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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."

Creepy Crawlies

https://people.kernel.org/monsieuricon/creepy-crawlies
354•zdw•1d ago•172 comments

Haiku R1/beta6 has been released

https://www.haiku-os.org/news/2026-08-26_haiku_r1_beta6
90•metrofun•1h ago•20 comments

Coordination Headwind: How Organizations Are Like Slime Molds

https://komoroske.com/slime-mold/
28•rzk•1h ago•13 comments

Omarchy: Any User Process Can Escalate to Root

https://0xcc.io/posts/omarchy-root-creds/
174•trap0xcc•1h ago•151 comments

Hacking IKEA Furniture

https://greenlightning.eu/diy/hacking-ikea-furniture/
178•greenlightning•6h ago•98 comments

Electric rain can eat through metal

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/electric-rain-can-eat-through-metal/
28•sohkamyung•3d ago•5 comments

European Commission Revives Push for Encryption Backdoors in ProtectEU Strategy

https://reclaimthenet.org/eu-protecteu-strategy-encryption-backdoor-law-enforcement
155•nickslaughter02•2h ago•42 comments

Artie (YC S23) Is Hiring Technical AES

https://www.artie.com/careers?ashby_jid=e87b84d2-78b3-41a3-937a-47e83643cdf1
1•j-cheong•54m ago

Zig: Pointer Stability for ArrayLists

https://ziglang.org/devlog/2026/#2026-08-27
28•tosh•3h ago•3 comments

Casey Muratori – The Root of the Root of All Evil – BSC 2026 [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hpj6r6CjJf8
211•surprisetalk•3d ago•102 comments

METR and Redwood Offer Holy %^ Postmortem of the HuggingFace Hack

https://thezvi.wordpress.com/2026/08/29/metr-and-redwood-offer-holy-postmortem-of-the-huggingface...
36•catbird•3h ago•11 comments

Arbitrary code execution in QubesOS via copy-to-VM error reporting backchannel

https://www.qubes-os.org/news/2026/08/29/qsb-118/
162•vntok•9h ago•65 comments

Longest Straight Line Paths on Water or Land on the Earth (2018)

https://arxiv.org/abs/1804.07389
168•joebig•9h ago•49 comments

Dad's Custom Atari Peripherals – By Jim Trageser

https://www.goto10retro.com/p/dads-custom-atari-peripherals
35•rbanffy•3d ago•8 comments

Europe's summer drought is so extreme that desertification is a growing threat

https://fortune.com/2026/08/29/europe-summer-drought-desertification-threat-rivers-fish/
113•Brajeshwar•3h ago•118 comments

When fruit is scarce, these monkeys hunt animals

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/when-fruit-is-scarce-these-monkeys-hunt-animals-the-beh...
31•cisc•1d ago•10 comments

What my dad taught me about AI coding in the 90s

https://askmike.org/articles/ai-coding-lessons-in-the-90s-from-my-dad/
86•askmike•6d ago•44 comments

An implementation of Conway's Game of Life for Windows 3.1x and later

https://www.muppetlabs.com/~breadbox/software/windows.html
37•Bluestein•6h ago•7 comments

Automating Immersive Reading

https://smoores.dev/post/automating_immersive_reading/
57•smoores•6h ago•17 comments

RISC-V is now officially supported by CPython

https://blog.python.org/2026/08/riscv-now-officially-supported/
271•lumpa•5d ago•46 comments

Bug Blindness

https://danluu.com/bug-blind/
346•davidmckenna•17h ago•225 comments

Building my own network stack

https://blog.lyc8503.net/en/post/dn42-2-dnet/
73•uneven9434•8h ago•63 comments

Synchronisation and SMPTE timecode (time code)

https://www.philrees.co.uk/articles/timecode.htm
3•sublinear•2d ago•0 comments

Claude Session URL appended to commit messages and PR descriptions by default

https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues/66504
116•sparsesignal•5h ago•143 comments

Hy4 preview

https://www.tencent.com/tencent-releases-and-open-sources-tencent-hy4-preview/
364•shenli3514•22h ago•229 comments

Orbs

https://ampcode.com/notes/orbs-explained
79•tosh•5d ago•32 comments

monty-go: Pure-Go wrapper for Pydantic's Monty Python Interpreter

https://github.com/fugue-labs/monty-go
35•networked•5h ago•11 comments

JupyterGIS 0.16: a grammar of graphics for maps, and collaborative story maps

https://blog.jupyter.org/jupytergis-0-16-new-visualization-capabilities-collaborative-story-maps-...
84•arjxn-py•5d ago•9 comments

California lawmakers unanimously pass Linux exemption from age-verification law

https://www.tomshardware.com/software/linux/california-lawmakers-unanimously-pass-linux-exemption...
616•shscs911•14h ago•292 comments

One Nix flake to rule them all

https://fzakaria.com/2026/08/28/one-flake-to-rule-them-all
64•ingve•6h ago•6 comments