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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."

Show HN: I put employees inside S&P 500 market-cap bubbles

https://bigwhalehunting.com/workforce/
43•vfxGer•49m ago•12 comments

Tool book of a Nuremberg knight from 1505

https://loeffelholz-codex.org/en/
117•edwardog•3h ago•56 comments

fheroes2: A recreation of Heroes of Might and Magic II game engine

https://github.com/ihhub/fheroes2
118•tosh•4h ago•38 comments

A Few Thoughts on Intensity

https://www.tylerhogge.com/blog/a-few-thoughts-on-intensity/
15•andsoitis•1h ago•2 comments

Show HN: Farol – a risk map of a pull request for the person who approves it

https://github.com/winnin/farol
38•ericholiveira•2h ago•22 comments

We should be more ambitious with the software we build

https://danluu.com/ambitious/
579•ltratt•18h ago•557 comments

Cerebras Deploys Trillion-Parameter AI Models

https://www.cerebras.ai/blog/how-we-deploy-trillion-parameter-frontier-models-on-cerebras
272•gmays•14h ago•92 comments

Washing machines took decades to catch on

https://daily.jstor.org/why-washing-machines-took-decades-to-catch-on/
13•herbertl•5d ago•7 comments

Samsung running a TensorFlow lite model on 960x540 image to track you

https://twitter.com/mike64_t/status/2114150399406202896
230•mashally•5h ago•144 comments

How Japanese Dried Bonito Is Made

https://kottke.org/26/10/how-japanese-dried-bonito-is-made
128•bookofjoe•3d ago•33 comments

The Goose Programming Language

https://aardappel.github.io/goose/
505•bobbydigitales•20h ago•305 comments

Reverse engineer of PC-98 Touhou games retires

https://rec98.nmlgc.net/blog/2026-10-05
43•mimasama•2d ago•31 comments

Imagine an AI future where being banned means you are now economically useless

https://twitter.com/boneGPT/status/2114035719853265264
41•MrBuddyCasino•3h ago•28 comments

Samsung TVs look for microphones in your house via Bluetooth and then spy events

https://twitter.com/freddier/status/2114042326758867453
27•taubek•2h ago•11 comments

Nikon photography contest winner loses title after scientists spot signs of AI

https://www.techspot.com/news/114171-nikon-photography-contest-winner-loses-title-after-scientist...
80•thunderbong•6h ago•20 comments

SpeedCrunch 1.1

https://www.speedcrunch.org/
194•LordNibbler•20h ago•38 comments

Small Programs and Languages

https://ratfactor.com/cards/pl-small
157•andsoitis•18h ago•23 comments

Local Wikipedia: Wikipedia, but only for things a half hour walk from you

https://edjefferson.com/localwiki/
1633•sohkamyung•2d ago•251 comments

Broccoli2Shell: Brotli decoder RCE in Node.js, Python and more

https://broccoli2shell.com/
355•theanonymousone•1d ago•180 comments

I don't understand quantum physics (2018)

https://www.southampton.ac.uk/~doug/quantum_physics/index.html
352•rramadass•1d ago•268 comments

America has lost 200k of jobs in media, film and the arts. How much is AI?

https://www.apricitas.io/p/ai-and-the-fall-of-the-creative-class
439•gnabgib•16h ago•458 comments

The Importance of Limitations for Creativity and Learning (2023)

https://ratfactor.com/cards/limitations
106•andsoitis•18h ago•33 comments

I Built a Stereo Vision Board for Hardware Hackers

https://rootkitlabs.com/2026/10/06/i-built-a-stereo-vision-board-for-hardware-hackers/
109•machinehum•4d ago•17 comments

FreeDNS

https://freedns.afraid.org/
327•esher•1d ago•86 comments

GPU-unlock: FP/BF16 instruction issue rate on Nvidia 3000's cards

https://github.com/Zagitta/gpu-unlock
302•fragebogen•1d ago•74 comments

Social dynamics of toxic metal industry in medieval Europe

https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/antiquity/article/social-dynamics-of-toxic-metal-industry...
71•XzetaU8•4d ago•35 comments

Neural chip decodes interactions between brain regions

https://actu.epfl.ch/news/neural-chip-decodes-interactions-between-brain-r-2/
126•giuliomagnifico•23h ago•46 comments

Physicists trap a single antimatter particle for a month

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/physicists-trap-a-single-antimatter-particle-for-a-month/
331•mooreds•3d ago•99 comments

A story of a Figma bug that wasn't a bug at all (2021)

https://aresluna.org/this-is-a-story-of-a-figma-bug/
58•jllyhill•3d ago•5 comments

The St. Helena 5 pence coin shows Jonathan, a roughly 190 year old tortoise

https://de.numista.com/9866
130•schleck8•23h ago•44 comments