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Building my npx business card

https://ashley.dev/posts/turning-feedback-into-features/
8•edent•11mo ago

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steele•11mo ago
Ooh, free real estate, let's colonize and gentrify package management
aabhay•11mo ago
Lmao, gentrify cracked me up
neilv•11mo ago
Do these npx business cards run arbitrary code on your computer?
cypherpunks01•11mo 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•11mo 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•11mo ago
Yeah, this seems like a very smart but inherently flawed idea.
cypherpunks01•11mo 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•11mo ago
May as well just release an executable tbh.
theamk•11mo 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•11mo 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•11mo 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."

Google broke reCAPTCHA for de-googled Android users

https://reclaimthenet.org/google-broke-recaptcha-for-de-googled-android-users
237•anonymousiam•3h ago•71 comments

AI is breaking two vulnerability cultures

https://www.jefftk.com/p/ai-is-breaking-two-vulnerability-cultures
152•speckx•4h ago•62 comments

You gave me a u32. I gave you root. (io_uring ZCRX freelist LPE)

https://ze3tar.github.io/post-zcrx.html
73•MrBruh•2h ago•37 comments

Cartoon Network Flash Games

https://www.webdesignmuseum.org/flash-game-exhibitions/cartoon-network-flash-games
233•willmeyers•5h ago•73 comments

Non-determinism is an issue with patching CVEs

https://flox.dev/blog/achieving-rapid-cve-remediation-in-an-era-of-escalating-vulnerabilities/
18•mathewpregasen•54m ago•5 comments

Serving a website on a Raspberry Pi Zero running in RAM

https://btxx.org/posts/memory/
173•xngbuilds•7h ago•70 comments

All means are fair except solving the problem

https://yosefk.com/blog/all-means-are-fair-except-solving-the-problem.html
17•akkartik•2d ago•7 comments

Mux (YC W16) Is Hiring

https://www.mux.com/jobs
1•mmcclure•1h ago

David Attenborough's 100th Birthday

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cp3pww9g0p5o
320•defrost•10h ago•57 comments

Looking at the data behind prediction markets

https://asteriskmag.com/issues/14/are-prediction-markets-good-for-anything
19•kqr•1d ago•2 comments

An Introduction to Meshtastic

https://meshtastic.org/docs/introduction/
346•ColinWright•10h ago•135 comments

My first in-prod corrupted hard drive problem

https://blog.pavementlink.ch/2026/05/07/my-first-corrupted-hard-drive-problem/
29•r1chk1t•2h ago•22 comments

AWS says data center overheating in North Virginia disrupts services

https://www.reuters.com/business/retail-consumer/amazon-cloud-unit-says-data-center-overheating-n...
37•christhecaribou•18h ago•11 comments

Dirty Frag: Universal Linux LPE

https://github.com/V4bel/dirtyfrag
11•unbeli•1h ago•1 comments

Rumors of my death are slightly exaggerated

1390•CliffStoll•2d ago•217 comments

Roadside Attraction

https://theoffingmag.com/essay/roadside-attraction/
12•aways•2h ago•3 comments

PC Engine CPU

https://jsgroth.dev/blog/posts/pc-engine-cpu/
110•ibobev•8h ago•49 comments

Teaching Claude Why

https://www.anthropic.com/research/teaching-claude-why
30•pretext•4h ago•1 comments

Mojo 1.0 Beta

https://mojolang.org/
245•sbt567•19h ago•164 comments

Man finds $1M worth of Yu-Gi-Oh cards in a dumpster

https://www.404media.co/man-finds-1-million-worth-of-yu-gi-oh-cards-in-a-dumpster/
77•danso•2d ago•18 comments

US Government releases first batch of UAP documents and videos

https://www.war.gov/UFO/
194•david-gpu•10h ago•304 comments

Poland is now among the 20 largest economies

https://apnews.com/article/poland-economy-growth-g20-gdp-26fe06e120398410f8d773ba5661e7aa
844•surprisetalk•9h ago•706 comments

Canvas online again as ShinyHunters threatens to leak schools’ data

https://www.theverge.com/tech/926458/canvas-shinyhunters-breach
891•stefanpie•23h ago•597 comments

Show HN: GETadb.com – every GET request creates a DB

https://www.getadb.com/
20•nezaj•6h ago•24 comments

Apple, Intel have reached preliminary chip-making deal

https://www.reuters.com/business/apple-intel-have-reached-preliminary-chip-making-deal-wsj-report...
170•scrlk•4h ago•112 comments

Maybe you shouldn't install new software for a bit

https://xeiaso.net/blog/2026/abstain-from-install/
802•psxuaw•23h ago•424 comments

Show HN: The independent guide to agent orchestrators

https://agentmgmt.dev/
3•manume•59m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Git for AI Agents

https://github.com/regent-vcs/re_gent
86•doshay•8h ago•44 comments

Meta Shuts Down End-to-End Encryption for Instagram Messaging

https://www.pcmag.com/news/meta-shuts-down-end-to-end-encryption-for-instagram-dms-messaging
14•tcp_handshaker•30m ago•2 comments

Podman rootless containers and the Copy Fail exploit

https://garrido.io/notes/podman-rootless-containers-copy-fail/
109•ggpsv•8h ago•21 comments