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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."

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https://stories.tamu.edu/news/2026/04/14/scientists-reverse-brain-aging-with-a-nasal-spray/
173•cybermango•3h ago•66 comments

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https://github.com/ammaarreshi/Generals-Mac-iOS-iPad/tree/main
377•asronline•7h ago•146 comments

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https://github.com/openai/codex/issues/30364
167•maille•5h ago•52 comments

Google Books (or similar) all book scans – $200k bounty (2025)

https://software.annas-archive.gl/AnnaArchivist/annas-archive/-/work_items/234
360•Cider9986•10h ago•190 comments

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https://www.mbl.edu/news/jellyfish-can-heal-wounds-minutes-scientists-want-their-secrets
49•hhs•4h ago•11 comments

Leaking YouTube creators' private videos

https://javoriuski.com/post/youtube
507•javxfps•10h ago•281 comments

Better Models: Worse Tools

https://lucumr.pocoo.org/2026/7/4/better-models-worse-tools/
105•leemoore•6h ago•34 comments

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https://writerbeware.blog/2025/09/19/return-of-the-nigerian-prince-redux-beware-book-club-and-boo...
19•Anon84•2h ago•4 comments

Explanation of everything you can see in htop/top on Linux (2019)

https://peteris.rocks/blog/htop/
409•theanonymousone•15h ago•53 comments

Atomic Force Microscope high-speed video, stainless etching, bacteria, and more

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DyIQkqBXhS0
9•mhb•2d ago•0 comments

Potential session/cache leakage between workspace instances or consumer accounts

https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues/74066
277•chatmasta•13h ago•128 comments

Zig: All Package Management Functionality Moved from Compiler to Build System

https://ziglang.org/devlog/2026/#2026-06-30
147•tosh•10h ago•29 comments

Reflections on the Guillotine (1957)

https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/albert-camus-reflections-on-the-guillotine
28•halperter•3h ago•4 comments

Meta's Un-Stable Signature

https://hackerfactor.com/blog/index.php?/archives/1098-Metas-Un-Stable-Signature.html
23•ementally•3d ago•1 comments

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4•cpncrunch•1h ago•0 comments

Verizon is About to Break our Watches

https://www.jefftk.com/p/verizon-is-about-to-break-our-watches
143•jefftk•9h ago•88 comments

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https://www.cggonzalez.com/blog/index.html
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https://iahmed.me/post/drone-physics/
90•wrxd•4d ago•25 comments

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https://www.experimentlog.com/blog/building-a-world-map-with-only-500-bytes
26•iweczek•3d ago•38 comments

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https://github.com/maximqaxd/wince-dc
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https://ridgetext.com/blog/mapbox-llm-composition
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Egg consumption inversely correlated with Alzheimer's

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/42002260/
41•natbennett•2h ago•19 comments

Protocol Prying: Vulnerability Research in AirDrop and Quick Share

https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.26967
16•logickkk1•6h ago•1 comments

The Vespa at 80

https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/vespa-italy-postwar-design-9.7252641
148•cf100clunk•3d ago•137 comments

CloudsLinker: Move and sync files across 50 cloud services

https://app.cloudslinker.com/login
9•janandonly•2d ago•1 comments

It's not me, it's the compiler

https://parsa.wtf/cast/
66•SVI•3d ago•11 comments

Fable created novel 4D splat format

https://adamraudonis.github.io/splats4D/
120•adamraudonis•11h ago•44 comments

BareMetal RAM Dumper – Bare-metal x86 tool for Cold Boot Attack experiments

https://github.com/pIat0n/BareMetal-RAM-Dumper
58•liffik•9h ago•39 comments

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https://studios.disneyresearch.com/2026/07/01/neural-render-proxies-for-interactive-and-different...
53•tobr•3d ago•8 comments

Breaking the Bird Barrier: Scientist Decodes Zebra Finch Language

https://www.freepressjournal.in/education/breaking-the-bird-barrier-scientist-decodes-zebra-finch...
111•yyyk•4d ago•36 comments