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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."

Xiaomi MiMo v2.6

https://mimo.xiaomi.com/mimo-v2-6
391•volf_•3h ago•197 comments

NASA’s Mars Sample Return mission is dead

https://www.science.org/content/article/nasa-s-mars-sample-return-mission-dead
251•Muhammad523•4h ago•183 comments

Suspension of the de minimis administrative exemption for imports $800 or less

https://www.personalimportation.org/advocacy
93•burnt-resistor•2h ago•48 comments

Data Protection Commission fines Google €403M over processing of location data

https://www.dataprotection.ie/en/news-media/latest-news/data-protection-commission-fines-google-e...
22•DeepLogin•46m ago•3 comments

Transformers Explained Visually

https://poloclub.github.io/transformer-explainer/
134•aray07•3h ago•19 comments

What Sun got wrong

https://bcantrill.dtrace.org/2026/09/20/what-sun-got-wrong/
471•chmaynard•9h ago•260 comments

Attention is all you have

https://alicegg.tech/2026/09/21/attention
531•zer0tonin•8h ago•152 comments

AI coding has made CI a bottleneck, so we reworked ours to keep up

https://linear.app/now/ci-bottleneck-reworked
108•julian_digital•3h ago•93 comments

I don't want to read what you didn't write

https://blog.colinbreck.com/i-dont-want-to-read-what-you-didnt-write/
64•mooreds•49m ago•22 comments

Divide by depth for instant 3D

https://gabrieloc.com/2026/09/15/perspective.html
59•gabrieloc•2d ago•5 comments

The Advisory Group on Mathematics and Artificial Intelligence

https://terrytao.wordpress.com/2026/09/21/advisory-group-on-mathematics-and-artificial-intelligence/
67•digital55•4h ago•34 comments

Apple Copland D11E4 Booting in the Browser

https://www.pagetable.com/300
75•luu•5h ago•23 comments

Why does mathmain need an encrypted loader?

https://safedep.io/mathmain-encrypted-loader/
92•abhisek•4h ago•26 comments

Frontier AI on Your Own Hardware

https://timdettmers.com/2026/09/21/dlab-open-source-week/
75•pretext•4h ago•40 comments

Grok 4.7

https://x.ai/news/grok-4-7
461•meetpateltech•7h ago•377 comments

Roboharm: Do frontier robot policies refuse unsafe instructions?

https://robocurve.org/roboharm/
27•msadowski•4h ago•11 comments

The Journey of a Migratory Shorebird

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2026/09/21/the-incredible-journey-of-a-migratory-shorebird
6•wallflower•1d ago•0 comments

Kev: Tiny Jev-like family of decision models built on top of Qwen3.5

https://github.com/jaredpalmer/kev/tree/main
390•tosh•16h ago•172 comments

In Search of a Compositional Theory of Self-Stabilization

http://muratbuffalo.blogspot.com/2026/09/in-search-of-compositional-theory-of.html
40•matt_d•4h ago•3 comments

US halts flights at busy East Coast airports, says fiber line cut

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/faa-halts-some-us-east-coast-flights-due-communication-issues-20...
172•allanbreyes•4h ago•100 comments

Python Workers are now generally available

https://blog.cloudflare.com/python-workers-ga/
171•torutofu•9h ago•28 comments

TXR: An Original, New Programming Language for Convenient Data Munging

https://www.nongnu.org/txr/
13•andsoitis•18h ago•0 comments

HERMES radio enables voice and data communication over vast distances

https://spectrum.ieee.org/hermes-shortwave-radio-digital-data
76•SamuraiLion•7h ago•36 comments

Turn off and restrict access to Apple Intelligence features on Mac

https://support.apple.com/guide/mac-help/turn-restrict-access-apple-intelligence-mchlb2e44f94/mac
217•alwillis•5h ago•146 comments

How do Traffic Signals Work (2019)

https://practical.engineering/blog/2019/5/11/how-do-traffic-signals-work
53•at1as•7h ago•36 comments

Show HN: Foremerge – Catch intent conflicts between parallel coding agents

https://github.com/naw103/foremerge
31•naw103•6h ago•0 comments

Fable 5 – Median thinking declined in August

https://twitter.com/Lon/status/2101793422487204027
331•espeed•7h ago•225 comments

Avoiding the babbling-idiot failure in a time-triggered communication system

https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/689473
22•ronfriedhaber•5h ago•6 comments

Heretic removes restrictions from language models

https://heretic-project.org/
233•Bluestein•18h ago•96 comments

M5 Ultra Mac Studio Review

https://www.macstories.net/stories/m5-ultra-mac-studio-review-the-dream-mac-for-local-ai-agents/
221•piotrgrabowski•9h ago•220 comments