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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."

An ESP32 based plane radar for my desk

https://blog.ktz.me/esp32-plane-radar/
88•alexktz•3h ago•14 comments

A shell colon does nothing. Use it anyway

https://refp.se/articles/your-shell-and-the-magic-colon
53•olexsmir•16h ago•13 comments

JetZero

https://www.jetzero.aero
148•lisper•3h ago•103 comments

Show HN: I mapped every US golf course

https://golfcoursebrowser.com/
97•rickmf•4h ago•42 comments

The new rules of context engineering for Claude 5 generation models

https://claude.com/blog/the-new-rules-of-context-engineering-for-claude-5-generation-models
262•mellosouls•9h ago•167 comments

Inflect-Micro-v2: complete voice in 9.36M parameters

https://huggingface.co/owensong/Inflect-Micro-v2
79•nateb2022•5h ago•6 comments

Rethinking Legal Education in the AI Era

https://www.law.uchicago.edu/news/ai-strategy-statement
53•jjwiseman•2d ago•15 comments

Clinical failure rates over the decades: yikes

https://www.science.org/content/blog-post/clinical-failure-rates-over-decades-yikes
85•EA-3167•7h ago•49 comments

W4ME Station – a WASM-4 runtime for Java ME phones

https://github.com/mulfyx/w4me-station
11•sqshi•2h ago•1 comments

Systems and Delays

https://martin.janiczek.cz/2026/07/24/systems-and-delays.html
50•vinhnx•5h ago•13 comments

Librrd Playground

https://systemf.epfl.ch/etc/librrd/
4•E-Reverance•4d ago•0 comments

Alien World Chemistry Found Inside Meteorite That Struck New Jersey Home

https://www.seti.org/news/alien-world-chemistry-found-inside-meteorite/
35•spzx•4h ago•9 comments

Running a 28.9M parameter LLM on an $8 microcontroller

https://github.com/slvDev/esp32-ai
144•boveyking•11h ago•29 comments

Stinkpot: SQLite-backed shell history

https://tangled.org/oppi.li/stinkpot
15•nerdypepper•1d ago•1 comments

Cloudflare's new AI traffic options for customers

https://blog.cloudflare.com/content-independence-day-ai-options/
89•alphabetatango•7h ago•61 comments

LLM Usage in Debian: Three Proposals

https://www.debian.org/vote/2026/vote_002
126•zdw•10h ago•112 comments

GM Backs Sodium Ion Batteries for U.S. Grid Storage

https://spectrum.ieee.org/sodium-ion-battery-peak-energy
164•rbanffy•8h ago•66 comments

Open-weight AI is having its Kubernetes moment

https://tobi.knaup.me/2026-07-25-open-weight-ai-is-having-its-kubernetes-moment/
360•tknaup•15h ago•283 comments

Agatha Christie's Disappearance: Amnesia, Suicide, or Despair?

https://www.historicmysteries.com/unexplained-mysteries/agatha-christie-disappearance/23136/
18•thunderbong•3d ago•6 comments

SIMD for Collision

https://box2d.org/posts/2026/07/simd-for-collision/
82•birdculture•3d ago•26 comments

Zero roadkill as Amazon canopy bridges secure 15,000 crossings

https://news.mongabay.com/2026/07/zero-roadkill-as-amazon-canopy-bridges-secure-15000-crossings/
340•hn_acker•3d ago•98 comments

Humans haven't stopped evolving

https://www.harvardmagazine.com/research/harvard-human-evolution-genes-selective-pressure
51•ilamont•3h ago•49 comments

Show HN: I made some transistor animations

https://brandonli.net/semisim/animations
155•stunningllama•1d ago•19 comments

Producing ammonia and fertiliser using wind power in Morris, Minnesota

https://ammoniaenergy.org/articles/flexible-renewable-ammonia-demonstrator-now-operational-in-min...
115•gritzko•11h ago•80 comments

Show HN: Brolly, a plain-text weather forecast site

https://brolly.sh/forecast/RWFP2qW8
167•jsax•12h ago•50 comments

Retry Storm Lab

https://github.com/telemetry-sh/retry-storm-lab
5•flurly•3d ago•0 comments

Turn And Face The Strange

https://fly.io/blog/kurt-scott-money-sprites/
186•subarctic•9h ago•126 comments

Memory Safety Absolutists

https://itsallaboutthebit.com/memory-safety-absolutists/
81•drogus•12h ago•114 comments

Did They Ghost You?

https://didtheyghostyou.com/
359•mooreds•10h ago•162 comments

Android May Soon Restrict On-Device ADB

https://kitsumed.github.io/blog/posts/android-may-soon-restrict-on-device-adb/
902•shscs911•23h ago•445 comments