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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•7mo ago
Ooh, free real estate, let's colonize and gentrify package management
aabhay•7mo ago
Lmao, gentrify cracked me up
neilv•7mo ago
Do these npx business cards run arbitrary code on your computer?
cypherpunks01•7mo 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•7mo 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•7mo ago
Yeah, this seems like a very smart but inherently flawed idea.
cypherpunks01•7mo 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•7mo ago
May as well just release an executable tbh.
theamk•7mo 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•7mo 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•7mo 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."

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https://noheger.at/blog/2026/01/11/the-struggle-of-resizing-windows-on-macos-tahoe/
1843•happosai•14h ago•772 comments

Lightpanda migrate DOM implementation to Zig

https://lightpanda.io/blog/posts/migrating-our-dom-to-zig
43•gearnode•1h ago•10 comments

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125•bookofjoe•4d ago•27 comments

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https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cj9r3zl2ywyo
25•reconnecting•2h ago•6 comments

CLI agents make self-hosting on a home server easier and fun

https://fulghum.io/self-hosting
576•websku•14h ago•376 comments

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https://media.ccc.de/v/39c3-in-house-electronics-manufacturing-from-scratch-how-hard-can-it-be
130•fried-gluttony•2d ago•49 comments

This game is a single 13 KiB file that runs on Windows, Linux and in the Browser

https://iczelia.net/posts/snake-polyglot/
223•snoofydude•13h ago•57 comments

iCloud Photos Downloader

https://github.com/icloud-photos-downloader/icloud_photos_downloader
473•reconnecting•16h ago•200 comments

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https://conbini.kikkia.dev/
59•zdw•5d ago•22 comments

XMPP and Metadata

https://blog.mathieui.net/xmpp-and-metadata.html
24•todsacerdoti•5d ago•0 comments

Show HN: DevicePrint – device fingerprinting without cookies

5•silverrump•5d ago•4 comments

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=il-TXbn5iMA
336•imagiro•4d ago•46 comments

Fossil versus Git

https://fossil-scm.org/home/doc/trunk/www/fossil-v-git.wiki
6•vednig•1h ago•1 comments

Uncrossy

https://uncrossy.com/
86•dgacmu•10h ago•26 comments

The next two years of software engineering

https://addyosmani.com/blog/next-two-years/
165•napolux•13h ago•147 comments

FUSE is All You Need – Giving agents access to anything via filesystems

https://jakobemmerling.de/posts/fuse-is-all-you-need/
152•jakobem•14h ago•53 comments

Sampling at negative temperature

https://cavendishlabs.org/blog/negative-temperature/
176•ag8•15h ago•52 comments

Perfectly Replicating Coca Cola [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TDkH3EbWTYc
235•HansVanEijsden•3d ago•154 comments

Insights into Claude Opus 4.5 from Pokémon

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91•surprisetalk•5d ago•18 comments

Himalayas bare and rocky after reduced winter snowfall, scientists warn

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/clyndv7zd20o
123•koolhead17•8h ago•96 comments

Ask HN: What are you working on? (January 2026)

201•david927•18h ago•648 comments

Garbage collection is contrarian

https://trynova.dev/blog/garbage-collection-is-contrarian
51•aapoalas•2d ago•7 comments

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https://elo-lang.org/
90•ravenical•4d ago•25 comments

Don't fall into the anti-AI hype

https://antirez.com/news/158
1040•todsacerdoti•1d ago•1237 comments

Gadget Exposed a Spy Camera [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1reman2waLs
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Poison Fountain

https://rnsaffn.com/poison3/
207•atomic128•18h ago•122 comments

Xfce is great

https://rubenerd.com/xfce-is-great/
231•mikece•7h ago•153 comments

Erich von Däniken has died

https://daniken.com/en/startseite-english/
96•Kaibeezy•16h ago•164 comments

A set of Idiomatic prod-grade katas for experienced devs transitioning to Go

https://github.com/MedUnes/go-kata
130•medunes•4d ago•23 comments

Show HN: Shellock, a real-time CLI flag explainer for fish shell

https://github.com/ibehnam/shellock
11•behnamoh•5d ago•4 comments