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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."

Unrolling the Codex agent loop

https://openai.com/index/unrolling-the-codex-agent-loop/
269•tosh•9h ago•129 comments

Internet Archive's Storage

https://blog.dshr.org/2026/01/internet-archives-storage.html
32•zdw•3d ago•3 comments

Proof of Corn

https://proofofcorn.com/
340•rocauc•11h ago•250 comments

Some C habits I employ for the modern day

https://www.unix.dog/~yosh/blog/c-habits-for-me.html
110•signa11•4d ago•35 comments

Comma openpilot – Open source driver-assistance

https://comma.ai
211•JumpCrisscross•4h ago•116 comments

New YC homepage

https://www.ycombinator.com/
217•sarreph•11h ago•107 comments

Losing 1½ Million Lines of Go

https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/202x/2026/01/14/Unicode-Properties
62•moks•4d ago•4 comments

Gas Town's agent patterns, design bottlenecks, and vibecoding at scale

https://maggieappleton.com/gastown
285•pavel_lishin•13h ago•307 comments

SEC obtains final consent judgments against former FTX and Alameda executives

https://www.sec.gov/enforcement-litigation/litigation-releases/lr-26450
78•sizzle•2h ago•48 comments

Banned C++ features in Chromium

https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/src/+/main/styleguide/c++/c++-features.md
133•szmarczak•9h ago•107 comments

Microsoft gave FBI set of BitLocker encryption keys to unlock suspects' laptops

https://techcrunch.com/2026/01/23/microsoft-gave-fbi-a-set-of-bitlocker-encryption-keys-to-unlock...
747•bookofjoe•11h ago•493 comments

Route leak incident on January 22, 2026

https://blog.cloudflare.com/route-leak-incident-january-22-2026/
135•nomaxx117•11h ago•37 comments

Ask HN: What's the current best local/open speech-to-speech setup?

103•dsrtslnd23•18h ago•21 comments

Booting from a vinyl record (2020)

https://boginjr.com/it/sw/dev/vinyl-boot/
294•yesturi•19h ago•108 comments

Noora Health (YC W14) Is Hiring AI/ML Engineer

https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/noora-health/jobs/2B4RxLG-ai-ml-engineer
1•edithaelliott•4h ago

KORG phase8 – Acoustic Synthesizer

https://www.korg.com/us/products/dj/phase8/
212•bpierre•15h ago•95 comments

Mental Models (2018)

https://fs.blog/mental-models/
66•hahahacorn•8h ago•11 comments

Extracting verified C++ from the Rocq theorem prover at Bloomberg

https://bloomberg.github.io/crane/
7•clarus•3d ago•1 comments

The tech monoculture is finally breaking

http://www.jasonwillems.com/technology/2025/12/17/Tech-Is-Fun-Again/
157•at1as•14h ago•204 comments

Proton Spam and the AI Consent Problem

https://dbushell.com/2026/01/22/proton-spam/
489•dbushell•22h ago•349 comments

Wilson Lin on FastRender: a browser built by parallel agents

https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jan/23/fastrender/
37•lumpa•7h ago•8 comments

Show HN: Whosthere: A LAN discovery tool with a modern TUI, written in Go

https://github.com/ramonvermeulen/whosthere
224•rvermeulen98•17h ago•79 comments

Gold fever, cold, and the true adventures of Jack London in the wild

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/gold-fever-deadly-cold-and-amazing-true-adventures-jack-lo...
51•janandonly•5d ago•15 comments

Nobody likes lag: How to make low-latency dev sandboxes

https://www.compyle.ai/blog/nobody-likes-lag/
71•mnazzaro•12h ago•34 comments

Floating-Point Printing and Parsing Can Be Simple and Fast

https://research.swtch.com/fp
104•chmaynard•4d ago•11 comments

Waypoint-1: Real-Time Interactive Video Diffusion from Overworld

https://huggingface.co/blog/waypoint-1
67•avaer•14h ago•17 comments

Workspaces and Monorepos in Package Managers

https://nesbitt.io/2026/01/18/workspaces-and-monorepos-in-package-managers.html
17•Couto•3d ago•3 comments

Killing the ISP Appliance: An eBPF/XDP Approach to Distributed BNG

https://markgascoyne.co.uk/posts/ebpf-bng/
73•chaz6•12h ago•21 comments

Notes on the Intel 8086 processor's arithmetic-logic unit

https://www.righto.com/2026/01/notes-on-intel-8086-processors.html
90•elpocko•12h ago•11 comments

Show HN: Text-to-video model from scratch (2 brothers, 2 years, 2B params)

https://huggingface.co/collections/Linum-AI/linum-v2-2b-text-to-video
134•schopra909•1d ago•23 comments