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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."

Qwen 3.0 Image Pro

https://www.qwencloud.com/models/qwen-image-3.0-pro
66•theanonymousone•1h ago•21 comments

Cloudflare OS: an open platform for agents, apps, and work

https://blog.cloudflare.com/cloudflare-os/
259•speckx•2h ago•145 comments

Aristotle quotes on virtue, knowledge, and happiness

https://www.campion.edu.au/blog/top-25-aristotle-quotes-on-virtue-knowledge-and-happiness/
78•teleforce•2h ago•24 comments

Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis is stepping down

https://www.axios.com/2026/08/05/google-deepmind-demis-hassabis-ai
98•ot•26m ago•36 comments

Cops Used Flock to Track a Man Across State Lines for a Pretextual Weed Search

https://www.404media.co/cops-used-flock-to-track-a-man-across-state-lines-to-create-pretext-to-se...
132•cdrnsf•1h ago•36 comments

Oracle Just Halved Its Always Free ARM Limits

https://www.cnelecar.com/blog/oracle-always-free-arm-limits-cut-2026/
33•iplaypc•1h ago•20 comments

The Entropy of a Markov Chain

https://chillphysicsenjoyer.substack.com/p/the-entropy-of-a-markov-chain
43•surprisetalk•2h ago•2 comments

Discovery of a multicomponent alloy forged by the Hiroshima atomic blast

https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.aeg8299
32•_____k•5d ago•6 comments

Building an Advanced Agentic Harness

https://data4sci.com/blog/building-an-advanced-agentic-harness
48•Anon84•2h ago•23 comments

Painting with Gaussians

https://yogthos.net/posts/2026-08-03-splat-painter.html
35•yogthos•2h ago•2 comments

Jeff Dean leaving Alphabet

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/05/technology/google-researchers-ai-startup.html
50•louiereederson•27m ago•6 comments

Rubin Observatory's first LSST Camera release: 500k galaxies in the COSMOS field

https://rubinobservatory.org/news/rubin-new-window-cosmos-field
27•MarcoDewey•2h ago•1 comments

The Valley of Webhooks

https://weli.dev/blog/the-valley-of-webhooks/
11•weli•1h ago•4 comments

Western Sahara

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_Sahara
14•brudgers•17h ago•2 comments

TSON – A JSON superset with immutable, hash-pinned schemas

https://tson.io/
34•andrewjneumann•2h ago•28 comments

Discovery Loop

https://www.discoveryloop.com/
4•xtreak29•12m ago•0 comments

Civilian plane crash in New Mexico tied to military GPS blocking

https://www.wired.com/story/a-civilian-plane-crashed-in-new-mexico-was-the-militarys-tech-to-blame/
323•dzdt•5h ago•156 comments

Intelligence Is Not the Main Bottleneck

https://www.writingruxandrabio.com/p/intelligence-is-not-the-main-bottleneck
76•rruxandra_l•2h ago•54 comments

Faster Than Ninja

https://build2.org/blog/faster-than-ninja.xhtml
45•elasticdog•2h ago•13 comments

Position: LLMs Can't Jump

https://openreview.net/challenge?redirect=%2Fforum%3Fid%3DklU4737opt
167•theanonymousone•5h ago•117 comments

TIME Is Serving AI Bots a Different Website, with Ads Built In

https://www.vincentschmalbach.com/time-serves-ai-bots-a-different-website/
160•vincent_s•3h ago•63 comments

Stateless MCP has recaptured my interest

https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jul/31/stateless-mcp/
340•tosh•4d ago•193 comments

Fed's Kashkari says 'now is the time to start slowly moving' rates up

https://www.cnbc.com/2026/08/05/feds-kashkari-says-now-is-the-time-to-start-slowly-moving-rates-u...
29•mapping365•1h ago•21 comments

Not hiring junior engineers won't solve the problem you think you have

https://franciscotrindade.me/blog/the-kids-are-alright/
66•gpi•2h ago•66 comments

Energizing a vacuum-tube flip-flop module from a 1948 IBM system

https://www.righto.com/2026/07/ibm-604-trigger-tube-module.html
18•Jimmc414•4d ago•1 comments

Scaling NumPy on Free-Threaded Python

https://labs.quansight.org/blog/scaling-numpy-on-free-threaded-python
71•ngoldbaum•6d ago•11 comments

The "Disability Dongle": Why Silicon Valley Hates Me and You

https://sightlessscribbles.com/disability-dongle/
9•calcifer•1h ago•3 comments

BSD Make extravaganza: Mandelbrot Set In bmake

https://github.com/b-aaz/bmake-extravaganza/tree/master
22•signa11•6d ago•3 comments

“Gravity is worth asking about”

https://unsung.aresluna.org/gravity-is-worth-asking-about/
179•nozzlegear•6d ago•110 comments

Why Erdős Problems Are Falling to AI

https://www.quantamagazine.org/why-the-legendary-erdos-problems-are-falling-to-ai-20260803/
101•pseudolus•4h ago•97 comments