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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."

Statement from Dario Amodei on our discussions with the Department of War

https://www.anthropic.com/news/statement-department-of-war
1082•qwertox•4h ago•599 comments

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https://twitter.com/jack/status/2027129697092731343
524•mlex•6h ago•538 comments

What Claude Code Chooses

https://amplifying.ai/research/claude-code-picks
267•tin7in•9h ago•111 comments

Will vibe coding end like the maker movement?

https://read.technically.dev/p/vibe-coding-and-the-maker-movement
333•itunpredictable•11h ago•321 comments

AirSnitch: Demystifying and breaking client isolation in Wi-Fi networks [pdf]

https://www.ndss-symposium.org/wp-content/uploads/2026-f1282-paper.pdf
329•DamnInteresting•11h ago•159 comments

Two insider cases we've recently closed

https://news.kalshi.com/p/kalshi-trading-violation-enforcement-cases
14•fortran77•1h ago•23 comments

Launch HN: Cardboard (YC W26) – Agentic video editor

https://www.usecardboard.com/
97•sxmawl•8h ago•49 comments

Hydroph0bia – fixed SecureBoot bypass for UEFI firmware from Insyde H2O (2025)

https://coderush.me/hydroph0bia-part3/
39•transpute•5h ago•2 comments

What does " 2>&1 " mean?

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/818255/what-does-21-mean
152•alexmolas•7h ago•101 comments

LiteLLM (YC W23): Founding Reliability Engineer – $200K-$270K and 0.5-1.0% equity

https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/litellm/jobs/unlCynJ-founding-reliability-performance-engineer
1•ij23•2h ago

Smartphone market forecast to decline this year due to memory shortage

https://www.idc.com/resource-center/press-releases/wwsmartphoneforecast4q25/
180•littlexsparkee•5h ago•186 comments

An Introduction to the Codex Seraphinianus, the Strangest Book Ever Published

https://www.openculture.com/2026/02/an-introduction-to-the-codex-seraphinianus.html
31•vinhnx•3d ago•9 comments

I baked a pie every day for a year and it changed my life

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2026/feb/22/a-new-start-after-60-i-baked-a-pie-every-day...
233•NaOH•3d ago•159 comments

Palm OS User Interface Guidelines (2003) [pdf]

https://cs.uml.edu/~fredm/courses/91.308-spr05/files/palmdocs/uiguidelines.pdf
167•spiffytech•10h ago•78 comments

Understanding the Go Runtime: The Memory Allocator

https://internals-for-interns.com/posts/go-memory-allocator/
37•valyala•3d ago•7 comments

OsmAnd's Faster Offline Navigation (2025)

https://osmand.net/blog/fast-routing/
121•todsacerdoti•8h ago•35 comments

Museum of Plugs and Sockets

https://plugsocketmuseum.nl/index.html
82•ohjeez•3d ago•31 comments

BuildKit: Docker's Hidden Gem That Can Build Almost Anything

https://tuananh.net/2026/02/25/buildkit-docker-hidden-gem/
152•jasonpeacock•13h ago•52 comments

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https://hackersmacker.org
95•conesus•2d ago•97 comments

Lidar waveforms are worth 40x128x33 words

https://openaccess.thecvf.com/content/ICCV2025/html/Scheuble_Lidar_Waveforms_are_Worth_40x128x33_...
38•teleforce•3d ago•14 comments

Hacking Tauri for Designer

https://yujonglee.com/blog/hacking-tauri-for-designer/
14•yujonglee•4d ago•0 comments

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https://github.com/flamestro/deff
82•flamestro•9h ago•51 comments

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https://www.playlinex.com/
53•Humanista75•2d ago•19 comments

Cartographic Symbologies: The Art and Design of Expression in Historic Maps

https://exhibits.stanford.edu/cartosym/browse
8•starkparker•3d ago•0 comments

Interval Research Corporation: a 1990s PARC without a Xerox (2022)

https://instadeq.com/blog/posts/interval-research-corporation-a-1990s-parc-without-a-xerox/
4•surprisetalk•3d ago•0 comments

Google Workers Seek 'Red Lines' on Military A.I., Echoing Anthropic

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/26/technology/google-deepmind-letter-pentagon.html
5•mikece•16m ago•2 comments

Nano Banana 2: Google's latest AI image generation model

https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/technology/ai/nano-banana-2/
501•davidbarker•11h ago•478 comments

The Wolfram S Combinator Challenge

https://www.combinatorprize.org/
79•paraschopra•3d ago•21 comments

This time is different

https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2026/02/this-time-is-different/
133•speckx•13h ago•214 comments

Steering interpretable language models with concept algebra

https://www.guidelabs.ai/post/steerling-steering-8b/
61•luulinh90s•1d ago•3 comments