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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."

Nobody ever gets credit for fixing problems that never happened (2001) [pdf]

https://web.mit.edu/nelsonr/www/Repenning=Sterman_CMR_su01_.pdf
274•sam_bristow•4h ago•96 comments

If you are asking for human attention, demonstrate human effort

https://tombedor.dev/human-attention-and-human-effort/
453•jjfoooo4•6h ago•149 comments

Show HN: Homebrew 6.0.0

https://brew.sh/2026/06/11/homebrew-6.0.0/
1106•mikemcquaid•16h ago•257 comments

How we made hit video game Prince of Persia

https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2026/jan/05/raiders-of-the-lost-ark-hit-video-game-prince-of-...
32•msephton•2d ago•3 comments

Claude Fable is relentlessly proactive

https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jun/11/fable-is-relentlessly-proactive/
273•lumpa•4h ago•225 comments

Show HN: FablePool – pool money behind a prompt, and Fable builds it in public

https://fablepool.com
329•matthewbarras•8h ago•179 comments

MiMo Code is now released and open-source

https://mimo.xiaomi.com/mimocode
457•apeters•15h ago•255 comments

Anthropic apologizes for invisible Claude Fable guardrails

https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/948280/anthropic-claude-fable-invisible-disti...
369•rarisma•17h ago•361 comments

WikiLambda the Ultimate

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2026-05-22/Recent_research
22•Antibabelic•12h ago•3 comments

AI Agent Bankrupted Their Operator While Trying to Scan DN42

https://lantian.pub/en/article/fun/ai-agent-bankrupted-their-operator-scan-dn42lantian.lantian/
8•xiaoyu2006•49m ago•1 comments

Petition to Withdraw Canada's Bill C-22

https://www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en/Petition/Sign/e-7416
405•hmokiguess•13h ago•141 comments

A jacket that harvests drinking water from the air

https://news.utexas.edu/2026/06/11/this-jacket-pulls-drinking-water-from-thin-air/
79•ilreb•6h ago•47 comments

Device Clock Generation

https://zipcpu.com/blog/2025/12/17/devclk.html
6•mfiguiere•1h ago•0 comments

Software is made between commits

https://zed.dev/blog/introducing-deltadb
235•jeremy_k•13h ago•174 comments

macOS 27 Beta breaks the ability to boot Asahi Linux

https://www.phoronix.com/news/macOS-27-Beta-Breaks-Asahi
274•josephcsible•2d ago•116 comments

Ear Training Practice

https://tonedear.com/
199•mattbit•3d ago•92 comments

Emacs appearances in pop culture

https://ianyepan.github.io/posts/emacs-in-pop-culture/
293•ggcr•1d ago•83 comments

Lines of code got a better publicist

https://curlewis.co.nz/posts/lines-of-code-got-a-better-publicist/
378•RyeCombinator•17h ago•260 comments

The RCE that AMD wouldn't fix

https://mrbruh.com/amd2/
250•MrBruh•13h ago•110 comments

Claude Fable 5: mid-tier results on coding tasks

https://www.endorlabs.com/learn/claude-fable-5-mythos-grade-hype
272•bugvader•13h ago•129 comments

Developer gets Half-Life running at 30 FPS on a Nokia N95

https://www.tomshardware.com/video-games/handheld-gaming/developer-gets-half-life-running-at-30-f...
252•ljf•3d ago•78 comments

Reading for pleasure is sharply down among schoolkids, report shows

https://www.nbcnews.com/data-graphics/kids-reading-less-lower-levels-department-education-study-r...
119•freejoe76•1d ago•144 comments

Removing 'um' from a recording is harder than it sounds

https://doug.sh/posts/erm-a-local-cli-that-strips-ums-uhs-and-erms-from-speech/
39•dougcalobrisi•4h ago•14 comments

MTG Bench: Testing how well LLMs can play Magic

https://mtgautodeck.com/articles/mtg-bench/
46•CallumFerg•13h ago•25 comments

Waymo Premier

https://waymo.com/blog/2026/06/waymo-premier/
173•boulos•13h ago•429 comments

Show HN: Boo – Screen-style terminal multiplexer built on libghostty

https://github.com/coder/boo
65•kylecarbs•8h ago•22 comments

How a new DSL may survive in the era of LLMs

https://www.williamcotton.com/articles/how-a-new-dsl-survives-in-the-era-of-llms
31•williamcotton•14h ago•10 comments

FPS.cob: A first person shooter in COBOL

https://github.com/icitry/FPS.cob
116•MBCook•14h ago•64 comments

Open Reproduction of DeepSeek-R1

https://github.com/huggingface/open-r1
218•yogthos•16h ago•17 comments

Apple didn't revolutionize power supplies; new transistors did (2012)

https://www.righto.com/2012/02/apple-didnt-revolutionize-power.html
107•geerlingguy•11h ago•9 comments