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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."

Microsoft degrades functionality of perpetually-licensed offline products

https://consumerrights.wiki/w/Microsoft_Office_2019_and_2021_for_Mac_view-only_conversion_(2026)
300•antipurist•2h ago•105 comments

Domain expertise has always been the real moat

https://www.brethorsting.com/blog/2026/05/domain-expertise-has-always-been-the-real-moat/
277•aaronbrethorst•5h ago•171 comments

I found a seashell in the middle of the desert

https://github.com/Hawzen/I-found-a-seashell-in-the-middle-of-the-desert
211•Hawzen•1d ago•63 comments

Accenture to acquire Ookla

https://newsroom.accenture.com/news/2026/accenture-to-acquire-ookla-to-strengthen-network-intelli...
240•Garbage•9h ago•124 comments

wolfSSL releases a new product; wolfCOSE a zero alloc C embbedded COSE stack

https://github.com/wolfSSL/wolfCOSE
65•aidangarske•5h ago•12 comments

Jef Raskin, the Visionary Behind the Mac (2013)

https://lowendmac.com/2013/jef-raskin-the-visionary-behind-the-mac/
73•tylerdane•6h ago•36 comments

Anyone can build a platform now. Almost nobody can get people to find it

https://claudefolio.com/blog/anyone-can-build-a-platform-now-almost-nobody-can-get-people-to-find-it
20•misterinfo•56m ago•7 comments

Shantell Sans

https://shantellsans.com/process
58•aleda145•3h ago•5 comments

Zig ELF Linker Improvements Devlog

https://ziglang.org/devlog/2026/#2026-05-30
173•kristoff_it•8h ago•47 comments

Cheese Paper: a text editor specifically designed for writing

https://brie.gay/cheese-paper/
44•sohkamyung•2h ago•7 comments

Voxel Space (2017)

https://s-macke.github.io/VoxelSpace/
251•davikr•11h ago•56 comments

Parallel Reconstruction of Lawful TLS Wiretapping

https://remyhax.xyz/posts/reproducing-lawful-tls-wiretapping/
55•jerrythegerbil•6h ago•27 comments

OpenRouter raises $113M Series B

https://openrouter.ai/announcements/series-b
357•freeCandy•8h ago•172 comments

Openrsync: An implementation of rsync, by the OpenBSD team

https://github.com/kristapsdz/openrsync
322•sph•15h ago•141 comments

Design Engineering Magazine

https://interfaces.dev/
57•hnhsh•5h ago•5 comments

Show HN: 500 years of Joseon court omens as an observability dashboard

https://ajin.im/is/building/omen.ops/
78•poppypetalmask•6h ago•11 comments

Gustav Klimt and Egon Schiele in Conversation (2018)

https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2018/01/31/the-drawings-of-klimt-and-schiele/
17•rballpug•2d ago•2 comments

Dusklight – GC Twilight Princess Decompiled

https://twilitrealm.dev/
62•shepherdjerred•5h ago•6 comments

Microcode inside the Intel 8087 floating-point chip: register exchange

https://www.righto.com/2026/05/microcode-inside-intel-8087-floating.html
85•pwg•8h ago•16 comments

Pandoc Templates

https://pandoc-templates.org/
361•ankitg12•15h ago•48 comments

90% of the T Distribution

https://entropicthoughts.com/ninety-percent-of-the-t-distribution
23•ibobev•3d ago•7 comments

Rotary GPU: Exploring Local Execution for Large MoE Models Under Limited VRAM

https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.29135
19•dryarzeg•4h ago•2 comments

Zig: Build System Reworked

https://ziglang.org/devlog/2026/#2026-05-26
321•tosh•17h ago•210 comments

Tsplat – Run Gaussian splatting in your terminal

https://github.com/darshanmakwana412/tsplat
28•martianvoid•2d ago•7 comments

C++ CLI for folder encryption with AES-256-GCM and USB-based key loading

7•nextma•2d ago•3 comments

Werner Herzog in conversation with Paul Cronin (2014)

https://fsgworkinprogress.com/2014/09/26/insignificant-bullets-evil-poachers-and-l-a-culture/
75•Michelangelo11•9h ago•24 comments

Show HN: Open Envelope – an open schema for defining AI agent teams

https://openenvelope.org/docs/schema/
24•ashconway•2d ago•2 comments

Navier-Stokes fluid simulation explained with Godot game engine

https://myzopotamia.dev/navier-stokes-fluid-simulation-explained-with-godot
183•myzek•4d ago•24 comments

Leo's first encyclical attacks technological messianism

https://www.economist.com/europe/2026/05/28/leos-first-encyclical-attacks-technological-messianism
178•1vuio0pswjnm7•15h ago•201 comments

It takes two neurons to ride a bicycle (2004)

https://fermatslibrary.com/s/it-takes-two-neurons-to-ride-a-bicycle#email-newsletter
96•malshe•4d ago•44 comments