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Building my npx business card

https://ashley.dev/posts/turning-feedback-into-features/
8•edent•10mo ago

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steele•10mo ago
Ooh, free real estate, let's colonize and gentrify package management
aabhay•10mo ago
Lmao, gentrify cracked me up
neilv•10mo ago
Do these npx business cards run arbitrary code on your computer?
cypherpunks01•10mo 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•10mo 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•10mo ago
Yeah, this seems like a very smart but inherently flawed idea.
cypherpunks01•10mo 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•10mo ago
May as well just release an executable tbh.
theamk•10mo 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•10mo 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•10mo 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."

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https://theopenreader.org/Journalism:CERN_Uses_Tiny_AI_Models_Burned_into_Silicon_for_Real-Time_L...
90•TORcicada•2h ago•51 comments

Go hard on agents, not on your filesystem

https://jai.scs.stanford.edu/
367•mazieres•10h ago•203 comments

AMD's Ryzen 9 9950X3D2 Dual Edition crams 208MB of cache into a single chip

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026/03/amds-ryzen-9-9950x3d2-dual-edition-crams-208mb-of-cache-i...
180•zdw•8h ago•92 comments

Make macOS consistently bad unironically

https://lr0.org/blog/p/macos/
419•speckx•15h ago•299 comments

Matadisco – Decentralized Data Discovery

https://matadisco.org/
15•biggestfan•2d ago•2 comments

The bee that everyone wants to save

https://naturalist.bearblog.dev/the-bee-that-everyone-wants-to-save/
116•nivethan•2d ago•27 comments

Go Naming Conventions: A Practical Guide

https://www.alexedwards.net/blog/go-naming-conventions
6•yurivish•3d ago•0 comments

Trust Signals as Sparklines for Hacker News

https://hn-trustspark.com/
47•solaire_oa•1d ago•23 comments

LG's new 1Hz display is the secret behind a new laptop's battery life

https://www.pcworld.com/article/3096432/lgs-new-1hz-display-is-the-secret-behind-a-new-laptops-ba...
250•robotnikman•4d ago•115 comments

Anatomy of the .claude/ folder

https://blog.dailydoseofds.com/p/anatomy-of-the-claude-folder
490•freedomben•20h ago•225 comments

.apks are just .zips; semi-legally hacking software for orphaned hardware [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P1kfuCkWo24
55•abadar•2d ago•39 comments

Show HN: Twitch Roulette – Find live streamers who need views the most

https://twitchroulette.net/
126•ellg•12h ago•62 comments

Nashville library launches Memory Lab for digitizing home movies

https://www.axios.com/local/nashville/2026/03/16/nashville-library-digitize-home-movies
152•toomuchtodo•4d ago•37 comments

Velxio 2.0 – Emulate Arduino, ESP32, and Raspberry Pi 3 in the Browser

https://github.com/davidmonterocrespo24/velxio
153•dmcrespo•14h ago•44 comments

Desperately Seeking Space Friends

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10•benbreen•2d ago•0 comments

ISBN Visualization

https://annas-archive.gd/isbn-visualization?
176•Cider9986•14h ago•28 comments

Arm releases first in-house chip, with Meta as debut customer

https://www.cnbc.com/2026/03/24/arm-launches-its-own-cpu-with-meta-as-first-customer.html
19•goplayoutside•3d ago•6 comments

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293•vrganj•1d ago•273 comments

Iran-linked hackers breach FBI director's personal email

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/iran-linked-hackers-claim-breach-of-fbi-directors-personal-email...
263•m-hodges•20h ago•386 comments

Meow.camera

https://meow.camera/#4258783365322591678
280•surprisetalk•20h ago•63 comments

Installing a Let's Encrypt TLS certificate on a Brother printer with Certbot

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218•8organicbits•21h ago•52 comments

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https://magnifiedsand.com/
238•RAAx707•4d ago•39 comments

The Future of SCIP

https://sourcegraph.com/blog/the-future-of-scip
76•jdorfman•19h ago•22 comments

Telnyx package compromised on PyPI

https://telnyx.com/resources/telnyx-python-sdk-supply-chain-security-notice-march-2026
105•ramimac•1d ago•108 comments

Improving Composer through real-time RL

https://cursor.com/blog/real-time-rl-for-composer
81•ingve•1d ago•24 comments

Fets and Crosses: Tic-Tac-Toe built from 2458 discrete transistors

https://schilk.co/projects/fetsncrosses/
52•voxadam•3d ago•13 comments

Building FireStriker: Making Civic Tech Free

https://firestriker.org/blog/building-firestriker-why-im-making-civic-tech-free
128•noleary•1d ago•26 comments

Ask HN: Founders of estonian e-businesses – is it worth it?

133•udl•4d ago•73 comments

People inside Microsoft are fighting to drop mandatory Microsoft Account

https://www.windowscentral.com/microsoft/windows-11/people-inside-microsoft-are-fighting-to-drop-...
652•breve•21h ago•500 comments

Alex Karp says only trade workers and neurodivergents will survive in the AI era

https://fortune.com/2026/03/24/palantir-ceo-alex-karp-two-people-successful-in-ai-era-vocational-...
8•anticensor•31m ago•2 comments