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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."

StreetComplete: Fixing OpenStreetMap, one tiny quest at a time

https://streetcomplete.app/
257•kls0e•2h ago•51 comments

A better way to tie your gym shorts. (Or any drawstring) [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3R0Lp86GEBk
190•surprisetalk•2h ago•83 comments

The Revenge of the Philosophy Majors

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/05/business/philosophy-majors-ai-jobs.html
33•benbreen•54m ago•23 comments

98% Isn't Much

https://whynothugo.nl/journal/2026/07/03/98-isnt-very-much/
260•speckx•2h ago•207 comments

Europe's company websites are mostly served by US vendors

https://ciphercue.com/blog/european-web-hosting-vendor-share-2026
153•adulion•3h ago•117 comments

C++ Details of Asymmetric Fences

https://nekrozqliphort.github.io/posts/membarrier/
26•anon_farmer•3d ago•0 comments

Chat Control passed first round in EU Parliament

https://www.heise.de/en/news/Showdown-in-Strasbourg-The-unexpected-return-of-Chat-Control-1-0-113...
38•miroljub•20m ago•3 comments

OpenWrt One – Open Hardware Router

https://openwrt.org/toh/openwrt/one
752•peter_d_sherman•21h ago•284 comments

Top researchers leave USA for the Netherlands (in Dutch)

https://www.nwo.nl/nieuws/eerste-internationale-wetenschappers-via-het-tulp-fonds-naar-nederland
221•28304283409234•4h ago•183 comments

9 Mothers (YC P26) Is Hiring in Austin, TX

https://9mothers.com/careers
1•ukd1•3h ago

CoMaps – FOSS Offline Maps

https://www.comaps.app/
705•basilikum•20h ago•173 comments

Show HN: PostgreSQL performance and cost across 23 EC2 instance types

https://postgres.saneengineer.com
16•anivan_•2h ago•0 comments

The Family Keeping Watch over a 52-Year-Old Pot of Soup

https://www.wsj.com/arts-culture/food-cooking/the-family-keeping-watch-over-a-52-year-old-pot-of-...
36•petethomas•6d ago•26 comments

How to sequence your own DNA at home

https://bradleywoolf.com/links-1/sequencing-my-own-dna-at-home
328•bilsbie•15h ago•123 comments

Small AI Models Gain Traction In places with unreliable networks

https://spectrum.ieee.org/small-language-models-ai-pharmaceuticals
226•sscaryterry•15h ago•69 comments

Historic Photos of NASA's Cavernous Wind Tunnels

https://www.theatlantic.com/photo/2018/05/historic-photos-of-nasas-cavernous-wind-tunnels/560660/
71•ohjeez•2d ago•20 comments

GLM 5.2 and the coming AI margin collapse

https://martinalderson.com/posts/the-upcoming-ai-margin-collapse-part-1-glm-5-2/
604•martinald•19h ago•389 comments

The Art of Computer Programming by Donald E. Knuth

https://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~knuth/taocp.html
122•archargelod•10h ago•34 comments

Microsoft Can Track Users via a Windows Device ID

https://www.pcmag.com/news/a-hackers-arrest-reveals-microsoft-can-track-users-via-a-windows-device
246•ifh-hn•6h ago•102 comments

Ask HN: Where are the good search engines for mathematical formulas?

17•lo0dot0•2d ago•5 comments

Dua Lipa opens library for banned and censored books in Portugal

https://www.euronews.com/culture/2026/06/29/dua-lipa-opens-library-for-banned-and-censored-books-...
156•pax•2h ago•134 comments

Dolosse – a South African invention used over the world

https://thisbugslife.com/2021/11/21/dolosse-a-south-african-invention-used-over-the-world/
107•andsoitis•3d ago•27 comments

Fable turned reMarkable into Tom Riddle's diary from Harry Potter

https://github.com/MaximeRivest/Riddle
580•modinfo•16h ago•357 comments

Ternlight – 7 MB embedding model that runs in browser (WASM)

https://ternlight-demo.vercel.app/
293•soycaporal•16h ago•60 comments

A global workspace in language models

https://www.anthropic.com/research/global-workspace
423•in-silico•21h ago•165 comments

Resetting Xbox

https://news.xbox.com/en-us/2026/07/06/resetting-xbox/
702•dijksterhuis•1d ago•833 comments

AMD Ryzen AI Halo – $4k AI Dev Kit

https://www.lttlabs.com/articles/2026/07/06/amd-ryzen-ai-halo
366•LabsLucas•1d ago•239 comments

In Praise of Observational Evidence

https://asteriskmag.com/issues/14/in-praise-of-observational-evidence
64•fi-le•6d ago•27 comments

A System of Systems for the Selection of Optimal Climate Change Decisions

https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/11357917
4•rbanffy•36m ago•0 comments

Pruning RAG context down to what the answer actually needs

https://www.kapa.ai/blog/how-we-prune-rag-context
137•emil_sorensen•20h ago•36 comments