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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."

Gemini 4 Argon

https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/models-and-research/gemini-models/gemini-4-argon/
680•bradleyg223•2h ago•416 comments

Surprisingly complex waves reveal the brain's inner workings

https://www.quantamagazine.org/surprisingly-complex-waves-reveal-the-brains-inner-workings-20260930/
82•ibobev•3h ago•18 comments

EDG C++ front-end goes public

https://edgcpp.org/#transition
94•iandinwoodie•2h ago•33 comments

Launch HN: Magnitude (YC S25) – Self-optimizing inference engine for agents

https://github.com/magnitudedev/magnitude
103•anerli•4h ago•43 comments

5x faster Edge Functions: V8 isolates to Firecracker MicroVMs

https://www.netlify.com/blog/edge-functions-firecracker-microvms/
76•jbott•3h ago•26 comments

The top secret URSALA, RAQUEL, and FARRAH satellites

https://www.thespacereview.com/article/4951/1
6•Bluestein•6m ago•0 comments

Halfspace experimental IDE for solid modeling with distance fields

https://www.mattkeeter.com/projects/halfspace/
36•luu•2h ago•6 comments

A brief history of the Bloomberg terminal

https://spectrum.ieee.org/bloomberg-terminal
195•rbanffy•7h ago•79 comments

CHOMPI portable sampler instrument is now open-source (hardware and software)

https://www.chompiclub.com/opensource
13•lashkari•4h ago•2 comments

Doing a Machine Learning PhD While Working in Japan

https://www.tokyodev.com/articles/doing-a-machine-learning-phd-while-working-in-japan
18•pwim•14h ago•4 comments

You said no MCP

https://earendil.com/posts/you-said-no-mcp/
570•yarapavan•12h ago•325 comments

Singapore govt dating app uses Gale-Shapley stable marriage algorithm

https://twitter.com/tuakdotsol/status/2105105417760391258
64•rzk•12h ago•9 comments

CS240 AI Cheating Retrospective

https://turkeyland.net/thoughts/ai.php
27•ArchAndStarch•2h ago•10 comments

I could've accessed 17T Microsoft records

https://blog.faav.net/how-i-couldve-accessed-17-trillion-microsoft-records
227•luispa•2d ago•98 comments

Functional Ultrasound Imaging (fUSI) from scratch

https://www.neuroai.science/p/functional-ultrasound-imaging-from
12•pminimax•2h ago•1 comments

Bild AI (YC W25) Is Hiring a Founding Product Engineer

https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/bild-ai/jobs/dAbC3Gd-founding-product-engineer
1•rooppal•5h ago

Great Dirhombicosidodecahedron ("Miller's Monster")

https://www.software3d.com/MillersMonster.php
14•cobbzilla•5h ago•1 comments

Why the Bronze Age Collapsed

https://www.worksinprogress.news/p/why-really-caused-the-bronze-age
13•AnodicElegy•1d ago•8 comments

The last time my family was replaced by technology

https://manuel.darcemont.fr/posts/the-last-time-my-family-was-replaced-by-technology/
154•megalomanu•9h ago•363 comments

Dear Software Makers

https://blog.jim-nielsen.com/2026/dear-software-makers/
26•speckx•2h ago•9 comments

What TLA+ can and can't check

https://buttondown.com/hillelwayne/archive/what-tla-can-and-cant-check/
115•b-man•8h ago•28 comments

Gitea 28.0

https://blog.gitea.com/release-of-28.0.0/
47•porridgeraisin•1h ago•16 comments

Before pixels: Modular industrial dashboards

https://unsung.aresluna.org/before-pixels-modular-industrial-dashboards/
13•leephillips•3h ago•2 comments

Burning Man death rates – A short lesson in statistics

https://ihavenapkinthoughts.substack.com/p/burning-man-death-rates-a-short-lesson
84•viraj_shah•2d ago•105 comments

Gemini 4 Argon (High): Intelligence, Performance and Price Analysis

https://artificialanalysis.ai/models/gemini-4-argon
42•theanonymousone•1h ago•21 comments

SDF vs. MSDF vs. Slug: GPU Text Rendering

https://alphapixeldev.com/sdf-vs-msdf-vs-slug-vs-rive-gpu-text-rendering/
117•ibobev•8h ago•48 comments

Commit description as a thinking tool

https://yedhu.me/posts/commit-description-as-a-thinking-tool/
102•yedhukrishnan•4h ago•58 comments

Dumb servers, smart clients: Distributing OS images with Quarry

https://amutable.com/blog/distributing-images-quarry
14•Levitating•9h ago•0 comments

Responsible Release of AI-Generated Mathematics

https://agmai.org/general-sep29/
62•aureianimus•19h ago•61 comments

Recursive `make` and `-j`

https://quuxplusone.github.io/blog/2026/09/30/recursive-make-j/
14•ibobev•4h ago•4 comments