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Building my npx business card

https://ashley.dev/posts/turning-feedback-into-features/
8•edent•7mo ago

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steele•6mo ago
Ooh, free real estate, let's colonize and gentrify package management
aabhay•6mo ago
Lmao, gentrify cracked me up
neilv•6mo ago
Do these npx business cards run arbitrary code on your computer?
cypherpunks01•6mo 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•6mo 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•6mo ago
Yeah, this seems like a very smart but inherently flawed idea.
cypherpunks01•6mo 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•6mo ago
May as well just release an executable tbh.
theamk•6mo 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•6mo 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•6mo 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://www.bharath.sh/writing/claude-code-dx
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https://www.ufried.com/blog/ironies_of_ai_2/
105•BinaryIgor•3h ago•31 comments

Europeans' health data sold to US firm run by ex-Israeli spies

https://www.ftm.eu/articles/europe-health-data-us-firm-israel-spies
399•Fnoord•4h ago•191 comments

Apple Maps claims it's 29,905 miles away

https://mathstodon.xyz/@dpiponi/115651419771418748
100•ColinWright•3h ago•67 comments

Vacuum Is a Lie: About Your Indexes

https://boringsql.com/posts/vacuum-is-lie/
27•birdculture•3h ago•7 comments

Illuminating the processor core with LLVM-mca

https://abseil.io/fast/99
21•ckennelly•1h ago•0 comments

Shai-Hulud compromised a dev machine and raided GitHub org access: a post-mortem

https://trigger.dev/blog/shai-hulud-postmortem
69•nkko•6h ago•45 comments

Linux Sandboxes and Fil-C

https://fil-c.org/seccomp
298•pizlonator•18h ago•103 comments

Update Now: iOS 26.2 Fixes 20 Security Vulnerabilities, 2 Actively Exploited

https://www.macrumors.com/2025/12/12/ios-26-2-security-vulnerabilities/
23•akyuu•48m ago•11 comments

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https://simonwillison.net/2025/Dec/14/copywriters-reveal-how-ai-has-decimated-their-industry/
53•planckscnst•7h ago•37 comments

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https://twitter.com/awnihannun/status/1943723599971443134
97•jeudesprits•3h ago•51 comments

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63•dhruv3006•9h ago•7 comments

Efficient Basic Coding for the ZX Spectrum

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24•rcarmo•4h ago•5 comments

Private Equity Finds a New Source of Profit: Volunteer Fire Departments

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/14/us/fire-department-software-private-equity.html
34•7402•1h ago•22 comments

Using e-ink tablet as monitor for Linux

https://alavi.me/blog/e-ink-tablet-as-monitor-linux/
211•yolkedgeek•5d ago•81 comments

I fed 24 years of my blog posts to a Markov model

https://susam.net/fed-24-years-of-posts-to-markov-model.html
255•zdw•20h ago•100 comments

Show HN: Cargo-rail: graph-aware monorepo tooling for Rust; 11 deps

https://github.com/loadingalias/cargo-rail
28•LoadingALIAS•3d ago•2 comments

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https://blogs.memphis.edu/awindsor/2025/02/25/science-communication-on-youtube/
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263•thecsw•19h ago•121 comments

Getting into Public Speaking

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42•jbrooksuk•4d ago•20 comments

Cat Gap

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cat_gap
162•Petiver•4d ago•37 comments

I tried Gleam for Advent of Code

https://blog.tymscar.com/posts/gleamaoc2025/
318•tymscar•1d ago•185 comments

Lean theorem prover mathlib

https://github.com/leanprover-community/mathlib4
70•downboots•15h ago•3 comments

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25•094459•5d ago•4 comments

Baumol's Cost Disease

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baumol_effect
37•drra•4h ago•27 comments

An Implementation of J (1992)

https://www.jsoftware.com/ioj/ioj.htm
75•ofalkaed•16h ago•27 comments

An off-grid, flat-packable washing machine

https://www.positive.news/society/flat-pack-washing-machine-spins-a-fairer-future/
165•ohjeez•18h ago•88 comments

Closures as Win32 Window Procedures

https://nullprogram.com/blog/2025/12/12/
86•ibobev•17h ago•19 comments

Mystery Science Theater 3000: The Definitive Oral History of a TV Masterpiece

https://www.wired.com/2014/04/mst3k-oral-history/
86•indigodaddy•6d ago•26 comments

Dagger: Define software delivery workflows and dev environments

https://dagger.io/
58•ahamez•5d ago•45 comments