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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."

Provide agents with automated feedback

https://banay.me/dont-waste-your-backpressure/
81•ghuntley•1d ago•25 comments

Gaussian Splatting – A$AP Rocky "Helicopter" music video

https://radiancefields.com/a-ap-rocky-releases-helicopter-music-video-featuring-gaussian-splatting
551•ChrisArchitect•12h ago•175 comments

Flux 2 Klein pure C inference

https://github.com/antirez/flux2.c
286•antirez•12h ago•113 comments

Dead Internet Theory

https://kudmitry.com/articles/dead-internet-theory/
182•skwee357•9h ago•233 comments

The Code-Only Agent

https://rijnard.com/blog/the-code-only-agent
35•emersonmacro•3h ago•12 comments

A Social Filesystem

https://overreacted.io/a-social-filesystem/
349•icy•21h ago•150 comments

Fil-Qt: A Qt Base build with Fil-C experience

https://git.qt.io/cradam/fil-qt
61•pjmlp•2d ago•33 comments

AVX-512: First Impressions on Performance and Programmability

https://shihab-shahriar.github.io//blog/2026/AVX-512-First-Impressions-on-Performance-and-Program...
33•shihab•5d ago•9 comments

Show HN: I quit coding years ago. AI brought me back

https://calquio.com/finance/compound-interest
50•ivcatcher•5h ago•37 comments

Gas Town Decoded

https://www.alilleybrinker.com/mini/gas-town-decoded/
98•alilleybrinker•4d ago•86 comments

Show HN: Dock – Slack minus the bloat, tax, and 90-day memory loss

https://getdock.io/
96•yadavrh•9h ago•76 comments

Using proxies to hide secrets from Claude Code

https://www.joinformal.com/blog/using-proxies-to-hide-secrets-from-claude-code/
58•drewgregory•5d ago•24 comments

Astrophotography visibility plotting and planning tool

https://airmass.org/
13•NKosmatos•3d ago•2 comments

Show HN: AWS-doctor – A terminal-based AWS health check and cost optimizer in Go

https://github.com/elC0mpa/aws-doctor
3•elC0mpa•1h ago•1 comments

Poking holes into bytecode with peephole optimisations

https://xnacly.me/posts/2026/purple-garden-first-optimisations/
19•xnacly•4d ago•0 comments

Command-line Tools can be 235x Faster than your Hadoop Cluster (2014)

https://adamdrake.com/command-line-tools-can-be-235x-faster-than-your-hadoop-cluster.html
338•tosh•21h ago•225 comments

The space and motion of communicating agents (2008) [pdf]

https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/archive/rm135/Bigraphs-draft.pdf
12•dhorthy•3d ago•1 comments

High-speed train collision in Spain kills at least 21

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cedw6ylpynyo
64•akyuu•6h ago•38 comments

Police Invested Millions in Shadowy Phone-Tracking Software Won't Say How Used

https://www.texasobserver.org/texas-police-invest-tangles-sheriff-surveillance/
287•nobody9999•9h ago•82 comments

Experiments with Kafka's head-of-line blocking (2023)

https://www.artur-rodrigues.com/tech/2023/03/21/kafka-head-of-line-blocking.html
3•teleforce•5d ago•0 comments

Simulating the Ladybug Clock Puzzle

https://austinhenley.com/blog/ladybugclock.html
8•azhenley•1d ago•0 comments

The Cathedral, the Megachurch, and the Bazaar

https://opensourcesecurity.io/2026/01-cathedral-megachurch-bazaar/
149•todsacerdoti•5d ago•118 comments

Sins of the Children

https://asteriskmag.com/issues/07/sins-of-the-children
133•maxall4•13h ago•65 comments

Show HN: Lume 0.2 – Build and Run macOS VMs with unattended setup

https://cua.ai/docs/lume/guide/getting-started/introduction
108•frabonacci•12h ago•31 comments

Predicting OpenAI's ad strategy

https://ossa-ma.github.io/blog/openads
519•calcifer•15h ago•452 comments

A free and open-source rootkit for Linux

https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/1053099/19c2e8180aeb0438/
187•jwilk•20h ago•38 comments

Wine 11.0

https://gitlab.winehq.org/wine/wine/-/releases/wine-11.0
314•zdw•5d ago•60 comments

ASCII characters are not pixels: a deep dive into ASCII rendering

https://alexharri.com/blog/ascii-rendering
1215•alexharri•1d ago•131 comments

Show HN: Beats, a web-based drum machine

https://beats.lasagna.pizza
55•kinduff•9h ago•16 comments

CD Projekt issue DMCA takedown notice against popular Cyberpunk VR mod

https://www.patreon.com/posts/another-one-dust-148437771
38•wjdp•3h ago•16 comments