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Building my npx business card

https://ashley.dev/posts/turning-feedback-into-features/
8•edent•8mo ago

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steele•8mo ago
Ooh, free real estate, let's colonize and gentrify package management
aabhay•8mo ago
Lmao, gentrify cracked me up
neilv•8mo ago
Do these npx business cards run arbitrary code on your computer?
cypherpunks01•8mo 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•8mo 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•8mo ago
Yeah, this seems like a very smart but inherently flawed idea.
cypherpunks01•8mo 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•8mo ago
May as well just release an executable tbh.
theamk•8mo 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•8mo 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•8mo 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."

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https://www.niemanlab.org/2026/02/a-new-bill-in-new-york-would-require-disclaimers-on-ai-generate...
74•giuliomagnifico•1h ago•31 comments

Invention of DNA "Page Numbers" Opens Up Possibilities for the Bioeconomy

https://www.caltech.edu/about/news/invention-dna-page-numbers-synthesis-kaihang-wang
19•dagurp•1h ago•3 comments

Claude Opus 4.6

https://www.anthropic.com/news/claude-opus-4-6
2021•HellsMaddy•17h ago•864 comments

GPT-5.3-Codex

https://openai.com/index/introducing-gpt-5-3-codex/
1338•meetpateltech•17h ago•507 comments

Things Unix can do atomically (2010)

https://rcrowley.org/2010/01/06/things-unix-can-do-atomically.html
126•onurkanbkrc•6h ago•45 comments

Systems Thinking

http://theprogrammersparadox.blogspot.com/2026/02/systems-thinking.html
112•r4um•6h ago•54 comments

Plasma Effect

https://www.4rknova.com/blog/2016/11/01/plasma
36•todsacerdoti•3d ago•3 comments

My AI Adoption Journey

https://mitchellh.com/writing/my-ai-adoption-journey
621•anurag•16h ago•221 comments

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https://www.anthropic.com/engineering/building-c-compiler
553•modeless•16h ago•536 comments

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https://github.com/artifact-keeper
75•bsgeraci•7h ago•27 comments

Recreating Epstein PDFs from raw encoded attachments

https://neosmart.net/blog/recreating-epstein-pdfs-from-raw-encoded-attachments/
378•ComputerGuru•1d ago•132 comments

Stay Away from My Trash

https://tldraw.dev/blog/stay-away-from-my-trash
38•EvgeniyZh•3d ago•21 comments

Animated Knots

https://www.animatedknots.com/
212•ostacke•3d ago•30 comments

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https://stormatics.tech/blogs/unlocking-high-performance-postgresql-key-memory-optimizations
54•camille_134•4d ago•5 comments

I reversed Tower of Fantasy's anti-cheat driver: a BYOVD toolkit never loaded

https://vespalec.com/blog/tower-of-flaws/
71•svespalec•8h ago•34 comments

The RCE that AMD won't fix

https://mrbruh.com/amd/
232•MrBruh•12h ago•99 comments

Sealos – AI Native Cloud Cloud Operating System

https://github.com/labring/sealos
6•fanux•3d ago•4 comments

DNS Explained – How Domain Names Get Resolved

https://www.bhusalmanish.com.np/blog/posts/dns-explained.html
6•okchildhood•3d ago•6 comments

The Color of Safety

https://protocolized.summerofprotocols.com/p/the-color-of-safety
14•laurex•3d ago•1 comments

The time I didn't meet Jeffrey Epstein

https://scottaaronson.blog/?p=9534
198•pfdietz•16h ago•206 comments

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QLb3nhIy2Lc
41•sbuttgereit•8h ago•1 comments

MenuetOS – a GUI OS that boots from a single floppy disk

https://www.menuetos.net/
158•pjerem•3d ago•34 comments

Claude Opus 4.6 extra usage promo

https://support.claude.com/en/articles/13613973-claude-opus-4-6-extra-usage-promo
174•rob•15h ago•58 comments

GitHub Actions is slowly killing engineering teams

https://www.iankduncan.com/engineering/2026-02-05-github-actions-killing-your-team/
270•codesuki•8h ago•130 comments

LinkedIn checks for 2953 browser extensions

https://github.com/mdp/linkedin-extension-fingerprinting
429•mdp•15h ago•202 comments

What if writing tests was a joyful experience? (2023)

https://blog.janestreet.com/the-joy-of-expect-tests/
81•ryanhn•13h ago•32 comments

Hypernetworks: Neural Networks for Hierarchical Data

https://blog.sturdystatistics.com/posts/hnet_part_I/
63•mkmccjr•18h ago•4 comments

Orchestrate teams of Claude Code sessions

https://code.claude.com/docs/en/agent-teams
355•davidbarker•17h ago•195 comments

Company as Code

https://blog.42futures.com/p/company-as-code
251•ahamez•22h ago•121 comments

Review of 1984 by Isaac Asimov (1980)

https://www.newworker.org/ncptrory/1984.htm
162•doruk101•13h ago•103 comments