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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."

Steam Machine launches today

https://store.steampowered.com/news/group/45479024/view/685257114654870245
760•theschwa•3h ago•655 comments

British Columbia, Time Zones, and Postgres

https://www.crunchydata.com/blog/british-columbia-and-time-zone-changes
42•sprawl_•1h ago•1 comments

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22•zh3•2d ago•1 comments

My Mathematical Regression

https://blog.dahl.dev/posts/my-mathematical-regression/
124•aleda145•3d ago•35 comments

Optocam Zero: a Pi Zero based digital camera made using off the shelf components

https://github.com/dorukkumkumoglu/optocamzero
26•iamnothere•1h ago•1 comments

Deno Desktop

https://docs.deno.com/runtime/desktop/
962•GeneralMaximus•15h ago•354 comments

Moebius: 0.2B image inpainting model with 10B-level performance

https://hustvl.github.io/Moebius/
178•DSemba•7h ago•51 comments

Show HN: Oak – Git alternative designed for agents

https://oak.space/oak/oak
100•zdgeier•5h ago•111 comments

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https://blog.ericgoldman.org/archives/2026/06/blogger-defeats-photographers-copyright-claim-sokol...
60•speckx•3h ago•37 comments

Japanese symbols that speak without words

https://arun.is/blog/japan-symbols/
15•msephton•1h ago•2 comments

Linux and Secure Boot certificate expiration (2025)

https://lwn.net/Articles/1029767/
57•weaksauce•2h ago•27 comments

Codex logging bug may write TBs to local SSDs

https://github.com/openai/codex/issues/28224
421•vantareed•13h ago•229 comments

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8GZDOpV2OXk
68•zdw•1d ago•27 comments

Charge Robotics (YC S21) Is Hiring Software and Hardware Engineers

https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/charge-robotics
1•justicz•3h ago

DisplayMate

https://www.displaymate.com/
60•skibz•4h ago•15 comments

Flock-Powered Police Chiefs Stalking Women Shows Why Warrants Are Needed

https://ipvm.com/reports/police-chiefs-track
69•jhonovich•1h ago•2 comments

GLM 5.2 vs. Opus

https://techstackups.com/comparisons/glm-5.2-vs-opus/
441•ritzaco•13h ago•295 comments

Canada is looking to build up to 10 new nuclear reactors over the next 15 years

https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/federal-nuclear-strategy-9.7244509
73•geox•1h ago•15 comments

Finding the Best Dog Treat with Statistics

https://www.wespiser.com/posts/2026-06-19-best-dog-treat.html
51•wespiser_2018•3h ago•10 comments

Prompt Injection as Role Confusion

https://role-confusion.github.io
103•x312•5h ago•55 comments

Pledging another $400k to the Zig software foundation

https://mitchellh.com/writing/zig-donation-2026
646•tosh•7h ago•214 comments

The text in Claude Code’s “Extended Thinking” output

https://patrickmccanna.net/the-text-in-claude-codes-extended-thinking-output-is-not-authentic/
236•0o_MrPatrick_o0•6h ago•170 comments

Die analysis of the 8087 math coprocessor's fast bit shifter (2020)

https://www.righto.com/2020/05/die-analysis-of-8087-math-coprocessors.html
64•Jimmc414•7h ago•12 comments

Jobs and Software Is Fucked

https://urflow.bearblog.dev/jobs-and-software-is-fucked/
161•speckx•1h ago•129 comments

Mexican government unveils a prototype for a new homegrown, ultra-affordable EV

https://gizmodo.com/mexico-just-showed-off-a-new-extremely-cheap-government-backed-ev-2000769080
145•speckx•4h ago•106 comments

Walt Disney Company is the most successful at monetizing human nostalgia [audio]

https://www.acquired.fm/episodes/the-walt-disney-company
27•speckx•47m ago•15 comments

Memory crisis is getting so bad that even retro RAM prices are going to the Moon

https://www.theregister.com/personal-tech/2026/06/22/the-memory-crisis-is-getting-so-bad-that-eve...
36•speckx•1h ago•5 comments

Help I accidentally a wigglegram

https://lmao.center/blog/wiggle-accidents/
455•gregsadetsky•2d ago•115 comments

Chevron signs 20-year power agreement with Microsoft for West Texas data center

https://www.chevron.com/newsroom/2026/q2/chevron-signs-20-year-power-agreement-with-microsoft-for...
89•cdrnsf•7h ago•92 comments

Show HN: Got sick of ads, so I made my own logic puzzle site

https://puzzlelair.com/
99•HaxleRose•8h ago•80 comments