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Building my npx business card

https://ashley.dev/posts/turning-feedback-into-features/
8•edent•7mo ago

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steele•7mo ago
Ooh, free real estate, let's colonize and gentrify package management
aabhay•7mo ago
Lmao, gentrify cracked me up
neilv•7mo ago
Do these npx business cards run arbitrary code on your computer?
cypherpunks01•7mo 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•7mo 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•7mo ago
Yeah, this seems like a very smart but inherently flawed idea.
cypherpunks01•7mo 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•7mo ago
May as well just release an executable tbh.
theamk•7mo 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•7mo 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•7mo 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."

Google is dead. Where do we go now?

https://www.circusscientist.com/2025/12/29/google-is-dead-where-do-we-go-now/
356•tomjuggler•3h ago•328 comments

AI Employees Don't Pay Taxes

https://alec.is/posts/ai-employees-dont-pay-taxes/
52•arm32•1h ago•35 comments

Show HN: Stop Claude Code from forgetting everything

https://github.com/mutable-state-inc/ensue-skill
23•austinbaggio•1h ago•16 comments

Flame Graphs vs Tree Maps vs Sunburst (2017)

https://www.brendangregg.com/blog/2017-02-06/flamegraphs-vs-treemaps-vs-sunburst.html
85•gudzpoz•2d ago•21 comments

Static Allocation with Zig

https://nickmonad.blog/2025/static-allocation-with-zig-kv/
146•todsacerdoti•7h ago•77 comments

List of domains censored by German ISPs

https://cuiiliste.de/domains
255•elcapitan•5h ago•101 comments

When someone says they hate your product

https://www.getflack.com/p/responding-to-negative-feedback
61•jger15•4h ago•58 comments

ManusAI Joins Meta

https://manus.im/blog/manus-joins-meta-for-next-era-of-innovation
70•gniting•1h ago•43 comments

A production bug that made me care about undefined behavior

https://gaultier.github.io/blog/the_production_bug_that_made_me_care_about_undefined_behavior.html
87•birdculture•5h ago•53 comments

All Delisted Steam Games

https://delistedgames.com/all-delisted-steam-games/
152•Bondi_Blue•4h ago•63 comments

Obelisk 0.32: Cancellation, WebAPI, Postgres

https://obeli.sk/blog/announcing-obelisk-0-32/
16•tomasol•3h ago•3 comments

Which Humans? (2023)

https://osf.io/preprints/psyarxiv/5b26t_v1
26•surprisetalk•3h ago•14 comments

Show HN: Aroma: Every TCP Proxy Is Detectable with RTT Fingerprinting

https://github.com/Sakura-sx/Aroma
52•Sakura-sx•4d ago•28 comments

Left Behind: Futurist Fetishists, Prepping and the Abandonment of Earth (2019)

https://www.boundary2.org/2019/08/sarah-t-roberts-and-mel-hogan-left-behind-futurist-fetishists-p...
26•naves•4h ago•19 comments

AI is forcing us to write good code

https://bits.logic.inc/p/ai-is-forcing-us-to-write-good-code
65•sgk284•4h ago•47 comments

Lead-Free Organic–Inorganic Halobismuthate for Large Piezoelectric Effect

https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/jacs.5c15484
3•PaulHoule•38m ago•0 comments

Intelligence – A Mystery Investigation Game

https://intelligencegame.tech/
5•throw_a_grenade•4d ago•0 comments

GOG is getting acquired by its original co-founder

https://www.gog.com/blog/gog-is-getting-acquired-by-its-original-co-founder-what-it-means-for-you/
485•haunter•6h ago•273 comments

Libgodc: Write Go Programs for Sega Dreamcast

https://github.com/drpaneas/libgodc
195•drpaneas•9h ago•45 comments

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https://superset.sh/
54•avipeltz•6d ago•49 comments

Linux DAW: Help Linux musicians to quickly and easily find the tools they need

https://linuxdaw.org/
171•prmoustache•11h ago•84 comments

Kidnapped by Deutsche Bahn

https://www.theocharis.dev/blog/kidnapped-by-deutsche-bahn/
887•JeremyTheo•11h ago•813 comments

Static Allocation for Compilers

https://matklad.github.io/2025/12/23/static-allocation-compilers.html
20•enz•6d ago•8 comments

You can't design software you don't work on

https://www.seangoedecke.com/you-cant-design-software-you-dont-work-on/
224•saikatsg•15h ago•78 comments

Karpathy on Programming: "I've never felt this much behind"

https://twitter.com/karpathy/status/2004607146781278521
253•rishabhaiover•3d ago•241 comments

Nvidia takes $5B stake in Intel under September agreement

https://www.reuters.com/legal/transactional/nvidia-takes-5-billion-stake-intel-under-september-ag...
179•taubek•6h ago•70 comments

Binance's Trust Wallet extension hacked; users lose $7M

https://www.web3isgoinggreat.com/?id=trust-wallet-hack
83•ilamont•3h ago•14 comments

High-performance C++ hash table using grouped SIMD metadata scanning

https://github.com/Cranot/grouped-simd-hashtable
40•rurban•5d ago•15 comments

Show HN: Evidex – AI Clinical Search (RAG over PubMed/OpenAlex and SOAP Notes)

https://www.getevidex.com
30•amber_raza•6h ago•15 comments

Why is calling my asm function from Rust slower than calling it from C?

https://ohadravid.github.io/posts/2025-12-rav1d-faster-asm/
95•gavide•2d ago•30 comments