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Building my npx business card

https://ashley.dev/posts/turning-feedback-into-features/
8•edent•11mo ago

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steele•11mo ago
Ooh, free real estate, let's colonize and gentrify package management
aabhay•11mo ago
Lmao, gentrify cracked me up
neilv•11mo ago
Do these npx business cards run arbitrary code on your computer?
cypherpunks01•11mo 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•11mo 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•11mo ago
Yeah, this seems like a very smart but inherently flawed idea.
cypherpunks01•11mo 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•11mo ago
May as well just release an executable tbh.
theamk•11mo 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•11mo 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•11mo 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."

Claude Design

https://www.anthropic.com/news/claude-design-anthropic-labs
725•meetpateltech•7h ago•496 comments

I'm spending 3 months coding the old way

https://miguelconner.substack.com/p/im-coding-by-hand
69•evakhoury•6h ago•49 comments

A simplified model of Fil-C

https://www.corsix.org/content/simplified-model-of-fil-c
29•aw1621107•46m ago•0 comments

Measuring Claude 4.7's tokenizer costs

https://www.claudecodecamp.com/p/i-measured-claude-4-7-s-new-tokenizer-here-s-what-it-costs-you
488•aray07•6h ago•331 comments

All 12 moonwalkers had "lunar hay fever" from dust smelling like gunpowder (2018)

https://www.esa.int/Science_Exploration/Human_and_Robotic_Exploration/The_toxic_side_of_the_Moon
169•cybermango•4h ago•94 comments

Show HN: Smol machines – subsecond coldstart, portable virtual machines

https://github.com/smol-machines/smolvm
171•binsquare•5h ago•72 comments

Isaac Asimov: The Last Question (1956)

https://hex.ooo/library/last_question.html
572•ColinWright•10h ago•229 comments

NASA Force

https://nasaforce.gov/
183•LorenDB•6h ago•200 comments

Arc Prize Foundation (YC W26) Is Hiring a Platform Engineer for ARC-AGI-4

https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/arc-prize-foundation/jobs/AKZRZDN-platform-engineer-benchma...
1•gkamradt_•1h ago

Middle schooler finds coin from Troy in Berlin

https://www.thehistoryblog.com/archives/75848
179•speckx•7h ago•82 comments

I built a 3D printing business and ran it for 8 months

https://www.wespiser.com/posts/2026-04-12-3D-Printing-Biz.html
56•wespiser_2018•2d ago•54 comments

NIST gives up enriching most CVEs

https://risky.biz/risky-bulletin-nist-gives-up-enriching-most-cves/
149•mooreds•7h ago•36 comments

The GNU libc atanh is correctly rounded

https://inria.hal.science/hal-05591661
21•matt_d•2d ago•0 comments

Introducing: ShaderPad

https://rileyjshaw.com/blog/introducing-shaderpad/
15•evakhoury•2d ago•5 comments

Hyperscalers have already outspent most famous US megaprojects

https://twitter.com/finmoorhouse/status/2044933442236776794
83•nowflux•6h ago•66 comments

Webloc: Analysis of Penlink's Ad-Based Geolocation Surveillance Tech

https://citizenlab.ca/research/analysis-of-penlinks-ad-based-geolocation-surveillance-tech/
46•Cider9986•4d ago•0 comments

Ban the sale of precise geolocation

https://www.lawfaremedia.org/article/it-is-time-to-ban-the-sale-of-precise-geolocation
533•hn_acker•7h ago•146 comments

Are the costs of AI agents also rising exponentially? (2025)

https://www.tobyord.com/writing/hourly-costs-for-ai-agents
17•louiereederson•2d ago•1 comments

Show HN: PanicLock – Close your MacBook lid disable TouchID –> password unlock

https://github.com/paniclock/paniclock/
93•seanieb•5h ago•37 comments

Connie Converse was a folk-music genius. Then she vanished

https://www.bbc.com/culture/article/20260413-the-mystery-of-a-missing-folk-music-pioneer
56•mellosouls•2d ago•8 comments

Healthchecks.io now uses self-hosted object storage

https://blog.healthchecks.io/2026/04/healthchecks-io-now-uses-self-hosted-object-storage/
129•zdw•7h ago•62 comments

Iceye Open Data

https://www.iceye.com/open-data-initiative
97•marklit•7h ago•14 comments

Show HN: Stage – Putting humans back in control of code review

https://stagereview.app/
83•cpan22•1d ago•83 comments

Detecting DOSBox from Within the Box

https://datagirl.xyz/posts/dos_inside_the_box.html
46•atan2•6h ago•13 comments

Tesla tells HW3 owner to 'be patient' after 7 years of waiting for FSD

https://electrek.co/2026/04/17/tesla-hw3-owners-be-patient-7-years-fsd/
108•breve•3h ago•65 comments

Even "cat readme.txt" is not safe

https://blog.calif.io/p/mad-bugs-even-cat-readmetxt-is-not
26•arkadiyt•3h ago•10 comments

Solitaire simulator for finding the best strategy: Current record is 8.590%

https://github.com/dacracot/Klondike3-Simulator
36•PaulHoule•20h ago•16 comments

The Gregorio project – GPL tools for typesetting Gregorian chant

https://gregorio-project.github.io/index.html
45•mcookly•7h ago•9 comments

Ada, its design, and the language that built the languages

https://www.iqiipi.com/the-quiet-colossus.html
238•mpweiher•13h ago•167 comments

Designing the Transport Typeface

https://www.thamesandhudson.com/blogs/all-news-features/designing-the-transport-typeface-margaret...
64•speckx•2d ago•7 comments