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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."

“Math 2.0” will need to value mathematical progress more holistically

https://mathstodon.xyz/@tao/117395269325940185
198•ent101•2h ago•122 comments

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https://sheets.works/data-viz/holding-up-the-internet
42•simjue•36m ago•9 comments

Claude Haiku 5.5

https://www.anthropic.com/claude-haiku-5-5
824•sfkgtbor•13h ago•404 comments

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https://100r.ca/site/home.html
153•Muhammad523•2d ago•32 comments

A 100x faster* alternative to homebrew

https://github.com/zerobrewhq/zerobrew
63•cachebag•3h ago•39 comments

Margaret Hamilton has died

https://news.mit.edu/2026/margaret-hamilton-computing-pioneer-dies-1007
1281•muglug•10h ago•142 comments

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https://shahidhussain.com/writing/search-for-salvage/
40•shahidhussain•3d ago•18 comments

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https://www.science.org/content/article/how-did-rosalind-franklin-miss-helix-her-iconic-dna-image...
147•pavel_lishin•2d ago•54 comments

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https://www.404media.co/oldest-living-land-animal-jonathan-the-tortoise/
130•gumby•11h ago•56 comments

Cleo (Mathematician)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cleo_(mathematician)
125•djoldman•1d ago•23 comments

Analog Computer Simulator in the Browser

https://pavel-krivanek.github.io/The-Analog-Thing-Simulator/public/
12•adamnemecek•2d ago•1 comments

GPT‑6 and Intelligent UI for everyone

https://openai.com/index/gpt-6-for-everyone/
593•joshuawright11•13h ago•304 comments

Shipping JPEG XL in Chrome

https://developer.chrome.com/blog/jpeg-xl-in-chrome
537•AshleysBrain•19h ago•352 comments

The Mathocalypse

https://scottaaronson.blog/?p=10169
202•6bitquant•11h ago•238 comments

Show HN: Bigwords.page – Turn any screen into a sign. The URL is the app

https://bigwords.page/
466•SpeakingOfBrad•15h ago•131 comments

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https://www.nytimes.com/2026/10/07/science/first-nuclear-clocks-thorium-229.html
85•gumby•13h ago•12 comments

Docker Agent

https://github.com/docker/docker-agent
220•saikatsg•13h ago•103 comments

A minimal kernel in Swift, running in QEMU

https://carette.xyz/posts/minimal_swift_kernel_on_qemu/
63•surprisetalk•1d ago•10 comments

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https://debasishg.github.io/blog/push-ifs-up-fors-down/
140•speckx•12h ago•65 comments

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https://openai.com/index/sharing-ai-progress-in-mathematics/
1273•OfficialTurkey•1d ago•1441 comments

ENIAC Programmers (2011)

https://www.columbia.edu/cu/computinghistory/eniac.html
13•adunk•2d ago•0 comments

Rust Port of TypeScript (Tsc)

https://github.com/pingdotgg/ts-rust
45•jcbhmr•6h ago•70 comments

Animated ASCII Art for Web Pages

https://ascii.rest/
339•turrini•16h ago•61 comments

Navier–Stokes Lost in Translation

https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.08144
293•nill0•15h ago•181 comments

How machines learned precision

https://glinscott.github.io/how-machines-learned-precision/
149•glinscott•1d ago•61 comments

House with 15m underground tunnels for sale for 300k

https://www.readingchronicle.co.uk/news/26612080.house-15m-underground-tunnels-sale-300k/
195•librasteve•18h ago•182 comments

Anti-patterns in software blogging

https://refactoringenglish.com/blog/anti-patterns-software-blogging/
264•ilreb•18h ago•135 comments

Brownian Motion

https://gregorygundersen.com/blog/2026/04/22/brownian-motion/
57•signa11•1d ago•8 comments

A new write and space optimized storage engine for MySQL is here

https://tidesdb.com/articles/tidesdb-now-available-for-mysql/
55•alexpadula•2d ago•24 comments

If somebody tries to hot-patch an already-hot-patched function

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20261005-00/?p=112755/
55•ibobev•1d ago•25 comments