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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."

Google broke reCAPTCHA for de-googled Android users

https://reclaimthenet.org/google-broke-recaptcha-for-de-googled-android-users
799•anonymousiam•10h ago•264 comments

A recent experience with ChatGPT 5.5 Pro

https://gowers.wordpress.com/2026/05/08/a-recent-experience-with-chatgpt-5-5-pro/
16•_alternator_•2h ago•0 comments

OpenAI's WebRTC problem

https://moq.dev/blog/webrtc-is-the-problem/
211•atgctg•1d ago•56 comments

Mythical Man Month

https://martinfowler.com/bliki/MythicalManMonth.html
73•ingve•1d ago•62 comments

AI is breaking two vulnerability cultures

https://www.jefftk.com/p/ai-is-breaking-two-vulnerability-cultures
293•speckx•11h ago•123 comments

Bitter Lessons from the ISSpresso

https://mceglowski.substack.com/p/bitter-lessons-from-the-isspresso
60•zdw•2d ago•14 comments

The React2Shell Story

https://lachlan.nz/blog/the-react2shell-story/
94•mufeedvh•12h ago•5 comments

David Attenborough's 100th Birthday

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cp3pww9g0p5o
522•defrost•16h ago•100 comments

Wi is Fi: Understanding Wi-Fi 4/5/6/6E/7/8 (802.11 n/AC/ax/be/bn)

https://www.wiisfi.com/
142•homebrewer•2d ago•49 comments

Cartoon Network Flash Games

https://www.webdesignmuseum.org/flash-game-exhibitions/cartoon-network-flash-games
309•willmeyers•12h ago•102 comments

Light without electricity? Glowing algae could make it possible

https://www.colorado.edu/today/2026/05/06/light-without-electricity-glowing-algae-could-make-it-p...
37•geox•2d ago•14 comments

AWS North Virginia data center outage – recovery to take hours

https://www.cnbc.com/2026/05/08/aws-outage-data-center-fanduel-coinbase.html
173•christhecaribou•1d ago•121 comments

You gave me a u32. I gave you root. (io_uring ZCRX freelist LPE)

https://ze3tar.github.io/post-zcrx.html
159•MrBruh•9h ago•90 comments

An Introduction to Meshtastic

https://meshtastic.org/docs/introduction/
391•ColinWright•17h ago•153 comments

Can LLMs model real-world systems in TLA+?

https://www.sigops.org/2026/can-llms-model-real-world-systems-in-tla/
55•mad•12h ago•9 comments

Teaching Claude Why

https://www.anthropic.com/research/teaching-claude-why
117•pretext•11h ago•50 comments

The Soul of Maintaining a New Machine

https://books.worksinprogress.co/book/maintenance-of-everything/communities-of-practice/the-soul-...
21•akkartik•3d ago•2 comments

Serving a website on a Raspberry Pi Zero running in RAM

https://btxx.org/posts/memory/
200•xngbuilds•13h ago•87 comments

When is your birthday? The math behind hash collisions

https://0xkrt26.github.io/math_behind_security/2026/05/08/birthday-problem.html
30•denismenace•8h ago•4 comments

Over 97% of the 'Linux' Foundation's Budget Goes Not to Linux

https://techrights.org/n/2026/05/08/Over_97_of_the_Linux_Foundation_s_Budget_Goes_Not_to_Linux.shtml
37•esaym•1h ago•19 comments

Mojo 1.0 Beta

https://mojolang.org/
322•sbt567•1d ago•196 comments

Mux (YC W16) Is Hiring

https://www.mux.com/jobs
1•mmcclure•8h ago

Meta Shuts Down End-to-End Encryption for Instagram Messaging

https://www.pcmag.com/news/meta-shuts-down-end-to-end-encryption-for-instagram-dms-messaging
211•tcp_handshaker•7h ago•130 comments

US Government releases first batch of UAP documents and videos

https://www.war.gov/UFO/
250•david-gpu•16h ago•411 comments

Looking at the data behind prediction markets

https://asteriskmag.com/issues/14/are-prediction-markets-good-for-anything
70•kqr•1d ago•32 comments

Boosting multimodal inference performance by >10% with a single Python dict

https://modal.com/blog/boosting-multimodal-inference-performance-by-greater-than-10-with-a-single...
5•jxmorris12•2d ago•0 comments

Poland is now among the 20 largest economies

https://apnews.com/article/poland-economy-growth-g20-gdp-26fe06e120398410f8d773ba5661e7aa
936•surprisetalk•16h ago•745 comments

PC Engine CPU

https://jsgroth.dev/blog/posts/pc-engine-cpu/
133•ibobev•14h ago•57 comments

Non-determinism is an issue with patching CVEs

https://flox.dev/blog/achieving-rapid-cve-remediation-in-an-era-of-escalating-vulnerabilities/
44•mathewpregasen•7h ago•12 comments

How do I deal with memory leaks? (2022)

https://www.stroustrup.com/bs_faq2.html#memory-leaks
79•theanonymousone•11h ago•67 comments