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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."

Android 17 is the first since 3.x to add new APIs without releasing to the AOSP

https://grapheneos.social/@GrapheneOS/117282080803799576
636•theanonymousone•8h ago•307 comments

Science Is Open Software

https://jepedersen.dk/blog/202505_research/
28•jegp•1h ago•13 comments

SDCC – Small Device C Compiler

https://sdcc.sourceforge.net/
19•lioeters•1h ago•2 comments

Cloudflare Quick Tunnels

https://try.cloudflare.com/
625•jcbhmr•13h ago•261 comments

Saving another 100TB of RAM

https://blog.cloudflare.com/saving-100-tb-of-ram-with-math/
263•f311a•9h ago•56 comments

Why building a Rust LSP is hard

https://rust-glancer.github.io/blog/why-lsp-is-hard/
17•agluszak•2d ago•9 comments

How to Write with an LLM

https://sockpuppet.org/blog/2026/09/17/how-to-write-with-an-llm/
422•joeriddles•1d ago•289 comments

How OpenAI Used Its Own LLMs to Design Its Jalapeño Chip

https://spectrum.ieee.org/llms-for-chip-design
71•maxall4•4h ago•64 comments

Xcode 27.1 Beta Release Notes

https://developer.apple.com/documentation/xcode-release-notes/xcode-27_1-release-notes
122•CameronBanga•9h ago•75 comments

The Farnese letter

https://simonklee.dk/farnese-letter
32•grigolin•1d ago•5 comments

The first new cat species discovered in 100 years

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/article/meet-the-first-new-cat-species-discovered-in-1...
199•ohjeez•1d ago•76 comments

Photon-Emission-Guided Laser Fault Injection Enables RP2350 Secure Debug

https://donjon.ledger.com/blog/rp2350-secure-debug-laser-fault-injection/
166•synack•11h ago•61 comments

Show HN: Cactus Needle 3: 8-29MB automation models can match DeepSeek V4 Flash

https://cactuscompute.com/needle
174•HenryNdubuaku•1d ago•79 comments

OpenJev

https://openjev.com/
572•ilreb•18h ago•249 comments

Show HN: LiveWorld – Every 24/7 YouTube live camera on one globe

https://liveworld.info/
21•harisingh1612•3h ago•23 comments

Cache-to-Cache: Direct Semantic Communication Between LLMs (2025)

https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.03215
70•rochansinha•9h ago•12 comments

Goroutine Leak Profiles

https://go.dev/blog/goroutine-leak-profiles
6•torutofu•2d ago•0 comments

Claude Code now reads AGENTS.md if there is no Claude.md

https://code.claude.com/docs/en/changelog
558•datadrivenangel•6h ago•202 comments

Cyclomatic Complexity in C#

https://blog.ndepend.com/understanding-cyclomatic-complexity/
40•gone35•2d ago•15 comments

LispBM is a concurrent Lisp for microcontrollers with message passing

https://www.lispbm.com/
16•so-cal-schemer•2d ago•1 comments

Minimal Phone 2

https://minimalcompany.com/
208•nashashmi•1d ago•194 comments

Gemini hacked three companies in first known breakout by Google's AI

https://www.reuters.com/business/gemini-hacked-three-companies-first-known-breakout-by-google-ai-...
34•usernomdeguerre•2h ago•33 comments

Warez: The Infrastructure and Aesthetics of Piracy (2021)

https://archive.org/details/b904a8eb-9c98-4bb1-bf25-3cb9d075b157
120•succinct_ideas•1d ago•36 comments

Alibaba open-sources AI model that can detect cancer and nearly 150 conditions

https://www.scmp.com/tech/big-tech/article/3368055/alibaba-open-sources-medical-ai-model-can-dete...
56•yogthos•4h ago•7 comments

How SpaceX streamlined the Raptor engine

https://www.construction-physics.com/p/how-spacex-streamlined-the-raptor
178•JumpCrisscross•1d ago•50 comments

Inside ZCode: Silently uploading your Git history to the cloud

https://blog.ferstar.org/en/posts/zcode-silent-workspace-snapshot-upload/
267•csmantle•21h ago•94 comments

C++26: Trivial infinite loops are no longer undefined behaviour

https://www.sandordargo.com/blog/2026/09/16/cpp26-trivial-infinite-loops
154•ibobev•1d ago•211 comments

Two parallel neural ectoderm progenitors contribute to the developing brain

https://www.newscientist.com/article/2589739-our-brain-evolved-from-two-primitive-nervous-systems...
107•Jimmc414•12h ago•60 comments

The Implications of Linguistic Illegibility for LLM Security

https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.02852
56•tomjakubowski•8h ago•21 comments

Size-Specialized Memory Allocation

https://go.dev/blog/size-specialized-allocations
25•spacey•2d ago•3 comments