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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."

Magnitude 7.7 Earthquake – 68 km NNW of Ende, Indonesia

https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/us6000tkt2/executive
37•Bender•54m ago•0 comments

Qwen 3.8 27B

https://huggingface.co/Qwen/Qwen3.8-27B-FP8
914•erdaltoprak•11h ago•597 comments

Going Dark, and the era of law enforcement hacking

https://blog.cryptographyengineering.com/2026/08/14/everything-is-about-to-go-dark/
211•vslira•5h ago•121 comments

The Ploopy A+ Trackball Is Here

https://blog.ploopy.co/the-aplus-is-finally-here-499
20•big_toast•1h ago•8 comments

Why does Opus 5 feel worse to work with?

https://mun-logadan.github.io/why-does-opus-5-feel-worse/
793•numeri•15h ago•729 comments

Simplifying and Refactoring Introductory Calculus

https://arxiv.org/abs/1811.03459
16•E-Reverance•1h ago•0 comments

The case for overhauling American science

https://www.economist.com/by-invitation/2026/08/13/the-case-for-overhauling-american-science
42•andsoitis•2h ago•33 comments

Google is making private AI practical with homomorphic encryption

https://blog.google/security/how-google-is-making-private-ai-practical-with-homomorphic-encryption/
284•u1hcw9nx•10h ago•171 comments

RustDesk now supports true unattended remote access on Wayland

https://rustdesk.com/blog/unattended-remote-access-wayland/
225•rustdesk•9h ago•96 comments

Super Mario Derivations

https://fzakaria.com/2026/08/05/super-mario-derivations
56•domenkozar•1w ago•10 comments

Corgi kills short-lived website that ranked its female employees

https://sf.gazetteer.co/corgi-kills-short-lived-website-that-ranked-its-female-employees
18•randycupertino•2h ago•6 comments

eigendrum

https://eigendrum.com/#p=circle
31•bookofjoe•3h ago•7 comments

AI by Hand

https://www.byhand.ai/
209•sans_souse•10h ago•18 comments

Firefox is now the last major browser that still supports uBlock Origin

https://www.pcworld.com/article/3212428/firefox-is-now-the-last-major-browser-that-still-supports...
433•DemiGuru•7h ago•168 comments

RISC-V: They should have known better

https://dmitry.gr/?r=06.%20Thoughts&proj=12.%20RV
126•kaycebasques•3h ago•95 comments

Hi-Fi Tape Recorder Changed Radio Forever

https://spectrum.ieee.org/magnetophon-laugh-track
6•Jimmc414•3d ago•0 comments

Stop sending me huge PRs; a rant

https://getsmall.xyz/post/cmstjfl9l000if70ljmpzr4va
76•trezm•3h ago•46 comments

Introducing Toast 1

https://www.mixedbread.com/blog/toast-1
179•mplappert•11h ago•58 comments

I turned my RSS feeds into an e-ink newspaper to stop reading on my phone

https://heyjonny.dev/posts/rss-to-eink-newspaper/
145•speckx•11h ago•61 comments

Ultraviolet Bird Photography

https://uvbirds.com/
109•EndXA•1w ago•22 comments

Maximizing the value of your Claude Code sessions

https://claude.com/blog/maximizing-the-value-of-your-claude-code-sessions
133•twapi•9h ago•91 comments

Turbo Pascal on CP/M, MSX-DOS and MS-DOS

http://pascal.hansotten.com/delphi/turbo-pascal-on-cpm-msx-dos-and-ms-dos/
71•rbanffy•2d ago•24 comments

Show HN: Mole – Deep research agent for your terminal

https://github.com/lajosdeme/mole
48•lajosdeme•7h ago•8 comments

New Lower and Upper Bounds for the Grothendieck Constant

https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.11158
35•surprisetalk•6h ago•6 comments

GLM-5.3: Frontier coding with emergent cyber capabilities

https://z.ai/blog/glm-5.3
1032•pella•20h ago•515 comments

Seven books I keep close because I love them

https://blog.plover.com/2026/08/02/
297•surprisetalk•11h ago•132 comments

Show HN: Ember – Redshift safe color palettes

https://github.com/carpdiem/ember
61•carpdiem•5d ago•14 comments

Don't classify, hallucinate

https://softwaredoug.com/blog/2026/08/10/hypothetical-classifications
217•softwaredoug•4d ago•89 comments

Jane Street suffers $15B hit after meltdown at Situational Awareness

https://www.ft.com/content/47dd5308-dd17-404a-a615-61046defd697
95•bobstax•2h ago•69 comments

Show HN: LuaCAD – Parametric CAD Scripted in Lua

https://luacad.ad-si.com
73•adius•9h ago•14 comments