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Building my npx business card

https://ashley.dev/posts/turning-feedback-into-features/
8•edent•11mo ago

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steele•11mo ago
Ooh, free real estate, let's colonize and gentrify package management
aabhay•11mo ago
Lmao, gentrify cracked me up
neilv•11mo ago
Do these npx business cards run arbitrary code on your computer?
cypherpunks01•11mo 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•11mo 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•11mo ago
Yeah, this seems like a very smart but inherently flawed idea.
cypherpunks01•11mo 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•11mo ago
May as well just release an executable tbh.
theamk•11mo 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•11mo 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•11mo 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."

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https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-04-27/microsoft-to-stop-sharing-revenue-with-main-ai...
771•helsinkiandrew•13h ago•671 comments

Talkie: a 13B vintage language model from 1930

https://talkie-lm.com/introducing-talkie
107•jekude•5h ago•36 comments

Integrated by Design

https://vivianvoss.net/blog/integrated-by-design-launch
72•vermaden•3h ago•24 comments

Meetings are forcing functions

https://www.mooreds.com/wordpress/archives/3734
60•zdw•1d ago•21 comments

Three men are facing charges in Toronto SMS Blaster arrests

https://www.tps.ca/media-centre/stories/unprecedented-sms-blaster-arrests/
109•gnabgib•6h ago•51 comments

Is my blue your blue?

https://ismy.blue/
366•theogravity•6h ago•247 comments

Mo RAM, Mo Problems (2025)

https://fabiensanglard.net/curse/
20•blfr•2d ago•3 comments

Ted Nyman – High Performance Git

https://gitperf.com/
21•gnabgib•2h ago•3 comments

The quiet resurgence of RF engineering

https://atempleton.bearblog.dev/quiet-resurgence-of-rf-engineering/
149•merlinq•2d ago•83 comments

Easyduino: Open Source PCB Devboards for KiCad

https://github.com/Hanqaqa/Easyduino
177•Hanqaqa•9h ago•26 comments

4TB of voice samples just stolen from 40k AI contractors at Mercor

https://app.oravys.com/blog/mercor-breach-2026
454•Oravys•16h ago•167 comments

Men who stare at walls

https://www.alexselimov.com/posts/men_who_stare_at_walls/
461•aselimov3•15h ago•206 comments

Spanish archaeologists discover trove of ancient shipwrecks in Bay of Gibraltar

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2026/apr/15/hidden-treasures-spanish-archaeologists-discover-...
81•1659447091•1d ago•12 comments

Networking changes coming in macOS 27

https://eclecticlight.co/2026/04/23/networking-changes-coming-in-macos-27/
209•pvtmert•11h ago•184 comments

How I leared what a decoupling capacitor is for, the hard way

https://nbelakovski.substack.com/p/how-i-learned-what-a-decoupling-capacitor
30•actinium226•2d ago•6 comments

Radar Laboratory – Interactive Radar Phenomenology

https://radarlaboratory.com/
28•jonbaer•2d ago•0 comments

The woes of sanitizing SVGs

https://muffin.ink/blog/scratch-svg-sanitization/
186•varun_ch•11h ago•76 comments

China blocks Meta's acquisition of AI startup Manus

https://www.cnbc.com/2026/04/27/meta-manus-china-blocks-acquisition-ai-startup.html
313•yakkomajuri•15h ago•208 comments

HVD Bodedo

https://www.hvdfonts.com/fonts/hvd-bodedo
3•cainxinth•1d ago•0 comments

Show HN: AgentSwift – Open-source iOS builder agent

https://github.com/hpennington/agentswift
9•hpen•1h ago•3 comments

Super ZSNES – GPU Powered SNES Emulator

https://zsnes.com/
251•haunter•9h ago•68 comments

GitHub Copilot is moving to usage-based billing

https://github.blog/news-insights/company-news/github-copilot-is-moving-to-usage-based-billing/
566•frizlab•10h ago•425 comments

Fully Featured Audio DSP Firmware for the Raspberry Pi Pico

https://github.com/WeebLabs/DSPi
266•BoingBoomTschak•2d ago•77 comments

The Secret Life of NaN (2018)

https://anniecherkaev.com/the-secret-life-of-nan
33•prakashqwerty•1d ago•17 comments

FDA approves first gene therapy for treatment of genetic hearing loss

https://www.fda.gov/news-events/press-announcements/fda-approves-first-ever-gene-therapy-treatmen...
219•JeanKage•16h ago•82 comments

“Why not just use Lean?”

https://lawrencecpaulson.github.io//2026/04/23/Why_not_Lean.html
257•ibobev•12h ago•179 comments

Pgbackrest is no longer being maintained

https://github.com/pgbackrest/pgbackrest
397•c0l0•16h ago•212 comments

Show HN: OSS Agent I built topped the TerminalBench on Gemini-3-flash-preview

https://github.com/dirac-run/dirac
307•GodelNumbering•14h ago•118 comments

Quarkdown – Markdown with Superpowers

https://quarkdown.com/
267•amai•18h ago•98 comments

Magic by return of post: How mail order delivered the occult

https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/magic-by-return-of-post/
41•Vigier•2d ago•4 comments