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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."

Claude Fable 5.2 and Mythos 5.2

https://www.anthropic.com/claude-fable-and-mythos-5-2
311•lairv•10h ago•666 comments

USPS now offers official ZIP Code boundary polygons

https://postalpro.usps.com/zcb
538•munro•8h ago•274 comments

Payments Canada announces launch of Canada's Real-Time Rail (RTR) payment system

https://www.payments.ca/canada-launches-real-time-rail-bringing-247-payment-infrastructure-nation...
488•ocd•12h ago•271 comments

E-means: Outperforming k-means in one-tenth the epochs

https://e-means.github.io/
309•porridgeraisin•9h ago•28 comments

Foldable Flight: The Best Paper Airplanes

https://www.foldableflight.com
893•vismit2000•16h ago•141 comments

Horible public key tricks

https://maurycyz.com/projects/badcert/
63•Curiositry•4h ago•28 comments

Locating the source of a mysterious beep

https://simonwillison.net/2026/Nov/9/mysterious-beeps/
50•bigwheels•4h ago•25 comments

CoreWeave bond yield tops 16% as AI credit stress rises

https://www.cnbc.com/2026/11/06/coreweave-bond-yield-tops-16percent-as-ai-credit-stress-rises.html
40•lxm•59m ago•4 comments

Exact – a new cross platform UI framework

https://github.com/expo/exact
80•vmg12•5h ago•36 comments

How Many People Work from Home?

https://nicholasdecker.substack.com/p/how-many-people-work-from-home
6•surprisetalk•4d ago•2 comments

Semi-transparent, colored cadmium telluride photovoltaic panels in agrivoltaics

https://www.anthropocenemagazine.org/2026/10/magenta-solar-panels-may-be-agrivoltaics-cleverest-t...
290•speckx•13h ago•189 comments

The first 300-millimeter power silicon carbide (SiC) wafer

https://www.infineon.com/press-release/2026/infpr202611-028
117•sshah03•9h ago•65 comments

A primer on GPUs and kernel optimization

https://www.nabo.dev/blogs/kernel-primer
110•nomi_uw•4d ago•12 comments

Never Gonna Print You Up

https://dixken.de/blog/never-gonna-print-you-up
22•ta988•1d ago•0 comments

The Race to Build a "Find My" for AI Chips

https://spectrum.ieee.org/find-my-ai-chip
19•oldnetguy•14h ago•1 comments

Fable 5.2 one-shotted my nephew's dream game

https://notesbylex.com/fable-5-2-one-shotted-my-nephews-dream-game
248•lexandstuff•5h ago•166 comments

Google Gemini routes personal Drive files and emails to human annotators

https://github.com/thisisme6598/gemini_files/
476•gf74918•9h ago•113 comments

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https://www.watched.earth
261•a585gupt•10h ago•45 comments

TPU 8tx and TPU 8i Max

https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/infrastructure-and-cloud/global-network/tpu-8i-max-and-8tx/
228•_benx_•6h ago•70 comments

Muse Ember: Our smallest, most efficient model

https://research.meta.ai/blog/muse-ember
265•dvaplima•10h ago•111 comments

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https://parkgraph.com/parking-app-fees
64•parkgraph•8h ago•48 comments

Claude Fable 5.2 scores 65 on Artificial Analysis, highest so far

https://artificialanalysis.ai/models/claude-fable-5-2
310•theanonymousone•8h ago•230 comments

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https://meowdisplay.app/
80•raiseCatError•9h ago•31 comments

On Being an Engineer in 2026

https://twitter.com/shaharglazner/status/2119796029256032278
53•talboren•13h ago•74 comments

A renowned scientist, a deadly snakebite, and a diary that documented it (2025)

https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/field-museum-karl-patterson-schmidt-deadly-snakebite-diary/
18•areoform•2d ago•12 comments

An ode to livelyness analysis; SSA to registers

https://xnacly.me/posts/2026/an-ode-to-livelyness-analysis/
36•xnacly•2d ago•0 comments

What is malloc doing, anyway?

https://benmandrew.com/articles/what-is-malloc-doing-anyway
236•benmandrew•16h ago•62 comments

Y/N (YC S23) is hiring a growth lead to distribute superhuman A.I. storytelling

https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/yn/jobs/TjDn3YZ-founding-growth-marketer
1•gabrielbirnbaum•11h ago

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https://someonewashere.app/
74•4onthefloor124•9h ago•28 comments

CUI – Native UI components for C

https://yappologistic.github.io/CUI/
165•hilti•8h ago•88 comments