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Building my npx business card

https://ashley.dev/posts/turning-feedback-into-features/
8•edent•1y ago

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steele•1y ago
Ooh, free real estate, let's colonize and gentrify package management
aabhay•1y ago
Lmao, gentrify cracked me up
neilv•1y ago
Do these npx business cards run arbitrary code on your computer?
cypherpunks01•1y 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•1y 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•1y ago
Yeah, this seems like a very smart but inherently flawed idea.
cypherpunks01•1y 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•1y ago
May as well just release an executable tbh.
theamk•1y 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•1y 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•1y 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."

Anthropic's open-source framework for AI-powered vulnerability discovery

https://github.com/anthropics/defending-code-reference-harness
172•binyu•2h ago•61 comments

VoidZero Is Joining Cloudflare

https://blog.cloudflare.com/voidzero-joins-cloudflare/
534•coloneltcb•9h ago•242 comments

IPv6 zones in URLs are a mistake

https://xeiaso.net/notes/2026/ipv6-zones-go-url/
22•xena•1h ago•8 comments

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https://www.anthropic.com/institute/recursive-self-improvement
239•meetpateltech•6h ago•316 comments

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24•permute•44m ago•2 comments

Ian's Secure Shoelace Knot

https://www.fieggen.com/shoelace/secureknot.htm
459•mooreds•11h ago•178 comments

Branchless Quicksort faster than std:sort and pdqsort with C and C++ API

https://tiki.li/blog/blqsort
26•birdculture•2d ago•5 comments

Castor: CERN Advanced STORage Manager

https://castor.web.cern.ch/content/home.html
36•naves•2h ago•14 comments

Retro-Tech Parenting

https://havenweb.org/2026/05/28/retro-tech.html
214•mawise•6h ago•148 comments

KVarN: Native vLLM backend for KV-cache quantization by Huawei

https://github.com/huawei-csl/KVarN
107•theanonymousone•7h ago•10 comments

JLink JTAG Access on the Pinecil

https://danielmangum.com/posts/jlink-jtag-pinecil/
28•hasheddan•2d ago•5 comments

Queen bees emerge from special wax chambers

https://cen.acs.org/materials/biobased-materials/queen-bees-special-wax/104/web/2026/06
7•gmays•1h ago•0 comments

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https://github.com/tejaswigowda/ffmpeg-webCLI
49•tejaswigowda•2h ago•13 comments

Samurai City

https://worksinprogress.co/issue/samurai-city/
69•zdw•2d ago•7 comments

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https://hitoku.me/draft/
5•lostathome•5h ago•0 comments

Iran Shock Jolts Asia and Europe to Speed Up Energy Transition

https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2026-energy-transition-iran-war/
82•toomuchtodo•2h ago•60 comments

I'm skeptical about efforts to revolutionize schooling

https://www.scotthyoung.com/blog/2026/05/27/revolutionize-schooling/
10•andrewstuart•2d ago•1 comments

Zettascale (YC S24) Is Hiring Founding FPGA Engineers

https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/zettascale/jobs/O9S1vqO-founding-engineer-fpga-rtl-asic-arc...
1•el_al•5h ago

My two light switches got stuck in an infinite echo loop

https://docodethatmatters.com/the-infinite-echo-state-mirror-bug/
6•skittleson•2d ago•0 comments

AI, Ashby Engineering, and the future

https://www.ashbyhq.com/blog/engineering/ai-ashby-engineering-and-the-future
39•fredley•8h ago•20 comments

Making Debian or Fedora persistent live images

https://sigwait.org/~alex/blog/2026/05/28/smdBC8.html
47•henry_flower•3d ago•6 comments

Sum-product, unit distances, and number fields

https://www.erdosproblems.com/forum/thread/blog:6
47•robinhouston•3d ago•10 comments

Meta's ships facial recognition on smart glasses

https://www.buchodi.com/meta-glasses-facial-recognition/
168•buchodi•3h ago•159 comments

Mornings and nights no longer exist at 47C: A day in the hottest place in India

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68•mellosouls•2d ago•36 comments

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https://www.mercek.dev/
5•utibeumanah•1h ago•0 comments

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https://uruky.com/?il=en
198•BrunoBernardino•13h ago•187 comments

Gaussian Point Splatting

https://momentsingraphics.de/Siggraph2026.html
169•ibobev•12h ago•65 comments

U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Bay Model

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S._Army_Corps_of_Engineers_Bay_Model
200•tosh•2d ago•52 comments

3D-printed book turns its own G-code into raised lettering

https://www.designboom.com/design/3d-printed-book-manual-darius-ou-benson-chong/
67•surprisetalk•2d ago•26 comments

Ask HN: So what happened to Facebook "localhost" tracking?

68•juliusceasar•10h ago•79 comments