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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."

GPT-5.6

https://openai.com/index/gpt-5-6/
1291•logickkk1•17h ago•914 comments

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http://yummymelon.com/devnull/in-emacs-everything-looks-like-a-service.html
17•kickingvegas•2h ago•0 comments

Show HN: Getting GLM 5.2 running on my slow computer

https://github.com/JustVugg/colibri
691•vforno•1d ago•165 comments

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1404•rapnie•23h ago•661 comments

Train sim created by just one person is being called the best ever made

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614•oumua_don17•5d ago•219 comments

Show HN: 18 Words

https://18words.com/
1000•pompomsheep•21h ago•321 comments

Apple Silicon Exec Explains Mac Mini AI Demand and On-Device Future

https://www.macrumors.com/2026/07/06/apple-silicon-exec-explains-mac-mini-ai-demand/
79•tosh•3d ago•87 comments

Postgres rewritten in Rust, now passing 100% of the Postgres regression tests

https://github.com/malisper/pgrust
671•SweetSoftPillow•1d ago•569 comments

AI-generated videos to maximally drive a target brain region

https://nevo-project.epfl.ch/
62•smusamashah•2h ago•55 comments

Interview with Mitchell Hashimoto about Ghostty and Zig

https://alexalejandre.com/programming/interview-with-mitchell-hashimoto/
260•veqq•17h ago•120 comments

Hy3

https://hy.tencent.com/research/hy3
479•andai•18h ago•98 comments

Damaged Earth Catalog

https://damaged.bleu255.com/
14•Duanemclemore•3d ago•1 comments

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https://mwi.westpoint.edu/the-glass-backbone-why-the-armys-logistics-will-break-in-the-next-war/
380•baud147258•20h ago•475 comments

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https://datacenter.iers.org/data/latestVersion/bulletinC.txt
281•ChrisArchitect•20h ago•218 comments

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https://scotto.me/blog/2026-07-09-why-lisp/
237•silcoon•21h ago•181 comments

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https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/psychology/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2026.1766665/full
128•hbcondo714•10h ago•107 comments

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https://joesiegler.blog/2020/11/my-story-of-apogee-3dr/
75•Michelangelo11•1w ago•6 comments

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http://smalldatum.blogspot.com/2026/01/common-prefix-skipping-adaptive-sort.html
24•theanonymousone•3d ago•2 comments

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https://www.damninteresting.com/a-possible-future/
284•mzur•18h ago•37 comments

Life with Hazard Ratios

https://dynomight.net/hazard-ratios/
43•surprisetalk•3d ago•17 comments

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https://www.context.dev
96•TheYahiaBakour•18h ago•67 comments

Building a real-time AI tutor for 5-year-olds

https://www.ello.com/blog/teaching-a-child-in-1000-ms
90•catalinvoss•13h ago•156 comments

Muse Spark 1.1

https://ai.meta.com/blog/introducing-muse-spark-meta-model-api/
375•ot•20h ago•188 comments

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https://nahla.dev/blog/waitfree_queue/
173•EvgeniyZh•3d ago•34 comments

Why American ambulance rides are so expensive

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218•jyunwai•12h ago•288 comments

Tiny Tapeout Explorer: WASM FET-level circuit SIM&vis

https://znah.net/tiny_explorer/
5•znah•1d ago•0 comments

Harman and Dr. Sean Olive are reshaping headphone sound (2025)

https://www.crutchfield.com/S-ls67Oiva4Wu/learn/crutchfield-visits-harman.html
16•ledoge•3d ago•7 comments

Triple Dragon Fractal (2020)

https://paulbourke.net/fractals/tripledragon/
48•nhatcher•3d ago•13 comments

TLS certificates for internal services done right

https://tuxnet.dev/posts/tls-for-internal-services/
154•mrl5•19h ago•112 comments

Build your own vulnerability harness

https://blog.cloudflare.com/build-your-own-vulnerability-harness/
47•ianrahman•8h ago•20 comments