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Building my npx business card

https://ashley.dev/posts/turning-feedback-into-features/
8•edent•6mo ago

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steele•6mo ago
Ooh, free real estate, let's colonize and gentrify package management
aabhay•6mo ago
Lmao, gentrify cracked me up
neilv•6mo ago
Do these npx business cards run arbitrary code on your computer?
cypherpunks01•6mo 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•6mo 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•6mo ago
Yeah, this seems like a very smart but inherently flawed idea.
cypherpunks01•6mo 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•6mo ago
May as well just release an executable tbh.
theamk•6mo 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•6mo 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•6mo 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."

Pocketbase – open-source realtime back end in 1 file

https://pocketbase.io/
68•modinfo•2h ago•17 comments

TigerStyle: Coding philosophy focused on safety, performance, dev experience

https://tigerstyle.dev/
17•nateb2022•1h ago•3 comments

How Charles M Schulz created Charlie Brown and Snoopy (2024)

https://www.bbc.com/culture/article/20241205-how-charles-m-schulz-created-charlie-brown-and-snoopy
109•1659447091•6h ago•41 comments

Same-day upstream Linux support for Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5

https://www.qualcomm.com/developer/blog/2025/10/same-day-snapdragon-8-elite-gen-5-upstream-linux-...
375•mfilion•13h ago•179 comments

Vsora Jotunn-8 5nm European inference chip

https://vsora.com/products/jotunn-8/
59•rdg42•6h ago•13 comments

250MWh 'Sand Battery' to start construction in Finland

https://www.energy-storage.news/250mwh-sand-battery-to-start-construction-in-finland-for-both-hea...
208•doener•7h ago•95 comments

Physicists drive antihydrogen breakthrough at CERN

https://phys.org/news/2025-11-physicists-antihydrogen-breakthrough-cern-technique.html
163•naves•5d ago•45 comments

China's BEV Trucks and the End of Diesel's Dominance

https://cleantechnica.com/2025/11/26/chinas-bev-trucks-and-the-end-of-diesels-dominance/
63•xbmcuser•2h ago•27 comments

A programmer-friendly I/O abstraction over io_uring and kqueue (2022)

https://tigerbeetle.com/blog/2022-11-23-a-friendly-abstraction-over-iouring-and-kqueue/
60•enz•7h ago•19 comments

Quake Engine Indicators

https://fabiensanglard.net/quake_indicators/index.html
224•liquid_x•3d ago•48 comments

Maxduino Review: Tape Cassette Emulator for Multiple Retro Computers

https://retrogamecoders.com/maxduino-review/
29•ibobev•3d ago•0 comments

Feedback doesn't scale

https://another.rodeo/feedback/
144•ohjeez•1d ago•53 comments

Memories of .us

https://computer.rip/2025-11-11-dot-us.html
144•sabas_ge•1d ago•48 comments

Migrating to Positron, a next-generation data science IDE for Python and R

https://posit.co/blog/positron-migration-guides
8•ionychal•2h ago•4 comments

Experimenting with Robin Hood Hashing

https://twdev.blog/2025/11/robin_hood/
8•signa11•4d ago•1 comments

Indie, alone, and figuring it out

https://danijelavrzan.com/posts/2025/11/indie-dev/
57•wallflower•4d ago•7 comments

GitLab discovers widespread NPM supply chain attack

https://about.gitlab.com/blog/gitlab-discovers-widespread-npm-supply-chain-attack/
93•OuterVale•14h ago•36 comments

Tell HN: Happy Thanksgiving

645•prodigycorp•1d ago•160 comments

Installing Java in 2025, and Version Managers

https://blog.hakanserce.com/post/version_managers/
7•hakanserce•3d ago•2 comments

Implementing Bluetooth LE Audio and Auracast on Linux Systems

https://www.collabora.com/news-and-blog/blog/2025/11/24/implementing-bluetooth-le-audio-and-aurac...
8•losgehts•3d ago•0 comments

Giving the Jakks Atari Paddle a Spin

https://nicole.express/2025/paddle-me-atari.html
25•ingve•4d ago•0 comments

Underrated reasons to be thankful V

https://dynomight.net/thanks-5/
170•numeri•9h ago•76 comments

DeepSeekMath-V2: Towards Self-Verifiable Mathematical Reasoning [pdf]

https://github.com/deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-Math-V2/blob/main/DeepSeekMath_V2.pdf
170•fspeech•10h ago•36 comments

DIY NAS: 2026 Edition

https://blog.briancmoses.com/2025/11/diy-nas-2026-edition.html
416•sashk•1d ago•267 comments

Bird flu viruses are resistant to fever, making them a major threat to humans

https://medicalxpress.com/news/2025-11-bird-flu-viruses-resistant-fever.html
96•bikenaga•6h ago•79 comments

TPUs vs. GPUs and why Google is positioned to win AI race in the long term

https://www.uncoveralpha.com/p/the-chip-made-for-the-ai-inference
326•vegasbrianc•16h ago•240 comments

ML-KEM Mythbusting

https://keymaterial.net/2025/11/27/ml-kem-mythbusting/
17•durumcrustulum•6h ago•3 comments

Overlord: AI accountability that watches over you

https://overlord.app/
6•joshmit•4h ago•6 comments

Mixpanel Security Breach

https://mixpanel.com/blog/sms-security-incident/
226•jaredwiener•23h ago•108 comments

Coq: The World's Best Macro Assembler? (2013) [pdf]

https://nickbenton.name/coqasm.pdf
153•addaon•1d ago•67 comments