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Building my npx business card

https://ashley.dev/posts/turning-feedback-into-features/
8•edent•11mo ago

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steele•11mo ago
Ooh, free real estate, let's colonize and gentrify package management
aabhay•11mo ago
Lmao, gentrify cracked me up
neilv•11mo ago
Do these npx business cards run arbitrary code on your computer?
cypherpunks01•11mo 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•11mo 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•11mo ago
Yeah, this seems like a very smart but inherently flawed idea.
cypherpunks01•11mo 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•11mo ago
May as well just release an executable tbh.
theamk•11mo 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•11mo 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•11mo 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."

Agents can now create Cloudflare accounts, buy domains, and deploy

https://blog.cloudflare.com/agents-stripe-projects/
360•rolph•7h ago•202 comments

StarFighter 16-Inch

https://us.starlabs.systems/pages/starfighter
374•signa11•9h ago•197 comments

CARA 2.0 – “I Built a Better Robot Dog”

https://www.aaedmusa.com/projects/cara2
179•hakonjdjohnsen•2d ago•24 comments

Batteries Not Included, or Required, for These Smart Home Sensors

https://coe.gatech.edu/news/2026/04/batteries-not-included-or-required-these-smart-home-sensors
46•gnabgib•2d ago•18 comments

Knitting bullshit

https://katedaviesdesigns.com/2026/04/29/knitting-bullshit/
94•ColinEberhardt•5h ago•45 comments

Show HN: Red Squares – GitHub outages as contributions

https://red-squares.cian.lol/
10•cianmm•35m ago•3 comments

DNSSEC disruption affecting .de domains – Resolved

https://status.denic.de/pages/incident/592577eab611ce1e0d00046f/69fa60ef9d12f5057a974f38
679•warpspin•14h ago•354 comments

Reverse-engineering the 1998 Ultima Online demo server

https://draxinar.github.io/articles/2026-05-01-uodemo-reverse-engineering.html
55•notsentient•4h ago•7 comments

Accelerating Gemma 4: faster inference with multi-token prediction drafters

https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/technology/developers-tools/multi-token-prediction-gemma-4/
587•amrrs•18h ago•273 comments

YouTube, your RSS feeds are broken

https://openrss.org/blog/youtube-your-feeds-are-broken
144•veeti•9h ago•58 comments

The Boring Internet

https://www.terrygodier.com/the-boring-internet
26•crowdhailer•2h ago•28 comments

Wolfenstein 3D for Gameboy Color on custom cartridge (2016)

https://www.happydaze.se/wolf/
18•ksymph•1d ago•2 comments

Write some software, give it away for free

https://nonogra.ph/write-some-software-give-it-away-for-free-05-05-2026
277•nohell•13h ago•187 comments

Virtual violin produces realistic sounds

https://news.mit.edu/2026/mit-engineers-virtual-violin-produces-realistic-sounds-0429
6•gmays•2d ago•2 comments

Multi-stroke text effect in CSS

https://yuanchuan.dev/multi-stroke-text-effect-in-css
64•cheeaun•6h ago•6 comments

Computer Use is 45x more expensive than structured APIs

https://reflex.dev/blog/computer-use-is-45x-more-expensive-than-structured-apis/
406•palashawas•18h ago•231 comments

245TB Micron 6600 ION Data Center SSD Now Shipping

https://investors.micron.com/news-releases/news-release-details/industry-leading-245tb-micron-660...
100•neilfrndes•7h ago•71 comments

NZ Government to Disestablish the BSA

https://www.beehive.govt.nz/release/government-disestablish-bsa
5•xupybd•1h ago•2 comments

Telus Uses AI to Alter Call-Agent Accents

https://letsdatascience.com/news/telus-uses-ai-to-alter-call-agent-accents-a3868f63
158•debo_•9h ago•126 comments

Three Inverse Laws of AI

https://susam.net/inverse-laws-of-robotics.html
456•blenderob•19h ago•315 comments

Make some art with your phone sensors

https://tautme.github.io/phone-sensors/sensor-etch.html
59•adm4•2d ago•9 comments

The AI operator: Biggest role in Silicon Valley

https://www.rishgupta.com/blog/the-ai-operator-biggest-role-in-silicon-valley
6•nreece•2h ago•0 comments

EEVblog: The 555 Timer is 55 years old [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6JhK8iCQuqI
290•brudgers•19h ago•74 comments

Why most product tours get skipped

https://productonboarding.com/articles/why-product-tours-get-skipped
160•pancomplex•13h ago•131 comments

Behavior-Oriented Concurrency for Python

https://microsoft.github.io/bocpy/
26•mpweiher•5h ago•2 comments

Google Chrome silently installs a 4 GB AI model on your device without consent

https://www.thatprivacyguy.com/blog/chrome-silent-nano-install/
1466•john-doe•1d ago•987 comments

Today I've made the difficult decision to reduce the size of Coinbase by ~14%

https://twitter.com/brian_armstrong/status/2051616759145185723
375•adrianmsmith•22h ago•592 comments

Wiki Builder: Skill to Build LLM Knowledge Bases

https://academy.dair.ai/blog/wiki-builder-claude-code-plugin
63•omarsar•2d ago•7 comments

Ombudsman column: The Pentagon is trying to silence me

https://www.stripes.com/opinion/2026-04-23/stripes-former-ombudsman-pentagon-trying-to-silence-21...
246•petethomas•7h ago•74 comments

Show HN: Airbyte Agents – context for agents across multiple data sources

121•mtricot•20h ago•31 comments