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Building my npx business card

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

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steele•8mo ago
Ooh, free real estate, let's colonize and gentrify package management
aabhay•8mo ago
Lmao, gentrify cracked me up
neilv•8mo ago
Do these npx business cards run arbitrary code on your computer?
cypherpunks01•8mo 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•8mo 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•8mo ago
Yeah, this seems like a very smart but inherently flawed idea.
cypherpunks01•8mo 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•8mo ago
May as well just release an executable tbh.
theamk•8mo 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•8mo 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•8mo 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."

OpenBSD-current now runs as guest under Apple Hypervisor

https://www.undeadly.org/cgi?action=article;sid=20260115203619
207•gpi•5h ago•19 comments

List of individual trees

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_individual_trees
82•wilson090•8h ago•23 comments

Apple is fighting for TSMC capacity as Nvidia takes center stage

https://www.culpium.com/p/exclusiveapple-is-fighting-for-tsmc
663•speckx•17h ago•394 comments

Pocket TTS: A high quality TTS that gives your CPU a voice

https://kyutai.org/blog/2026-01-13-pocket-tts
380•pain_perdu•1d ago•77 comments

Briar keeps Iran connected via Bluetooth and Wi-Fi when the internet goes dark

https://briarproject.org/manual/fa/
308•us321•13h ago•137 comments

Primecoin and Cunningham Prime Chains

https://www.johndcook.com/blog/2026/01/10/prime-chains/
10•ibobev•4d ago•0 comments

Inside The Internet Archive's Infrastructure

https://hackernoon.com/the-long-now-of-the-web-inside-the-internet-archives-fight-against-forgetting
324•dvrp•2d ago•80 comments

Building a better Bugbot

https://cursor.com/blog/building-bugbot
23•onurkanbkrc•1h ago•2 comments

Linux boxes via SSH: suspended when disconected

https://shellbox.dev/
189•messh•12h ago•108 comments

My Gripes with Prolog

https://buttondown.com/hillelwayne/archive/my-gripes-with-prolog/
88•azhenley•8h ago•43 comments

All 23-Bit Still Lifes Are Glider Constructible

https://mvr.github.io/posts/xs23.html
78•HeliumHydride•8h ago•7 comments

Ask HN: How can we solve the loneliness epidemic?

555•publicdebates•15h ago•874 comments

Claude is good at assembling blocks, but still falls apart at creating them

https://www.approachwithalacrity.com/claude-ne/
233•bblcla•1d ago•168 comments

Boeing knew of flaw in part linked to UPS plane crash, NTSB report says

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cly56w0p9e1o
128•1659447091•4h ago•49 comments

Data is the only moat

https://frontierai.substack.com/p/data-is-your-only-moat
135•cgwu•13h ago•29 comments

JuiceFS is a distributed POSIX file system built on top of Redis and S3

https://github.com/juicedata/juicefs
142•tosh•13h ago•86 comments

Show HN: OpenWork – An open-source alternative to Claude Cowork

https://github.com/different-ai/openwork
183•ben_talent•2d ago•36 comments

Go-legacy-winxp: Compile Golang 1.24 code for Windows XP

https://github.com/syncguy/go-legacy-winxp/tree/winxp-compat
101•Oxodao•3d ago•43 comments

I Built a 1 Petabyte Server from Scratch [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vVI7atoAeoo
52•zdw•5d ago•17 comments

What a Programmer Does (1967) [pdf]

http://archive.computerhistory.org/resources/text/Knuth_Don_X4100/PDF_index/k-9-pdf/k-9-u2769-1-B...
62•nz•5d ago•7 comments

First impressions of Claude Cowork

https://simonw.substack.com/p/first-impressions-of-claude-cowork
190•stosssik•2d ago•102 comments

Show HN: BGP Scout – BGP Network Browser

https://bgpscout.io/
8•hivedc•7h ago•4 comments

Show HN: Timberlogs – Drop-in structured logging for TypeScript

4•enaboapps•2d ago•3 comments

Tldraw pauses external contributions due to AI slop

https://github.com/tldraw/tldraw/issues/7695
108•pranav_rajs•9h ago•39 comments

Show HN: Gambit, an open-source agent harness for building reliable AI agents

https://github.com/bolt-foundry/gambit
70•randall•8h ago•13 comments

CVEs affecting the Svelte ecosystem

https://svelte.dev/blog/cves-affecting-the-svelte-ecosystem
153•tobr•14h ago•27 comments

Show HN: Reversing YouTube’s “Most Replayed” Graph

https://priyavr.at/blog/reversing-most-replayed/
46•prvt•6h ago•15 comments

Aviator (YC S21) is hiring to build multiplayer AI coding platform

https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/aviator/jobs
1•ankitdce•11h ago

Supply Chain Vuln Compromised Core AWS GitHub Repos & Threatened the AWS Console

https://www.wiz.io/blog/wiz-research-codebreach-vulnerability-aws-codebuild
122•uvuv•15h ago•26 comments

25 Years of Wikipedia

https://wikipedia25.org
498•easton•19h ago•391 comments