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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."

Project Glasswing: Securing critical software for the AI era

https://www.anthropic.com/glasswing
486•Ryan5453•2h ago•197 comments

System Card: Claude Mythos Preview [pdf]

https://www-cdn.anthropic.com/53566bf5440a10affd749724787c8913a2ae0841.pdf
320•be7a•2h ago•200 comments

S3 Files and the changing face of S3

https://www.allthingsdistributed.com/2026/04/s3-files-and-the-changing-face-of-s3.html
64•werner•1h ago•15 comments

GLM-5.1: Towards Long-Horizon Tasks

https://z.ai/blog/glm-5.1
303•zixuanlimit•4h ago•93 comments

Cambodia unveils a statue of famous landmine-sniffing rat Magawa

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c0rx7xzd10xo
179•speckx•3h ago•37 comments

Show HN: Gemma 4 Multimodal Fine-Tuner for Apple Silicon

https://github.com/mattmireles/gemma-tuner-multimodal
41•MediaSquirrel•1h ago•6 comments

A truck driver spent 20 years making a scale model of every building in NYC

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/a-truck-drive-spent-20-years-making-this-astonishing-sc...
142•1659447091•1d ago•20 comments

How to Get Better at Guitar

https://www.jakeworth.com/posts/how-to-get-better-at-guitar/
34•jwworth•2d ago•6 comments

Show HN: Brutalist Concrete Laptop Stand (2024)

https://sam-burns.com/posts/concrete-laptop-stand/
644•sam-bee•9h ago•200 comments

Rescuing old printers with an in-browser Linux VM bridged to WebUSB over USB/IP

https://printervention.app/details
108•gmac•4h ago•32 comments

Cloudflare targets 2029 for full post-quantum security

https://blog.cloudflare.com/post-quantum-roadmap/
213•ilreb•6h ago•72 comments

Assessing Claude Mythos Preview's cybersecurity capabilities

https://red.anthropic.com/2026/mythos-preview/
171•sweis•2h ago•22 comments

The Image Boards of Hayao Miyazaki

https://animationobsessive.substack.com/p/the-image-boards-of-hayao-miyazaki
32•vinhnx•1d ago•5 comments

Google open-sources experimental agent orchestration testbed Scion

https://www.infoq.com/news/2026/04/google-agent-testbed-scion/
114•timbilt•7h ago•37 comments

AI helps add 10k more photos to OldNYC

https://www.danvk.org/2026/03/08/oldnyc-updates.html
83•evakhoury•1d ago•28 comments

Taste in the age of AI and LLMs

https://rajnandan.com/posts/taste-in-the-age-of-ai-and-llms/
179•speckx•4h ago•162 comments

We found an undocumented bug in the Apollo 11 guidance computer code

https://www.juxt.pro/blog/a-bug-on-the-dark-side-of-the-moon/
351•henrygarner•10h ago•174 comments

How a blind man made it possible for others with low vision to build Lego sets

https://apnews.com/article/lego-bricks-for-blind-audio-braille-instructions-5a2a27de4354a0b144317...
17•speckx•6h ago•4 comments

John Coltrane Illustrates the Mathematics of Jazz

https://www.americanjazzmusicsociety.com/blog/john-coltrane-draws
72•luu•14h ago•5 comments

9 Mothers (YC P26) Is Hiring – Lead Robotics and More

https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/9-mothers?utm_source=x8pZ4B3P3Q
1•ukd1•7h ago

Cells for NetBSD: kernel-enforced, jail-like isolation

https://netbsd-cells.petermann-digital.de/
9•akagusu•58m ago•2 comments

Tailslayer: Library for reducing tail latency in RAM reads

https://github.com/LaurieWired/tailslayer
16•hasheddan•1h ago•2 comments

Boneyard: Generate pixel-perfect skeleton screens from your real DOM

https://github.com/0xGF/boneyard
14•steveharing1•4d ago•6 comments

A new Postcrossing stamp from the USA

https://www.postcrossing.com/blog/2026/03/31/a-new-postcrossing-stamp-from-the-usa
61•Tomte•4d ago•20 comments

Moving fast in hardware: lessons from lab to $100M ARR

https://blog.zacka.io/p/simplify-then-add-lightness-bc4
84•rryan•5h ago•22 comments

12k Tons of Dumped Orange Peel Grew into a Landscape Nobody Expected (2017)

https://www.sciencealert.com/how-12-000-tonnes-of-dumped-orange-peel-produced-something-nobody-im...
224•pulisse•5h ago•89 comments

Emotion Concepts and Their Function in a Large Language Model

https://transformer-circuits.pub/2026/emotions/index.html
45•Anon84•3d ago•5 comments

Dropping Cloudflare for Bunny.net

https://jola.dev/posts/dropping-cloudflare
345•shintoist•7h ago•179 comments

Every GPU That Mattered

https://sheets.works/data-viz/every-gpu
288•jonbaer•12h ago•170 comments

SQLite in Production: Lessons from Running a Store on a Single File

https://ultrathink.art/blog/sqlite-in-production-lessons
163•thunderbong•3d ago•102 comments