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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•8mo 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•8mo 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."

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https://github.com/minio/minio/commit/7aac2a2c5b7c882e68c1ce017d8256be2feea27f
102•psvmcc•2h ago•40 comments

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538•erickhill•9h ago•239 comments

MMAcevedo aka Lena by qntm

https://qntm.org/mmacevedo
73•stickynotememo•4h ago•43 comments

GPT‑5.3‑Codex‑Spark

https://openai.com/index/introducing-gpt-5-3-codex-spark/
729•meetpateltech•15h ago•304 comments

Gemini 3 Deep Think

https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/models-and-research/gemini-models/gemini-3-deep-think/
853•tosh•16h ago•539 comments

Skip the Tips: A game to select "No Tip" but dark patterns try to stop you

https://skipthe.tips/
317•randycupertino•8h ago•210 comments

An AI agent published a hit piece on me

https://theshamblog.com/an-ai-agent-published-a-hit-piece-on-me/
1802•scottshambaugh•17h ago•726 comments

Tell HN: Ralph Giles has died (Xiph.org| Rust@Mozilla | Ghostscript)

216•ffworld•10h ago•8 comments

AWS Adds support for nested virtualization

https://github.com/aws/aws-sdk-go-v2/commit/3dca5e45d5ad05460b93410087833cbaa624754e
195•sitole•9h ago•69 comments

We interfaced single-threaded C++ with multi-threaded Rust

https://antithesis.com/blog/2026/rust_cpp/
20•lukastyrychtr•5d ago•1 comments

Polis: Open-source platform for large-scale civic deliberation

https://pol.is/home2
254•mefengl•15h ago•90 comments

Asimov (YC W26) Is Hiring

1•lningthou•2h ago

Ring owners are returning their cameras

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111•c420•3h ago•90 comments

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http://blog.can.ac/2026/02/12/the-harness-problem/
666•kachapopopow•20h ago•252 comments

My Grandma Was a Fed – Lessons from Digitizing Hours of Childhood

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135•SamPatt•4d ago•36 comments

Ruby Newbie Is Joining the Ruby Users Forum

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13•jvrc•3d ago•2 comments

Interlock (Engineering)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interlock_(engineering)
6•downboots•4d ago•0 comments

Beginning fully autonomous operations with the 6th-generation Waymo driver

https://waymo.com/blog/2026/02/ro-on-6th-gen-waymo-driver
211•ra7•17h ago•220 comments

Ring cancels its partnership with Flock Safety after surveillance backlash

https://www.theverge.com/news/878447/ring-flock-partnership-canceled
403•c420•10h ago•213 comments

Japan's Dododo Land, the most irritating place on Earth

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66•zdw•5d ago•20 comments

Major European payment processor can't send email to Google Workspace users

https://atha.io/blog/2026-02-12-viva
515•thatha7777•19h ago•359 comments

Launch HN: Omnara (YC S25) – Run Claude Code and Codex from anywhere

120•kmansm27•16h ago•137 comments

Ask HN: Is there a no-LLM license yet?

4•ahub•28m ago•3 comments

Apache Arrow is 10 years old

https://arrow.apache.org/blog/2026/02/12/arrow-anniversary/
220•tosh•20h ago•61 comments

Evaluating Multilingual, Context-Aware Guardrails: A Humanitarian LLM Use Case

https://blog.mozilla.ai/evaluating-multilingual-context-aware-guardrails-evidence-from-a-humanita...
18•benbreen•11h ago•0 comments

Recoverable and Irrecoverable Decisions

https://herbertlui.net/recoverable-and-irrecoverable-decisions/
63•herbertl•10h ago•19 comments

Show HN: Sol LeWitt-style instruction-based drawings in the browser

https://intervolz.com/sollewitt/
56•intervolz•2d ago•9 comments

Synthesizer Cartridge for the Atari 2600

https://www.qotile.net/synth.html
29•harel•4d ago•6 comments

How to Have a Bad Career – David Patterson (2016) [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rn1w4MRHIhc
83•rombr•14h ago•23 comments

The Nature of the Beast

https://cinemasojourns.com/2026/02/07/the-nature-of-the-beast/
9•jjgreen•4d ago•0 comments