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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."

YouTube to automatically label AI-generated videos

https://blog.youtube/news-and-events/improving-ai-labels-viewers-creators/
259•nopg•1h ago•140 comments

I think Anthropic and OpenAI have found product-market fit

https://simonwillison.net/2026/May/27/product-market-fit/
492•simonw•5h ago•594 comments

SimCity 3k in 4k (2025)

https://www.thran.uk/writ/hdid/2025/12/simcity-3k-in-4k.html
209•speckx•4h ago•64 comments

Rust (and Slint) on a Jailbroken Kindle

https://sverre.me/blog/rust-on-kindle/
43•homarp•2h ago•6 comments

DuckDuckGo search saw 28% more visits after Google said people love AI mode

https://www.pcgamer.com/hardware/duckduckgos-ai-free-search-saw-nearly-28-percent-more-visits-in-...
539•HelloUsername•5h ago•272 comments

On Labubu and the Hyperreal

https://2earth.github.io/website/20260525.html
39•2earth•2h ago•34 comments

What Apple and Google are doing to push notifications

https://www.jacquescorbytuech.com/writing/what-apple-and-google-are-doing-your-push-notifications
91•iamacyborg•2h ago•82 comments

Last.fm is now independent

https://support.last.fm/t/last-fm-is-now-independent/118591
538•twistslider•6h ago•150 comments

Canada to order military plane fleet from Sweden in shift from US suppliers

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/may/27/canada-sweden-saab-globaleye-aircraft
274•tosh•5h ago•189 comments

Incident with Pull Requests, Issues, Git Operations and API Requests

https://www.githubstatus.com/incidents/xy1tt3hs572m
225•maxnoe•9h ago•174 comments

Freediving, Embodiment and Humanity – Joanna Rutkowska

https://tracesofhumanity.org/freediving-embodiment-and-humanity/
16•transpute•2d ago•10 comments

Mini Micro Fantasy Computer

https://miniscript.org/MiniMicro/index.html#about
223•nicoloren•11h ago•78 comments

Gemini, Gophers, and Fingers. Oh My Alternative Internets Beyond HTTPS

https://brennan.day/gemini-gophers-and-fingers-oh-my-alternative-internets-beyond-https/
63•ChrisArchitect•4h ago•28 comments

Go: Support for Generic Methods

https://github.com/golang/go/issues/77273
139•f311a•12h ago•122 comments

Multi-Agent LLM System for Automated Vulnerability Discovery and Reproduction

https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.21779
35•root-parent•4h ago•4 comments

Reflex (YC W23) Is Hiring SWEs, Growth, and GTM Roles

https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/reflex/jobs
1•apetuskey•4h ago

Stress disrupts hippocampal integration of overlapping events, memory inference

https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.aea5496?user_id=66c4bf745d78644b3aa57b08
52•gmays•5h ago•5 comments

Tech CEOs are apparently suffering from AI psychosis

https://techcrunch.com/2026/05/27/tech-ceos-are-apparently-suffering-from-ai-psychosis/
465•IAmGraydon•6h ago•241 comments

iPhones Running iOS 26 Are Freezing FaceTime Calls When They Detect Nudity

https://www.pcmag.com/news/iphones-running-ios-26-freeze-facetime-calls-when-theres-nudity
33•vinni2•1h ago•13 comments

Claude Code as a Daily Driver: Claude.md, Skills, Subagents, Plugins, and MCPs

https://arps18.github.io/posts/claude-code-mastery/
329•arps18•16h ago•219 comments

In-Browser Container Builds

https://ochagavia.nl/blog/fully-in-browser-container-builds/
38•wofo•2d ago•19 comments

Reconstructing a Mixbook movie from its data API with FFmpeg

https://segar.me/blog/posts/reconstructing_a_mixbook_movie.html
6•msegar•3d ago•1 comments

Private equity bought America's essential services

https://rubbishtalk.com/economy/how-private-equity-bought-americas-essential-services/
373•NoRagrets•9h ago•444 comments

Matrix Multiplications on GPUs Run Faster When Given "Predictable" Data (2024)

https://www.thonking.ai/p/strangely-matrix-multiplications
137•tosh•4d ago•37 comments

What Is a Direct Attach Copper (DAC) Cable?

https://www.servethehome.com/what-is-a-direct-attach-copper-dac-cable/
80•teleforce•1d ago•67 comments

Human Bottlenecks

https://borretti.me/article/human-bottlenecks
42•zdw•3d ago•9 comments

All of human cooking compressed into 2 megabytes

https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.22391
333•josefchen•13h ago•133 comments

Training our own AI models

https://posthog.com/blog/training-ai-models
176•tartieret•5h ago•122 comments

Show HN: Open-source Workspace (mail,docs,spreadsheet,drive) web/iOS

https://tinycld.org/
61•nathanstitt•7h ago•31 comments

My new obsession: A horse-racing board game of pure luck

https://alexanderbjoy.com/horse-race-board-game/
50•surprisetalk•2d ago•37 comments