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Building my npx business card

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

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steele•8mo ago
Ooh, free real estate, let's colonize and gentrify package management
aabhay•8mo ago
Lmao, gentrify cracked me up
neilv•8mo ago
Do these npx business cards run arbitrary code on your computer?
cypherpunks01•8mo 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•8mo 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•8mo ago
Yeah, this seems like a very smart but inherently flawed idea.
cypherpunks01•8mo 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•8mo ago
May as well just release an executable tbh.
theamk•8mo 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•8mo 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•8mo 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."

Apple is fighting for TSMC capacity as Nvidia takes center stage

https://www.culpium.com/p/exclusiveapple-is-fighting-for-tsmc
408•speckx•5h ago•269 comments

CVEs affecting the Svelte ecosystem

https://svelte.dev/blog/cves-affecting-the-svelte-ecosystem
100•tobr•2h ago•14 comments

JuiceFS is a distributed POSIX file system built on top of Redis and S3

https://github.com/juicedata/juicefs
45•tosh•1h ago•22 comments

Inside The Internet Archive's Infrastructure

https://hackernoon.com/the-long-now-of-the-web-inside-the-internet-archives-fight-against-forgetting
93•dvrp•1d ago•14 comments

Ask HN: How can we solve the loneliness epidemic?

154•publicdebates•3h ago•273 comments

25 Years of Wikipedia

https://wikipedia25.org
346•easton•7h ago•294 comments

First impressions of Claude Cowork

https://simonw.substack.com/p/first-impressions-of-claude-cowork
72•stosssik•1d ago•32 comments

Claude is good at assembling blocks, but still falls apart at creating them

https://www.approachwithalacrity.com/claude-ne/
67•bblcla•1d ago•48 comments

Show HN: OpenWork – an open-source alternative to Claude Cowork

https://github.com/different-ai/openwork
46•ben_talent•1d ago•11 comments

UK offshore wind prices come in 40% cheaper than gas in record auction

https://electrek.co/2026/01/14/uk-offshore-wind-record-auction/
69•doener•1h ago•24 comments

Found: Medieval Cargo Ship – Largest Vessel of Its Kind Ever

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/archaeologists-say-theyve-unearthed-a-massive-medieval-...
83•bookofjoe•5h ago•17 comments

Design and Implementation of Sprites

https://fly.io/blog/design-and-implementation/
85•sethev•4h ago•63 comments

Supply Chain Vuln Compromised Core AWS GitHub Repos & Threatened the AWS Console

https://www.wiz.io/blog/wiz-research-codebreach-vulnerability-aws-codebuild
44•uvuv•3h ago•5 comments

Show HN: Tabstack – Browser infrastructure for AI agents (by Mozilla)

71•MrTravisB•1d ago•10 comments

The URL shortener that makes your links look as suspicious as possible

https://creepylink.com/
729•dreadsword•17h ago•133 comments

Show HN: TinyCity – A tiny city SIM for MicroPython (Thumby micro console)

https://github.com/chrisdiana/TinyCity
100•inflam52•6h ago•18 comments

Claude Cowork runs Linux VM via Apple virtualization framework

https://gist.github.com/simonw/35732f187edbe4fbd0bf976d013f22c8
46•jumploops•1d ago•22 comments

‘ELITE’: The Palantir app ICE uses to find neighborhoods to raid

https://werd.io/elite-the-palantir-app-ice-uses-to-find-neighborhoods-to-raid/
200•sdoering•1h ago•128 comments

Goscript: Transpile Go to human-readable TypeScript

https://github.com/aperturerobotics/goscript
15•aperturecjs•4d ago•3 comments

Ask HN: One IP, multiple unrealistic locations worldwide hitting my website

4•nacho-daddy•2h ago•0 comments

Jiga (YC W21) Is Hiring Full Stack Engineers

https://jiga.io/about-us
1•grmmph•8h ago

Ask HN: Share your personal website

810•susam•1d ago•2159 comments

The 3D Software Rendering Technology of 1998's Thief: The Dark Project (2019)

https://nothings.org/gamedev/thief_rendering.html
116•suioir•9h ago•49 comments

Live 2025 – Spine [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=80C-wcqs4mI
3•surprisetalk•4d ago•0 comments

OBS Studio 32.1.0 Beta 1 available

https://github.com/obsproject/obs-studio/releases/tag/32.1.0-beta1
125•Sean-Der•5h ago•34 comments

Zuck#: A programming language for connecting the world. And harvesting it

https://jayzalowitz.github.io/zucksharp/
49•kf•2h ago•25 comments

Ask HN: Anyone have a good solution for modern Mac to legacy SCSI converters?

16•stmw•2h ago•33 comments

Sinclair C5

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sinclair_C5
75•jszymborski•5d ago•48 comments

Ask HN: How are you doing RAG locally?

329•tmaly•1d ago•131 comments

Programming, Evolved: Lessons and Observations

https://github.com/kulesh/dotfiles/blob/main/dev/dev/docs/programming-evolved.md
44•dnw•7h ago•22 comments