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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."

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https://journals.plos.org/plosbiology/article?id=10.1371/journal.pbio.3003876
44•giuliomagnifico•1h ago•15 comments

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https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/how-has-roman-concrete-lasted-for-millennia-a-1900-year...
95•divbzero•3h ago•56 comments

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https://www.kimi.com/blog/kimi-k3
1521•vincent_s•17h ago•911 comments

Pebble Mega Update – July 2026

https://repebble.com/blog/pebble-mega-update-july-2026
71•crazysaem•3h ago•6 comments

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https://www.ti.com/lit/eb/slyy228/slyy228.pdf?ts=1759892558029
137•gregsadetsky•6d ago•4 comments

Microsoft Comic Chat is now open source

https://opensource.microsoft.com/blog/2026/07/16/microsoft-comic-chat-is-now-open-source/
650•jervant•15h ago•144 comments

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https://nemanjatrifunovic.substack.com/p/starlink-from-1984
26•ingve•5d ago•3 comments

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https://privacypros.com.au/privacy-hub/articles/dv-safe-phone-australia/
112•aussieguy1234•6h ago•83 comments

Decoy Font

https://www.mixfont.com/experiments/decoy-font
524•ray__•15h ago•122 comments

LM Studio Bionic: the AI agent for open models

https://lmstudio.ai/blog/introducing-lm-studio-bionic
230•minimaxir•11h ago•77 comments

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https://www.tryai.dev/blog/ai-music-video-arena-claude-vs-gpt-5.6
232•hershyb_•11h ago•288 comments

Solod: Go can be a better C

https://solod.dev
113•koeng•3d ago•44 comments

The Little Book of Reinforcement Learning

https://github.com/alxndrTL/little-book-rl/
115•mustaphah•9h ago•14 comments

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https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/products/gemini-notebook/notebooklm-gemini-notebook/
298•xnx•15h ago•151 comments

Old Icons

https://leancrew.com/all-this/2026/07/old-icons/
43•zdw•5d ago•10 comments

M 3.9 Experimental Explosion – 147 Km ENE of Ponce Inlet, Florida

https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/us7000t13l/executive
59•hnburnsy•7h ago•31 comments

Immersive Linear Algebra Book with Interactive Figures (2015)

https://immersivemath.com/ila/
207•srean•16h ago•26 comments

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https://blog.lyc8503.net/en/post/llm-classifier/
189•uneven9434•15h ago•129 comments

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https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.aea9708
96•anyonecancode•11h ago•27 comments

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https://antoine.vandecreme.net/blog/exhaustive-destructuring-praise/
11•avandecreme•4d ago•1 comments

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https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.11938
143•Anon84•11h ago•5 comments

UIUC AI Teaching Assistant

https://github.com/Center-for-AI-Innovation/ai-teaching-assistant-uiuc
15•teleforce•5h ago•0 comments

'Likweli': A new monkey species discovered in the Congo Basin

https://news.yale.edu/2026/07/15/meet-likweli-new-monkey-species-discovered-congo-basin
74•gmays•9h ago•17 comments

The human-in-the-loop is tired

https://pydantic.dev/articles/the-human-in-the-loop-is-tired
168•haritha1313•7h ago•89 comments

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https://consequence.net/2026/07/the-cd-revival-is-getting-hard-to-ignore/
93•speckx•14h ago•105 comments

Show HN: Clx – Compile Lua to Native Executables Through C++20

https://github.com/samyeyo/clx
112•_samt_•5d ago•12 comments

Ring-Zero: Scaling Zero RL to a Trillion Parameters for Emergent Reasoning

https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.12395
50•binyu•10h ago•18 comments

The LLM Critics Are Right. I Use LLMs Anyway

https://www.theocharis.dev/blog/llm-critics-are-right-i-use-llms-anyway/
215•JeremyTheo•19h ago•223 comments

Goes-19 weather satellite enters Safe Hold mode

https://www.spaceweather.gov/news/goes-19-safe-hold
165•yabones•18h ago•84 comments

How to Train a Gen AI Kick Drum Model on Your Old Linux Desktop with 6GB VRAM

https://www.zhinit.dev/blog/training-a-kick-drum-diffusion-model
122•zhinit•16h ago•60 comments