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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."

Dropbox CEO Drew Houston to step down

https://www.cnbc.com/2026/05/26/dropbox-ceo-drew-houston-ashraf-alkarmi.html
102•aghuang•5h ago•78 comments

The Ballad of TIGIT

https://www.owlposting.com/p/the-ballad-of-tigit
47•crescit_eundo•2h ago•4 comments

Launch HN: Minicor (YC P26) – Windows desktop automations at scale

https://www.minicor.com/
45•fchishtie•3h ago•35 comments

Is "colorectal cancer" rising in "young people"?

https://dynomight.net/crc-rates/
76•surprisetalk•2h ago•58 comments

Spain blocks prediction markets Polymarket, Kalshi over lack of gambling licence

https://www.reuters.com/business/spain-blocks-prediction-markets-polymarket-kalshi-over-lack-gamb...
406•thm•5h ago•197 comments

A few interesting modern pixel fonts

https://unsung.aresluna.org/a-few-interesting-modern-pixel-fonts/
22•zdw•21h ago•5 comments

Using AI to write better code more slowly

https://nolanlawson.com/2026/05/25/using-ai-to-write-better-code-more-slowly/
1051•signa11•19h ago•393 comments

Language Models Need Sleep

https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.26099
120•juxtapose•2h ago•89 comments

Sage Care (YC S24) Is Hiring Software Engineers

https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/sagecare/jobs/xtloH8r-senior-software-engineer
1•ian-gillis•1h ago

C64 Basic: Game Map Overhead "Camera View"

https://retrogamecoders.com/overhead-camera-view/
49•ibobev•4h ago•5 comments

What color is your function? (2015)

https://journal.stuffwithstuff.com/2015/02/01/what-color-is-your-function/
46•tosh•2h ago•35 comments

Outsourcing plus local AI will soon become more economical vs. frontier labs

https://www.signalbloom.ai/posts/outsourcing-plus-localai-will-soon-become-more-economical-vs-fro...
145•GodelNumbering•6h ago•156 comments

Rosalind: A genomics toolkit in Rust running whole-genome pipelines on a laptop

https://github.com/logannye/rosalind
16•samuell•5d ago•1 comments

The real cost of owning a home

https://ericturner.dev/posts/cost-of-home-ownership/
67•ggcr•2h ago•168 comments

Opaque Types in Python

https://blog.glyph.im/2026/05/opaque-types-in-python.html
81•lumpa•3d ago•33 comments

Netherlands blocks US takeover of vital digital supplier

https://www.politico.eu/article/netherlands-blocks-us-takeover-vital-digital-supplier/
384•vrganj•6h ago•140 comments

DynIP – Dynamic DNS with RFC 2136, IPv6, DNSSEC, and BYOD

https://dynip.dev/
267•dynip•10h ago•109 comments

Taking a walk may lead to more creativity than sitting, study finds (2014)

https://www.apa.org/news/press/releases/2014/04/creativity-walk
526•bilsbie•20h ago•208 comments

Uber, Lyft drivers in Massachusetts form first US ride-share union

https://www.reuters.com/business/world-at-work/uber-lyft-drivers-massachusetts-form-first-us-ride...
184•onemoresoop•2h ago•92 comments

Performance of Rust Language [pdf]

https://github.com/yugr/rust-slides/
93•tanelpoder•18h ago•71 comments

Are we self-sovereign PKI yet?

https://buffrr.dev/blog/are-we-self-sovereign-pki-yet/
36•ca98am79•4d ago•10 comments

Phantasy Star IV – 1993 Developer Interviews

https://shmuplations.com/phantasystariv/
115•speckx•4d ago•42 comments

Use boring languages with LLMs

https://jry.io/writing/use-boring-languages-with-llms/
78•evakhoury•4d ago•66 comments

The user is visibly frustrated

https://pscanf.com/s/354/
225•croes•13h ago•201 comments

Stack Overflow's forum is dead thanks to AI

https://wiert.me/2026/05/26/stack-overflows-forum-is-dead-thanks-to-ai-but-the-companys-still-kic...
4•geerlingguy•1h ago•2 comments

How Shamir's Secret Sharing Works

https://ente.com/blog/how-shamirs-secret-sharing-works/
342•subract•19h ago•62 comments

Incident with Actions and Pages

https://www.githubstatus.com/incidents/gnftqj9htp0g
73•hakube•7h ago•22 comments

Ferrari Luce

https://www.ferrari.com/en-EN/auto/ferrari-luce
441•jumploops•21h ago•814 comments

Don't Subscribe So Casually

https://thebestworstcase.substack.com/p/dont-subscribe-so-casually
80•shmublu•3h ago•64 comments

How do you build a semiconductor company on something that's free?

https://www.siliconimist.com/p/the-open-source-silicon-business
58•johncole•4d ago•21 comments