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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."

OverpAId – Fire your CEO. Hire the future

https://overpaid.lol
450•ignaloidas•3h ago•206 comments

Back to Kagi

https://blog.melashri.net/micro/back-to-kagi/
83•speckx•1h ago•58 comments

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https://blog.fiddery.com/businesses-with-ugly-ai-menu-redesigns/
73•speckx•1h ago•40 comments

OpenAI and Hugging Face address security incident during model evaluation

https://openai.com/index/hugging-face-model-evaluation-security-incident/
1381•mfiguiere•18h ago•931 comments

Why Do You Suck at Juggling?

https://pgadey.ca/notes/suck-at-juggling/
18•surprisetalk•1w ago•10 comments

Introduction to Formal Verification with Lean Part 1

https://hashcloak.com/blog/tutorial-introduction-to-formal-verification-with-lean-(part-1)
131•badcryptobitch•2d ago•15 comments

Kimi K3 Is Competitive with Fable; Kimi K3 and Fable Is SoTA

https://fireworks.ai/blog/kimik3-fable
764•piotrgrabowski•15h ago•397 comments

Intel Starts Shipping High-NA EUV Silicon

https://morethanmoore.substack.com/p/intel-starts-shipping-high-na-euv
155•zdw•3d ago•59 comments

10 REM"_(C2SLFF4

https://beej.us/blog/data/mystery-comment/
28•ingve•2h ago•4 comments

Original Apollo 11 Guidance Computer source code for command and lunar modules

https://github.com/chrislgarry/Apollo-11
120•noteness•8h ago•36 comments

Cornell's Interactive Wall of Birds

https://academy.allaboutbirds.org/features/wallofbirds/?_hsmi=428996456
22•yareally•3d ago•4 comments

Advertise in ChatGPT

https://ads.openai.com/
943•montecarl•19h ago•721 comments

FreeInk: Open ecosystem for e-readers

https://freeink.org/
644•FriedPickles•19h ago•133 comments

Judge approves $1.5B Anthropic settlement for pirated books used to train Claude

https://apnews.com/article/ai-anthropic-copyright-settlement-claude-books-bartz-74b140444023898ae...
468•BeetleB•19h ago•437 comments

AMD Ryzen 7 7700X3D Review: 3D V-Cache Gaming Performance for Less – HotHardware

https://hothardware.com/reviews/amd-ryzen-7-7700x3d-gaming-cpu-review
34•rbanffy•3d ago•32 comments

Gemini 3.6 Flash, 3.5 Flash-Lite, and 3.5 Flash Cyber

https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/models-and-research/gemini-models/gemini-3-6-flash-3-5-flas...
726•logickkk1•22h ago•544 comments

Late.sh – a command-line Clubhouse for computer people

https://late.sh/
246•itherseed•11h ago•86 comments

A digestion of the Jacobian conjecture counterexample

https://terrytao.wordpress.com/2026/07/21/a-digestion-of-the-jacobian-conjecture-counterexample/
288•jeremyscanvic•17h ago•118 comments

ScreenWall – Turn old phones into synced widgets for your space

https://screenwall.app/
65•buibuibui•5d ago•26 comments

Ten Steps Towards Happiness (2015)

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181•emerongi•12h ago•76 comments

Never Enough

https://dark.ronacher.eu/2026/7/21/never-enough/
102•reasonableklout•10h ago•35 comments

Jack Dorsey launches Buzz to combine team chat, AI agents and Git hosting

https://runtimewire.com/article/jack-dorsey-block-buzz-team-chat-ai-agents-git
347•ryanmerket•20h ago•306 comments

"Drawing" the Mona Lisa with GPT-5.6, Claude, Gemini, and Grok

https://www.tryai.dev/blog/ai-drawing-arena-colored-pencils-claude-gpt-grok
227•hershyb_•16h ago•80 comments

Long presumed dead, a thriving coral reef is discovered in West Africa

https://e360.yale.edu/digest/benin-coral-reef
369•speckx•22h ago•84 comments

Apple defeats liability for not scanning iCloud for CSAM

https://blog.ericgoldman.org/archives/2026/07/apple-defeats-liability-for-not-scanning-icloud-for...
436•speckx•23h ago•471 comments

It's a shame what's happened to radio

https://blog.jimgrey.net/2026/07/21/its-a-shame-whats-happened-to-radio-3/
162•sonicrocketman•14h ago•181 comments

Overload and insight look identical from the outside

https://pilgrima.ge/p/what-the-wire-knows
10•momentmaker•3d ago•0 comments

Laguna S 2.1

https://poolside.ai/blog/introducing-laguna-s-2-1
372•rexledesma•20h ago•69 comments

Map of the world's great castles and fortresses

https://thecastlemap.com/
286•marklit•22h ago•181 comments

Gemini last models: temperature, top_p, and top_k are deprecated and ignored

https://ai.google.dev/gemini-api/docs/latest-model
113•greatgib•16h ago•39 comments