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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."

Sharing AI progress in mathematics

https://openai.com/index/sharing-ai-progress-in-mathematics/
614•OfficialTurkey•6h ago•555 comments

Strands Decider 2B: a small, open-source, decision model

https://strandsagents.com/blog/introducing-strands-decider/
68•gmays•2h ago•8 comments

Decisions API is in public beta

https://developers.openai.com/api/docs/guides/decisions
194•chiefstorm•7h ago•85 comments

The cost of lies: A Mineserver story

https://www.jeremyreimer.com/rockets-item.lsp?f=true&p=272
44•luu•2d ago•14 comments

Penguin Mail – open-source Rust email client for Linux with AI

https://penguin-mail.com/
114•kavourias•6h ago•53 comments

La Cueva BBS in Mexico in 1993 (session replay)

https://nanochess.org/la_cueva_bbs.html
13•nanochess•1h ago•1 comments

Calling It Quits on ServerFault

https://sysadmin1138.net/mt/blog/2026/10/calling-it-quits-on-serverfault.shtml
5•zdw•20m ago•0 comments

Mistral Large 4

https://mistral.ai/news/mistral-large-4/\
1647•Philpax•15h ago•983 comments

EmbeddingGemma 2: An open, lightweight multimodal embedding model

https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/technology/developers-tools/embeddinggemma-2/
260•ilreb•12h ago•31 comments

What Is Codemode

https://lucumr.pocoo.org/2026/10/6/codemode/
30•Tomte•15h ago•0 comments

ESP32-C3 Adblock

https://github.com/M-Abozaid/esp32-c3-adblock
30•jayhoon•3h ago•7 comments

Claude Code’s suggested message feature: I think the real customer is the model

https://www.zohaib.cc/blog/smartest-claude-code-feature
141•zed_labs_dev•10h ago•74 comments

The art of defusing a second world war bomb

https://www.theguardian.com/news/ng-interactive/2026/oct/06/it-could-knock-a-whole-street-down-th...
6•sandebert•59m ago•1 comments

AnyPS5: Port PS5 binaries to PC without emulation (87% system libraries mapped)

https://github.com/boykopovar/AnyPS5
157•Fe2O3•5h ago•123 comments

LLMs may have helped my RSI

https://vaughanhilts.me/2026/10/05/llms-immensely-helped-my-rsi.html
65•vaughands•1d ago•32 comments

Utah to let AI examine patients and prescribe medication without human oversight

https://www.techspot.com/news/114111-utah-become-first-state-ai-examine-patients-prescribe.html
111•healsdata•11h ago•113 comments

OpenTPU – An open-source AI accelerator, developed by AI

https://github.com/FeSens/openTPU
255•fsbonetto•12h ago•317 comments

Jev-Driven SRE Diagnosis: What Worked and What Failed

https://www.sregym.com/blog/jev-driven-sre-diagnosis
14•matt_d•3h ago•2 comments

Improving and Stabilizing the Racoon2 IKE Daemon in NetBSD

https://blog.netbsd.org/tnf/entry/gsoc2026_racoon2
5•jaypatelani•2d ago•1 comments

Treg (OpenRouter for Tools)

https://github.com/superdesigndev/treg
8•trollied•12h ago•1 comments

Integer multiplication below n log n

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85•E-Reverance•5h ago•55 comments

Tell HN: GitHub refuses to remove cracked copies of my software after a month

67•IvanK_net•9h ago•57 comments

What's Earth's dominant species by mass?

https://signoregalilei.com/2026/09/27/whats-earths-dominant-species-by-mass/
186•surprisetalk•16h ago•123 comments

State of Devs 2026

https://2026.stateofdevs.com/en-US/
101•sgdesign•5h ago•36 comments

When random is not actually random enough

https://ersc.io/blog/when-random-isnt-random-enough
44•steveklabnik•8h ago•10 comments

How Fast is Python 3.15?

https://blog.miguelgrinberg.com/post/how-fast-is-python-3-15
47•Qem•6h ago•27 comments

California closed the Montana license plate loophole

https://www.thedrive.com/news/heres-how-california-closed-the-montana-license-plate-loophole
84•speckx•11h ago•205 comments

Xbox has secured exclusive GTA 6 streaming rights

https://www.theverge.com/report/1005859/microsoft-xbox-gta-6-streaming-rights
19•thm•2h ago•15 comments

Paramount Skydance has completed its $111B merger with Warner Bros. Discovery

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/10/paramount-completes-111b-warner-merger-creating-skyda...
204•Mgtyalx•8h ago•338 comments

Benchmark in Milliseconds

https://matklad.github.io/2026/10/05/benchmark-milliseconds.html
130•surprisetalk•1d ago•38 comments