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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://lcamtuf.coredump.cx/prep/index-old.shtml
45•AlphaWeaver•1h ago•20 comments

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405•mkmk•10h ago•85 comments

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https://github.com/anthropics/original_performance_takehome
45•myahio•2h ago•4 comments

Are arrays functions?

https://futhark-lang.org/blog/2026-01-16-are-arrays-functions.html
80•todsacerdoti•1d ago•46 comments

California is free of drought for the first time in 25 years

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309•thnaks•6h ago•157 comments

Instabridge has acquired Nova Launcher

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156•KORraN•9h ago•109 comments

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118•calcsam•12h ago•41 comments

Provably unmasking malicious behavior through execution traces

https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.13821
33•PaulHoule•6h ago•4 comments

The Unix Pipe Card Game

https://punkx.org/unix-pipe-game/
193•kykeonaut•12h ago•64 comments

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https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/01/verizon-starts-requiring-365-days-of-paid-service-bef...
64•voxadam•3h ago•37 comments

Unconventional PostgreSQL Optimizations

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291•haki•14h ago•46 comments

Our approach to age prediction

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79•pretext•9h ago•147 comments

The challenges of soft delete

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109•buchanae•7h ago•68 comments

Proof of Concept to Test Humanoid Robots

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9•0xedb•5d ago•3 comments

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76•lout332•6h ago•40 comments

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https://systemstack.dev/2025/09/humane-computing/
37•entaloneralie•3d ago•3 comments

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25•rbanffy•6h ago•1 comments

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87•mitchbob•9h ago•17 comments

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https://bernsteinbear.com/blog/gdb-jit/
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132•behnamoh•5h ago•78 comments

IPv6 is not insecure because it lacks a NAT

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70•johnmaguire•9h ago•93 comments

IP Addresses Through 2025

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167•petercooper•15h ago•127 comments

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20•ohjeez•4h ago•9 comments

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RCS for Business

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35•sshh12•1d ago•44 comments

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11•movedx•7h ago•8 comments