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Building my npx business card

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

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steele•8mo ago
Ooh, free real estate, let's colonize and gentrify package management
aabhay•8mo ago
Lmao, gentrify cracked me up
neilv•8mo ago
Do these npx business cards run arbitrary code on your computer?
cypherpunks01•8mo 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•8mo ago
Yeah, this seems like a very smart but inherently flawed idea.
cypherpunks01•8mo 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•8mo ago
May as well just release an executable tbh.
theamk•8mo 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•8mo 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."

Apple I Advertisement (1976)

http://apple1.chez.com/Apple1project/Gallery/Gallery.htm
131•janandonly•3h ago•91 comments

Adventure Game Studio: OSS software for creating adventure games

https://www.adventuregamestudio.co.uk/
205•doener•7h ago•41 comments

Netbird – Open Source Zero Trust Networking

https://netbird.io/
590•l1am0•11h ago•223 comments

Efficient String Compression for Modern Database Systems

https://cedardb.com/blog/string_compression/
37•jandrewrogers•2d ago•1 comments

1-Click RCE to steal your Moltbot data and keys

https://depthfirst.com/post/1-click-rce-to-steal-your-moltbot-data-and-keys
18•arwt•1h ago•1 comments

I taught my neighbor to keep the volume down

https://idiallo.com/blog/teaching-my-neighbor-to-keep-the-volume-down
257•firefoxd•2h ago•55 comments

TIL: Apple Broke Time Machine Again on Tahoe

https://taoofmac.com/space/til/2026/02/01/1630
80•rcarmo•1h ago•41 comments

Typechecking is undecidable when 'type' is a type (1989) [pdf]

https://dspace.mit.edu/bitstream/handle/1721.1/149366/MIT-LCS-TR-458.pdf?sequence=6
14•zem•2d ago•3 comments

MicroPythonOS graphical operating system delivers Android-like user experience

https://www.cnx-software.com/2026/01/29/micropythonos-graphical-operating-system-delivers-android...
139•mikece•3d ago•36 comments

Show HN: ÆTHRA – Writing Music as Code

39•CzaxTanmay•2d ago•11 comments

Clearspace (YC W23) Is Hiring an Applied Researcher (ML)

https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/clearspace/jobs/GOWiDwp-research-engineer-at-clearspace
1•anteloper•2h ago

Reliable 25 Gigabit Ethernet via Thunderbolt

https://kohlschuetter.github.io/blog/posts/2026/01/27/tb25/
157•kohlschuetter•5d ago•92 comments

What I learned building an opinionated and minimal coding agent

https://mariozechner.at/posts/2025-11-30-pi-coding-agent/
306•SatvikBeri•11h ago•128 comments

Towards a science of scaling agent systems: When and why agent systems work

https://research.google/blog/towards-a-science-of-scaling-agent-systems-when-and-why-agent-system...
16•gmays•3h ago•10 comments

Amiga Unix (Amix)

https://www.amigaunix.com/doku.php/home
90•donatj•10h ago•31 comments

FOSDEM 2026 – Open-Source Conference in Brussels – Day#1 Recap

https://gyptazy.com/blog/fosdem-2026-opensource-conference-brussels/
151•yannick2k•10h ago•87 comments

A Crisis comes to Wordle: Reusing old words

https://forkingmad.blog/wordle-crisis/
17•cyanbane•3h ago•15 comments

The Book of PF, 4th edition

https://nostarch.com/book-of-pf-4th-edition
180•0x54MUR41•13h ago•35 comments

Anciente map of Fairyland. Places from nursery rhymes, fairy tales etc.

https://collections.leventhalmap.org/search/commonwealth:3f463773q
43•speckx•5d ago•9 comments

English professors double down on requiring printed copies of readings

https://yaledailynews.com/articles/english-professors-double-down-on-requiring-printed-copies-of-...
71•cmsefton•5h ago•112 comments

VisualJJ – Jujutsu in Visual Studio Code

https://www.visualjj.com/
133•demail•4d ago•51 comments

Jack Kerouac's 37 metre-long, first draft scroll of On the Road to be auctioned

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2026/jan/30/jack-kerouac-on-the-road-first-draft-scroll-to-be-a...
44•mitchbob•2d ago•15 comments

List animals until failure

https://rose.systems/animalist/
300•l1n•20h ago•160 comments

Light exposure and aspects of cognitive function in everyday life

https://www.nature.com/articles/s44271-025-00373-9
31•PaulHoule•2h ago•2 comments

Aging muscle stem cells shift from rapid repair to long-term survival

https://phys.org/news/2026-01-sprint-marathon-aging-muscle-stem.html
54•bikenaga•3h ago•12 comments

A web server on a single floppy disk

http://floppy.ddns.net/
72•ActionRetro•3d ago•31 comments

The history of C# and TypeScript with Anders Hejlsberg [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uMqx8NNT4xY
165•doppp•5d ago•124 comments

In praise of –dry-run

https://henrikwarne.com/2026/01/31/in-praise-of-dry-run/
274•ingve•1d ago•149 comments

Cells use 'bioelectricity' to coordinate and make group decisions

https://www.quantamagazine.org/cells-use-bioelectricity-to-coordinate-and-make-group-decisions-20...
161•marojejian•21h ago•73 comments

'Right-to-Compute' Laws May Be Coming to Your State This Year

https://www.vktr.com/ai-ethics-law-risk/right-to-compute-laws/
13•ohjeez•1h ago•9 comments