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Building my npx business card

https://ashley.dev/posts/turning-feedback-into-features/
8•edent•10mo 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."

Shall I implement it? No

https://gist.github.com/bretonium/291f4388e2de89a43b25c135b44e41f0
574•breton•2h ago•219 comments

Malus – Clean Room as a Service

https://malus.sh
973•microflash•10h ago•382 comments

Bubble Sorted Amen Break

https://parametricavocado.itch.io/amen-sorting
241•eieio•6h ago•80 comments

Reversing memory loss via gut-brain communication

https://med.stanford.edu/news/all-news/2026/03/gut-brain-cognitive-decline.html
200•mustaphah•7h ago•70 comments

ATMs didn't kill bank teller jobs, but the iPhone did

https://davidoks.blog/p/why-the-atm-didnt-kill-bank-teller
301•colinprince•9h ago•351 comments

The AI coding divide: craft lovers vs. result chasers

https://blog.lmorchard.com/2026/03/11/grief-and-the-ai-split/
66•avernet•1h ago•63 comments

The Met releases high-def 3D scans of 140 famous art objects

https://www.openculture.com/2026/03/the-met-releases-high-definition-3d-scans-of-140-famous-art-o...
196•coloneltcb•8h ago•40 comments

Document poisoning in RAG systems: How attackers corrupt AI's sources

https://aminrj.com/posts/rag-document-poisoning/
44•aminerj•10h ago•13 comments

Innocent woman jailed after being misidentified using AI facial recognition

https://www.grandforksherald.com/news/north-dakota/ai-error-jails-innocent-grandmother-for-months...
277•rectang•2h ago•160 comments

Bringing Chrome to ARM64 Linux Devices

https://blog.chromium.org/2026/03/bringing-chrome-to-arm64-linux-devices.html
50•ingve•3h ago•38 comments

Runners who churn butter on their runs

https://www.runnersworld.com/news/a70683169/how-to-make-butter-while-running/
81•randycupertino•4h ago•37 comments

Show HN: OneCLI – Vault for AI Agents in Rust

https://github.com/onecli/onecli
112•guyb3•7h ago•37 comments

Launch HN: IonRouter (YC W26) – High-throughput, low-cost inference

https://ionrouter.io
40•vshah1016•5h ago•18 comments

Forcing Flash Attention onto a TPU and Learning the Hard Way

https://archerzhang.me/forcing-flash-attention-onto-a-tpu
31•azhng•4d ago•7 comments

US private credit defaults hit record 9.2% in 2025, Fitch says

https://www.marketscreener.com/news/us-private-credit-defaults-hit-record-9-2-in-2025-fitch-says-...
214•JumpCrisscross•11h ago•322 comments

Dolphin Progress Release 2603

https://dolphin-emu.org/blog/2026/03/12/dolphin-progress-report-release-2603/
290•BitPirate•14h ago•48 comments

WolfIP: Lightweight TCP/IP stack with no dynamic memory allocations

https://github.com/wolfssl/wolfip
77•789c789c789c•8h ago•11 comments

Big data on the cheapest MacBook

https://duckdb.org/2026/03/11/big-data-on-the-cheapest-macbook
292•bcye•12h ago•247 comments

Are LLM merge rates not getting better?

https://entropicthoughts.com/no-swe-bench-improvement
106•4diii•12h ago•106 comments

Converge (YC S23) Is Hiring a Founding Platform Engineer (NYC, Onsite)

https://www.runconverge.com/careers/founding-platform-engineer
1•thomashlvt•6h ago

Show HN: Axe – A 12MB binary that replaces your AI framework

https://github.com/jrswab/axe
133•jrswab•10h ago•91 comments

An old photo of a large BBS (2022)

https://rachelbythebay.com/w/2022/01/26/swcbbs/
148•xbryanx•4h ago•104 comments

NASA's DART spacecraft changed an asteroid's orbit around the sun

https://www.sciencenews.org/article/spacecraft-changed-asteroid-orbit-nasa
101•pseudolus•3d ago•69 comments

Show HN: Detect any object in satellite imagery using a text prompt

https://www.useful-ai-tools.com/tools/satellite-analysis-demo/
8•eyasu6464•4d ago•5 comments

The Cost of Indirection in Rust

https://blog.sebastiansastre.co/posts/cost-of-indirection-in-rust/
80•sebastianconcpt•3d ago•33 comments

Show HN: Understudy – Teach a desktop agent by demonstrating a task once

https://github.com/understudy-ai/understudy
77•bayes-song•6h ago•23 comments

The Road Not Taken: A World Where IPv4 Evolved

https://owl.billpg.com/ipv4x/
47•billpg•8h ago•98 comments

Language Birth

https://asteriskmag.com/issues/13/language-birth
4•mitchbob•2d ago•1 comments

Long Overlooked as Crucial to Life, Fungi Start to Get Their Due

https://e360.yale.edu/features/fungi-kingdom
83•speckx•10h ago•22 comments

DDR4 Sdram – Initialization, Training and Calibration

https://www.systemverilog.io/design/ddr4-initialization-and-calibration/
58•todsacerdoti•2d ago•14 comments