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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."

Google plans to invest up to $40B in Anthropic

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-04-24/google-plans-to-invest-up-to-40-billion-in-ant...
481•elffjs•13h ago•481 comments

Turbo Vision 2.0 – a modern port

https://github.com/magiblot/tvision
39•andsoitis•1h ago•4 comments

Paraloid B-72

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paraloid_B-72
116•Ariarule•3d ago•22 comments

A 3D Body from Eight Questions – No Photo, No GPU

https://clad.you/blog/posts/questionnaire-mlp/
12•arkadiuss•2d ago•1 comments

Humpback whales are forming super-groups

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20260416-the-humpback-super-groups-swarming-the-seas
66•andsoitis•3d ago•26 comments

My audio interface has SSH enabled by default

https://hhh.hn/rodecaster-duo-fw/
204•hhh•10h ago•65 comments

Replace IBM Quantum back end with /dev/urandom

https://github.com/yuvadm/quantumslop/blob/25ad2e76ae58baa96f6219742459407db9dd17f5/URANDOM_DEMO.md
97•pigeons•5h ago•13 comments

Iliad fragment found in Roman-era mummy

https://www.thehistoryblog.com/archives/75877
153•wise_blood•2d ago•43 comments

Sabotaging projects by overthinking, scope creep, and structural diffing

https://kevinlynagh.com/newsletter/2026_04_overthinking/
395•alcazar•15h ago•104 comments

"Plain text has been around for decades and it's here to stay." – Unsung

https://unsung.aresluna.org/plain-text-has-been-around-for-decades-and-its-here-to-stay/
38•rbanffy•4h ago•5 comments

Education must go beyond the mere production of words

https://www.ncregister.com/commentaries/schnell-repairing-the-ruins
48•signor_bosco•5h ago•13 comments

The Classic American Diner

https://blogs.loc.gov/picturethis/2026/04/the-classic-american-diner/
195•NaOH•11h ago•117 comments

Do I belong in tech anymore?

https://ky.fyi/posts/ai-burnout
79•patrikcsak•9h ago•39 comments

There Will Be a Scientific Theory of Deep Learning

https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.21691
192•jamie-simon•11h ago•75 comments

Work with the garage door up (2024)

https://notes.andymatuschak.org/Work_with_the_garage_door_up
148•jxmorris12•3d ago•111 comments

Oxford All Souls College General Examination (2025) [pdf]

https://www.asc.ox.ac.uk/sites/default/files/2025-10/General%202025.pdf
32•gregsadetsky•1h ago•21 comments

A disabled kea parrot is the alpha male of his circus

https://www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822(26)00259-9
21•zdw•2d ago•1 comments

Firefox Has Integrated Brave's Adblock Engine

https://itsfoss.com/news/firefox-ships-brave-adblock-engine/
115•nreece•4h ago•48 comments

ENIAC's Architects Wove Stories Through Computing

https://spectrum.ieee.org/eniac-80th-anniversary-weaving
3•sohkamyung•3d ago•0 comments

The mail sent to a video game publisher

https://www.gamefile.news/p/panic-mail-arco-despelote-time-flies-thank-goodness-teeth
3•colinprince•3d ago•0 comments

How to be anti-social – a guide to incoherent and isolating social experiences

https://nate.leaflet.pub/3mk4xkaxobc2p
336•calcifer•19h ago•311 comments

(Blender) Cosmology with Geometry Nodes

https://www.blender.org/user-stories/cosmology-with-geometry-nodes/
22•shankysingh•4h ago•0 comments

Email could have been X.400 times better

https://buttondown.com/blog/x400-vs-smtp-email
157•maguay•1d ago•146 comments

Show HN: I've built a nice home server OS

https://lightwhale.asklandd.dk/
95•Zta77•8h ago•39 comments

MacBook Neo and how the iPad should be

https://craigmod.com/essays/ipad_neo/
243•jen729w•2d ago•135 comments

Reverse-engineering infrared-based electronic shelf labels

https://www.furrtek.org/?a=esl
14•pabs3•3d ago•2 comments

DeepSeek v4

https://api-docs.deepseek.com/news/news260424
1868•impact_sy•1d ago•1451 comments

You don't want long-lived keys

https://argemma.com/blog/long-lived-keys/
43•kkl•3d ago•25 comments

The Overtom Chess Computer Museum

https://tluif.home.xs4all.nl/chescom/Engindex.html
27•semyonsh•2d ago•3 comments

Diatec, known for its mechanical keyboard brand FILCO, has ceased operations

https://gigazine.net/gsc_news/en/20260424-filco-diatec/
108•gslin•13h ago•38 comments