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Building my npx business card

https://ashley.dev/posts/turning-feedback-into-features/
8•edent•1y ago

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steele•1y ago
Ooh, free real estate, let's colonize and gentrify package management
aabhay•1y ago
Lmao, gentrify cracked me up
neilv•1y ago
Do these npx business cards run arbitrary code on your computer?
cypherpunks01•1y 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•1y 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•1y ago
Yeah, this seems like a very smart but inherently flawed idea.
cypherpunks01•1y 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•1y ago
May as well just release an executable tbh.
theamk•1y 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•1y 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•1y 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."

macOS Container Machines

https://github.com/apple/container/blob/main/docs/container-machine.md
589•timsneath•6h ago•222 comments

Claude Fable 5

https://www.anthropic.com/news/claude-fable-5-mythos-5
2091•Philpax•14h ago•1617 comments

Upcoming breaking changes for npm v12

https://github.blog/changelog/2026-06-09-upcoming-breaking-changes-for-npm-v12/
318•plasma•10h ago•111 comments

Vibe coding my way to a healthy family: Introducing Gamow Labs

https://www.ddmckinnon.com/2026/06/09/vibe-coding-my-way-to-a-healthy-family-introducing-gamow-labs/
59•dmckinno•3h ago•13 comments

German ruling declares Google liable for false answers in AI Overviews

https://the-decoder.com/landmark-german-ruling-declares-googles-ai-overviews-are-googles-own-word...
369•ahlCVA•5h ago•216 comments

Google Chrome is killing all uBlock Origin bypasses, Edge, Opera to follow

https://www.neowin.net/news/google-chrome-is-killing-all-ublock-origin-bypasses-microsoft-edge-op...
118•d3Xt3r•1h ago•68 comments

Rich Sutton on AI creativity and discovery

https://twitter.com/RichardSSutton/status/2061216087744946656
84•yimby•4h ago•46 comments

RIP software hackathons. Long live the hardware hackathon

https://blog.oscars.dev/posts/rip-software-hackathons-long-live-the-hardware-hackathon/
137•ozcap•8h ago•57 comments

Ultrafast machine learning on FPGAs via Kolmogorov-Arnold Networks

https://aarushgupta.io/posts/kan-fpga/
211•ag2718•11h ago•30 comments

The oldest surviving animated feature film at 100

https://www.bbc.com/culture/article/20260603-how-a-26-year-old-german-woman-made-the-worlds-oldes...
82•1659447091•3d ago•8 comments

What it feels like to work with Mythos

https://www.oneusefulthing.org/p/what-it-feels-like-to-work-with-mythos
242•swolpers•13h ago•202 comments

More Molly Guards

https://unsung.aresluna.org/more-molly-guards/
101•zdw•3d ago•10 comments

If Claude Fable stops helping you, you'll never know

https://jonready.com/blog/posts/claude-fable5-is-allowed-to-sabotage-your-app-if-youre-a-competit...
730•mips_avatar•9h ago•360 comments

Surprise, Pay $1000

https://forestwalk.ai/blog/surprise-blacksmith-costs/
96•apike•9h ago•29 comments

Premature Optimization Is Fun Sometimes

https://invlpg.com/posts/2025-06-19-premature-optimization.html
15•throawayonthe•1d ago•4 comments

Lies we tell ourselves about email addresses

https://gitpush--force.com/commits/2026/06/lies-we-tell-ourselves-about-email/
97•theanonymousone•1d ago•68 comments

OpenCV 5 Is Here: The Biggest Leap in Years for Computer Vision

https://opencv.org/opencv-5/
742•ternaus•4d ago•133 comments

CEOs who think AI replaces their employees are just bad CEOs

https://www.techdirt.com/2026/06/09/ceos-who-think-ai-replaces-their-employees-are-just-bad-ceos/
604•speckx•12h ago•232 comments

Let's Encrypt bans certificate usage in any US sanctioned territory [pdf]

https://letsencrypt.org/documents/LE-SA-v1.7-June-04-2026-diff.pdf
388•piskov•1d ago•323 comments

Computer Lessons

https://technicshistory.com/2026/06/06/computer-lessons/
7•cfmcdonald•1d ago•0 comments

Grit: Rewriting Git in Rust with agents

https://blog.gitbutler.com/true-grit
124•cbrewster•11h ago•164 comments

Test-case reducers are underappreciated debugging tools

https://tratt.net/laurie/blog/2026/test_case_reducers_are_underappreciated_debugging_tools.html
112•ltratt•19h ago•13 comments

A giant star may have destroyed itself in one of the rarest explosions

https://phys.org/news/2026-05-giant-star-destroyed-universe-rarest.html
181•wglb•1d ago•26 comments

Launch HN: Transload (YC P26) – Measuring freight items with CCTV

46•nils_spatial•14h ago•15 comments

Value Numbering

https://bernsteinbear.com/blog/value-numbering/
22•surprisetalk•1d ago•0 comments

Making Graphics Like it's 1993

https://staniks.github.io/articles/catlantean-3d-blog-1/
833•sklopec•20h ago•144 comments

WWDC 2026: Apple is Folding

https://cupertinolens.com/2026/06/09/wwdc-2026-apple-is-folding/
216•brandonb•17h ago•240 comments

Exif Smuggling (2025)

https://github.com/signalblur/exifsmugglingpoc
78•rolph•10h ago•24 comments

The Evolution of 'More Like This'

https://manticoresearch.com/blog/the-evolution-of-more-like-this/
8•snikolaev•3h ago•0 comments

Show HN: Gravity – Interactive solar-system simulator, from Newton to Einstein

https://qunabu.github.io/Gravity/
164•qunabu•19h ago•36 comments