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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."

AI uses less water than the public thinks

https://californiawaterblog.com/2026/04/26/ai-water-use-distractions-and-lessons-for-california/
179•hirpslop•2h ago•149 comments

Spotify adds 'Verified' badges to distinguish human artists from AI

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c5yerr4m1yno
82•reconnecting•3h ago•49 comments

Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2026)

165•whoishiring•4h ago•186 comments

New research suggests people can communicate and practice skills while dreaming

https://www.newyorker.com/culture/annals-of-inquiry/its-possible-to-learn-in-our-sleep-should-we
39•XzetaU8•2h ago•9 comments

Understand Anything

https://github.com/Lum1104/Understand-Anything
44•taubek•2h ago•14 comments

whohas – Command-line utility for cross-distro, cross-repository package search

https://github.com/whohas/whohas
87•peter_d_sherman•4h ago•20 comments

City Learns Flock Accessed Cameras in Children's Gymnastics Room as a Sales Demo

https://www.404media.co/city-learns-flock-accessed-cameras-in-childrens-gymnastics-room-as-a-sale...
86•joshcsimmons•1h ago•10 comments

Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (May 2026)

94•whoishiring•4h ago•172 comments

Sally McKee, who coined the term "the memory wall", has died

https://www.online-tribute.com/SallyMcKee
87•deater•5h ago•11 comments

Artemis II Fault Tolerance

https://alearningaday.blog/2026/05/01/artemis-ii-fault-tolerance/
18•speckx•2h ago•5 comments

Show HN: WhatCable, a tiny menu bar app for inspecting USB-C cables

https://github.com/darrylmorley/whatcable
327•sleepingNomad•11h ago•113 comments

I'm Peter Roberts, immigration attorney who does work for YC and startups. AMA

95•proberts•4h ago•154 comments

Whimsical Animations Course Open House

https://courses.joshwcomeau.com/wham/open-house/00-introduction
9•SpyCoder77•23m ago•1 comments

Show HN: AI CAD Harness

https://fusion.adam.new/install
20•zachdive•2h ago•20 comments

Running Adobe's 1991 PostScript Interpreter in the Browser

https://www.pagetable.com/?p=1854
106•ingve•8h ago•23 comments

I've Covered Robots for Years. This One Is Different

https://www.wired.com/story/when-robots-have-their-chatgpt-moment-remember-these-pincers/
7•zdw•1d ago•0 comments

Apocalypse Early Warning System

https://ews.kylemcdonald.net/
28•carlsborg•3h ago•2 comments

An open letter asking NHS England to keep its code open

https://keepthingsopen.com
165•tvararu•4h ago•11 comments

AWS stops billing Middle East cloud customers as repairs to war damage drag on

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026/05/amazon-stuck-with-months-of-repairs-after-drone-strikes-o...
58•johnbarron•2h ago•21 comments

The Gay Jailbreak Technique

https://github.com/Exocija/ZetaLib/blob/main/The%20Gay%20Jailbreak/The%20Gay%20Jailbreak.md
160•bobsmooth•2h ago•47 comments

Show HN: My Private GitHub on Postgres

https://github.com/calebwin/gitgres
25•calebhwin•2h ago•15 comments

Ubuntu servers taken offline by "sustained, cross-border attack"

https://arstechnica.com/security/2026/05/ubuntu-infrastructure-has-been-down-for-more-than-a-day/
18•RattlesnakeJake•44m ago•4 comments

A statement about why RightsCon 2026 will not take place in Zambia

https://www.rightscon.org/rc26-statement/
61•benbreen•1h ago•19 comments

New copy of earliest poem in English, written 1,3k years ago, discovered in Rome

https://www.tcd.ie/news_events/articles/2026/caedmons-hymn-discovery/
189•giuliomagnifico•2d ago•114 comments

Show HN: GhostBox – Borrow a disposable little machine from the Global Free Tier

https://www.ghost.charity/
102•keepamovin•5h ago•61 comments

Canonical/Ubuntu have been under DDoS

https://status.canonical.com/#/incident/KNms6QK9ewuzz-7xUsPsNylV20jEt5kyKsd8A-3ptQEHpOd8VQ40ZQs-K...
126•jtlebigot•12h ago•46 comments

Advanced Quantization Algorithm for LLMs

https://github.com/intel/auto-round
102•lastdong•10h ago•15 comments

Show HN: Site Mogging

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48•jilles•8h ago•57 comments

Show HN: Loopsy, a way for terminals and AI agents on different machines to talk

https://github.com/leox255/loopsy
35•todience•9h ago•8 comments

Your website is not for you

https://websmith.studio/blog/your-website-is-not-for-you/
225•pumbaa•8h ago•165 comments