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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."

Making a Python interpreter in 1024 bytes

https://austinhenley.com/blog/python1024.html
102•azhenley•3h ago•39 comments

Ponytail: Lazy Senior Engineer Skill

https://ponytail.dev/
25•zatkin•1h ago•12 comments

It took a year to ship WebAssembly in Anubis

https://anubis.techaro.lol/blog/2026/anubis-wasm/
152•xena•5h ago•94 comments

Your intellectual fly is open when you use an LLM to author a post (2025)

https://bcantrill.dtrace.org/2025/12/05/your-intellectual-fly-is-open/
539•cyb0rg0•14h ago•353 comments

The NX bit is not just about security

https://purplesyringa.moe/blog/guest/the-nx-bit-is-not-just-about-security/
9•torutofu•2d ago•0 comments

GrapheneOS Overhauled Default Apps and Secure Clipboard

https://grapheneos.social/@GrapheneOS/117225539756835649
208•Cider9986•6h ago•135 comments

Show HN: Mador – Make any DOM reactive with a tiny 80-line Proxy state tuple

https://github.com/marsbos/mador
71•bosmarcel•5h ago•22 comments

Nitter and XCancel resume service after legal advice

https://github.com/zedeus/nitter/commit/1428b4c2b4246f92a7e5b2673438e5fb39fcc4a3
487•zImPatrick•8h ago•252 comments

Is mathematics about to enter the conservatory?

https://mbmccoy.dev/posts/mathematical-conservatory/
24•_alternator_•3h ago•39 comments

Babylonian Lamb Stew with Beets (1750–1730 BCE)

https://babylonian-collection.yale.edu/about/babylonian-cooking
107•yubblegum•3d ago•54 comments

Harnessing the Universal Geometry of Embeddings

https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.12540
46•ur-whale•5h ago•11 comments

MathKernel: An evidence-aware multi-engine mathematics kernel and MCP server

https://github.com/Staatsgeheim/MathKernel
8•staatsgeheim•2h ago•0 comments

NetBSD 9.5 released and EOL for NetBSD-9

https://blog.netbsd.org/tnf/entry/netbsd_9_5_released_and
110•jaypatelani•10h ago•10 comments

Black Hole of Los Alamos: Seller of surplus nuclear research materials (2011)

https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/black-hole-of-los-alamos
43•Bluestein•4d ago•11 comments

An Alien Mind

https://openai.com/index/an-alien-mind/
341•tosh•10h ago•290 comments

Hard-Chat – A serverless, RAM-only P2P terminal chat

https://github.com/mrhardlint/Hard-Chat
11•hardlint•2h ago•1 comments

Asahi Linux on M3

https://asahilinux.org/2026/09/m2-episode-1/
363•mdp2021•12h ago•208 comments

Research acceleration: The view inside OpenAI

https://openai.com/index/research-acceleration-view-inside-openai
122•iamsyr•11h ago•78 comments

Reverse engineering the storage format for an undocumented database

https://blog.glazer.ee/posts/converting-cronos/
27•pintprint•2d ago•2 comments

Please don't rearrange our shoes when we turn up, paramedics in Japan urge

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/aug/28/never-tidy-paramedics-shoes-japan-custom-etiquette
23•high_na_euv•3d ago•3 comments

Hackers have withdrawn ~4k BTC (~$320M) from the Liquid Federation wallet

https://twitter.com/Liquid_BTC/status/2096696272447218108
69•felipelalli•3h ago•43 comments

A/I shuts down

https://keepitfree.ai/announcements/a/i-shuts-down-stay-human/
531•captainmuon•11h ago•419 comments

Opalite Health (YC W26) Is Hiring – Founding GTM

https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/opalite-health/jobs/bNedVAD-founding-gtm
1•ckuo9•9h ago

Research carried out using NetBSD

https://www.netbsd.org/gallery/research.html
79•Bluestein•10h ago•19 comments

Vidact – a compiler that turns React into direct DOM operations

https://www.vidact.dev/
54•mohebifar•4d ago•26 comments

D2 Is Non-Profit

https://d2lang.com/blog/d2-non-profit/
31•alixanderwang•7h ago•12 comments

Electronic skin for prosthetics to sense temperature and pressure

https://news.wsu.edu/press-release/2026/08/20/researchers-develop-electronic-skin-for-prosthetics...
48•gmays•4d ago•5 comments

M-DISC – DVD/Blu-ray compatible discs that may last up to 1000 years

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M-DISC
188•gurjeet•4d ago•90 comments

Isar Aerospace reaches orbit and deploys payloads on second flight

https://isaraerospace.com/press/history-for-european-spaceflight-isar-aerospace-reaches-orbit-and...
561•mpweiher•19h ago•179 comments

Doomscrolling ourselves to death

https://www.edwest.co.uk/p/doomscrolling-ourselves-to-death
370•shubhamjain•14h ago•271 comments