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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."

.de TLD offline due to DNSSEC?

https://dnssec-analyzer.verisignlabs.com/nic.de
398•warpspin•2h ago•145 comments

Write some software, give it away for free

https://nonogra.ph/write-some-software-give-it-away-for-free-05-05-2026
35•nohell•52m ago•12 comments

Accelerating Gemma 4: faster inference with multi-token prediction drafters

https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/technology/developers-tools/multi-token-prediction-gemma-4/
375•amrrs•6h ago•168 comments

Computer Use is 45x more expensive than structured APIs

https://reflex.dev/blog/computer-use-is-45x-more-expensive-than-structured-apis/
237•palashawas•5h ago•123 comments

Three Inverse Laws of AI

https://susam.net/inverse-laws-of-robotics.html
317•blenderob•6h ago•215 comments

Google Chrome silently installs a 4 GB AI model on your device without consent

https://www.thatprivacyguy.com/blog/chrome-silent-nano-install/
1124•john-doe•14h ago•773 comments

EEVblog: The 555 Timer is 55 years old [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6JhK8iCQuqI
183•brudgers•6h ago•41 comments

Our AI started a cafe in Stockholm

https://andonlabs.com/blog/ai-cafe-stockholm
33•lukaspetersson•1h ago•29 comments

Show HN: Explore color palettes inspired by 3000 master painter artworks

https://paletteinspiration.com/
69•ouli•4h ago•23 comments

GLM-5V-Turbo: Toward a Native Foundation Model for Multimodal Agents

https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.26752
86•gmays•4h ago•21 comments

Why Most Product Tours Get Skipped

https://productonboarding.com/articles/why-product-tours-get-skipped
9•pancomplex•1h ago•4 comments

Agents for financial services and insurance

https://www.anthropic.com/news/finance-agents
174•louiereederson•7h ago•126 comments

California farmers to destroy 420k peach trees following Del Monte bankruptcy

https://www.sfgate.com/centralcoast/article/usda-aid-california-farmers-22240694.php
195•littlexsparkee•4h ago•249 comments

IBM didn't want Microsoft to use the Tab key to move between dialog fields

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20260505-00/?p=112298
259•SeenNotHeard•4h ago•150 comments

The extended predicative Mahlo universe in Martin-Löf type theory

https://academic.oup.com/logcom/article/34/6/1032/7158523
15•danny00•2d ago•0 comments

Underwater robot tracks sperm whale conversations in real time

https://www.reuters.com/business/environment/underwater-robot-tracks-sperm-whale-conversations-re...
44•thedebuglife•2d ago•10 comments

Proliferate (YC S25) Is Hiring- 200k for junior engineers

https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/proliferate/jobs/L3copvK-founding-engineer
1•pablo24602•5h ago

When everyone has AI and the company still learns nothing

https://www.robert-glaser.de/when-everyone-has-ai-and-the-company-still-learns-nothing/
285•youngbrioche•12h ago•201 comments

Should I Run Plain Docker Compose in Production in 2026?

https://distr.sh/blog/running-docker-in-production/
324•pmig•5d ago•245 comments

Async Rust never left the MVP state

https://tweedegolf.nl/en/blog/237/async-rust-never-left-the-mvp-state
412•pjmlp•14h ago•220 comments

Today I've made the difficult decision to reduce the size of Coinbase by ~14%

https://twitter.com/brian_armstrong/status/2051616759145185723
188•adrianmsmith•10h ago•202 comments

Zuckerberg 'Personally Authorized and Encouraged' Meta's Copyright Infringement

https://variety.com/2026/digital/news/meta-ai-mark-zuckerberg-copyright-infringement-lawsuit-publ...
140•spankibalt•4h ago•90 comments

Show HN: Airbyte Agents – context for agents across multiple data sources

80•mtricot•7h ago•12 comments

Researchers print structural colour with an inkjet printer

https://physicsworld.com/a/researchers-print-structural-colour-with-an-inkjet-printer/
31•zeristor•2d ago•5 comments

iOS 27 is adding a 'Create a Pass' button to Apple Wallet

https://walletwallet.alen.ro/blog/ios-27-wallet-create-pass/
361•alentodorov•9h ago•279 comments

Quantum Key Distribution (QKD) and Quantum Cryptography (QC)

https://www.nsa.gov/Cybersecurity/Quantum-Key-Distribution-QKD-and-Quantum-Cryptography-QC/
38•mooreds•4h ago•16 comments

Apple Cuts More Mac Studio and Mac Mini RAM Options as Memory Shortage Worsens

https://www.macrumors.com/2026/05/05/apple-mac-studio-mac-mini-ram-cuts/
44•pixelesque•1h ago•35 comments

Collaborative Editing in CodeMirror (2020)

https://marijnhaverbeke.nl/blog/collaborative-editing-cm.html
51•luu•2d ago•7 comments

Comparing the Z80 and 6502 to Their Relatives

https://bumbershootsoft.wordpress.com/2026/05/02/comparing-the-z80-and-6502-to-their-relatives/
100•ibobev•2d ago•19 comments

NPR finds "no sign" of Polymarket at its Panama HQ address

https://www.npr.org/2026/05/05/nx-s1-5807918/polymarket-panama-prediction-market
14•ilamont•28m ago•0 comments