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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."

Anonymous GitHub account mass-dropping undisclosed 0-days

https://github.com/bikini/exploitarium
349•binyu•4h ago•147 comments

OpenRA

https://www.openra.net/
380•tosh•6h ago•75 comments

AI Is Designing Radio Chips That Humans Couldn't Even Imagine

https://spectrum.ieee.org/ai-radio-chip-design
56•Brajeshwar•3d ago•20 comments

DSpark: Speculative decoding accelerates LLM inference [pdf]

https://github.com/deepseek-ai/DeepSpec/blob/main/DSpark_paper.pdf
666•aurenvale•9h ago•257 comments

Fintech Engineering Handbook

https://w.pitula.me/fintech-engineering-handbook/
356•signa11•8h ago•115 comments

Suspicious Discontinuities (2020)

https://danluu.com/discontinuities/
132•tosh•5h ago•39 comments

Post-Mythos Cybersecurity: Keep calm and carry on

https://cephalosec.com/blog/cybersecurity-in-the-post-mythos-era-keep-calm-and-carry-on/
78•Versipelle•4h ago•26 comments

Zuckerberg's Increasingly Bizarre War on Whistleblowers

https://pluralistic.net/2026/06/27/zuckerstreisand-2/
383•HotGarbage•4h ago•145 comments

One man, two kernels, and a lot of RISC-V

https://www.theregister.com/software/2026/06/26/one-man-two-kernels-and-a-lot-of-risc-v/5262858
44•LorenDB•1d ago•4 comments

Supabase (YC S20) Is Hiring for Multigres

https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/supabase/2e718684-4f75-4a99-8d6b-3b6bd44e4228
1•awalias•1h ago

If you can't hold it, you don't own it

https://dervis.de/physical/
244•cemdervis•7h ago•161 comments

Turn your site into a place people can bump into each other

https://cauenapier.com/blog/townsquare_release/
13•eustoria•1h ago•6 comments

Reducing tick density along recreational trails in Ottawa, Canada

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1877959X26000476
70•bushwart•3d ago•32 comments

Previewing GPT‑5.6 Sol: a next-generation model

https://openai.com/index/previewing-gpt-5-6-sol/
1090•minimaxir•1d ago•694 comments

Long Wave radio era set to end with switch-off

https://www.economist.com/britain/2026/06/25/the-bbc-switches-off-its-oldest-service
137•edward•2d ago•125 comments

Researchers have developed pixels that can emit and analyse light together

https://ethz.ch/en/news-and-events/eth-news/news/2026/06/a-new-type-of-pixel.html
19•tspng•11h ago•11 comments

How Many Elementary Particles Are There, Really?

https://www.quantamagazine.org/how-many-elementary-particles-are-there-really-20260615/
86•rwmj•6h ago•67 comments

The US Army Issued Ocarinas to Soldiers in World War II

https://www.flutetunes.com/articles/my-flute-goes-to-war/
105•tomcam•2d ago•60 comments

Linux on Older Hardware: The Complete Revival Guide

https://www.fosslinux.com/158206/linux-on-older-hardware-revival-guide.htm
166•tapanjk•2d ago•94 comments

Task Failed Successfully: Saturating NIC and Disk Bandwidth

https://blog.mrcroxx.com/posts/task-failed-successfully-saturating-nic-and-disk-bandwidth/
27•MrCroxx•4d ago•8 comments

Streaming services' obnoxiously loud ads become illegal on July 1 in California

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026/06/streaming-services-obnoxiously-loud-ads-become-illegal-on...
173•speckx•6h ago•38 comments

Why does kinetic energy increase quadratically, not linearly, with speed? (2011)

https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/535/why-does-kinetic-energy-increase-quadratically-no...
325•ProxyTracer•20h ago•173 comments

Beer CSS – Build material design in record time

https://www.beercss.com
110•Seb-C•9h ago•57 comments

WordStar: A Writer's Word Processor (1996)

https://www.sfwriter.com/wordstar.htm
155•droidjj•15h ago•85 comments

Doctors suspected man had brain cancer. He had worms

https://arstechnica.com/health/2026/06/doctors-suspected-man-had-brain-cancer-he-actually-had-worms/
32•Bender•2h ago•13 comments

Cultures of Making and Relating

https://blog.khinsen.net/posts/2026/06/25/cultures.html
39•akkartik•2d ago•2 comments

Screen time can damage under-twos' development, landmark study suggests

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2026/jun/27/screen-time-damage-under-twos-development-study
18•Brajeshwar•2h ago•1 comments

Faster KNN search in Manticore: 2-pass HNSW, batched distances, and AVX-512

https://medium.com/@s_nikolaev/faster-knn-search-in-manticore-2-pass-hnsw-batched-distances-and-a...
51•snikolaev•1d ago•3 comments

Underarm Bowling Incident of 1981

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Underarm_bowling_incident_of_1981
107•EndXA•3d ago•90 comments

Anatomy of a Failed (Nation-State?) Attack

https://grack.com/blog/2026/06/25/dissecting-a-failed-nation-state-attack/
131•signa11•16h ago•26 comments