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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."

Railway Blocked by Google Cloud

https://status.railway.com/?date=20260519
176•aarondf•2h ago•53 comments

Gemini 3.5 Flash

https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/models-and-research/gemini-models/gemini-3-5/
599•spectraldrift•8h ago•452 comments

I’ve built a virtual museum with nearly every operating system you can think of

https://virtualosmuseum.org/
608•andreww591•10h ago•146 comments

Google changes its search box

https://blog.google/products-and-platforms/products/search/search-io-2026/
390•berkeleyjunk•7h ago•560 comments

Remove–AI–Watermarks – CLI and library for removing AI watermarks from images

https://github.com/wiltodelta/remove-ai-watermarks
131•janalsncm•3h ago•79 comments

OpenAI Adopts Google's SynthID Watermark for AI Images with Verification Tool

https://openai.com/index/advancing-content-provenance/
209•smooke•6h ago•105 comments

Show HN: Forge – Guardrails take an 8B model from 53% to 99% on agentic tasks

https://github.com/antoinezambelli/forge
285•zambelli•14h ago•105 comments

The Mercury logic programming system

https://github.com/Mercury-Language/mercury
22•Antibabelic•1d ago•1 comments

Mistral AI acquires Emmi AI

https://www.emmi.ai/news/mistral-ai-acquires-emmi-ai
173•doener•7h ago•44 comments

GitHub is investigating unauthorized access to their internal repositories

https://twitter.com/github/status/2056884788179726685
155•splenditer•2h ago•35 comments

Apple unveils new accessibility features

https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2026/05/apple-unveils-new-accessibility-features-and-updates-with-...
605•interpol_p•14h ago•311 comments

Minnesota becomes first state to ban prediction markets

https://www.npr.org/2026/05/19/nx-s1-5821265/minnesota-ban-prediction-markets
478•ortusdux•7h ago•146 comments

Growing Neural Cellular Automata

https://distill.pub/2020/growing-ca/
73•pulkitsh1234•2d ago•6 comments

I’ve joined Anthropic

https://twitter.com/karpathy/status/2056753169888334312
1186•dmarcos•11h ago•487 comments

Lisp in Web-Based Applications (2001)

https://sep.turbifycdn.com/ty/cdn/paulgraham/bbnexcerpts.txt
44•bschne•1d ago•3 comments

Tool mapping 90 companies in the photonics and CPO supply chain

https://leonardo-boquillon.com/photonic-cop-supply-chain
28•lboquillon•2d ago•2 comments

The two oldest printing presses

https://museumplantinmoretus.be/en/worlds-two-oldest-printing-presses
23•janpot•1d ago•4 comments

CISA Admin Leaked AWS GovCloud Keys on GitHub

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2026/05/cisa-admin-leaked-aws-govcloud-keys-on-github/
408•LelouBil•18h ago•168 comments

Gemini CLI will stop working from June 18, 2026

https://developers.googleblog.com/an-important-update-transitioning-gemini-cli-to-antigravity-cli/
67•primaprashant•8h ago•23 comments

Dumb ways for an open source project to die

https://nesbitt.io/2026/05/19/dumb-ways-for-an-open-source-project-to-die.html
155•chmaynard•7h ago•91 comments

Unusual uses of OEIS sequences on GitHub

https://www.jeremykun.com/shortform/2026-04-13-0700/
18•surprisetalk•1d ago•1 comments

Why is almost everyone right-handed? A new study connects it to bipedalism

https://www.ox.ac.uk/news/2026-05-15-why-is-almost-everyone-right-handed-the-answer-may-lie-in-ho...
94•gmays•11h ago•150 comments

Microsoft is 1.84 Peters, Google is 0.66. What's the Peter unit?

https://github.com/zozo123/peter-gt-your-org
10•zozo123OR0x90•2d ago•1 comments

Copy Fail, Dirty Frag, and Fragnesia kernel vulnerabilities

https://www.gentoo.org/news/2026/05/19/copy-fail-fragnesia-vulnerabilities.html
113•akhuettel•11h ago•42 comments

Disney erased FiveThirtyEight

https://www.natesilver.net/p/disney-erased-fivethirtyeight
328•7777777phil•7h ago•195 comments

The foundations of a provably secure operating system (PSOS) (1979) [pdf]

http://www.csl.sri.com/users/neumann/psos.pdf
122•rurban•1d ago•83 comments

The TTY Demystified (2008)

https://www.linusakesson.net/programming/tty/index.php
43•20after4•7h ago•8 comments

Intro to TLA+ for the LLM Era: Prompt Your Way to Victory

https://emptysqua.re/blog/intro-to-tla-plus-for-the-llm-era/
114•zdw•2d ago•26 comments

Hanoi’s humble beer glass and the memory of a nation

https://sundaylongread.com/2026/05/15/hanois-humble-beer-glass-and-the-memory-of-a-nation/
124•NaOH•1d ago•37 comments

Gemini Omni

https://deepmind.google/models/gemini-omni/
276•meetpateltech•8h ago•112 comments