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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."

Claude Code sends your email address to websites

https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues/107757
756•motoroco•6h ago•257 comments

sshole

https://sshhole.com
2467•josemrb•16h ago•606 comments

MS Paint Remote Code Execution Vulnerability

https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-83844
396•kuberwastaken•8h ago•147 comments

Pwn.college

https://pwn.college/
31•tripdout•1h ago•3 comments

Nvidia Kubernetes Engine (NVKE)

https://github.com/dsx-ai-factory/nvke
29•gkapur•1h ago•10 comments

Closed AI models dominate the price-performance frontier

https://village.dev/blog/closed-ai-models-now-dominate-the-price-performance-frontier/
31•kevin_hu•2h ago•17 comments

Inkling 2 Small

https://thinkingmachines.ai/news/inkling-2-small/
130•Philpax•5h ago•52 comments

The Hackintosh Reborn

https://www.naut.ca/blog/2026/11/05/the-hackintosh-reborn-with-ai/
255•rubatuga•9h ago•125 comments

Window Sweaters

https://github.com/saragordic/window-sweaters
276•nickswalker•12h ago•91 comments

Show HN: Firenook – Firebase emulators in Rust: 40× faster writes, 10× less RAM

https://firenook.dev/
71•sanjevirau•15h ago•14 comments

MoofTCP – A modern replacement for MacTCP on 68k Macs

https://github.com/matthewmrichter/mooftcp
27•marcusbasant•4h ago•14 comments

Launch HN: Rivet (YC W23) – Scale and Orchestrate Agents on S3

https://github.com/rivet-dev/rivet
84•NathanFlurry•11h ago•45 comments

Silicon Valley's Bad Night

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/2026/11/americans-really-dont-like-data-centers-elections/...
29•ent101•1h ago•18 comments

Cuban: Facebook knowingly runs AI deepfake scam ads; docs say $16B fraud revenue

https://finance.yahoo.com/technology/ai/articles/mark-cuban-says-facebook-knowingly-213000020.html
192•randycupertino•5h ago•95 comments

Show HN: A decent text-to-image model trained for ~$20K (Apache 2.0 Weights)

https://www.linum.ai/field-notes/pjit-21k
183•schopra909•1d ago•17 comments

Goodbye from Salon

https://www.salon.com/2026/11/05/goodbye-from-salon/
515•mkeeter•8h ago•185 comments

Motorola Signature 27 with GrapheneOS support

https://motorolanews.com/motorola-signature-27-2/
428•monneyboi•13h ago•317 comments

September in Servo: <progress>, rounded rectangles, and more

https://servo.org/blog/2026/11/05/september-in-servo/
206•iamnothere•14h ago•50 comments

Download your favourite YouTube videos

https://criminallyvulgar.dev/you-should-absolutely-download-your-favourite-youtube-videos/
309•surprisetalk•16h ago•143 comments

I wish tech companies knew more about me

https://rakhim.exotext.com/i-wish-tech-companies-knew-more-about-me
348•freetonik•15h ago•306 comments

Pangram Image 1.0

https://www.pangram.com/blog/introducing-pangram-image-1-0
80•gmays•9h ago•35 comments

Search for everyone

https://kagi.com/changelog#11820
605•elashri•8h ago•313 comments

MCP Explained

https://mcp-explained.com/
270•rwilinski•14h ago•117 comments

Obscure audio codec is a perfect fit for the N64

https://phoboslab.org/log/2026/11/n64-ulc-codec
213•frostbyte7•16h ago•24 comments

The Stacks Project, Formalized in Lean

https://axiommath.ai/research/the-stacks-project-formalized/
78•namanbnsl•12h ago•21 comments

Baidu released ERNIE 5.5 Flash Base

https://ernie.baidu.com/release/ernie-5-5-flash-base/
170•pretext•19h ago•95 comments

My psychophysics as a bilateral cochlear implant user

https://claude.ai/artifact/L8qsMc3SorytGW3LA81nYf
172•mi-rae•12h ago•79 comments

Show HN: Stroq – a local audit of what your coding agent did and why

https://github.com/AGGIB/Stroq
76•agybay_07•13h ago•25 comments

Hungary: Communist-era files released, up to 60k former agents revealed

https://www.euronews.com/2026/11/04/hungary-communist-era-files-opened-up-to-60000-former-agents-...
182•rdmuser•9h ago•42 comments

So my ISP was hijacking my DNS

https://www.karthihegde.dev/posts/dns_tampering
187•frostbyte7•1d ago•136 comments