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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."

Elevated errors on claude.ai, Claude Code, and platform.claude.com

https://status.claude.com/incidents/nn11wk485zfn
255•__vivek•2h ago•186 comments

Jensen Huang resigns

https://apnews.com/article/nvidia-megaspeed-china-singapore-huang-5403f152a601cf82ce939f1d24fffa0f
3660•lldb•22h ago•3201 comments

IceWM

https://ice-wm.org/
226•inatreecrown2•7h ago•110 comments

Rust 1.100

https://blog.rust-lang.org/2026/11/12/Rust-1.100.0/
733•mbStavola•17h ago•268 comments

Brave Search API now accepts agentic payments via the x402 protocol

https://brave.com/blog/search-api-agentic-payments/
144•sjdh76•9h ago•81 comments

Show HN: My $300 embroidery machine needed a subscription, so I built my own app

https://github.com/simpsoka/zigzag
567•simpsoka•19h ago•194 comments

Gemini 4 Hydrogen and Orchestrator

https://antigravity.google/blog/gemini-4-hydrogen-in-google-antigravity/
432•jonbaer•17h ago•126 comments

Dwarf planet candidate appears which takes roughly 280 years to orbit our sun

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/astronomers-found-a-mysterious-object-orbiting-far-beyo...
330•cybermango•17h ago•136 comments

Edge0-145B: Frontier AI Capabilities on Your Own Computer

https://edge0.ai/blog/introducing-edge0-145b-frontier-ai-capabilities-on-your-own-computer
276•sroussey•13h ago•80 comments

Former Nvidia CEO Huang had a relationship with a second employee, sources say

https://www.reuters.com/technology/former-nvidia-ceo-huang-had-relationship-with-second-employee-...
312•jbredeche•16h ago•340 comments

Europe's electric car sales jump 49% as global EV sales grow

https://electrek.co/2026/11/11/europes-electric-car-sales-jump-49-as-global-ev-sales-grow/
50•cisc•49m ago•32 comments

The Dawn of the Data Intelligence Engineer

https://motherduck.com/blog/the-data-intelligence-engineer/
57•jonbaer•3h ago•42 comments

Claude Is Down

https://status.claude.com/history
125•cornfieldlabs•2h ago•107 comments

I'm making LLMs work on small and old devices

https://github.com/hyperionaidev/smolmaxxing/
391•mrashad74•21h ago•142 comments

Service degradation on Microsoft 365

https://status.cloud.microsoft/
979•dkpk•18h ago•830 comments

Foundation Models framework

https://developer.apple.com/foundation-models-framework/
221•kermatt•15h ago•32 comments

Switcher (2004)

https://folklore.org/Switcher.html
106•sammatilda•9h ago•34 comments

Global Microsoft Outage

https://www.cnn.com/2026/11/12/business/live-news/microsoft-global-outage-intl-hnk
168•TechTechTech•6h ago•93 comments

Abandoned Quake 4 expansion finished by modders and now playable

https://www.moddb.com/mods/openq4/downloads/openq4-0141-windows-x64
280•klaussilveira•22h ago•105 comments

Turning a 22-year-old Postgres type-confusion primitive into RCE

https://mehmetince.net/part-3-6-how-i-ended-up-turning-a-22-year-old-postgresql-type-confusion-pr...
207•ozirus•18h ago•39 comments

Is there a 'right amount' of AI?

https://coyotetracks.org/blog/right-amount-of-ai/
6•milali•2h ago•2 comments

Anthropic IPO

https://ipo.anthropic.com/us/
957•josephljohnston•1d ago•873 comments

Microsoft Outlook/365 still down after 12 hours

https://twitter.com/MSFT365Status/status/2121079061774491735
364•player85•7h ago•257 comments

Relax: JIT compiler for Rust to reduce build times

https://makepad.github.io/relax/
168•adamnemecek•1d ago•85 comments

Show HN: AgentRun – open-source, Self-improving Managed Agents

https://github.com/Parcha-ai/agentrun/blob/main/README.md
112•miguelrios•18h ago•29 comments

Nvidia employees petition to bring back Jensen Huang

https://www.wired.com/story/nvidia-employees-petition-for-jensen-huangs-return/
649•lavendermon•10h ago•486 comments

Sift: LSP, Lint, Format Lisp, Scheme and Emacs Lisp

https://github.com/jjba23/sift
62•jjba23•1d ago•8 comments

Talking Zen 6 with Mike Clark at AMD In-Depth

https://chipsandcheese.com/p/talking-zen-6-with-mike-clark-at
224•dverlaeckt80•22h ago•7 comments

Gemini 4 Hydrogen

https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/models-and-research/gemini-models/introducing-gemini-4-hydr...
539•dvaplima•18h ago•337 comments

Show HN: Kapso – Iterative learning from enterprise data

48•alirezamshi•18h ago•11 comments