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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."

IP Crawl: Living atlas of open webcams discovered on the public internet

https://ipcrawl.com/
236•arm32•5h ago•121 comments

Anonymous GitHub account mass-dropping undisclosed 0-days

https://github.com/bikini/exploitarium
649•binyu•10h ago•252 comments

OpenRA

https://www.openra.net/
567•tosh•12h ago•109 comments

Choosing a Public DNS Resolver

https://evilbit.de/dns-resolver-guide.html
35•pawal•2h ago•9 comments

Enhancing X11 Application Security with LXC

https://dobrowolski.dev/article/enhancing-x11-application-security-with-lxc/
28•shirozuki•3h ago•7 comments

AI learns the “dark art” of RFIC design

https://spectrum.ieee.org/ai-radio-chip-design
179•Brajeshwar•3d ago•119 comments

America's Large Homebuilders Shift the Cost of Shoddy Construction to Buyers

https://hntrbrk.com/investigations/homebuilders
24•JumpCrisscross•51m ago•2 comments

Fintech Engineering Handbook

https://w.pitula.me/fintech-engineering-handbook/
467•signa11•14h ago•158 comments

The case for physical media ownership

https://dervis.de/physical/
362•cemdervis•13h ago•233 comments

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

https://cauenapier.com/blog/townsquare_release/
151•eustoria•7h ago•67 comments

Suspicious Discontinuities (2020)

https://danluu.com/discontinuities/
210•tosh•11h ago•58 comments

Regular expressions that work "everywhere"

https://www.johndcook.com/blog/2026/06/23/regex-everywhere/
5•ColinWright•2d ago•1 comments

How do you keep Web MIDI from crashing a 1983 synthesizer?

https://knob.monster/how-do-you-keep-web-midi-from-crashing-a-1983-synthesizer
21•halfradaition•3d ago•7 comments

Show HN: Adrafinil – keep a lid-closed Mac awake only while agents work

https://github.com/kageroumado/adrafinil
78•kageroumado•4h ago•48 comments

Paradise Revisited: What Darwin Saw in the Galápagos

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/2026/08/writers-way-galapagos-charles-darwin-travel/687480/
32•benbreen•3d ago•0 comments

Reducing tick density along recreational trails in Ottawa, Canada

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1877959X26000476
155•bushwart•3d ago•76 comments

Asian AI startups launch Mythos-like models

https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/27/asian-ai-startups-launch-mythos-like-models-as-anthropics-expor...
130•bogdiyan•11h ago•123 comments

Post-Mythos Cybersecurity: Keep calm and carry on

https://cephalosec.com/blog/cybersecurity-in-the-post-mythos-era-keep-calm-and-carry-on/
130•Versipelle•10h ago•39 comments

Show HN: Starglyphs - A constellation puzzle game based on Euler paths

https://starglyphs.com
10•telman17•3h ago•2 comments

DSpark: Speculative decoding accelerates LLM inference [pdf]

https://github.com/deepseek-ai/DeepSpec/blob/main/DSpark_paper.pdf
719•aurenvale•15h ago•298 comments

Michigan spent $1.8B and only created 602 jobs

https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/general/michigan-spent-1-8-billion-and-only-created-602-jobs/ar-A...
97•littlexsparkee•3h ago•39 comments

Supabase (YC S20) Is Hiring for Multigres

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

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
76•LorenDB•1d ago•5 comments

The eerie interface of man and machine (Life Magazine, October 1967)

https://blog.jgc.org/2026/06/the-eerie-interface-of-man-and-machine.html
26•Brajeshwar•3d ago•1 comments

Set Up Your Own DoH Service

https://nochan.net/b/Internet-Crap/20260602-Set-Up-Your-Own-DoH-Service/
5•Bender•2h ago•1 comments

How H-E-B became Texas' most beloved brand (2024)

https://texashighways.com/culture/how-heb-became-texas-most-beloved-brand/
88•NaOH•3d ago•84 comments

Codeberg Is Down

https://social.anoxinon.de/@codebergstatus/116824443563698727
29•sscaryterry•2h ago•13 comments

Zuckerberg's war on whistleblowers

https://pluralistic.net/2026/06/27/zuckerstreisand-2/
631•HotGarbage•10h ago•229 comments

The US Army Issued Ocarinas to Soldiers in World War II

https://www.flutetunes.com/articles/my-flute-goes-to-war/
150•tomcam•2d ago•71 comments

Running a software jam in a world of slop

https://foxmoss.com/blog/radish/
42•foxmoss•11h ago•11 comments