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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."

I Built Non-Autoregressive Decision Models with RL a Year Ago

https://laya.convaiinnovations.com/
711•nandakishor_ml•7h ago•165 comments

AI-generated posters don’t have to be horrible

https://john.hartnup.uk/2026/06/07/ai-event-posters.html
919•ereiamjh•9h ago•555 comments

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https://med.stanford.edu/news/all-news/2026/09/two-separate-brains.html
541•emigre•12h ago•197 comments

A graphical desktop for the ZX Spectrum

https://github.com/mindbox77/zxdesk
103•graemep•4h ago•82 comments

Tin: full-text search for Postgres

https://planetscale.com/blog/introducing-tin
113•ksec•4h ago•56 comments

“The Secret Life of Circuits” is here

https://blog.coredump.cx/p/the-secret-life-of-circuits-is-here
226•surprisetalk•3d ago•58 comments

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https://grapheneos.social/@GrapheneOS/117282080803799576
1026•theanonymousone•23h ago•591 comments

Black Holes or Black Hole Stars? Astronomers Spar over 'Little Red Dots'

https://www.quantamagazine.org/black-holes-or-black-hole-stars-astronomers-spar-over-webb-telesco...
58•jandrewrogers•1d ago•21 comments

Supabase (YC S20) Is Hiring for OrioleDB

https://supabase.link/orioledbjob
1•awalias•1h ago

New evidence for hidden chambers beyond Tutankhamun's tomb

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-02621-2
48•rndsignals•2d ago•14 comments

GPT-6 Astra Solves a WWI German Radio Cipher

https://www.prinzai.com/p/gpt-6-astra-solves-a-wwi-german-radio
283•nsoonhui•11h ago•144 comments

San Francisco Onion Futures Company

https://onionfutures.com/
321•z-mach9•14h ago•133 comments

People who know the most often sound the least certain

https://vrash.substack.com/p/the-people-who-know-the-most-often
23•virde•53m ago•7 comments

Almost Never Use AI to Write Anything Substantive

https://erichgrunewald.substack.com/p/why-you-should-almost-never-use-ai
49•erwald•2h ago•29 comments

Cloudflare Quick Tunnels

https://try.cloudflare.com/
790•jcbhmr•1d ago•302 comments

How to Write with an LLM

https://sockpuppet.org/blog/2026/09/17/how-to-write-with-an-llm/
576•joeriddles•1d ago•365 comments

If math is more than proof, we need to better celebrate the rest of it

https://terrytao.wordpress.com/2026/09/18/if-math-is-more-than-proof-we-need-to-better-celebrate-...
256•num42•12h ago•207 comments

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https://besok.github.io/posts/what-zig-felt-like-coming-from-rust/
131•ksec•4h ago•145 comments

Suzanne Ciani's Buchla Cookbook

https://echo.orpheusinstituut.be/article/suzannes-buchla-cookbook
3•stuart78•2d ago•0 comments

Asking Authors About Their Own Papers

https://medium.com/@TmlrOrg/asking-authors-about-their-own-papers-3d2e04e5dee0
90•stefanpie•2d ago•50 comments

You can run Git on object storage if you re-make packfiles

https://www.tigrisdata.com/blog/objgit-packfiles/
116•evacchi•3d ago•29 comments

Saving another 100TB of RAM

https://blog.cloudflare.com/saving-100-tb-of-ram-with-math/
435•f311a•23h ago•93 comments

Communication by means of modulated Johnson noise

https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2201337119
45•austinallegro•2d ago•23 comments

SDCC – Small Device C Compiler

https://sdcc.sourceforge.net/
115•lioeters•16h ago•26 comments

How OpenAI Used Its Own LLMs to Design Its Jalapeño Chip

https://spectrum.ieee.org/llms-for-chip-design
182•maxall4•19h ago•123 comments

Adventures in Microcontroller Circuit Debugging

https://www.bigmessowires.com/2026/08/30/adventures-in-microcontroller-circuit-debugging/
8•lateatdesk•1d ago•1 comments

Ray Ozzie and the Optimism of Being Early

https://reproof.app/blog/lotus-notes-history
27•maguay•2d ago•19 comments

Science Is Open Software

https://jepedersen.dk/blog/202505_research/
142•jegp•16h ago•52 comments

OpenJev

https://openjev.com/
683•ilreb•1d ago•285 comments

Why building a Rust LSP is hard

https://rust-glancer.github.io/blog/why-lsp-is-hard/
125•agluszak•2d ago•52 comments