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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."

Code mode yields a 99.2% cost reduction in our systems

https://www.agent-swarm.dev/blog/code-mode-token-savings
28•tarasyarema•1h ago•8 comments

Escape IntelliJ: Scala and Kotlin LSPs on Emacs Eglot

https://jointhefreeworld.org/blog/articles/emacs/emacs-eglot-scala-kotlin/index.html
84•jjba23•2d ago•51 comments

Terence Tao's ChatGPT conversation about the Jacobian Conjecture counterexample

https://chatgpt.com/share/6a5fdc7a-d6f8-83e8-bbea-8deb42cfed56
920•gmays•18h ago•533 comments

Cruller: Bun's Zig Runtime, Continued on Zig 0.16

https://ziggit.dev/t/cruller-buns-zig-runtime-continued-on-zig-0-16/16734
72•Erenay09•5h ago•35 comments

Quality non-fiction books are the antithesis of AI slop

https://resobscura.substack.com/p/quality-non-fiction-books-are-the
388•benbreen•21h ago•147 comments

EU fines Google €890M for competition breaches over search and apps

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/jul/23/eu-fines-google-for-competition-breaches-over-...
39•Stevvo•1h ago•34 comments

GigaToken: ~1000x faster Language model tokenization

https://github.com/marcelroed/gigatoken/
526•syrusakbary•18h ago•110 comments

Show HN: Bento - An entire PowerPoint in one HTML file (edit+view+data+collab)

https://bento.page/slides/
867•starfallg•20h ago•196 comments

Everyone should know SIMD

https://mitchellh.com/writing/everyone-should-know-simd
464•WadeGrimridge•17h ago•168 comments

ANSI escape injection in MCP servers: Hidden from humans, visible to AI

https://brightsec.com/research/detecting-ansi-escape-sequence-injection-in-mcp-servers-with-dast/
26•xgpyc2qp•2d ago•10 comments

Worse on Purpose – How Corporate Greed Killed Product Quality – Worse on Purpose

https://www.worseonpurpose.com/
11•bilsbie•31m ago•3 comments

Are AI labs pelicanmaxxing?

https://dylancastillo.co/posts/pelicanmaxxing.html
568•dcastm•18h ago•221 comments

git's –end-of-options Flag

https://nesbitt.io/2026/07/21/end-of-options.html
159•Erenay09•1d ago•94 comments

So Reddit has decided that plain HTML is unsafe

https://www.cole-k.com/2026/07/21/reddit/
498•montroser•23h ago•498 comments

Protecting our FLOSS commons from LLMs

https://blog.codeberg.org/protecting-our-floss-commons-from-llms.html
91•acmnrs•10h ago•28 comments

The Unity CLI: manage Unity from your terminal

https://unity.com/blog/meet-the-unity-cli
7•nateb2022•1d ago•1 comments

Amiga 1000: Ten years ahead of its time

https://dfarq.homeip.net/amiga-1000-ten-years-ahead-of-its-time/
96•giuliomagnifico•6h ago•83 comments

Making

https://beej.us/blog/data/ai-making/
378•erikschoster•20h ago•147 comments

Show HN: Cactus Hybrid: We taught Gemma 4 to know when it's wrong

https://github.com/cactus-compute/cactus-hybrid
151•HenryNdubuaku•17h ago•31 comments

The startup's Postgres survival guide

https://hatchet.run/blog/postgres-survival-guide
427•abelanger•23h ago•196 comments

Making ASCII Art in Vim

https://alexyang.dev/vim-ascii-art/
76•evakhoury•2d ago•8 comments

Frequently Asked Questions on Expertise

https://jtpeterson.substack.com/p/faq-on-expertise
9•surprisetalk•2d ago•0 comments

Medici family mystery may be solved after more than 400 years

https://www.cnn.com/2026/07/15/science/medici-family-mystery-dna-malaria
128•effects•13h ago•37 comments

John C. Dvorak has died

https://twitter.com/na_announce/status/2079952538040672302
782•coleca•16h ago•259 comments

Why malloc always does more than I asked for?

https://ssenthilnathan3.github.io/blog/malloc/
44•nathaah3•2d ago•35 comments

Malleable Computing, Emacs, and You

http://yummymelon.com/devnull/malleable-computing-emacs-and-you.html
117•kickingvegas•14h ago•32 comments

Businesses with ugly AI menu redesigns

https://blog.fiddery.com/businesses-with-ugly-ai-menu-redesigns/
318•speckx•22h ago•226 comments

New Framework Desktop Option with AMD Ryzen AI Max+ Pro 495 and 192GB Memory

https://frame.work/desktop?tab=192gb-coming-soon
9•PhilippGille•27m ago•2 comments

Nobody knows what a used GPU cluster is worth

https://ciphertalk.substack.com/p/nobody-knows-what-a-used-gpu-cluster
242•rbanffy•1w ago•220 comments

Fairphone 6 wide camera experimental Linux support

https://nondescriptpointer.com/articles/fairphone-6-wide-camera-linux/
128•helonaut•15h ago•39 comments