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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."

Alberta startup sells no-tech tractors for half price

https://wheelfront.com/this-alberta-startup-sells-no-tech-tractors-for-half-price/
968•Kaibeezy•5h ago•332 comments

Apple fixes bug that cops used to extract deleted chat messages from iPhones

https://techcrunch.com/2026/04/22/apple-fixes-bug-that-cops-used-to-extract-deleted-chat-messages...
88•cdrnsf•1h ago•28 comments

Over-editing refers to a model modifying code beyond what is necessary

https://nrehiew.github.io/blog/minimal_editing/
225•pella•3h ago•112 comments

We found a stable Firefox identifier linking all your private Tor identities

https://fingerprint.com/blog/firefox-tor-indexeddb-privacy-vulnerability/
223•danpinto•4h ago•65 comments

5x5 Pixel font for tiny screens

https://maurycyz.com/projects/mcufont/
301•zdw•3d ago•76 comments

Qwen3.6-27B: Flagship-Level Coding in a 27B Dense Model

https://qwen.ai/blog?id=qwen3.6-27b
545•mfiguiere•8h ago•268 comments

Windows 9x Subsystem for Linux

https://social.hails.org/@hailey/116446826733136456
821•sohkamyung•11h ago•193 comments

The Illuminated Man: an unconventional portrait of JG Ballard

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2026/apr/20/the-illuminated-man-by-christopher-priest-and-nina-...
17•agronaut•1h ago•5 comments

Scores decline again for 13-year-old students in reading and mathematics

https://www.nationsreportcard.gov/highlights/ltt/2023/
137•u1hcw9nx•2h ago•162 comments

Martin Fowler: Technical, Cognitive, and Intent Debt

https://martinfowler.com/fragments/2026-04-14.html
140•theorchid•5h ago•23 comments

Ping-pong robot beats top-level human players

https://www.reuters.com/sports/ping-pong-robot-ace-makes-history-by-beating-top-level-human-playe...
23•wslh•6h ago•20 comments

Our eighth generation TPUs: two chips for the agentic era

https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/infrastructure-and-cloud/google-cloud/eighth-generation-tpu...
352•xnx•9h ago•173 comments

The great Scouse pasty war

https://www.livpost.co.uk/the-great-scouse-pasty-war/
24•DamonHD•2d ago•1 comments

Surveillance Pricing: Exploiting Information Asymmetries

https://lpeproject.org/blog/surveillance-pricing-exploiting-information-asymmetries/
70•cainxinth•4h ago•28 comments

Website streamed live directly from a model

https://flipbook.page/
58•sethbannon•3h ago•26 comments

Bodega cats of New York

https://bodegacatsofnewyork.com
130•zdw•4d ago•48 comments

Workspace Agents in ChatGPT

https://openai.com/index/introducing-workspace-agents-in-chatgpt/
65•mfiguiere•3h ago•23 comments

Ultraviolet corona discharges on treetops during storms

https://www.psu.edu/news/earth-and-mineral-sciences/story/treetops-glowing-during-storms-captured...
172•t-3•8h ago•50 comments

The Neon King of New Orleans

https://gardenandgun.com/new-orleans-neon-king
4•renameme•15m ago•0 comments

You don't need advice from editors on rejected manuscripts

https://twitter.com/orsonscottcard/status/2046702294406680751
76•MrBuddyCasino•13h ago•45 comments

A Vompeccc Case Study: Spotify as Pure ICR in Emacs

https://www.chiply.dev/post-vompeccc-spot
6•chiply•1d ago•3 comments

GitHub CLI now collects pseudoanonymous telemetry

https://cli.github.com/telemetry
362•ingve•9h ago•278 comments

Show HN: Broccoli, one shot coding agent on the cloud

https://github.com/besimple-oss/broccoli
37•yzhong94•5h ago•29 comments

3.4M Solar Panels

https://tech.marksblogg.com/american-solar-farms-v2.html
260•marklit•9h ago•195 comments

Anonymous credentials: an illustrated primer (Part 2)

https://blog.cryptographyengineering.com/2026/04/17/anonymous-credentials-an-illustrated-primer-p...
17•kkl•2d ago•0 comments

Parallel Agents in Zed

https://zed.dev/blog/parallel-agents
113•ajeetdsouza•4h ago•60 comments

Olive CSS: Lisp powered vanilla CSS utility-Class A la Tailwind

https://codeberg.org/jjba23/olive-css
5•jjba23•52m ago•1 comments

Columnar Storage Is Normalization

https://buttondown.com/jaffray/archive/columnar-storage-is-normalization/
90•ibobev•9h ago•34 comments

Scoring Show HN submissions for AI design patterns

https://www.adriankrebs.ch/blog/design-slop/
246•hubraumhugo•6h ago•190 comments

Youth Suicides Declined After Creation of National Hotline

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/22/science/988-youth-suicides-decline.html
176•marojejian•5h ago•110 comments