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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."

DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731 Intelligence, Performance and Price Analysis

https://artificialanalysis.ai/models/deepseek-v4-flash-ga
299•theanonymousone•7h ago•146 comments

The Maxwell Conjecture Is False (GPT 5.6 Sol)

https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.27197
65•rahen•3h ago•31 comments

Google fixed more Chrome bugs in June than over the past two years, thanks to AI

https://blog.google/security/chrome-stronger-with-every-update/
314•Garbage•7h ago•277 comments

The session you cannot take with you

https://earendil.com/posts/session-portability/
607•apitman•11h ago•166 comments

Winding Down Artichoke Ruby

https://hyperbo.la/w/winding-down-artichoke-ruby/
15•ksec•5d ago•1 comments

Show HN: Gander, an Android file viewer that asks for no permissions at all

https://github.com/mokshablr/gander
153•mokshablr•9h ago•58 comments

JEP 401: Value Objects (Preview) merged to OpenJDK master

https://github.com/openjdk/jdk/pull/31120
196•mfiguiere•10h ago•116 comments

DeepSeek-V4-Flash Update

https://api-docs.deepseek.com/updates/
475•dnhkng•8h ago•238 comments

Stacked PRs are now live on GitHub

https://github.blog/changelog/2026-07-30-stacked-pull-requests-are-now-in-public-preview/
736•tomzorz•22h ago•252 comments

The End of an Era

https://hughhowey.com/the-end-of-an-era/
230•harscoat•3h ago•251 comments

Tasklet (YC P26) Is Hiring a Customer Success Engineer

https://tasklet.ai/careers/customer-success-engineer
1•mayop100•3h ago

Moonshot built on 20k Nvidia chip cluster from Alibaba

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-07-31/moonshot-s-kimi-built-on-20-000-nvidia-chip-cl...
30•gk1•1h ago•10 comments

Gemini Robotics 2 brings whole body intelligence to robots

https://deepmind.google/blog/gemini-robotics-2-brings-whole-body-intelligence-to-robots/
598•ai2027•23h ago•486 comments

I flagged two research papers for fake authors and both were accepted as orals

https://geospatialml.com/posts/reviewing-ai-slop/
254•volumes94•16h ago•124 comments

Detect Dark Matter's Mark from Your Backyard

https://spectrum.ieee.org/dark-matter
13•Brajeshwar•42m ago•0 comments

The mean means nothing: data visualization to debug a latency problem

https://fzakaria.com/2026/07/27/the-mean-means-nothing
88•fanf2•2d ago•16 comments

Premier league bans gambling sponsors

https://www.footyheadlines.com/2646571793/betting-ban-takes-effect-no-more-gambling-sponsors-in-t...
161•paoliniluis•15h ago•48 comments

Better to Beg Forgiveness

https://pluralistic.net/2026/07/31/just-do-it/
12•hn_acker•1h ago•4 comments

We shall dwell amidst wonder and glory for ever: On weird fiction

https://clereviewofbooks.com/we-shall-dwell-amidst-wonder-and-glory-for-ever-on-weird-fiction/
37•plimp•1d ago•0 comments

The fragile foundations of CoT monitoring

https://web.stanford.edu/~cgpotts/blog/cot/
3•jxmorris12•3d ago•0 comments

The Religion of Speed

https://graybeard.ing/the-religion-of-speed/
233•MobiusHorizons•15h ago•116 comments

Read this before you buy that TV streaming stick

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2026/07/read-this-before-you-buy-that-tv-streaming-stick/
771•speckx•22h ago•479 comments

Situational Awareness Down 67% in July in AI Stock Rout

https://www.wsj.com/finance/investing/situational-awareness-down-67-in-july-in-ai-stock-rout-cd19...
81•pondsider•1h ago•80 comments

Ruby Central's Destructive Legacy

https://andre.arko.net/2026/07/30/ruby-centrals-destructive-legacy/
54•4d66ba06•2h ago•30 comments

Where USB Memory Sticks are Born (2013)

https://www.bunniestudios.com/blog/2013/where-usb-memory-sticks-are-born/
80•jacquesm•3d ago•5 comments

The Economic Benefit of Refactoring

https://martinfowler.com/articles/exploring-gen-ai/refactoring-economic-benefit.html
266•javaeeeee•23h ago•115 comments

GCC steering committee announces AI policy

https://lwn.net/Articles/1086041/
327•arto•1d ago•375 comments

Simulating TCP loss and congestion in browser using Go/WASM

https://ccsim.fly.dev
54•dilyevsky•2d ago•1 comments

Memo-1: A 6502 computer built from scratch, using a Minitel as its terminal

https://github.com/MemoireMorte/Memo-1
95•sciences44•3d ago•13 comments

Bad Apple but It's Traceroute

https://jssfr.de/2026-07-27-bad-apple-but-traceroute.html
147•jssfr•3d ago•48 comments