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Building my npx business card

https://ashley.dev/posts/turning-feedback-into-features/
8•edent•9mo ago

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steele•9mo ago
Ooh, free real estate, let's colonize and gentrify package management
aabhay•9mo ago
Lmao, gentrify cracked me up
neilv•9mo ago
Do these npx business cards run arbitrary code on your computer?
cypherpunks01•9mo 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•9mo 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•9mo ago
Yeah, this seems like a very smart but inherently flawed idea.
cypherpunks01•9mo 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•9mo ago
May as well just release an executable tbh.
theamk•9mo 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•9mo 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•9mo 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."

Ada 2022

https://www.adaic.org/ada-resources/standards/ada22/
50•tosh•1h ago•2 comments

Why it takes you and an elephant the same amount of time to poop

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/health/takes-elephant-amount-time-poop
36•Tomte•58m ago•29 comments

Tech employment now significantly worse than the 2008 or 2020 recessions

https://twitter.com/JosephPolitano/status/2029916364664611242
450•enraged_camel•3h ago•304 comments

Show HN: Moongate – Ultima Online server emulator in .NET 10 with Lua scripting

https://github.com/moongate-community/moongatev2
187•squidleon•6h ago•111 comments

Hardening Firefox with Anthropic's Red Team

https://www.anthropic.com/news/mozilla-firefox-security
362•todsacerdoti•9h ago•108 comments

Open Camera is a FOSS Camera App for Android

https://opencamera.org.uk/
165•tetris11•4d ago•75 comments

Launch HN: Palus Finance (YC W26): Better yields on idle cash for startups, SMBs

24•sam_palus•2h ago•32 comments

Apache Otava

https://otava.apache.org/
31•djoldman•5d ago•2 comments

Anthropic, Please Make a New Slack

https://www.fivetran.com/blog/anthropic-please-make-a-new-slack
40•georgewfraser•1h ago•17 comments

Payphone Go

https://walzr.com/payphone-go/
260•walz•4d ago•56 comments

CT Scans of Health Wearables

https://www.lumafield.com/scan-of-the-month/health-wearables
149•radeeyate•7h ago•33 comments

Triplet Superconductor

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2026/02/260221000252.htm
24•jonbaer•4d ago•6 comments

Astra: An open-source observatory control software

https://github.com/ppp-one/astra
65•pppone•5h ago•17 comments

Entomologists use a particle accelerator to image ants at scale

https://spectrum.ieee.org/3d-scanning-particle-accelerator-antscan
65•gmays•5h ago•6 comments

Multifactor (YC F25) Is Hiring an Engineering Lead

https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/multifactor/jobs/lcpd60A-engineering-lead
1•multifactor•4h ago

LibreSprite – open-source pixel art editor

https://libresprite.github.io/
219•nicoloren•11h ago•73 comments

Workers who love ‘synergizing paradigms’ might be bad at their jobs

https://news.cornell.edu/stories/2026/03/workers-who-love-synergizing-paradigms-might-be-bad-thei...
449•Anon84•7h ago•259 comments

Analytic Fog Rendering with Volumetric Primitives (2025)

https://matejlou.blog/2025/02/11/analytic-fog-rendering-with-volumetric-primitives/
72•surprisetalk•1d ago•3 comments

A tool that removes censorship from open-weight LLMs

https://github.com/elder-plinius/OBLITERATUS
54•mvdwoord•6h ago•26 comments

Good Bad ISPs

https://community.torproject.org/relay/community-resources/good-bad-isps/
79•rzk•6h ago•25 comments

Global warming has accelerated significantly

https://www.researchsquare.com/article/rs-6079807/v1
833•morsch•7h ago•818 comments

Show HN: Claude-replay – A video-like player for Claude Code sessions

https://github.com/es617/claude-replay
39•es617•5h ago•19 comments

Show HN: A trainable, modular electronic nose for industrial use

https://sniphi.com/
24•kwitczak•3d ago•10 comments

Paul Brainerd, founder of Aldus PageMaker, has died

https://blog.adafruit.com/2026/03/04/pagemaker-and-aldus-founder-pioneer-paul-brainerd-1947-2026/
107•fortran77•5h ago•21 comments

Show HN: Reconstruct any image using primitive shapes, runs in-browser via WASM

https://github.com/taiseiue/primitive-playground
3•taiseiue•3d ago•0 comments

We might all be AI engineers now

https://yasint.dev/we-might-all-be-ai-engineers-now/
132•sn0wflak3s•12h ago•186 comments

Supertoast tables

https://hatchet.run/blog/supertoast-tables
42•abelanger•4h ago•5 comments

TypeScript 6.0 RC

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/typescript/announcing-typescript-6-0-rc/
17•johnz•56m ago•2 comments

It took four years until 2011’s iOS 5 gave everyone an emoji keyboard

https://unsung.aresluna.org/im-obviously-taking-a-risk-here-by-advertising-emoji-directly/
116•tobr•13h ago•69 comments

70k Books Found in Hidden Library in This Germany Home (2023)

https://bookstr.com/article/70k-books-found-in-hidden-library-in-this-germany-home/
60•eatonphil•8h ago•34 comments