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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."

Muse Spark 1.3

https://developer.meta.com/ai/models/muse-spark/
540•bvaldivielso•12h ago•365 comments

Gemini 3.8 Flash and 3.8 Flash Cyber

https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/models-and-research/gemini-models/3-8-flash-and-3-8-flash-c...
981•bratao•16h ago•557 comments

The Computer Museum of America reclamation project

https://computer-museum.org/wp/
31•rbanffy•2d ago•11 comments

Holden's Lightning Flight

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holden%27s_Lightning_flight
143•ColinWright•2d ago•26 comments

Pre-Release of Polars 2.0

https://pola.rs/posts/announcing-polars-2/
6•komape•57m ago•0 comments

Google avoids a breakup of its ad tech business

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/02/technology/google-ad-tech-remedies.html
358•donohoe•17h ago•260 comments

Three sites made 215,128 “best software” pages for AI. Perplexity cites them

https://trellner.com/reports/manufactured-sources-behind-ai-recommendations/
393•jakobgreenfeld•17h ago•190 comments

Creating Backup Storage Sucks

https://smarmelling.com/posts/creating-backup-storage-sucks.html
41•smarmelling•2d ago•32 comments

Can I opt out of my input or output data being used for training?

https://help.mistral.ai/en/articles/455207-can-i-opt-out-of-my-input-or-output-data-being-used-fo...
428•teekert•19h ago•187 comments

Reverse Engineering Unknown File Formats with ImHex

https://werwolv.net/posts/file_format_reverse_engineering/
176•carlos-menezes•2d ago•34 comments

Launch HN: RonanRX (YC S26) – Personalized Peptides and GLP-1s

56•lloydarmbrust•9h ago•62 comments

Higher Multipoles of the Cow

https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.00506
56•MrOrelliOReilly•1d ago•17 comments

Fable 5.1 World Modeling

https://github.com/PhiloLabs/fable51-worlds
222•surreal_•12h ago•65 comments

LLMs and Self-Referentiality

https://scottaaronson.blog/?p=10046
19•mavdol04•1d ago•9 comments

Show HN: OwnTime – a chess clock for your day's priorities

https://owntime.app/
60•fmos•1d ago•29 comments

Wendell Berry has died

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/31/us/wendell-berry-dead.html
176•Curiositry•2d ago•95 comments

Biggest dark matter detector spots a single weird particle

https://www.science.org/content/article/world-s-biggest-dark-matter-detector-spots-single-weird-p...
280•randycupertino•18h ago•95 comments

Aging brains blend memories together instead of just forgetting them

https://studyfinds.com/aging-brains-blend-memories-together-instead-of-forgetting-them-study-finds/
263•mdp2021•18h ago•115 comments

Much Ado About Adenoids

https://www.damninteresting.com/much-ado-about-adenoids/
23•SamuraiLion•1d ago•0 comments

Qantas Airbus A380 engine failure in 2010 (2023)

https://admiralcloudberg.medium.com/a-matter-of-millimeters-the-story-of-qantas-flight-32-bdaa62d...
123•gumby•13h ago•76 comments

Engineering of the fastest WebAssembly interpreters

https://wasmi-labs.github.io/blog/posts/wasmi-v2.0/
86•herobird•1d ago•6 comments

The shrinking landscape of linguistic diversity in the age of LLMs

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41562-026-02550-0
132•Anon84•3d ago•110 comments

Exit the Cave

https://turtlespace.blog/p/exit-the-cave
249•akkartik•17h ago•90 comments

Async Rust vs RTOS showdown (2022)

https://tweedegolf.nl/en/blog/65/async-rust-vs-rtos-showdown/
80•kooi•13h ago•42 comments

A Selection of Los Alamos Rolodex Business Cards

https://clui.org/collections/los-alamos-business-cards/selection-cards
160•1970-01-01•2d ago•41 comments

Nango (YC W23) is hiring across eng, product and GTM (SF and remote)

https://nango.dev/careers
1•bastienbeurier•10h ago

Altair Basic Interpreter Source Code (1975) [pdf]

https://images.gatesnotes.com/12514eb8-7b51-008e-41a9-512542cf683b/34d561c8-cf5c-4e69-af47-3782ea...
55•Eridanus2•11h ago•33 comments

We could save petabytes of cache storage with Zstandard and Pingora

https://blog.cloudflare.com/cache-transcoding/
104•torutofu•1d ago•39 comments

Poisson Disk Sampling

https://stripeacross.com/posts/poisson-disk-sampling/
155•vismit2000•18h ago•19 comments

Reasons robotics is hard

https://secondthoughts.ai/p/14-reasons-robotics-is-hard
82•ddp26•9h ago•47 comments