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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."

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https://rvembedded.com/blog_post/12/
133•Narishma•2h ago•44 comments

Claude: System Prompts

https://platform.claude.com/docs/en/release-notes/system-prompts
383•tosh•6h ago•162 comments

The AI Credit Resale Economy

https://vectoral.com/blog/who-are-the-token-brokers
161•mlenhard•4h ago•63 comments

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https://www.wptv.com/news/treasure-coast/region-st-lucie-county/saint-lucie-nuclear-power-plant-u...
101•toomuchtodo•3h ago•59 comments

NIH is ending a key grant for budding clinical researchers

https://www.science.org/content/article/nih-ending-key-grant-budding-clinical-researchers
70•brandonb•3h ago•24 comments

MathCode, Mathematical Coding Agent

https://math-ai-org.github.io/mathcode/
9•homarp•58m ago•1 comments

Anton Chekhov played at love most of his life

https://commonreader.wustl.edu/winning-and-losing-at-the-great-game-of-intimacy/
35•lermontov•1d ago•2 comments

GPS and the Lost Art of Getting Lost

https://www.newyorker.com/news/annals-of-inquiry/gps-and-the-lost-art-of-getting-lost
47•karakoram•4h ago•38 comments

Clamiga: Common Lisp for the Amiga

https://nnamgreb.de/blog/Clamiga+-+Common+Lisp+for+the+Amiga
46•emptybits•3d ago•4 comments

Firefox for iOS now has a native adblocker

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/block-ads-firefox-ios
367•pentagrama•6h ago•161 comments

Plastic mechanical computer from 1963: The Digi-Comp 1 [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-y8bGBE71yw
13•tobr•22h ago•5 comments

I've built a free, open-source local and remote memory system for agentw and CL

https://www.lorekit.io/blog/give-your-agent-a-memory
7•mthines•1h ago•1 comments

Archie G. Norcross' Maine Forest Fire Maps (1918–22)

https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/maine-forest-fire-maps/
17•samclemens•3d ago•2 comments

Before Rightmove, there was the Cosmorama

https://www.ianvisits.co.uk/articles/before-rightmove-there-was-the-cosmorama-londons-forgotten-p...
12•brod_ie•5d ago•1 comments

Tell HN: Cloudflare silently injects its analytics when you switch nameservers

40•stagas•1h ago•4 comments

Show HN: A public AI whose memory is shared across all users

https://wildstatic.com/
57•adjohu•5h ago•36 comments

Tasklet (YC P26) Is Hiring a Head of Design Engineering

https://tasklet.ai/careers/head-of-design-engineering
1•mayop100•5h ago

A True Telnet BBS on a Casio Calculator

https://ei3lh.eu/2026/08/16/a-true-telnet-bbs-on-a-casio-calculator/
57•austinallegro•6h ago•8 comments

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https://www.wunc.org/environment/2026-08-10/road-to-nowhere-great-smoky-mountains
8•yareally•3d ago•5 comments

A SAT Attack on Tarski's High School Algebra Problem

https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.08421
67•matt_d•4d ago•23 comments

Chestnut – eGPU dock with open-source firmware

https://hwbusters.com/news/comma-ai-egpu-dock-runs-open-source-firmware-249-bare-799-with-an-rx-9...
117•txrx0000•2d ago•31 comments

Research papers using "kidney disappointment" instead of "kidney failure"

https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=%22kidney+disappointment%22
277•Alifatisk•6h ago•103 comments

Asus Bike Booster

https://www.asus.com/accessories/bike-booster/asus-oxiis/oxiis-intelligent-bike-booster/
572•wiradikusuma•4d ago•397 comments

The weekend is 100 years old

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106•lentil_soup•3h ago•67 comments

Superconducting monolayer cuprate with a single CuO2 plane

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-026-10857-1
56•sbulaev•4d ago•13 comments

Asynchronous I/O in DuckDB: Work, Thread, Work

https://duckdb.org/2026/07/31/asynchronous-io
253•pdet•6d ago•28 comments

AI Coding Without the Vibes

https://peterbloem.nl/blog/craft-coding
62•riskone•8h ago•37 comments

Does anyone run Postgres without PgBouncer?

https://brandur.org/fragments/postgres-without-pgbouncer
112•abelanger•3d ago•75 comments

Cultivating a state of mind where new ideas are born (2023)

https://www.henrikkarlsson.xyz/p/good-ideas
245•felixbraun•22h ago•59 comments

Super El Niño Keeps Growing as New Forecasts Reach Record Territory Ahead Winter

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396•dgellow•23h ago•269 comments