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Building my npx business card

https://ashley.dev/posts/turning-feedback-into-features/
8•edent•4mo ago

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steele•4mo ago
Ooh, free real estate, let's colonize and gentrify package management
aabhay•4mo ago
Lmao, gentrify cracked me up
neilv•4mo ago
Do these npx business cards run arbitrary code on your computer?
cypherpunks01•4mo 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•4mo 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•4mo ago
Yeah, this seems like a very smart but inherently flawed idea.
cypherpunks01•4mo 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•4mo ago
May as well just release an executable tbh.
theamk•4mo 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•4mo 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•4mo 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."

WASM 3.0 Completed

https://webassembly.org/news/2025-09-17-wasm-3.0/
416•todsacerdoti•2h ago•159 comments

Apple Photos app corrupts images

https://tenderlovemaking.com/2025/09/17/apple-photos-app-corrupts-images/
860•pattyj•9h ago•321 comments

Optimizing ClickHouse for Intel's 280 core processors

https://clickhouse.com/blog/optimizing-clickhouse-intel-high-core-count-cpu
63•ashvardanian•2h ago•13 comments

Gluon: a GPU programming language based on the same compiler stack as Triton

https://github.com/triton-lang/triton/blob/main/python/tutorials/gluon/01-intro.py
20•matt_d•1h ago•3 comments

Tinycolor supply chain attack post-mortem

https://sigh.dev/posts/ctrl-tinycolor-post-mortem/
97•STRiDEX•3h ago•44 comments

DeepMind and OpenAI win gold at ICPC

https://codeforces.com/blog/entry/146536
79•notemap•2h ago•58 comments

YouTube addresses lower view counts which seem to be caused by ad blockers

https://9to5google.com/2025/09/16/youtube-lower-view-counts-ad-blockers/
193•iamflimflam1•6h ago•390 comments

Launch HN: RunRL (YC X25) – Reinforcement learning as a service

https://runrl.com
37•ag8•4h ago•11 comments

Noise cancelling a fan

https://chillphysicsenjoyer.substack.com/p/noise-cancelling-a-fan
30•crescit_eundo•1d ago•28 comments

Drought in Iraq reveals tombs created 2,300 years ago

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/severe-droughts-in-iraq-reveals-dozens-of-ancient-tombs...
54•pseudolus•3h ago•5 comments

The Asus gaming laptop ACPI firmware bug

https://github.com/Zephkek/Asus-ROG-Aml-Deep-Dive
377•signa11•16h ago•160 comments

Ton Roosendaal to step down as Blender chairman and CEO

https://www.cgchannel.com/2025/09/ton-roosendaal-to-step-down-as-blender-chairman-and-ceo/
106•cma•4h ago•14 comments

Famous cognitive psychology experiments that failed to replicate

https://buttondown.com/aethermug/archive/aether-mug-famous-cognitive-psychology/
71•PaulHoule•1h ago•31 comments

Event Horizon Labs (YC W24) Is Hiring

https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/event-horizon-labs/jobs/U6oyyKZ-founding-engineer-at-event-...
1•ocolegro•3h ago

Anthropic irks White House with limits on models’ use

https://www.semafor.com/article/09/17/2025/anthropic-irks-white-house-with-limits-on-models-uswhi...
175•mindingnever•2h ago•88 comments

DeepSeek writes less secure code for groups China disfavors?

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2025/09/16/deepseek-ai-security/
172•otterley•3h ago•102 comments

U.S. investors, Trump close in on TikTok deal with China

https://www.wsj.com/tech/details-emerge-on-u-s-china-tiktok-deal-594e009f
298•Mgtyalx•1d ago•295 comments

Depression reduces capacity to learn to actively avoid aversive events

https://www.eneuro.org/content/12/9/ENEURO.0034-25.2025
117•PaulHoule•3h ago•31 comments

Ask HN: What's a good 3D Printer for sub $1000?

91•lucideng•2d ago•101 comments

Infinite Mac: Resource Fork Roundtripping

https://blog.persistent.info/2025/09/infinite-mac-resource-forks.html
8•tobr•1d ago•0 comments

Tau² benchmark: How a prompt rewrite boosted GPT-5-mini by 22%

https://quesma.com/blog/tau2-benchmark-improving-results-smaller-models/
149•blndrt•7h ago•45 comments

Alibaba's new AI chip: Key specifications comparable to H20

https://news.futunn.com/en/post/62202518/alibaba-s-new-ai-chip-unveiled-key-specifications-compar...
226•dworks•11h ago•244 comments

UUIDv47: Store UUIDv7 in DB, emit UUIDv4 outside (SipHash-masked timestamp)

https://github.com/stateless-me/uuidv47
113•aabbdev•6h ago•61 comments

How to motivate yourself to do a thing you don't want to do

https://ashleyjanssen.com/how-to-motivate-yourself-to-do-a-thing-you-dont-want-to-do/
190•mooreds•5h ago•161 comments

Determination of the fifth Busy Beaver value

https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.12337
227•marvinborner•10h ago•95 comments

Procedural Island Generation (III)

https://brashandplucky.com/2025/09/17/procedural-island-generation-iii.html
95•ibobev•8h ago•17 comments

Microsoft Python Driver for SQL Server

https://github.com/microsoft/mssql-python
63•kermatt•5h ago•24 comments

PureVPN IPv6 Leak

https://anagogistis.com/posts/purevpn-ipv6-leak/
154•todsacerdoti•10h ago•69 comments

Just for fun: animating a mosaic of 90s GIFs

https://alexplescan.com/posts/2025/09/15/gifs/
22•Bogdanp•1d ago•2 comments

Slow social media

https://herman.bearblog.dev/slow-social-media/
140•rishikeshs•18h ago•124 comments