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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."

Precursor

https://blog.cloudflare.com/introducing-precursor/
56•AznHisoka•53m ago•39 comments

The art and engineering of Sega CD Silpheed

https://fabiensanglard.net/silpheed/index.html
28•ibobev•40m ago•4 comments

A voxel Tokyo in real Japan time – ride the Yamanote line and study Japanese

https://jivx.com/densha
171•momentmaker•4h ago•17 comments

Grok uploaded my user directory to xAI's servers

https://twitter.com/a_green_being/status/2076598897779020159
247•tnolet•1h ago•123 comments

Show HN: DOM-docx – HTML to native, editable Word docs (MIT)

https://github.com/floodtide/dom-docx
67•fishbone•3h ago•22 comments

Grok CLI uploaded the whole home directory to GCS

https://twitter.com/i/status/2076598897779020159
162•denysvitali•1h ago•58 comments

The 'absolute magic' of Morse code that still connects people globally

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cwye0dlzgejo
49•austinallegro•5d ago•15 comments

Backtrack-Free Cursive

https://mmapped.blog/posts/52-backtrack-free-cursive
182•dmit•9h ago•80 comments

Show HN: Clawk – Give coding agents a disposable Linux VM, not your laptop

https://github.com/clawkwork/clawk
75•celrenheit•1h ago•81 comments

The social physics of conversation: Communication patterns matter

https://andiroberts.com/citizenship/the-social-physics-of-conversation-citizenship-leadership
120•kiyanwang•5d ago•23 comments

GhostLock, a stack-UAF that has existed in all Linux distributions for 15 years

https://nebusec.ai/research/ionstack-part-2/
347•ranger_danger•4d ago•159 comments

The Graph That Should Be Front-Page News

https://www.lyrebirddreaming.com/post/the-graph-that-should-be-front-page-news
367•rakel_rakel•9h ago•213 comments

Zig Creator Calls Spade a Spade, Anthropic Blows Smoke

https://raymyers.org/post/zed-creator-calls-spade-a-spade/
1042•crowdhailer•6h ago•522 comments

Interrail: 6,379Km and 13 Countries over 7 weeks

https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2026/07/another-ridiculous-interrail-holiday-6379km-and-13-countries-ove...
164•coinfused•7h ago•107 comments

Cursed circuits #6: reverse avalanche oscillator

https://lcamtuf.substack.com/p/cursed-circuits-6-reverse-avalanche
18•surprisetalk•4d ago•6 comments

Cyberpunk Comics, Manga and Graphic Novels

https://shellzine.net/cyberpunk-comics/
263•zdw•16h ago•110 comments

Tiny Emulators

https://floooh.github.io/tiny8bit-preview/index.html
311•naves•19h ago•26 comments

Beavis Ultrasound PnP ISA Sound Card Replica

https://github.com/schlae/BeavisUltrasound
85•mariuz•10h ago•29 comments

So you want to learn physics (second edition, 2021)

https://www.susanrigetti.com/physics
289•azhenley•5d ago•56 comments

Frieve Vinyl Explained – Microscopic stylus/groove physics simulation

https://frieve-a.github.io/sound_toolbox/vinyl_explained/vinyl_explained.html
52•XzetaU8•4d ago•8 comments

Control the Ideas, Not the Code

https://antirez.com/news/169
143•surprisetalk•3h ago•102 comments

How to read more books

https://scotto.me/blog/2026-07-12-how-to-read-more-books/
482•silcoon•23h ago•248 comments

DMS 1.5 "The Wolverine" Released

https://danklinux.com/blog/v1-5-release
7•sonixier•4d ago•4 comments

Designing and assembling my first PCB

https://vilkeliskis.com/b/2026/0711.html
151•tadasv•16h ago•86 comments

LARP – Revenue infrastructure for serious founders

https://www.larp.website/
296•BerislavLopac•22h ago•71 comments

Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (July 2026)

193•david927•18h ago•686 comments

Sam Neill has died

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2026/jul/13/sam-neill-death-actor-dies-aged-78
388•j4mie•9h ago•87 comments

Vint Cerf, “father of the Internet”, is retiring

https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/30/the-father-of-the-internet-is-finally-retiring/
345•compiler-guy•3d ago•189 comments

Ask HN: Add flag for AI-generated articles

886•levkk•14h ago•384 comments

Migrating a production AI agent to GPT-5.6: 2.2x faster, 27% cheaper

https://ploy.ai/blog/migrating-a-production-ai-agent-to-gpt-5-6
242•brryant•22h ago•113 comments