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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."

Erin Brockovich made a map to track data centers around the country

https://www.niemanlab.org/2026/05/erin-brockovich-made-a-map-to-track-data-centers-around-the-cou...
43•cratermoon•1h ago•26 comments

Chemistry behind the Garden Grove chemical tank

https://www.science.org/content/blog-post/methyl-methacrylate-tank
221•nooks•6h ago•85 comments

Cloudflare Flagship

https://developers.cloudflare.com/flagship/
50•tjek•2h ago•26 comments

A few interesting modern pixel fonts

https://unsung.aresluna.org/a-few-interesting-modern-pixel-fonts/
250•zdw•1d ago•53 comments

I Bypassed Adobe and Microsoft to Build a Git-Tracked Book Production Pipeline

https://www.djspeckhals.com/posts/2026-05-22-how-i-bypassed-adobe-and-microsoft-to-build-a-git-tr...
165•dustin1114•4d ago•39 comments

Stripe is friendly to "friendly fraud"

https://www.gingerlime.com/2026/stripe-seem-friendly-to-friendly-fraud/
54•gingerlime•1h ago•13 comments

A portentous reunion

https://bcantrill.dtrace.org/2026/05/25/a-portentous-reunion/
49•cafkafk•19h ago•19 comments

AI Tools Are Only as Good as Your Judgment – and That's the Point

https://theaileverageweekly.com/posts/your-ai-tools-are-only-as-good-as-your-judgment-and-that-s-...
7•talvardi7•1h ago•2 comments

Big tech's anti-labor playbook has come for Wikipedia

https://medium.com/@jakeorlowitz/wikipedia-is-doing-the-capitalist-thing-56a393232943
297•cdrnsf•5h ago•151 comments

C array types are weird

https://anselmschueler.com/blogposts/2025-c-pointers/
54•signa11•1d ago•27 comments

Rosalind: A genomics toolkit in Rust running whole-genome pipelines on a laptop

https://github.com/logannye/rosalind
127•samuell•5d ago•31 comments

Spain blocks prediction markets Polymarket, Kalshi over lack of gambling licence

https://www.reuters.com/business/spain-blocks-prediction-markets-polymarket-kalshi-over-lack-gamb...
775•thm•12h ago•351 comments

Sonny Rollins, Jazz's Saxophone Colossus and Greatest Improvisor, Dead at 95

https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/sonny-rollins-jazz-legend-saxophone-colossus-dead-o...
31•boarsofcanada•1h ago•5 comments

The Steinwinter Supercargo

https://www.thedrive.com/article/12603/the-forgotten-steinwinter-supercargo-is-unlike-anything-on...
43•itronitron•3d ago•9 comments

Launch HN: Minicor (YC P26) – Windows desktop automations at scale

https://www.minicor.com/
71•fchishtie•10h ago•47 comments

Dropbox CEO Drew Houston to step down

https://www.cnbc.com/2026/05/26/dropbox-ceo-drew-houston-ashraf-alkarmi.html
292•aghuang•12h ago•325 comments

The real cost of owning a home

https://ericturner.dev/posts/cost-of-home-ownership/
288•ggcr•9h ago•627 comments

What I've Learned (So Far) Building Online Mini Games with Elixir and Swift

https://calvinflegal.com/2026/05/24/what-ive-learned-so-far-building-online-mini-games-with-elixi...
5•calflegal•2d ago•2 comments

Liverpool and Manchester Railway

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liverpool_and_Manchester_Railway
12•daverol•2d ago•2 comments

C64 Basic: Game Map Overhead “Camera View”

https://retrogamecoders.com/overhead-camera-view/
77•ibobev•11h ago•11 comments

Sage Care (YC S24) Is Hiring Software Engineers

https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/sagecare/jobs/xtloH8r-senior-software-engineer
1•ian-gillis•8h ago

Use boring languages with LLMs

https://jry.io/writing/use-boring-languages-with-llms/
175•evakhoury•4d ago•141 comments

The Ballad of TIGIT

https://www.owlposting.com/p/the-ballad-of-tigit
93•crescit_eundo•10h ago•18 comments

What color is your function? (2015)

https://journal.stuffwithstuff.com/2015/02/01/what-color-is-your-function/
95•tosh•9h ago•116 comments

Outsourcing plus local AI will soon become more economical vs. frontier labs

https://www.signalbloom.ai/posts/outsourcing-plus-localai-will-soon-become-more-economical-vs-fro...
243•GodelNumbering•13h ago•267 comments

Xiaomi MiMo-v2.5 price drops 99% – AI pricing war

https://platform.xiaomimimo.com/docs/en-US/welcome
7•mariopt•2h ago•3 comments

Opaque Types in Python

https://blog.glyph.im/2026/05/opaque-types-in-python.html
112•lumpa•3d ago•53 comments

RescueRadar – UK Emergency Services Flight Tracking Since 2013

https://rescueradar.co.uk/about
9•dp-hackernews•2d ago•1 comments

From Rust to Ruby

https://xlii.space/eng/from-rust-to-ruby/
8•xlii•3h ago•0 comments

Netherlands blocks US takeover of vital digital supplier

https://www.politico.eu/article/netherlands-blocks-us-takeover-vital-digital-supplier/
527•vrganj•14h ago•209 comments