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Building my npx business card

https://ashley.dev/posts/turning-feedback-into-features/
8•edent•9mo ago

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steele•9mo ago
Ooh, free real estate, let's colonize and gentrify package management
aabhay•9mo ago
Lmao, gentrify cracked me up
neilv•9mo ago
Do these npx business cards run arbitrary code on your computer?
cypherpunks01•9mo 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•9mo 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•9mo ago
Yeah, this seems like a very smart but inherently flawed idea.
cypherpunks01•9mo 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•9mo ago
May as well just release an executable tbh.
theamk•9mo 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•9mo 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•9mo 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."

I Verified My LinkedIn Identity. Here's What I Handed Over

https://thelocalstack.eu/posts/linkedin-identity-verification-privacy/
383•ColinWright•7h ago•131 comments

Keep Android Open

https://f-droid.org/2026/02/20/twif.html
1741•LorenDB•20h ago•617 comments

Turn Dependabot off

https://words.filippo.io/dependabot/
539•todsacerdoti•17h ago•153 comments

I found a Vulnerability. They found a Lawyer

https://dixken.de/blog/i-found-a-vulnerability-they-found-a-lawyer
712•toomuchtodo•19h ago•317 comments

Andrej Karpathy talks about "Claws"

https://simonwillison.net/2026/Feb/21/claws/
175•helloplanets•5h ago•265 comments

Facebook is cooked

https://pilk.website/3/facebook-is-absolutely-cooked
1254•npilk•20h ago•684 comments

Ggml.ai joins Hugging Face to ensure the long-term progress of Local AI

https://github.com/ggml-org/llama.cpp/discussions/19759
769•lairv•1d ago•198 comments

Wikipedia deprecates Archive.today, starts removing archive links

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/02/wikipedia-bans-archive-today-after-site-executed-ddos...
499•nobody9999•20h ago•293 comments

CERN rebuilt the original browser from 1989 (2019)

https://worldwideweb.cern.ch
206•tylerdane•15h ago•72 comments

macOS's Little-Known Command-Line Sandboxing Tool

https://igorstechnoclub.com/sandbox-exec/
13•Igor_Wiwi•19m ago•2 comments

Padlet (YC W13) Is Hiring in San Francisco and Singapore

https://padlet.jobs
1•coffeebite•2h ago

AI uBlock Blacklist

https://github.com/alvi-se/ai-ublock-blacklist
43•rdmuser•6h ago•15 comments

Coccinelle: The Linux kernel's source-to-source transformation tool

https://github.com/coccinelle/coccinelle
35•anon111332142•6h ago•12 comments

Understanding Std:Shared_mutex from C++17

https://www.cppstories.com/2026/shared_mutex/
27•ibobev•3d ago•5 comments

The bare minimum for syncing Git repos

https://alexwlchan.net/2026/bare-git/
19•speckx•3d ago•9 comments

Lean 4: How the theorem prover works and why it's the new competitive edge in AI

https://venturebeat.com/ai/lean4-how-the-theorem-prover-works-and-why-its-the-new-competitive-edg...
67•tesserato•4d ago•35 comments

What Is OAuth?

https://leaflet.pub/p/did:plc:3vdrgzr2zybocs45yfhcr6ur/3mfd2oxx5v22b
156•cratermoon•13h ago•57 comments

Every company building your AI assistant is now an ad company

https://juno-labs.com/blogs/every-company-building-your-ai-assistant-is-an-ad-company
228•ajuhasz•19h ago•116 comments

Gitas – A tool for Git account switching

https://github.com/letmutex/gitas
32•letmutex•4d ago•30 comments

JWasm: Masm Compatible Assembler

https://github.com/Baron-von-Riedesel/JWasm
4•doener•4d ago•1 comments

Index, Count, Offset, Size

https://tigerbeetle.com/blog/2026-02-16-index-count-offset-size/
115•ingve•3d ago•54 comments

Instant AI Response

https://chatjimmy.ai/
14•hochmartinez•5h ago•4 comments

Blue light filters don't work – controlling total luminance is a better bet

https://www.neuroai.science/p/blue-light-filters-dont-work
190•pminimax•20h ago•191 comments

When etcd crashes, check your disks first

https://nubificus.co.uk/blog/etcd/
22•_ananos_•7h ago•11 comments

The path to ubiquitous AI (17k tokens/sec)

https://taalas.com/the-path-to-ubiquitous-ai/
769•sidnarsipur•1d ago•421 comments

Cord: Coordinating Trees of AI Agents

https://www.june.kim/cord
112•gfortaine•13h ago•54 comments

OpenScan

https://openscan.eu/pages/scan-gallery
184•joebig•18h ago•16 comments

Choose Your Fictions Well (2010)

http://henryjenkins.org/blog/2010/04/choose_your_ficitons_well.html
8•1970-01-01•3d ago•1 comments

Show HN: Mines.fyi – all the mines in the US in a leaflet visualization

https://mines.fyi/
89•irasigman•17h ago•44 comments

Acme Weather

https://acmeweather.com/blog/introducing-acme-weather
96•cryptoz•7h ago•69 comments