model beats Claude Sonnet 4.5 and GPT 5.1 [pdf]

https://github.com/IQuestLab/IQuest-Coder-V1/blob/main/papers/IQuest_Coder_Technical_Report.pdf
72•shenli3514•6h ago•25 comments

2026 will be my year of the Linux desktop

https://xeiaso.net/notes/2026/year-linux-desktop/
523•todsacerdoti•10h ago•377 comments

Why 451 Is Good for You – Greylisting Perspectives from the Early Noughties

https://bsdly.blogspot.com/2025/12/why-451-is-good-for-you-greylisting.html
16•zdw•5d ago•7 comments

IPv6 just turned 30 and still hasn't taken over the world

https://www.theregister.com/2025/12/31/ipv6_at_30/
364•Brajeshwar•19h ago•731 comments

A Beginner's Two-Component Crystal-Style Wi-Fi Detector

https://siliconjunction.wordpress.com/2025/12/12/a-beginners-two-component-crystal-style-wi-fi-de...
30•jensgk•2d ago•12 comments

A Basic Just-In-Time Compiler (2015)

https://nullprogram.com/blog/2015/03/19/
64•ibobev•9h ago•14 comments

Clicks Communicator

https://www.clicksphone.com/en/communicator
326•microflash•17h ago•213 comments

Ask HN: Who is hiring? (January 2026)

289•whoishiring•18h ago•178 comments

Linux kernel security work

http://www.kroah.com/log/blog/2026/01/02/linux-kernel-security-work/
107•chmaynard•12h ago•50 comments

Adventure 751 (1980)

https://bluerenga.blog/2026/01/01/adventure-751-1980/
33•quuxplusone•7h ago•3 comments

Show HN: Website that plays the lottery every second

https://lotteryeverysecond.lffl.me/
169•Loeffelmann•10h ago•88 comments

Jank Lang Hit Alpha

https://github.com/jank-lang/jank
172•makemethrowaway•14h ago•23 comments

Unix v4 (1973) – Live Terminal

https://unixv4.dev/
146•pjmlp•15h ago•67 comments

UK company sends factory with 1,000C furnace into space

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c62vx0pgyrgo
49•vekerdyb•3d ago•14 comments

Einstein Probe detects an X-ray flare from nearby star

https://phys.org/news/2025-12-einstein-probe-ray-flare-nearby.html
33•wglb•8h ago•6 comments

The Cost of a Closure in C: The Rest

https://thephd.dev/the-cost-of-a-closure-in-c-c2y-followup
32•ingve•3d ago•11 comments

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

110•whoishiring•18h ago•205 comments

Fighting Fire with Fire: Scalable Oral Exams

https://www.behind-the-enemy-lines.com/2025/12/fighting-fire-with-fire-scalable-oral.html
166•sethbannon•16h ago•210 comments

Accounting for Computer Scientists (2011)

https://martin.kleppmann.com/2011/03/07/accounting-for-computer-scientists.html
108•tosh•16h ago•41 comments

How Smell Guides Our Inner World

https://www.quantamagazine.org/how-smell-guides-our-inner-world-20250703/
10•anarbadalov•5d ago•0 comments

TinyTinyTPU: 2×2 systolic-array TPU-style matrix-multiply unit deployed on FPGA

https://github.com/Alanma23/tinytinyTPU-co
106•Xenograph•15h ago•47 comments

The rsync algorithm (1996) [pdf]

https://www.andrew.cmu.edu/course/15-749/READINGS/required/cas/tridgell96.pdf
135•vortex_ape•17h ago•16 comments

Punkt. Unveils MC03 Smartphone

https://www.punkt.ch/blogs/news/punkt-unveils-mc03
147•ChrisArchitect•18h ago•132 comments

AI results can be manipulated

https://ahrefs.com/blog/ai-vs-made-up-brand-experiment/
10•iamacyborg•1h ago•0 comments

Chain Flinger

https://nealstephenson.substack.com/p/kdk-kinetik-der-kontinua-part-1-introduction
50•roomey•5d ago•7 comments

Show HN: uvx ptn, scan a QR, get a terminal in your phone

https://github.com/lyehe/porterminal
18•yxl448•6h ago•2 comments