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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."

Whistle: Speech to Text in 16.9 MB

https://cactuscompute.com/blog/whistle
639•gmays•11h ago•138 comments

Reducing undefined behavior in the C language

https://lwn.net/Articles/1095811/
55•signa11•2h ago•29 comments

Keyboard differences between Windows and Macs

https://unsung.aresluna.org/deeper-dive-keyboard-differences-between-windows-and-macs/
37•sohkamyung•1h ago•24 comments

Theranos.world

https://www.theranos.world/
352•kbyatnal•11h ago•127 comments

Man discovers his parents' coffee machine used 1TB of data in 10 days

https://www.dexerto.com/entertainment/man-discovers-his-parents-coffee-machine-used-1tb-of-data-i...
523•ck2•1d ago•326 comments

I hired an illustrator to draw my house. Now it's my Home Assistant dashboard

https://antonfrolov.substack.com/p/i-hired-an-illustrator-to-draw-my
487•soheilpro•2d ago•85 comments

Yes, and

https://htmx.org/essays/yes-and/
278•Michelangelo11•19h ago•81 comments

Why isn't the industry freaking out about DeepSeek 4.1 Flash?

https://www.dgt.is/blog/2026-10-07-deepseek-freek-out/
513•jonotime•1d ago•433 comments

The value of not getting to the point (2015)

https://ken.arneson.name/2015/11/the-value-of-not-getting-to-the-point/
139•NaOH•9h ago•46 comments

AI-ready biological data: $1.8B global commitment

https://biohub.org/news/virtual-biology-initiative-expansion/
97•ray__•8h ago•14 comments

ADHD as a circadian rhythm disorder: evidence and implications for chronotherapy (2025)

https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/psychiatry/articles/10.3389/fpsyt.2025.1697900/full
220•bookofjoe•8h ago•142 comments

ETH-68: Ethernet Audio Interface for Linux

https://naturalsystems.io/eth68
119•chabad360•1d ago•67 comments

Ask HN: What do you run on a $5 VPS that's worth keeping online 24/7?

155•mariocesar•2d ago•253 comments

Beauty in DVD Menus

https://vale.rocks/posts/dvd-menus
281•speckx•15h ago•153 comments

Bevy 0.20

https://bevy.org/news/bevy-0-20/
104•Philpax•6h ago•17 comments

DuckDB Ducklake

https://github.com/duckdb/ducklake
148•saikatsg•1d ago•19 comments

Show HN: Making a flexible "neon" t-shirt with LED filaments

http://scottbezek.blogspot.com/2026/10/making-flexible-neon-t-shirt-with-leds.html
135•scottbez1•12h ago•27 comments

Step 5 Preview, a 1M-context MoE from StepFun, shows up on OpenRouter

https://openrouter.ai/stepfun/step-5-preview
117•AnneWodell•12h ago•26 comments

A 5.3M-year-old deep-sea whale necropolis in the Diamantina Zone

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-026-10546-z
110•bryanrasmussen•1d ago•7 comments

A Terminal Protocol for Program Status (OSC 7501)

https://mitchellh.com/writing/program-status-osc7501
124•mfiguiere•2d ago•40 comments

Scaling and benchmarking a critical message bus using a new indexing strategy

https://blog.janestreet.com/scaling-and-benchmarking-a-critical-message-bus/
31•eatonphil•11h ago•1 comments

Show HN: Jevman – AI decision models play Pac-Man

https://opper.ai/jevman-benchmark/
48•felix089•12h ago•7 comments

Orkut.com

https://orkut.com/
164•andreynering•14h ago•123 comments

Archaeologists Are Reconstructing the 'Invisible' Technologies of the Stone Age

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/archaeologists-are-reconstructing-the-invisible-tec...
119•Hooke•1d ago•51 comments

The Slow Formation of Durable Software

https://newsletter.dancohen.org/archive/the-slow-formation-of-durable-software/
276•benbreen•2d ago•113 comments

US man given prison sentence for bot-farming music streams

https://thequietus.com/news/us-man-given-prison-sentence-for-bot-farming-music-streams/
149•cdrnsf•1d ago•237 comments

OpenAI withdraws three mathematical results

https://twitter.com/danintheory/status/2108065033070789090
267•sashank_1509•21h ago•552 comments

The dawn of the age of the exoskeleton

https://theconversation.com/the-dawn-of-the-age-of-the-exoskeleton-281804
69•speckx•1d ago•39 comments

15-year search for a band that charted once and vanished

https://shahidhussain.com/writing/search-for-salvage/
357•shahidhussain•4d ago•127 comments

I think I found a planet nobody knew existed. I used Claude Code to find it

https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/s/mbe5IY2LF9
122•pyduan•21h ago•51 comments