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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."

EU Open Sources Ten-Year Network Development Planning Tools

https://github.com/open-energy-transition/open-tyndp
78•lyoncy•1h ago•21 comments

5k Restaurant Menus, Years 1880-1920

https://pudding.cool/2026/06/menu-collection/
29•xbryanx•48m ago•3 comments

The curious case of the disappearing Polish S (2015)

https://aresluna.org/the-curious-case-of-the-disappearing-polish-s/
72•colinprince•2h ago•21 comments

A way to exclude sensitive files issue still open for OpenAI Codex

https://github.com/openai/codex/issues/2847
89•pikseladam•3h ago•61 comments

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https://www.engadget.com/2203000/flock-cameras-recording-license-plate/
94•SanjayMehta•57m ago•32 comments

Do Babies Dream of Baby Sheep?

https://devz.cl/posts/do-babies-dream-of-electric-sheep/
16•DanielVZ•3d ago•3 comments

EU to legislate about Chat Control behind closed doors

https://www.patrick-breyer.de/en/double-threat-to-private-communications-undemocratic-chat-contro...
69•NeutralForest•52m ago•17 comments

Ask HN: Is there a bad employers (who have a records of not paying) list?

34•trowa159•1h ago•39 comments

Marfa Public Radio Puts You to Sleep

https://www.marfapublicradio.org/podcast/marfa-public-radio-puts-you-to-sleep
335•reaperducer•13h ago•96 comments

Michigan bill would bar employers from requiring after-hours coms with workers

https://www.cbsnews.com/detroit/news/workplace-boundaries-act-employees-after-hours/
24•cebert•47m ago•8 comments

Google limits Meta's use of its Gemini AI models

https://www.cnbc.com/2026/06/28/google-limits-metas-use-of-its-gemini-ai-models-ft-reports.html
60•root-parent•2h ago•16 comments

DLL that was not present in memory despite not being formally unloaded

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20260625-00/?p=112467
70•ibobev•5h ago•30 comments

The MUMPS 76 Primer – anniversary edition

https://github.com/rochus-keller/MUMPS/blob/main/docs/MUMPS_Primer.adoc
24•Rochus•2h ago•11 comments

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49•pseudolus•2h ago•20 comments

Bringing Swift to the Apple ][

https://yeokhengmeng.com/2026/06/swift-on-apple-ii/
24•LucidLynx•3d ago•2 comments

AMD Strix Halo RDMA Cluster Setup Guide

https://github.com/kyuz0/amd-strix-halo-vllm-toolboxes/blob/main/rdma_cluster/setup_guide.md
199•jakogut•14h ago•59 comments

Bashblog – a single bash script to create blogs

https://github.com/cfenollosa/bashblog
83•ludicrousdispla•10h ago•62 comments

Anonymous GitHub account mass-dropping undisclosed 0-days

https://github.com/bikini/exploitarium
893•binyu•1d ago•349 comments

Austria Lobbies EU to Host Anthropic After US Access Curbs

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-06-28/austria-lobbies-eu-to-host-anthropic-after-us-...
59•root-parent•1h ago•47 comments

California legislature agrees to upload driver's licenses to national database

https://papersplease.org/wp/2026/06/27/california-legislature-agrees-to-upload-drivers-licenses-t...
5•iamnothere•10m ago•0 comments

Choosing a Public DNS Resolver

https://evilbit.de/dns-resolver-guide.html
234•pawal•17h ago•101 comments

Wayfinder Router: deterministic routing of queries between local and hosted LLM

https://github.com/itsthelore/wayfinder-router
93•handfuloflight•11h ago•48 comments

Show HN: Decomp Academy – Learn to decompile GameCube games into matching C

https://decomp-academy.dev
164•jackpriceburns•14h ago•66 comments

A stray "j" ruined my evening

https://napkins.mtmn.name/posts/stray-jay.html
42•birdculture•4d ago•26 comments

Mobile Web Computing Before Smartphones. (University of Liverpool, ~2010) [pdf]

https://cgi.csc.liv.ac.uk/~trp/Teaching_Resources/COMP327/327-Lecture4-MobileWeb.pdf
11•rfmoz•3d ago•1 comments

Engineering for Bounded Cognition

https://shapeofthesystem.com/posts/2026/02/03/bounded-cognition
92•supermatt•2d ago•21 comments

Space Shuttle Endeavour's 20-story vertical display

https://californiasciencecenter.org/about-us/samuel-oschin-air-and-space-center/go-for-stack
87•uticus•2d ago•18 comments

Regular expressions that work “everywhere”

https://www.johndcook.com/blog/2026/06/23/regex-everywhere/
81•ColinWright•3d ago•32 comments

WAL-RUS: a Rust Rewrite of WAL-G for PostgreSQL Backups

https://clickhouse.com/blog/walrus-postgres-backups-in-rust
114•saisrirampur•16h ago•14 comments

Turn your site into a place people can bump into each other

https://cauenapier.com/blog/townsquare_release/
279•eustoria•22h ago•125 comments