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Building my npx business card

https://ashley.dev/posts/turning-feedback-into-features/
8•edent•11mo ago

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steele•11mo ago
Ooh, free real estate, let's colonize and gentrify package management
aabhay•11mo ago
Lmao, gentrify cracked me up
neilv•11mo ago
Do these npx business cards run arbitrary code on your computer?
cypherpunks01•11mo 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•11mo 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•11mo ago
Yeah, this seems like a very smart but inherently flawed idea.
cypherpunks01•11mo 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•11mo ago
May as well just release an executable tbh.
theamk•11mo 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•11mo 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•11mo 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."

I am building a cloud

https://crawshaw.io/blog/building-a-cloud
391•bumbledraven•6h ago•192 comments

Alberta startup sells no-tech tractors for half price

https://wheelfront.com/this-alberta-startup-sells-no-tech-tractors-for-half-price/
1800•Kaibeezy•18h ago•578 comments

Your hex editor should color-code bytes

https://simonomi.dev/blog/color-code-your-bytes/
110•tobr•2d ago•18 comments

Apple fixes bug that cops used to extract deleted chat messages from iPhones

https://techcrunch.com/2026/04/22/apple-fixes-bug-that-cops-used-to-extract-deleted-chat-messages...
620•cdrnsf•14h ago•151 comments

Fundamental Theorem of Calculus

https://david.alvarezrosa.com/posts/fundamental-theorem-of-calculus/
17•dalvrosa•9h ago•7 comments

We found a stable Firefox identifier linking all your private Tor identities

https://fingerprint.com/blog/firefox-tor-indexeddb-privacy-vulnerability/
720•danpinto•17h ago•209 comments

5x5 Pixel font for tiny screens

https://maurycyz.com/projects/mcufont/
643•zdw•3d ago•132 comments

Our newsroom AI policy

https://arstechnica.com/staff/2026/04/our-newsroom-ai-policy/
62•zdw•5h ago•44 comments

Isopods of the world

https://isopod.site/
12•debesyla•2d ago•1 comments

A True Life Hack: What Physical 'Life Force' Turns Biology's Wheels?

https://www.quantamagazine.org/what-physical-life-force-turns-biologys-wheels-20260420/
84•Prof_Sigmund•2d ago•16 comments

The Onion to Take over InfoWars

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/20/business/infowars-alex-jones-the-onion.html
179•lxm•2d ago•57 comments

Over-editing refers to a model modifying code beyond what is necessary

https://nrehiew.github.io/blog/minimal_editing/
371•pella•16h ago•207 comments

Website streamed live directly from a model

https://flipbook.page/
290•sethbannon•16h ago•78 comments

Tempest vs. Tempest: The Making and Remaking of Atari's Iconic Video Game

https://tempest.homemade.systems
81•mwenge•9h ago•25 comments

An amateur historian's favorite books about the Silk Road

https://bookdna.com/best-books/silk-road
19•bwb•1d ago•12 comments

Arch Linux Now Has a Bit-for-Bit Reproducible Docker Image

https://antiz.fr/blog/archlinux-now-has-a-reproducible-docker-image/
74•maxloh•8h ago•16 comments

Technical, cognitive, and intent debt

https://martinfowler.com/fragments/2026-04-02.html
266•theorchid•18h ago•69 comments

Parallel agents in Zed

https://zed.dev/blog/parallel-agents
232•ajeetdsouza•17h ago•124 comments

Ping-pong robot beats top-level human players

https://www.reuters.com/sports/ping-pong-robot-ace-makes-history-by-beating-top-level-human-playe...
124•wslh•19h ago•160 comments

Qwen3.6-27B: Flagship-Level Coding in a 27B Dense Model

https://qwen.ai/blog?id=qwen3.6-27b
860•mfiguiere•21h ago•397 comments

MacBook Neo and How the iPad Should Be

https://craigmod.com/essays/ipad_neo/
27•jen729w•6h ago•10 comments

Plexus P/20 Emulator

https://spritetm.github.io/plexus_20_emu/
20•hggh•3d ago•2 comments

Ultraviolet corona discharges on treetops during storms

https://www.psu.edu/news/earth-and-mineral-sciences/story/treetops-glowing-during-storms-captured...
238•t-3•21h ago•65 comments

Scoring Show HN submissions for AI design patterns

https://www.adriankrebs.ch/blog/design-slop/
311•hubraumhugo•20h ago•225 comments

Books are not too expensive

https://www.millersbookreview.com/p/no-books-are-not-remotely-too-expensive
56•herbertl•2d ago•65 comments

OpenAI's response to the Axios developer tool compromise

https://openai.com/index/axios-developer-tool-compromise/
76•shpat•10h ago•48 comments

Verus is a tool for verifying the correctness of code written in Rust

https://verus-lang.github.io/verus/guide/
58•fanf2•2d ago•11 comments

Bring Your Agent to Teams

https://microsoft.github.io/teams-sdk/blog/bring-your-agent-to-teams/
64•umangsehgal93•12h ago•50 comments

Borrow-checking without type-checking

https://www.scattered-thoughts.net/writing/borrow-checking-without-type-checking/
61•jamii•7h ago•16 comments

Bodega cats of New York

https://bodegacatsofnewyork.com
198•zdw•5d ago•79 comments