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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."

John Deere owners will get the right to repair equipment under FTC settlement

https://apnews.com/article/john-deere-right-to-repair-agriculture-equipment-cb7514ffedb95c130a976...
200•djoldman•1h ago•46 comments

Separating signal from noise in coding evaluations

https://openai.com/index/separating-signal-from-noise-coding-evaluations/
144•sk4rekr0w•4h ago•59 comments

Chatto is now open source

https://www.hmans.dev/blog/chatto-is-open-source
714•speckx•9h ago•190 comments

We made Grok 4.5, GPT-5.5, and Claude build the same apps

https://www.tryai.dev/blog/grok-4.5-vs-gpt-5.5-vs-claude-build-off
33•hershyb_•1h ago•9 comments

Cloudflare Drop

https://www.cloudflare.com/drop/
228•coloneltcb•5h ago•116 comments

Remote Attestation

https://www.liamcvw.com/p/remote-attestation
10•lcvw•41m ago•3 comments

Mistral's Robostral Navigate: a state of the art robotics navigation model

https://mistral.ai/news/robostral-navigate/
406•ottomengis•11h ago•95 comments

Show HN: Microsoft releases Flint, a visualization language for AI agents

https://microsoft.github.io/flint-chart/#/
193•chenglong-hn•7h ago•72 comments

Grok 4.5

https://x.ai/news/grok-4-5
462•BoumTAC•7h ago•558 comments

Unicode's transliteration rules are Turing-complete

https://seriot.ch/computation/uts35/
20•beefburger•15h ago•2 comments

Turning a pile of documents into a searchable useable knowledge base

https://github.com/linuxrebel/DocuBrowser
67•linuxrebe1•4h ago•10 comments

Show HN: Yamanote.fun – A complete soundscape for Tokyo's Yamanote line

https://www.yamanote.fun/
46•madebymagnolia•1d ago•12 comments

FAANG Simulator

https://www.abeyk.com/escape-the-rat-race/
265•nerdbiscuits•5h ago•104 comments

GPT‑Live

https://openai.com/index/introducing-gpt-live/
588•logickkk1•8h ago•399 comments

A bug which affected only left handed users

https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2026/07/a-bug-which-only-affected-left-handed-users/
79•sixhobbits•11h ago•42 comments

Beyond Git: Real-Time Version Control for Godot – Lilith Duncan – GodotCon 2026 [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CAJ_iIedx_I
8•surprisetalk•6d ago•1 comments

DKIM2 and DMARCbis Have Landed

https://stalw.art/blog/dkim2-dmarcbis/
73•StalwartLabs•2d ago•50 comments

TypeScript 7

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/typescript/announcing-typescript-7-0/
458•DanRosenwasser•9h ago•171 comments

New Sweden: the US's long-lost 'secret' colony

https://www.bbc.com/travel/article/20260629-new-sweden-the-uss-long-lost-secret-colony
41•bookofjoe•5h ago•2 comments

Rewriting Bun in Rust

https://bun.com/blog/bun-in-rust
255•afturner•3h ago•141 comments

Decoding the obfuscated bash script on a Uniqlo t-shirt

https://tris.sherliker.net/blog/obfuscated-self-evaluating-bash-script-by-cdn-akamai-being-suppli...
1291•speerer•16h ago•206 comments

My road trip with the do-gooding cactus smugglers

https://economist.com/1843/2026/03/06/my-road-trip-with-the-do-gooding-cactus-smugglers
14•andsoitis•3d ago•1 comments

MIRA: Multiplayer Interactive World Models Trained on Rocket League

https://mira-wm.com/
4•ethanlipson•45m ago•0 comments

OpenMandriva: Statement regarding attempted distribution sabotage

https://forum.openmandriva.org/t/statement-regarding-attempted-distribution-sabotage/8997
71•workethics•6h ago•13 comments

Show HN: Frugon – Find which LLM calls a cheaper model could handle (local, MIT)

https://github.com/Rodiun/frugon
7•jarodrh•1d ago•1 comments

Cloudflare Meerkat - Globally distributed consensus

https://blog.cloudflare.com/meerkat-introduction/
215•bobnamob•11h ago•45 comments

Open Source Barware: free, local-first bar inventory software (GPLv3)

https://opensourcebarware.com
18•RichBJamison•3h ago•11 comments

EU now one step away from reviving private message scanning rules

https://cyberinsider.com/eu-now-one-step-away-from-reviving-private-message-scanning-rules/
354•ggirelli•8h ago•136 comments

I Built a Telegram Client for Pi

https://www.npmjs.com/package/@atharva-again/pi-tg
53•atharva-again•2d ago•24 comments

SWE-1.7 Reach Near GPT 5.5 and Opus Intelligence

https://cognition.com/blog/swe-1-7
252•mekpro•8h ago•128 comments