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Building my npx business card

https://ashley.dev/posts/turning-feedback-into-features/
8•edent•1y ago

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steele•1y ago
Ooh, free real estate, let's colonize and gentrify package management
aabhay•1y ago
Lmao, gentrify cracked me up
neilv•1y ago
Do these npx business cards run arbitrary code on your computer?
cypherpunks01•1y 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•1y 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•1y ago
Yeah, this seems like a very smart but inherently flawed idea.
cypherpunks01•1y 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•1y ago
May as well just release an executable tbh.
theamk•1y 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•1y 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•1y 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."

Residential proxies detected on White House network

https://layer3intel.com/blog/residential-proxies-white-house-network
919•Rasbora•10h ago•278 comments

Lemmings CSS Animation

https://markblah.github.io/lemmings/
70•MarkBlah•2h ago•11 comments

Images 2.6

https://openai.com/index/introducing-images-2-6/
233•davidbarker•7h ago•151 comments

A thousand fewer paths to root

https://openai.com/index/a-thousand-fewer-paths-to-root/
269•dangelosaurus•7h ago•170 comments

Ripple-65B Preview: U.S. Open-Weight SOTA on Agentic Coding

https://www.ricursive.com/ripple
276•Philpax•12h ago•99 comments

Kimi K3.1 Pro model weights are out

https://huggingface.co/moonshotai/Kimi-K3.1-Pro
482•abrarthought•15h ago•136 comments

Altera Announces Agilex 2X, a Complete FPGA and SoC Portfolio

https://www.altera.com/newsroom/agilex-2x
11•gmays•1h ago•2 comments

Insects don't swarm at LED lights

https://www.birdsoutsidemywindow.org/2026/11/03/insects-dont-swarm-at-led-lights/
226•speckx•11h ago•120 comments

Spreading Liquid with Three.js

https://mofu-dev.com/en/blog/fluid-foundation/
45•mooreds•2d ago•10 comments

Starfall – Affordable, routine access to microgravity

https://www.spacex.com/starfall
195•gmays•6h ago•124 comments

A new Go API for JSON

https://go.dev/blog/jsonv2
281•olexsmir•13h ago•129 comments

So my ISP was hijacking my DNS

https://www.karthihegde.dev/posts/dns_tampering
34•frostbyte7•18h ago•17 comments

Hacking the Xbox 360 Hypervisor Part 3: Bad Update Improvements

https://icode4.coffee/?p=1746
103•muricula•9h ago•5 comments

Conductor is joining Meta

https://www.conductor.build/announcement
160•kenrose•12h ago•174 comments

AI is forcing us to pay off 40 years of technical debt

https://spectrum.ieee.org/ai-in-cybersecurity-php2shell-vulnerability
1153•pseudolus•19h ago•666 comments

Show HN: After a decade of reversing, I got co-op working in DOS Wing Commander

https://fireflyk64.github.io/wcmulti/
157•daniel_rh•12h ago•19 comments

Qualcomm Cloud AI 100 Ultra – 150W AI Accelerator Card with 128GB at 548GB/s

https://www.qualcomm.com/data-center/products/cloud-ai-100-ultra
135•peter_d_sherman•11h ago•54 comments

Progress on provable inference for large language models

https://www.anthropic.com/research/provable-inference
207•ltononro•13h ago•93 comments

Ask HN: What's your current AI agentic setup?

264•eggbrain•16h ago•262 comments

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86•lukeigel•13h ago•33 comments

Future Maintenance of Mbed TLS

https://lists.trustedfirmware.org/archives/list/mbed-tls@lists.trustedfirmware.org/thread/YPIGCB7...
11•jonesjohnson•1d ago•1 comments

Guerrilla bike lanes: San Francisco makes illicit infrastructure permanent (2016)

https://99percentinvisible.org/article/guerrilla-bike-lanes-san-francisco-makes-illicit-infrastru...
286•zenincognito•16h ago•211 comments

OpenAI to acquire Pierre Computer Company

https://openai.com/index/openai-to-acquire-pierre/
227•itunpredictable•15h ago•69 comments

A wave of plastic-free coffee pods and machines

https://www.cnn.com/2026/11/02/food/coffee-machine-plastic-free
77•thunderbong•15h ago•93 comments

Tencent Hy4

https://hy.tencent.ai/research/hy4
227•Philpax•17h ago•78 comments

Basically no one is using AI agents for their DoorDash orders

https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/10/doordash-says-outside-ai-agents-have-only-led-to-hundreds-of-o...
118•PaulHoule•2d ago•211 comments

'It's just vape, nail, charity shops': Can anything save UK high street?

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2026/nov/04/what-can-save-the-british-high-street-rotherham
107•theanonymousone•15h ago•225 comments

Show HN: The DNA of DOOM – How code structure survives across 44 ports

https://squid-protocol.github.io/gitgalaxy/museum-of-code/doom-dna/
41•joe-esquibel•2d ago•21 comments

11 Nanoseconds per Word: Over-Optimizing Anagrams

https://wiredream.com/anagram-fun/
17•ColinWright•21h ago•3 comments

Is Curiosity Good for Us?

https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v48/n20/adam-phillips/is-curiosity-good-for-us
39•NaOH•1d ago•19 comments