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Building my npx business card

https://ashley.dev/posts/turning-feedback-into-features/
8•edent•9mo ago

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steele•9mo ago
Ooh, free real estate, let's colonize and gentrify package management
aabhay•9mo ago
Lmao, gentrify cracked me up
neilv•9mo ago
Do these npx business cards run arbitrary code on your computer?
cypherpunks01•9mo 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•9mo 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•9mo ago
Yeah, this seems like a very smart but inherently flawed idea.
cypherpunks01•9mo 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•9mo ago
May as well just release an executable tbh.
theamk•9mo 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•9mo 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•9mo 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."

Tony Hoare has died

https://blog.computationalcomplexity.org/2026/03/tony-hoare-1934-2026.html
1450•speckx•10h ago•196 comments

U+237C ⍼ Is Azimuth

https://ionathan.ch/2026/02/16/angzarr.html
104•cokernel_hacker•2h ago•9 comments

Cloudflare Crawl Endpoint

https://developers.cloudflare.com/changelog/post/2026-03-10-br-crawl-endpoint/
92•jeffpalmer•2h ago•46 comments

Agents that run while I sleep

https://www.claudecodecamp.com/p/i-m-building-agents-that-run-while-i-sleep
209•aray07•5h ago•157 comments

Yann LeCun raises $1B to build AI that understands the physical world

https://www.wired.com/story/yann-lecun-raises-dollar1-billion-to-build-ai-that-understands-the-ph...
314•helloplanets•16h ago•318 comments

SSH Secret Menu

https://twitter.com/rebane2001/status/2031037389347406054
24•piccirello•21h ago•13 comments

Launch HN: RunAnywhere (YC W26) – Faster AI Inference on Apple Silicon

https://github.com/RunanywhereAI/rcli
176•sanchitmonga22•7h ago•83 comments

Universal vaccine against respiratory infections and allergens

https://med.stanford.edu/news/all-news/2026/02/universal-vaccine.html
79•phony-account•2h ago•17 comments

Debian decides not to decide on AI-generated contributions

https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/1061544/125f911834966dd0/
269•jwilk•10h ago•210 comments

RISC-V Is Sloooow

https://marcin.juszkiewicz.com.pl/2026/03/10/risc-v-is-sloooow/
156•todsacerdoti•4h ago•140 comments

Invoker Commands API

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Invoker_Commands_API
51•maqnius•2d ago•12 comments

FFmpeg-over-IP – Connect to remote FFmpeg servers

https://github.com/steelbrain/ffmpeg-over-ip
110•steelbrain•6h ago•48 comments

Mesh over Bluetooth LE, TCP, or Reticulum

https://github.com/torlando-tech/columba
15•khimaros•5h ago•0 comments

Redox OS has adopted a Certificate of Origin policy and a strict no-LLM policy

https://gitlab.redox-os.org/redox-os/redox/-/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md
371•pjmlp•16h ago•368 comments

Tell HN: Apple development certificate server seems down?

52•strongpigeon•5h ago•22 comments

Meta acquires Moltbook

https://www.axios.com/2026/03/10/meta-facebook-moltbook-agent-social-network
402•mmayberry•10h ago•258 comments

Intel Demos Chip to Compute with Encrypted Data

https://spectrum.ieee.org/fhe-intel
217•sohkamyung•11h ago•83 comments

After outages, Amazon to make senior engineers sign off on AI-assisted changes

https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/03/after-outages-amazon-to-make-senior-engineers-sign-off-on-ai-a...
420•ndr42•11h ago•383 comments

Online age-verification tools for child safety are surveilling adults

https://www.cnbc.com/2026/03/08/social-media-child-safety-internet-ai-surveillance.html
532•bilsbie•12h ago•300 comments

Launch HN: Didit (YC W26) – Stripe for Identity Verification

50•rosasalberto•9h ago•51 comments

Removing recursion via explicit callstack simulation

https://jnkr.tech/blog/removing-recursion
5•gsky•14h ago•1 comments

I put my whole life into a single database

https://howisfelix.today/
415•lukakopajtic•14h ago•202 comments

Networking with agents: Put them in the right conversations with Tailscale

https://blog.firetiger.com/networking-with-agents-how-to-put-them-in-the-right-conversations/
13•matsur•6h ago•2 comments

Exploring the ocean with Raspberry Pi–powered marine robots

https://www.raspberrypi.com/news/exploring-the-ocean-with-raspberry-pi-powered-marine-robots/
38•Brajeshwar•3d ago•6 comments

Show HN: How I Topped the HuggingFace Open LLM Leaderboard on Two Gaming GPUs

https://dnhkng.github.io/posts/rys/
270•dnhkng•11h ago•82 comments

Rebasing in Magit

https://entropicthoughts.com/rebasing-in-magit
181•ibobev•11h ago•122 comments

Billion-Parameter Theories

https://www.worldgov.org/complexity.html
88•seanlinehan•7h ago•67 comments

Show HN: What's my JND? – a colour guessing game

https://www.keithcirkel.co.uk/whats-my-jnd/?r=ARUjKP__-ve-
33•Keithamus•14h ago•29 comments

Levels of Agentic Engineering

https://www.bassimeledath.com/blog/levels-of-agentic-engineering
112•bombastic311•16h ago•64 comments

Secure Secrets Management for Cursor Cloud Agents

https://infisical.com/blog/secure-secrets-management-for-cursor-cloud-agents
16•vmatsiiako•22h ago•1 comments