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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."

AI financial advice is surprisingly good if you ask the right questions

https://mitsloan.mit.edu/ideas-made-to-matter/ai-financial-advice-surprisingly-good-especially-if...
102•foxtrot8672•2h ago•67 comments

Seedance 2.5

https://seed.bytedance.com/en/blog/one-take-creation-flexible-referencing-introducing-seedance-2-5
121•njaremko•3h ago•46 comments

Diátaxis

https://diataxis.fr/
154•ryanseys•4h ago•23 comments

Unraveling the mysteries of habit formation

https://www.kyoto-u.ac.jp/en/research-news/2026-07-28
19•hhs•1h ago•7 comments

Postmortem for Kernel Soundness Bug #14576

https://leodemoura.github.io/blog/2026-8-1-postmortem-for-kernel-soundness-bug-14576/
105•juhopitk•6h ago•39 comments

But can your calculator run Linux?

https://raymii.org/s/articles/But_can_your_calculator_run_Linux.html
56•jandeboevrie•4h ago•4 comments

The Art of 64-bit Assembly

https://nostarch.com/art-64-bit-assembly-v2
178•0x54MUR41•10h ago•85 comments

CISA Alert: Water Sector PLC Targeting

https://censys.com/blog/cisa-alert-water-tower-plc-targeting/
58•speckx•5h ago•43 comments

Morph (YC S23) Is Hiring Member of Technical Staff

https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/morph/jobs/0Z8vI3K-member-of-technical-staff
1•bhaktatejas922•1h ago

RFC 10015: Deprecating Obsolete Key Exchange Methods in TLS 1.2 and DTLS 1.2

https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc10015.html
4•Jimmc414•52m ago•0 comments

How Google helped destroy adoption of RSS feeds (2023)

https://openrss.org/blog/how-google-helped-destroy-adoption-of-rss-feeds
364•pudgywalsh•6h ago•130 comments

Nyctography: A substituton cypher by Lewis Carroll

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nyctography
47•nanna•4d ago•3 comments

NetBSD 11.0

https://blog.netbsd.org/tnf/entry/netbsd_11_0_released
203•jaypatelani•6h ago•85 comments

RipGrep musl binaries occasionally segfault during very-large searches

https://github.com/BurntSushi/ripgrep/issues/3494
245•throwaway2037•12h ago•166 comments

Just because a game is on disc doesn't mean it will work in the future

https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2026/07/the-disc-is-not-the-game-physical-releases-increasingly-re...
91•rbanffy•1d ago•76 comments

Explorative modeling: Train on the best of K guesses

https://alexiglad.github.io/blog/2026/explorative_modeling/
75•DSemba•9h ago•21 comments

A stray commit buried multiple levels deep cost me months

https://www.droppedasbaby.com/posts/db-commits/
25•offbyone42•1h ago•18 comments

Show HN: Legionlinuxtui – Control Lenovo legion laptops in the terminal

https://github.com/nooneknowspeter/legionlinuxtui
6•nooneknowspeter•2d ago•0 comments

Kenji/Serious Eats – 30-Min Pressure Cooker Pho Ga

https://www.seriouseats.com/30-minute-pressure-cooker-pho-ga-recipe
83•stasomatic•8h ago•53 comments

Pgtestdb's template cloning approach to testing is fast

https://brandur.org/fragments/pgtestdb
61•brandur•8h ago•36 comments

Glyphs 4 – the leading Mac font editor

https://glyphsapp.com
45•microflash•4d ago•8 comments

Designing Icons

https://m3.material.io/styles/icons/designing-icons
5•Cider9986•1d ago•0 comments

Anime User Interfaces

https://animeuserinterface.tumblr.com
44•akyuu•1h ago•8 comments

Linux on ESP32

https://github.com/GrieferPig/esp32-s31-linux
95•boveyking•4d ago•33 comments

RamenHaus

https://ramen.haus/
223•oler•15h ago•106 comments

Kaisel – Routes as Values. Dart 3 Native Router for Flutter

https://kaisel.dev/
51•TheWiggles•7h ago•8 comments

A Surveillance Treaty in Disguise: Canada Signs UN Cybercrime Convention

https://www.michaelgeist.ca/2026/07/a-surveillance-treaty-in-disguise-the-trouble-with-canadas-qu...
264•iamnothere•10h ago•144 comments

Flint: A Visualization Language for the AI Era

https://microsoft.github.io/flint-chart/
251•vinhnx•21h ago•66 comments

The Burau representation of the braid group is faithful for n = 4

https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.05283
44•wglb•5d ago•18 comments

Cursor removed cost information from the usage page and CSV export

https://forum.cursor.com/t/usage-page-to-token-amount-what/167153
297•EugeneOZ•9h ago•131 comments