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Building my npx business card

https://ashley.dev/posts/turning-feedback-into-features/
8•edent•10mo ago

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steele•10mo ago
Ooh, free real estate, let's colonize and gentrify package management
aabhay•10mo ago
Lmao, gentrify cracked me up
neilv•10mo ago
Do these npx business cards run arbitrary code on your computer?
cypherpunks01•10mo 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•10mo 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•10mo ago
Yeah, this seems like a very smart but inherently flawed idea.
cypherpunks01•10mo 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•10mo ago
May as well just release an executable tbh.
theamk•10mo 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•10mo 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•10mo 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."

LittleSnitch for Linux

https://obdev.at/products/littlesnitch-linux/index.html
210•pluc•2h ago•76 comments

I ported Mac OS X to the Nintendo Wii

https://bryankeller.github.io/2026/04/08/porting-mac-os-x-nintendo-wii.html
1299•blkhp19•11h ago•218 comments

USB for Software Developers: An introduction to writing userspace USB drivers

https://werwolv.net/posts/usb_for_sw_devs/
197•WerWolv•7h ago•29 comments

Understanding the Kalman filter with a simple radar example

https://kalmanfilter.net
250•alex_be•9h ago•34 comments

What does it mean to “write like you talk”?

https://arjunpanickssery.substack.com/p/what-does-it-mean-to-write-like-you
41•surprisetalk•2d ago•37 comments

They're made out of meat (1991)

http://www.terrybisson.com/theyre-made-out-of-meat-2/
425•surprisetalk•15h ago•126 comments

Muse Spark: Scaling towards personal superintelligence

https://ai.meta.com/blog/introducing-muse-spark-msl/?_fb_noscript=1
286•chabons•10h ago•299 comments

Six (and a half) intuitions for KL divergence

https://www.perfectlynormal.co.uk/blog-kl-divergence
18•jxmorris12•1d ago•0 comments

ML promises to be profoundly weird

https://aphyr.com/posts/411-the-future-of-everything-is-lies-i-guess
400•pabs3•13h ago•433 comments

Git commands I run before reading any code

https://piechowski.io/post/git-commands-before-reading-code/
1839•grepsedawk•18h ago•391 comments

Expanding Swift's IDE Support

https://swift.org/blog/expanding-swift-ide-support/
83•frizlab•7h ago•39 comments

I imported the full Linux kernel git history into pgit

https://oseifert.ch/blog/linux-kernel-pgit
75•ImGajeed76•3d ago•11 comments

Who is Satoshi Nakamoto? My quest to unmask Bitcoin's creator

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/08/business/bitcoin-satoshi-nakamoto-identity-adam-back.html
328•jfirebaugh•22h ago•265 comments

MegaTrain: Full Precision Training of 100B+ Parameter LLMs on a Single GPU

https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.05091
264•chrsw•14h ago•48 comments

The Importance of Being Idle

https://theamericanscholar.org/the-importance-of-being-idle/
13•Caiero•2d ago•2 comments

Understanding Traceroute

https://tech.stonecharioteer.com/posts/2026/traceroute/
96•stonecharioteer•2d ago•13 comments

John Deere to pay $99M in right-to-repair settlement

https://www.thedrive.com/news/john-deere-to-pay-99-million-in-monumental-right-to-repair-settlement
191•CharlesW•6h ago•51 comments

Newly created Polymarket accounts win big on well-timed Iran ceasefire bets

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2026/apr/08/polymarket-trump-us-iran-ceasefire
33•mitchbob•2h ago•10 comments

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275•anonfunction•5h ago•129 comments

Ask HN: Any interesting niche hobbies?

273•e-topy•3d ago•410 comments

We moved Railway's frontend off Next.js. Builds went from 10+ mins to under 2

https://blog.railway.com/p/moving-railways-frontend-off-nextjs
184•bundie•20h ago•174 comments

Show HN: Orange Juice – Small UX improvements that make HN easier to read

http://oj-hn.com/
89•latchkey•8h ago•119 comments

I've been waiting over a month for Anthropic to respond to my billing issue

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290•nickvec•9h ago•143 comments

Show HN: Tired of logic in useEffect, I built a class-based React state manager

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21•thalesfp•5h ago•39 comments

US cities are axing Flock Safety surveillance technology

https://www.cnet.com/home/security/when-flock-comes-to-town-why-cities-are-axing-the-controversia...
643•giuliomagnifico•14h ago•377 comments

Teardown of unreleased LG Rollable shows why rollable phones aren't a thing

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026/04/teardown-of-unreleased-lg-rollable-shows-why-rollable-pho...
85•DamnInteresting•1d ago•37 comments

Audio Reactive LED Strips Are Diabolically Hard

https://scottlawsonbc.com/post/audio-led
201•surprisetalk•1d ago•57 comments

Show HN: Skrun – Deploy any agent skill as an API

https://github.com/skrun-dev/skrun
46•frizull•14h ago•9 comments

Microsoft terminates VeraCrypt account, halting Windows updates

https://www.404media.co/microsoft-abruptly-terminates-veracrypt-account-halting-windows-updates/
481•donohoe•12h ago•185 comments

Veracrypt project update

https://sourceforge.net/p/veracrypt/discussion/general/thread/9620d7a4b3/
1154•super256•19h ago•426 comments