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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."

Development statistics for the 7.2 kernel

https://lwn.net/Articles/1088776/
40•farlight•57m ago•12 comments

Making chicken transparent using Dorito dust

https://chillphysicsenjoyer.substack.com/p/making-chicken-transparent-using
155•crescit_eundo•4h ago•48 comments

Furifont, a Japanese font that shows furigana

https://furifont.antfu.me/
61•plaguna•2d ago•10 comments

DeepSeek-v4.1-Flash-1017

https://huggingface.co/deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash-1017
470•theykk•9h ago•462 comments

The Commodore 64 hardware simulator: break chips and pins, see the results

https://github.com/antirez/c64-hw-simulator
16•antirez•2d ago•1 comments

Solar surpasses nuclear power globally for first time

https://www.pv-magazine.com/2026/09/29/solar-surpasses-nuclear-power-globally-for-first-time/
280•xbmcuser•4h ago•158 comments

Rendering pretty sky in Around The World game

https://frozenfractal.com/blog/2026/10/12/around-the-world-34-a-pretty-sky/
85•ibobev•1d ago•6 comments

Artie (YC S23) Is Hiring Enterprise AES and Senior Engineers

https://www.artie.com/careers
1•j-cheong•1h ago

OpenAI discloses four more rogue incidents

https://fortune.com/2026/10/16/openai-discloses-four-more-rogue-incidents-involving-financial-med...
61•DASD•1h ago•29 comments

A Tudor life in the time of plague (2020)

https://www.historytoday.com/archive/history-matters/tudor-life-time-plague
28•pepys•3d ago•0 comments

You could have invented transformers from memory

https://alexwang.ai/posts/associative-memory/
425•speckx•23h ago•100 comments

Ultramarine 1 Flash

https://www.paperinstruments.com/ultramarine
356•i_rush_carriers•2d ago•103 comments

Show HN: High-quality duck audio synthesizer

https://celphase.github.io/duck-pond/
6•celphase•4h ago•0 comments

The First Candid

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2026/10/19/the-first-candid
35•Thevet•1d ago•8 comments

Show HN: Esp32sim – Run ESP32 firmware in the browser

https://github.com/mikroverk/esp32sim
51•joakimeriksson•4h ago•9 comments

Show HN: Llmspeed – feel how fast a local LLM runs before you buy the hardware

https://llmspeed.dev/
204•albinstman•13h ago•66 comments

GLP-1 may slow biological aging

https://www.universityofcalifornia.edu/news/new-study-shows-popular-glp-1-weight-loss-drug-may-sl...
123•dzink•2h ago•104 comments

MapQuest will now show you where Flock cameras are in your neighborhood

https://www.engadget.com/2288729/mapquest-will-now-show-you-where-flock-cameras-are-in-your-neigh...
192•bookofjoe•7h ago•27 comments

Vintage Cassettes: 1963-2010

http://vintagecassettes.com/
6•austinallegro•2d ago•1 comments

Pele – Mermaid diagrams as themeable SVG

https://pele.run/
10•dchest•2h ago•1 comments

The history of development of Norton Commander (2011)

https://softpanorama.org/OFM/Paradigm/Ch03/norton_commander.shtml
55•Michelangelo11•1d ago•16 comments

What changes when your search index lives on S3?

https://infino.ai/blog/search-index-on-s3/
13•tatvamasi•2d ago•8 comments

Tell HN: Remember to migrate away from .name domain

105•nikanj•3d ago•69 comments

Llama.cpp on a jailbroken PS5: run any GGUF model natively on the console

https://github.com/cobanov/PS5LM
352•Anon84•23h ago•83 comments

0/1 Knapsack Problem in PyTorch

https://jedrzej.maczan.pl/2025_11_21_dp_knapsack_sliding_hirschberg
41•yu3zhou4•3d ago•6 comments

Amazon uses AI to monitor union risk in UK warehouses

https://www.opendemocracy.net/amazon-ai-surveillance-monitor-union-activity-uk-warehouses-birming...
94•DeepLogin•2h ago•27 comments

A story of WiFi secrets, UART lockdowns and a damaged flash memory chip

https://adepts.of0x.cc/eufy-homestation2-firmware/
75•michidk•1d ago•5 comments

"Tame" boar and deer are instinctively adapting to the wolf in the Netherlands

https://nos.nl/video/2635315-wildcamera-s-tonen-hoe-zwijnen-en-herten-zich-aanpassen-aan-de-wolf
44•felipevb•9h ago•77 comments

Claude reveals ECDSA curve origins

https://www.anthropic.com/research/ecdsa-curve-origins
989•ahlCVA•23h ago•363 comments

Intuitive concurrent programming in any language

https://www.lf-lang.org/
121•mpweiher•2d ago•30 comments