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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."

Fable turned reMarkable into Tom Riddle's diary from Harry Potter

https://github.com/MaximeRivest/Riddle
433•modinfo•10h ago•251 comments

OpenWrt One – Open Hardware Router

https://openwrt.org/toh/openwrt/one
597•peter_d_sherman•14h ago•229 comments

CoMaps – FOSS Offline Maps

https://www.comaps.app/
536•basilikum•14h ago•114 comments

GLM 5.2 and the coming AI margin collapse

https://martinalderson.com/posts/the-upcoming-ai-margin-collapse-part-1-glm-5-2/
393•martinald•12h ago•242 comments

How to sequence your own DNA at home

https://bradleywoolf.com/links-1/sequencing-my-own-dna-at-home
202•bilsbie•8h ago•71 comments

Small AI Models Gain Traction In places with unreliable networks

https://spectrum.ieee.org/small-language-models-ai-pharmaceuticals
129•sscaryterry•9h ago•44 comments

Dolosse – a South African invention used over the world

https://thisbugslife.com/2021/11/21/dolosse-a-south-african-invention-used-over-the-world/
36•andsoitis•2d ago•7 comments

Lago (YC S21) Is Hiring for Our GTM Team

https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/lago
1•AnhTho_FR•2h ago

Ternlight – 7 MB embedding model that runs in browser (WASM)

https://ternlight-demo.vercel.app/
214•soycaporal•9h ago•50 comments

A global workspace in language models

https://www.anthropic.com/research/global-workspace
365•in-silico•15h ago•134 comments

Resetting Xbox

https://news.xbox.com/en-us/2026/07/06/resetting-xbox/
603•dijksterhuis•18h ago•645 comments

Pruning RAG context down to what the answer actually needs

https://www.kapa.ai/blog/how-we-prune-rag-context
102•emil_sorensen•13h ago•19 comments

Inkfield

https://www.inkfield.studio
11•surprisetalk•3d ago•3 comments

Linux on the Atari Jaguar

https://cakehonolulu.github.io/linux-for-jaguar/
148•cakehonolulu•14h ago•38 comments

AMD Ryzen AI Halo – $4k AI Dev Kit

https://www.lttlabs.com/articles/2026/07/06/amd-ryzen-ai-halo
322•LabsLucas•18h ago•222 comments

OpenSSH 10.4/10.4p1 Released

https://www.openssh.org/txt/release-10.4
75•throw0101a•10h ago•16 comments

OfficeCLI: Office suite for AI agents to read and edit Microsoft Office files

https://github.com/iOfficeAI/OfficeCLI
178•maxloh•16h ago•53 comments

YC CEO says he ships 37K LoC/day AI code. A developer looked under the hood

https://www.fastcompany.com/91520702/y-combinator-garry-tan-agentic-ai-social-media
16•theanonymousone•24m ago•1 comments

A 2048-spin bulk acoustic wave Ising machine for number partitioning and Sudoku

https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.02112
40•Jimmc414•3d ago•11 comments

Learning to code is still worthwhile

https://stevekrouse.com/learn-to-code
197•stevekrouse•12h ago•196 comments

In Praise of Observational Evidence

https://asteriskmag.com/issues/14/in-praise-of-observational-evidence
5•fi-le•5d ago•0 comments

Januscape: Guest-to-Host Escape in KVM/x86 [CVE-2026-53359]

https://github.com/V4bel/Januscape
108•Imustaskforhelp•15h ago•36 comments

M/PC – A Concatenative OS

https://wiki.xxiivv.com/site/m_pc.html
62•caminanteblanco•12h ago•10 comments

Rotman Lens

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rotman_lens
109•thomasjb•5d ago•32 comments

Kani: A Model Checker for Rust

https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.01504
142•Jimmc414•17h ago•7 comments

NSA and IETF: Fairness

https://blog.cr.yp.to/20260706-fairness.html
103•WatchDog•9h ago•85 comments

Full Writeup of the Windows GDID

https://github.com/SmtimesIWndr/gdid-reversal
67•typeofhuman•11h ago•31 comments

EndBASIC 0.14: Are we multimedia yet?

https://www.endbasic.dev/2026/07/endbasic-0.14.html
39•jmmv•2d ago•7 comments

Evaluation order and nontermination in query languages

https://www.rntz.net/post/2026-06-11-datalog-nontermination.html
35•luu•5d ago•4 comments

Using precision editing to study human embryo development shows master gene

https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/first-use-of-precision-editing-to-study-human-embryo-developm...
61•gmays•4d ago•45 comments