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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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508•sohkamyung•8h ago•179 comments

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https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2026/06/15/curl-summer-of-bliss/
262•secret-noun•1h ago•62 comments

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158•signa11•5h ago•28 comments

Apple Foundation Models

https://platform.claude.com/docs/en/cli-sdks-libraries/libraries/apple-foundation-models
48•MehrdadKhnzd•2h ago•6 comments

Show HN: Kage – Shadow any website to a single binary for offline viewing

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535•tamnd•14h ago•108 comments

Bitsy

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165•tosh•3d ago•4 comments

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14•evakhoury•3d ago•3 comments

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1•sebastianvoelkl•49m ago

Firewood Splitting Simulator

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782•memalign•5d ago•237 comments

21 years and counting of 'eight fallacies of distributed computing' (2025)

https://blog.apnic.net/2025/12/08/21-years-and-counting-of-eight-fallacies-of-distributed-computing/
67•teleforce•7h ago•14 comments

The Last Surviving Japanese Porsche 912 Police Car

https://kottke.org/26/06/the-last-surviving-japanese-porsche-912-police-car
67•zdw•2d ago•13 comments

Why does paper fold so well?

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w3ct8k70
31•zeristor•1d ago•5 comments

Rio de Janeiro's "homegrown" LLM appears to be a merge of an existing model

https://github.com/nex-agi/Nex-N2/issues/4
335•unrvl22•16h ago•182 comments

A short history of Cerro Torre, the most controversial mountain (2012)

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33•joebig•4d ago•13 comments

Show HN: Trace – Offline Mac meeting transcripts you can flag mid-call

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151•AG342•1d ago•55 comments

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217•david927•15h ago•774 comments

Formal methods and the future of programming

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250•eatonphil•19h ago•90 comments

Chaosnet (1981)

https://tumbleweed.nu/r/lm-3/uv/amber.html
80•RGBCube•12h ago•9 comments

Windows 11 users are tired of MS account requirements creeping into everything

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281•josephcsible•10h ago•186 comments

Caddy compatibility for zeroserve: 3x throughput and 70% lower latency

https://su3.io/posts/zeroserve-caddy-compat
178•losfair•18h ago•52 comments

TorchCodec 0.14: HDR Video Decoding for CPU and CUDA, and Fast Wav Decoder

https://github.com/meta-pytorch/torchcodec/releases/tag/v0.14.0
40•scott_s•4d ago•5 comments

The only scalable delete in Postgres is DROP TABLE

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160•hollylawly•3d ago•57 comments

Perlisisms (1982)

https://www.cs.yale.edu/homes/perlis-alan/quotes.html
110•tosh•16h ago•56 comments

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99•octopus143•13h ago•25 comments

Write for One Person

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195•evakhoury•2d ago•63 comments

Segmented type appreciation corner (2018)

https://aresluna.org/segmented-type/
71•unexpectedVCR•3d ago•16 comments

Prove you're human by winning a claw machine

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59•speckx•2d ago•44 comments

I indexed 669 GB of my GoPro videos using my M1 Max computer and local ML models

363•iliashad•16h ago•87 comments

How to earn a billion dollars

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606•kingstoned•19h ago•1605 comments

FarOutCompany

https://faroutcompany.com/
118•bookofjoe•17h ago•19 comments