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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."

Renting a sewing machine from the library

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20260618-the-weird-and-wonderful-libraries-of-finland
124•sohkamyung•4h ago•57 comments

Epoll vs. io_uring in Linux

https://sibexi.co/posts/epoll-vs-io_uring/
66•Sibexico•4h ago•21 comments

Show HN: TownSquare, a tiny presence layer for websites

https://townsquare.cauenapier.com/
88•cauenapier•15h ago•30 comments

Loupe – A iOS app that raises awareness about what native apps can see

https://github.com/mysk-research/loupe
96•Cider9986•15h ago•21 comments

Slow breathing modulates brain function and risk behavior

https://www.cell.com/neuron/fulltext/S0896-6273(26)00339-9
75•croes•4h ago•14 comments

15-minute at-home Lyme disease tick test

https://www.bostonglobe.com/2026/06/17/business/lyme-disease-tick-test/
51•bookofjoe•2d ago•16 comments

Developers don't understand CORS (2019)

https://fosterelli.co/developers-dont-understand-cors
19•toilet•1h ago•5 comments

Project Fetch: Phase Two

https://www.anthropic.com/research/project-fetch-phase-two
38•stopachka•3h ago•13 comments

When I reject AI code even if it works

https://vinibrasil.com/when-i-reject-ai-code-even-if-it-works/
52•vnbrs•2h ago•21 comments

SMPTE Makes Its Standards Freely Accessible

https://www.smpte.org/blog/smpte-makes-its-standards-freely-accessible-openingstandards-library-t...
237•zdw•10h ago•64 comments

UHF X11: X11 Built for VisionOS and Apple Vision Pro

https://www.lispm.net/apps/uhf-x11/
175•zdw•10h ago•31 comments

Unauthorized alert sent to cell phones across Brazil

https://www.cnn.com/2026/06/20/americas/brazil-hackers-unauthorized-alert-latam
95•zdw•7h ago•75 comments

DOS Game "F-15 Strike Eagle II" reversing project needs DOS test pilots

https://neuviemeporte.github.io/f15-se2/2026/06/20/needyou.html
215•LowLevelMahn•12h ago•59 comments

CSSQuake

https://cssquake.com/
475•msalsas•16h ago•101 comments

Whole cross-sectional human ultrasound tomography

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41551-026-01660-4
35•lnyan•2d ago•4 comments

Alice is impatient

https://brooker.co.za/blog/2026/06/19/waiting.html
63•birdculture•6h ago•17 comments

Semiconductor Lifeline Keeps Fighter Jets in the Air

https://spectrum.ieee.org/phoenix-semiconductors-legacychips-oems
45•rbanffy•4d ago•13 comments

NOLA 'Nacular: One man's crusade to preserve New Orleans's vernacular signage

https://countryroadsmagazine.com/art-and-culture/people-places/nola-nacular/
21•NaOH•4d ago•2 comments

PostgresBench: A Reproducible Benchmark for Postgres Services

https://clickhouse.com/blog/postgresbench
85•saisrirampur•8h ago•22 comments

Linux eliminates the strncpy API after six years of work, 360 patches

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.2-Drops-strncpy
110•simonpure•6h ago•84 comments

Show HN: Make PDFs look scanned (CLI or in the browser via WASM)

https://github.com/overflowy/make-look-scanned
95•overflowy•8h ago•48 comments

Inference cost at scale with napkin math

https://injuly.in/blog/napkin-inference-cost/index.html
64•gmays•4d ago•14 comments

Show HN: StartupWiki – A Free Alternative to Crunchbase

https://startupwiki.tech/
166•shpran•11h ago•55 comments

Temporary Cloudflare accounts for AI agents

https://blog.cloudflare.com/temporary-accounts/
179•farhadhf•15h ago•97 comments

The Wholesale Plagiarism of Obscure Sorrows

https://waxy.org/2026/06/the-wholesale-plagiarism-of-obscure-sorrows/
329•ridesisapis•9h ago•139 comments

The rise of South Korea’s weapons business

https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2026/06/20/south-korea-weapons-dealer-trump-00959559
120•JumpCrisscross•15h ago•44 comments

Bun has an open PR adding shared-memory threads to JavaScriptCore

https://github.com/oven-sh/WebKit/pull/249
117•gr4vityWall•10h ago•224 comments

White House delays US voting-machine vulnerability report

https://www.reuters.com/world/white-house-delays-release-us-voting-machine-study-midterms-near-20...
55•logickkk1•1h ago•34 comments

Supermarket giant Tesco sues VMware for breach of contract (2025)

https://www.theregister.com/software/2025/09/03/supermarket-giant-tesco-sues-vmware-for-breach-of...
103•wglb•6h ago•26 comments

'We had to get out of the way': The backlash over delivery robots

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c0rygp005wjo
47•higginsniggins•3h ago•42 comments