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Building my npx business card

https://ashley.dev/posts/turning-feedback-into-features/
8•edent•9mo ago

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steele•9mo ago
Ooh, free real estate, let's colonize and gentrify package management
aabhay•9mo ago
Lmao, gentrify cracked me up
neilv•9mo ago
Do these npx business cards run arbitrary code on your computer?
cypherpunks01•9mo 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•9mo 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•9mo ago
Yeah, this seems like a very smart but inherently flawed idea.
cypherpunks01•9mo 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•9mo ago
May as well just release an executable tbh.
theamk•9mo 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•9mo 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•9mo 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."

MacBook Neo

https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2026/03/say-hello-to-macbook-neo/
1451•dm•9h ago•1805 comments

Building a new Flash

https://bill.newgrounds.com/news/post/1607118
215•TechPlasma•4h ago•49 comments

Something is afoot in the land of Qwen

https://simonwillison.net/2026/Mar/4/qwen/
474•simonw•8h ago•228 comments

BMW Group to deploy humanoid robots in production in Germany for the first time

https://www.press.bmwgroup.com/global/article/detail/T0455864EN/bmw-group-to-deploy-humanoid-robo...
54•JeanKage•3h ago•43 comments

It is sweet and fitting to die for one's country (1921)

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/46560/dulce-et-decorum-est
59•bikeshaving•2h ago•37 comments

Humans 40k yrs ago developed a system of conventional signs

https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2520385123
47•bikenaga•7h ago•18 comments

Moss is a pixel canvas where every brush is a tiny program

https://www.moss.town/
156•smusamashah•13h ago•19 comments

NanoGPT Slowrun: Language Modeling with Limited Data, Infinite Compute

https://qlabs.sh/slowrun
110•sdpmas•6h ago•18 comments

An interactive map of Flock Cams

https://deflock.org/map#map=5/37.125286/-96.284180
476•anjel•5h ago•184 comments

The View from RSS

https://www.carolinecrampton.com/the-view-from-rss/
55•Curiositry•3h ago•13 comments

Extending single-minus amplitudes to gravitons

https://openai.com/index/extending-single-minus-amplitudes-to-gravitons/
4•telotortium•34m ago•0 comments

“It turns out” (2010)

https://jsomers.net/blog/it-turns-out
227•Munksgaard•9h ago•73 comments

Was Windows 1.0's lack of overlapping windows a legal or a technical matter?

https://retrocomputing.stackexchange.com/questions/32511/was-windows-1-0s-lack-of-overlapping-win...
40•SeenNotHeard•4h ago•24 comments

Data Has Weight but Only on SSDs

https://cubiclenate.com/2026/03/04/data-has-weight-but-only-on-ssds-blathering/
60•LorenDB•5h ago•38 comments

NRC Issues First Commercial Reactor Construction Approval in 10 Years [pdf]

https://www.nrc.gov/sites/default/files/cdn/doc-collection-news/2026/26-028.pdf
27•Anon84•2h ago•4 comments

Does that use a lot of energy?

https://hannahritchie.github.io/energy-use-comparisons/
169•speckx•3h ago•136 comments

Qwen3.5 Fine-Tuning Guide – Unsloth Documentation

https://unsloth.ai/docs/models/qwen3.5/fine-tune
252•bilsbie•12h ago•62 comments

Show HN: Vertex.js – A 1kloc SPA Framework

https://lukeb42.github.io/vertex-manual.html
34•LukeB42•3d ago•20 comments

Roboflow (YC S20) Is Hiring a Security Engineer for AI Infra

https://roboflow.com/careers
1•yeldarb•6h ago

Glaze by Raycast

https://www.glazeapp.com/
186•romac•10h ago•114 comments

Daemon (2006)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daemon_(novel)
5•solomonb•7h ago•3 comments

The Rust calling convention we deserve (2024)

https://mcyoung.xyz/2024/04/17/calling-convention/
55•cratermoon•3d ago•10 comments

Raspberry Pi Pico as AM Radio Transmitter

https://www.pesfandiar.com/blog/2026/02/28/pico-am-radio-transmitter
58•pesfandiar•3d ago•28 comments

Libre Solar – Open Hardware for Renewable Energy

https://libre.solar
200•evolve2k•3d ago•59 comments

Making Firefox's right-click not suck with about:config

https://joshua.hu/firefox-making-right-click-not-suck
237•mmsc•6h ago•168 comments

Show HN: A shell-native cd-compatible directory jumper using power-law frecency

https://github.com/jghub/sd-switchdir
8•jghub•13h ago•0 comments

Flip Distance of Convex Triangulations and Tree Rotation Is NP-Complete

https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.22874
7•nill0•4d ago•0 comments

MyFirst Kids Watch Hacked. Access to Camera and Microphone

https://www.kth.se/en/om/nyheter/centrala-nyheter/kth-studenten-hackade-klocka-for-barn-1.1461249
104•jidoka•11h ago•30 comments

Faster C software with Dynamic Feature Detection

https://gist.github.com/jjl/d998164191af59a594500687a679b98d
49•todsacerdoti•5h ago•2 comments

Approximation Game

https://lcamtuf.substack.com/p/approximation-game
11•surprisetalk•4d ago•2 comments