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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."

USB Cheat Sheet (2022)

https://fabiensanglard.net/usbcheat/index.html
135•gwerbret•3h ago•42 comments

Why Has There Been So Little Progress on Alzheimer's Disease?

https://freakonomics.com/podcast/why-has-there-been-so-little-progress-on-alzheimers-disease/
25•chiefalchemist•46m ago•3 comments

The Free Universal Construction Kit

https://fffff.at/free-universal-construction-kit/
262•robinhouston•3d ago•47 comments

1-Bit Hokusai's "The Great Wave" (2023)

https://www.hypertalking.com/2023/05/08/1-bit-pixel-art-of-hokusais-the-great-wave-off-kanagawa/
518•stephen-hill•3d ago•86 comments

Agents Aren't Coworkers, Embed Them in Your Software

https://www.feldera.com/blog/ai-agents-arent-coworkers-embed-them-in-your-software
13•gz09•1h ago•0 comments

Using coding assistance tools to revive projects you never were going to finish

https://blog.matthewbrunelle.com/its-ok-to-use-coding-assistance-tools-to-revive-the-projects-you...
168•speckx•8h ago•102 comments

America's Geothermal Breakthrough

https://oilprice.com/Alternative-Energy/Geothermal-Energy/Americas-Geothermal-Breakthrough-Could-...
57•sleepyguy•5h ago•64 comments

Her Life Savings Mysteriously Disappeared After a Systems Glitch

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/25/your-money/fidelity-investments-fraud-alert.html
14•danso•1h ago•8 comments

The Joy of Folding Bikes

https://blog.korny.info/2026/04/19/the-joy-of-folding-bikes
73•pavel_lishin•3d ago•41 comments

Flickr: The First and Last Great Photo Platform

https://petapixel.com/2026/04/22/flickr-the-first-and-last-great-photo-platform/
20•Nrbelex•3d ago•3 comments

New 10 GbE USB adapters are cooler, smaller, cheaper

https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2026/new-10-gbe-usb-adapters-cooler-smaller-cheaper/
541•calcifer•19h ago•315 comments

Simulacrum of Knowledge Work

https://blog.happyfellow.dev/simulacrum-of-knowledge-work/
88•thehappyfellow•7h ago•32 comments

Math Is Hard

http://miod.online.fr/software/openbsd/stories/vaxfp.html
21•signa11•2d ago•0 comments

Europe to burned American scientists: We'll take you in

https://www.politico.eu/article/europe-exploit-dunald-trump-brain-drain-academic-research-progres...
13•vrganj•29m ago•1 comments

Mine, an IDE for Coalton and Common Lisp

https://coalton-lang.github.io/mine/
64•varjag•7h ago•15 comments

How Hard Is It to Open a File?

https://blog.sebastianwick.net/posts/how-hard-is-it-to-open-a-file/
51•ffin•1d ago•9 comments

Desmond Morris has died

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c51y797v200o
99•martey•5d ago•17 comments

What async promised and what it delivered

https://causality.blog/essays/what-async-promised/
149•zdw•3d ago•166 comments

Martin Galway's music source files from 1980's Commodore 64 games

https://github.com/MartinGalway/C64_music
160•ingve•14h ago•21 comments

Show HN: Kloak, A secret manager that keeps K8s workload away from secrets

https://getkloak.io/
39•neo2006•5h ago•35 comments

Lute: A Standalone Runtime for Luau

https://lute.luau.org/
58•vrn-sn•3d ago•9 comments

GPT‑5.5 Bio Bug Bounty

https://openai.com/index/gpt-5-5-bio-bug-bounty/
127•Murfalo•10h ago•97 comments

Discret 11, the French TV encryption of the 80s

https://fabiensanglard.net/discret11/
146•adunk•13h ago•26 comments

Can you stop beans from making you gassy?

https://www.seriouseats.com/how-to-reduce-bean-gas-tested-11883862
93•jstrieb•4h ago•72 comments

Which one is more important: more parameters or more computation? (2021)

https://parl.ai/projects/params_vs_compute/
47•jxmorris12•1d ago•8 comments

Trump fires NSF's oversight board

https://www.science.org/content/article/trump-fires-nsf-s-oversight-board
337•skullone•2h ago•170 comments

Colorado Adds Open-Source Exemption to Age-Verification Bill

https://fosstodon.org/@carlrichell/116460505717380644
22•terminalbraid•2h ago•1 comments

Insights into firewood use by early Middle Pleistocene hominins

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0277379126001824
49•wslh•3d ago•20 comments

A web-based RDP client built with Go WebAssembly and grdp

https://github.com/nakagami/grdpwasm
110•mariuz•13h ago•42 comments

Plain text has been around for decades and it’s here to stay

https://unsung.aresluna.org/plain-text-has-been-around-for-decades-and-its-here-to-stay/
275•rbanffy•23h ago•137 comments