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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•12mo ago
Ooh, free real estate, let's colonize and gentrify package management
aabhay•12mo ago
Lmao, gentrify cracked me up
neilv•12mo ago
Do these npx business cards run arbitrary code on your computer?
cypherpunks01•12mo 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•12mo 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•12mo ago
Yeah, this seems like a very smart but inherently flawed idea.
cypherpunks01•12mo 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•12mo ago
May as well just release an executable tbh.
theamk•12mo 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•12mo 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•12mo 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."

I automated opt-outs for 500 data broker sites (open source)

https://github.com/stephenlthorn/auto-identity-remove
238•stephenlthorn•2h ago•85 comments

Show HN: Files.md – open-source alternative to Obsidian

https://github.com/zakirullin/files.md
26•zakirullin•37m ago•7 comments

The foundations of a provably secure operating system (PSOS) (1979) [pdf]

http://www.csl.sri.com/users/neumann/psos.pdf
73•rurban•4h ago•35 comments

Benedict Evans: AI eats the world (Spring 26) [pdf]

https://static1.squarespace.com/static/50363cf324ac8e905e7df861/t/6a0af5d0484fbf5fe9a7743e/177910...
70•topherjaynes•1h ago•30 comments

Linux security mailing list 'almost unmanageable'

https://www.theregister.com/security/2026/05/18/linus-torvalds-says-ai-powered-bug-hunters-have-m...
76•jonbaer•1h ago•27 comments

Writing Z80 assembly, 4 decades later:-)

https://github.com/ttsiodras/3D-on-a-ZX-Spectrum-48K/
42•ttsiodras•1d ago•2 comments

Math Jokes in Alice in Wonderland

https://storica.club/blog/alice-is-math-jokes/
54•yekbun123•4d ago•13 comments

Enough with the AI FOMO, go slow-mo, says Domo CDO

https://www.theregister.com/ai-ml/2026/05/17/enough-with-the-ai-fomo-go-slow-mo-says-domo-cdo/524...
51•Bender•1h ago•22 comments

'We mould trees to grow into the shape of chairs'

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cvg0yy3gp71o
39•bauc•1h ago•10 comments

It is time to give up the dualism introduced by the debate on consciousness

https://www.noemamag.com/there-is-no-hard-problem-of-consciousness/
183•ahalbert4•11h ago•448 comments

GenCAD

https://gencad.github.io/
381•dagenix•16h ago•102 comments

Utah lawmakers form united front in push to ban prediction markets

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/may/18/you-can-bet-on-it-utah-lawmakers-form-united-fron...
67•thm•2h ago•46 comments

Crystals found inside wreckage from the first nuclear bomb test

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/strange-crystals-found-inside-wreckage-from-the-first-...
129•jumploops•2d ago•50 comments

I turned a $80 RK3562 Android tablet into a Debian Linux workstation

https://github.com/tech4bot/rk3562deb
405•tech4bot•1d ago•199 comments

Ask an Astronaut: 333 hours of Q&A footage with astronauts

https://askanastronaut.issinrealtime.org/
172•gaws•2d ago•22 comments

Hershey Bets on Agentic AI to Rethink $2B in Marketing Spend

https://www.adweek.com/brand-marketing/exclusive-hershey-bets-on-ai-agents-to-fix-its-2-billion-m...
16•mooreds•1h ago•24 comments

When Kierkegaard Got Cancelled

https://www.plough.com/en/topics/faith/discipleship/when-kierkegaard-got-cancelled
4•bookofjoe•2h ago•1 comments

Jank now has its own custom IR

https://jank-lang.org/blog/2026-05-08-optimization/
180•DASD•2d ago•36 comments

Show HN: Semble – Code search for agents that uses 98% fewer tokens than grep

https://github.com/MinishLab/semble
384•Bibabomas•22h ago•128 comments

The Aperiodic Table

https://blog.jgc.org/2026/05/the-aperiodic-table.html
6•jgrahamc•2d ago•0 comments

Build a Radio Wave Detector with Balls of Aluminum Foil

https://www.wired.com/story/build-a-radio-wave-detector-with-balls-of-aluminum-foil/
37•Brajeshwar•2d ago•11 comments

Eric Schmidt speech about AI booed during graduation

https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/former-google-ceo-booed-graduation-speech-ai-rcna345585
269•nothrowaways•3h ago•246 comments

Don't Answer the First Question

https://lalitm.com/post/dont-answer-the-first-question/
23•lalitmaganti•4h ago•9 comments

WriteUp: 16 Bytes of x86 that turn Matrix rain into sound

https://hellmood.111mb.de//wake_up_16b_writeup.html
169•HellMood•15h ago•31 comments

Prolog Coding Horror

https://www.metalevel.at/prolog/horror
170•RohanAdwankar•16h ago•66 comments

Why is Google Maps back to showing old satellite images of Altadena?

https://www.reddit.com/r/pasadena/s/94BHlkE84r
69•tgrowazay•5h ago•33 comments

Profunctor Equipment in Haskell

https://bartoszmilewski.com/2026/05/16/profunctor-equipment-in-haskell/
34•g0xA52A2A•1d ago•13 comments

Where Are the Vibecoded Photoshops?

https://indiepixel.de/blog/posts/where-are-the-vibecoded-photoshops/
202•gizmo64k•4h ago•250 comments

Magical Realism: “Northern Exposure” 25 Years Later (2015)

https://www.rogerebert.com/streaming/magical-realism-nothern-exposure-25-years-later
129•walterbell•2d ago•65 comments

Two EA-18 fighter jets collide at Mountain Home airshow, pilots ejected safely

https://idahonews.com/news/local/two-f-18-fighter-jets-have-crashed-during-an-airshow-at-mountain...
224•ChrisArchitect•16h ago•228 comments