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Building my npx business card

https://ashley.dev/posts/turning-feedback-into-features/
8•edent•7mo 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://annas-archive.li/isbn-visualization/
10•simon04•28m ago•1 comments

Show HN: Jmail – Google Suite for Epstein files

https://www.jmail.world
887•lukeigel•14h ago•171 comments

Backing up Spotify

https://annas-archive.li/blog/backing-up-spotify.html
1310•vitplister•17h ago•430 comments

Ruby website redesigned

https://www.ruby-lang.org/en/
105•psxuaw•4h ago•25 comments

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https://metr.org/blog/2025-03-19-measuring-ai-ability-to-complete-long-tasks/
144•spicypete•7h ago•96 comments

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https://www.ucsf.edu/news/2025/12/431206/indoor-tanning-makes-youthful-skin-much-older-genetic-level
70•SanjayMehta•6h ago•23 comments

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https://www.earthasweknowit.com/pages/inca_construction
38•jppope•4h ago•9 comments

Isengard in Oxford

https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/isengard-in-oxford/
56•lermontov•5h ago•2 comments

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https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cj4qzgvxxgvo
248•1659447091•15h ago•85 comments

Go ahead, self-host Postgres

https://pierce.dev/notes/go-ahead-self-host-postgres#user-content-fn-1
544•pavel_lishin•19h ago•317 comments

Claude in Chrome

https://claude.com/chrome
213•ianrahman•14h ago•104 comments

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https://github.com/hanebox/ekphos
16•haneboxx•4d ago•3 comments

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https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/programming/ErrorsShouldRequireFixing
388•todsacerdoti•3d ago•247 comments

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https://www.a1k0n.net/2025/12/19/tiny-tapeout-demo.html
353•a1k0n•18h ago•50 comments

OpenSCAD is kinda neat

https://nuxx.net/blog/2025/12/20/openscad-is-kinda-neat/
252•c0nsumer•17h ago•177 comments

Big GPUs don't need big PCs

https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2025/big-gpus-dont-need-big-pcs
212•mikece•17h ago•78 comments

Flock and Cyble Inc. weaponize "cybercrime" takedowns to silence critics

https://haveibeenflocked.com/news/cyble-downtime
463•_a9•10h ago•78 comments

The Uncertain Origins of Aspirin

https://www.asimov.press/p/aspirin
9•dearwell•4d ago•1 comments

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https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-12-13/more-than-150-caves-discovered-in-ki-after-devastating-bus...
63•speckx•5d ago•10 comments

Clair Obscur having its Indie Game Game Of The Year award stripped due to AI use

https://www.thegamer.com/clair-obscur-expedition-33-indie-game-awards-goty-stripped-ai-use/
58•anigbrowl•4h ago•118 comments

Chomsky and the Two Cultures of Statistical Learning (2011)

https://norvig.com/chomsky.html
72•atomicnature•5d ago•53 comments

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https://hn-wrapped.kadoa.com?year=2025
205•hubraumhugo•21h ago•117 comments

Gemini 3 Pro vs. 2.5 Pro in Pokemon Crystal

https://blog.jcz.dev/gemini-3-pro-vs-25-pro-in-pokemon-crystal
290•alphabetting•4d ago•87 comments

I spent a week without IPv4 (2023)

https://www.apalrd.net/posts/2023/network_ipv6/
147•mahirsaid•17h ago•270 comments

What's New in Python 3.15

https://docs.python.org/3.15/whatsnew/3.15.html
102•azhenley•3d ago•29 comments

Make the eyes go away

https://hexeditreality.com/posts/make-the-eyes-go-away/
10•llllm•3d ago•1 comments

You have reached the end of the internet (2006)

https://hmpg.net/
164•raytopia•18h ago•47 comments

A visual editor for the Cursor Browser

https://cursor.com/blog/browser-visual-editor
9•evo_9•5d ago•4 comments

Why do people leave comments on OpenBenches?

https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2025/12/why-do-people-leave-comments-on-openbenches/
169•sedboyz•19h ago•15 comments

Italian bears living near villages have evolved to be smaller and less agressive

https://phys.org/news/2025-12-italian-villages-evolved-smaller-aggressive.html
94•wjSgoWPm5bWAhXB•5d ago•56 comments