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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."

Google adds 24-hour wait and mandatory reboot to Android sideloading flow

https://android-developers.googleblog.com/2025/08/elevating-android-security.html
33•dfordp11•1h ago•11 comments

OpenCode – Open source AI coding agent

https://opencode.ai/
658•rbanffy•10h ago•290 comments

Ubuntu 26.04 Ends 46 Years of Silent sudo Passwords

https://pbxscience.com/ubuntu-26-04-ends-46-years-of-silent-sudo-passwords/
20•akersten•2h ago•10 comments

Mamba-3

https://www.together.ai/blog/mamba-3
58•matt_d•3d ago•5 comments

Molly Guard

https://bookofjoe2.blogspot.com/2026/02/molly-guard.html
61•surprisetalk•16h ago•30 comments

France's aircraft carrier located in real time by Le Monde through fitness app

https://www.lemonde.fr/en/international/article/2026/03/20/stravaleaks-france-s-aircraft-carrier-...
540•MrDresden•18h ago•429 comments

We rewrote our Rust WASM parser in TypeScript and it got faster

https://www.openui.com/blog/rust-wasm-parser
166•zahlekhan•9h ago•93 comments

Fujifilm X RAW STUDIO webapp clone

https://github.com/eggricesoy/filmkit
11•notcodingtoday•2d ago•6 comments

A Japanese glossary of chopsticks faux pas

https://www.nippon.com/en/japan-data/h01362/
213•cainxinth•10h ago•155 comments

Ghostling

https://github.com/ghostty-org/ghostling
170•bjornroberg•8h ago•30 comments

Linux Applications Programming by Example: The Fundamental APIs (2nd Edition)

https://github.com/arnoldrobbins/LinuxByExample-2e
67•teleforce•7h ago•8 comments

FFmpeg 101 (2024)

https://blogs.igalia.com/llepage/ffmpeg-101/
27•vinhnx•4h ago•0 comments

The Ugliest Airplane: An Appreciation

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/air-space-magazine/ugliest-airplane-appreciation-180978708/
54•randycupertino•2d ago•28 comments

A look at content scrambling in DVDs

https://mathweb.ucsd.edu/~crypto/Projects/MarkBarry/
23•rvnx•2d ago•10 comments

Attention Residuals

https://github.com/MoonshotAI/Attention-Residuals
153•GaggiX•12h ago•21 comments

Show HN: We built a terminal-only Bluesky / AT Proto client written in Fortran

https://github.com/FormerLab/fortransky
69•FormerLabFred•8h ago•37 comments

The Los Angeles Aqueduct Is Wild

https://practical.engineering/blog/2026/3/17/the-los-angeles-aqueduct-is-wild
327•michaefe•3d ago•173 comments

Ask ChatGPT to pick a number from 1-10000, it generally selects from 7200-7500

https://old.reddit.com/r/ChatGPT/comments/1rz2ooh/i_am_betting_my_house_that_if_you_ask_gpt_to_pick/
14•mellosouls•52m ago•9 comments

The worst volume control UI in the world (2017)

https://uxdesign.cc/the-worst-volume-control-ui-in-the-world-60713dc86950
99•andsoitis•2d ago•48 comments

Turing Award Honors Bennett and Brassard for Quantum Information Science

https://amturing.acm.org
19•throw0101d•2d ago•0 comments

VisiCalc Reconstructed

https://zserge.com/posts/visicalc/
182•ingve•3d ago•74 comments

Lent and Lisp

https://leancrew.com/all-this/2026/02/lent-and-lisp/
43•surprisetalk•2d ago•2 comments

Our commitment to Windows quality

https://blogs.windows.com/windows-insider/2026/03/20/our-commitment-to-windows-quality/
489•hadrien01•11h ago•883 comments

purl: a curl-esque CLI for making HTTP requests that require payment

https://www.purl.dev/
17•bpierre•4h ago•2 comments

An FAQ on Reinforcement Learning Environments

https://epoch.ai/gradient-updates/state-of-rl-envs
38•dcre•1d ago•7 comments

Show HN: Red Grid Link – peer-to-peer team tracking over Bluetooth, no servers

https://github.com/RedGridTactical/RedGridLink
37•redgridtactical•8h ago•14 comments

Entso-E final report on Iberian 2025 blackout

https://www.entsoe.eu/publications/blackout/28-april-2025-iberian-blackout/
181•Rygian•20h ago•90 comments

ArXiv declares independence from Cornell

https://www.science.org/content/article/arxiv-pioneering-preprint-server-declares-independence-co...
746•bookstore-romeo•1d ago•263 comments

Delve – Fake Compliance as a Service

https://deepdelver.substack.com/p/delve-fake-compliance-as-a-service
629•freddykruger•1d ago•212 comments

Parallel Perl – Autoparallelizing interpreter with JIT

https://perl.petamem.com/gpw2026/perl-mit-ai-gpw2026.html#/4/1/1
112•bmn__•2d ago•39 comments