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Building my npx business card

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

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steele•8mo ago
Ooh, free real estate, let's colonize and gentrify package management
aabhay•8mo ago
Lmao, gentrify cracked me up
neilv•8mo ago
Do these npx business cards run arbitrary code on your computer?
cypherpunks01•8mo 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•8mo 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•8mo ago
Yeah, this seems like a very smart but inherently flawed idea.
cypherpunks01•8mo 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•8mo ago
May as well just release an executable tbh.
theamk•8mo 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•8mo 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•8mo 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."

Retiring GPT-4o, GPT-4.1, GPT-4.1 mini, and OpenAI o4-mini in ChatGPT

https://openai.com/index/retiring-gpt-4o-and-older-models/
70•rd•57m ago•62 comments

Project Genie: Experimenting with infinite, interactive worlds

https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/models-and-research/google-deepmind/project-genie/
316•meetpateltech•4h ago•162 comments

Claude Code daily benchmarks for degradation tracking

https://marginlab.ai/trackers/claude-code/
442•qwesr123•8h ago•231 comments

PlayStation 2 Recompilation Project Is Absolutely Incredible

https://redgamingtech.com/playstation-2-recompilation-project-is-absolutely-incredible/
66•croes•3h ago•15 comments

Drug trio found to block tumour resistance in pancreatic cancer

https://www.drugtargetreview.com/news/192714/drug-trio-found-to-block-tumour-resistance-in-pancre...
151•axiomdata316•5h ago•67 comments

Compressed Agents.md > Agent Skills

https://vercel.com/blog/agents-md-outperforms-skills-in-our-agent-evals
28•maximedupre•8h ago•11 comments

Launch HN: AgentMail (YC S25) – An API that gives agents their own email inboxes

90•Haakam21•5h ago•102 comments

OTelBench: AI struggles with simple SRE tasks (Opus 4.5 scores only 29%)

https://quesma.com/blog/introducing-otel-bench/
134•stared•6h ago•73 comments

Flameshot

https://github.com/flameshot-org/flameshot
40•OsrsNeedsf2P•2h ago•9 comments

Europe’s next-generation weather satellite sends back first images

https://www.esa.int/Applications/Observing_the_Earth/Meteorological_missions/meteosat_third_gener...
621•saubeidl•14h ago•88 comments

My Mom and Dr. DeepSeek (2025)

https://restofworld.org/2025/ai-chatbot-china-sick/
103•kieto•3h ago•65 comments

Show HN: Kolibri, a DIY music club in Sweden

https://kolibrinkpg.com/
14•EastLondonCoder•5h ago•2 comments

County pays $600k to pentesters it arrested for assessing courthouse security

https://arstechnica.com/security/2026/01/county-pays-600000-to-pentesters-it-arrested-for-assessi...
185•MBCook•3h ago•79 comments

The Value of Things

https://journal.stuffwithstuff.com/2026/01/24/the-value-of-things/
23•vinhnx•4d ago•10 comments

EmulatorJS

https://github.com/EmulatorJS/EmulatorJS
72•avaer•6d ago•11 comments

Reflex (YC W23) Senior Software Engineer Infra

https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/reflex/jobs/Jcwrz7A-lead-software-engineer-infra
1•apetuskey•4h ago

Waymo robotaxi hits a child near an elementary school in Santa Monica

https://techcrunch.com/2026/01/29/waymo-robotaxi-hits-a-child-near-an-elementary-school-in-santa-...
217•voxadam•7h ago•393 comments

iPhone 16 Best-Selling Smartphone in 2025; Apple Takes 7 Spots in Top Models

https://counterpointresearch.com/en/insights/iphone-16-worlds-best-selling-smartphone-in-2025-app...
41•TMWNN•1h ago•51 comments

Apple buys Israeli startup Q.ai

https://techcrunch.com/2026/01/29/apple-buys-israeli-startup-q-ai-as-the-ai-race-heats-up/
51•ishener•1h ago•7 comments

US cybersecurity chief leaked sensitive government files to ChatGPT: Report

https://www.dexerto.com/entertainment/us-cybersecurity-chief-leaked-sensitive-government-files-to...
343•randycupertino•5h ago•182 comments

Run Clawdbot/Moltbot on Cloudflare with Moltworker

https://blog.cloudflare.com/moltworker-self-hosted-ai-agent/
113•ghostwriternr•7h ago•42 comments

Box64 Expands into RISC-V and LoongArch territory

https://boilingsteam.com/box64-expands-into-risc-v-and-loong-arch-territory/
18•ekianjo•4d ago•2 comments

Usenet personality

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usenet_personality
50•mellosouls•3d ago•25 comments

Automating Image Compression

https://www.ramijames.com/thoughts/on-automating-image-compression
8•ramijames•2d ago•0 comments

Networks Hold the Key to a Decades-Old Problem About Waves

https://www.quantamagazine.org/networks-hold-the-key-to-a-decades-old-problem-about-waves-20260128/
12•makira•2h ago•1 comments

Agent-shell: A native Emacs buffer to interact with LLM agents powered by ACP

https://github.com/xenodium/agent-shell
12•trelane•1h ago•2 comments

How to Choose Colors for Your CLI Applications (2023)

https://blog.xoria.org/terminal-colors/
132•kruuuder•7h ago•76 comments

Heating homes with the largest particle accelerator

https://home.cern/news/news/cern/heating-homes-worlds-largest-particle-accelerator
55•elashri•6h ago•19 comments

Show HN: Autonomous recovery for distributed training jobs

https://docs.tensorpool.dev/features/agent
5•tsvoboda•4h ago•3 comments

Making niche solutions is the point

https://ntietz.com/blog/making-niche-solutions-is-the-point/
76•evakhoury•3d ago•26 comments