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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."

Nvidia is the central bank of AI

https://www.economist.com/interactive/briefing/2026/09/03/nvidia-is-the-central-bank-of-ai
116•tolugenius•1h ago•77 comments

A Mathematical Framework for Transformer Circuits (2021)

https://transformer-circuits.pub/2021/framework/index.html
43•Bluestein•2h ago•4 comments

IKEA made a mod for Skyrim [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iZODN0QUgjI
428•kegenaar•2d ago•98 comments

Retrospectively Reverse-Engineering Apple's Neural Engine

https://eiln.github.io/posts/ane.html
180•zdw•8h ago•18 comments

Make Your First Edit to OpenStreetMap in the Next 15 Minutes

https://high5apps.github.io/josm-plugin-website-wizard/
4•juliantigler•21m ago•0 comments

A misalignment of AI in mathematics

https://mathandai.org/
1123•meredydd•23h ago•1054 comments

Microcode in Intel's 8087 floating-point chip: the scale instruction

https://www.righto.com/2026/09/8087-microcode-reverse-engineering-fscale.html
8•pwg•56m ago•1 comments

Fuck it, make it anyway

https://www.joelotter.com/posts/2026/09/make-it-anyway/
414•JayOtter•5h ago•357 comments

LG responds to TV spying allegations

https://www.theverge.com/tech/994333/lg-responds-to-tv-spying-allegations
63•OuterVale•1h ago•46 comments

I spent $220 on Google app ads and 60% of the installs were robots

https://dayzlegame.com/blog/google-ads-bot-farm/
678•nickabe•22h ago•371 comments

Performance of WebAssembly Runtimes in 2026

https://00f.net/2026/06/23/webassembly-runtimes-2026/
38•fagnerbrack•3d ago•6 comments

Europe's "Less" Is Doing More Than Anyone Gives It Credit For

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37•u1hcw9nx•2h ago•14 comments

LRU is harder to beat than the KV-cache papers suggest

https://github.com/gauravapiscean/agentic-kv-cache
57•gauravapiscean•2d ago•27 comments

A Design Space Exploration of Async/Await

https://cel.cs.brown.edu/blog/design-space-async-await/
380•wcrichton•3d ago•108 comments

I refuse to let SPICE die

https://github.com/nefarius/vd_agent/
5•Nefarius•2h ago•0 comments

Great Lakes sturgeon may be 400 years old:Scientists rethinking how to save them

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ontario-great-lakes-sturgeon-lifespan-study-9.7329250
118•bookofjoe•3d ago•35 comments

Reconstructing Concurrency Invariants Through Medieval East Asian Logic

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4•gg582•1d ago•2 comments

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https://yalereview.org/article/tom-mccarthy-indefinite-sublime
14•benbreen•3d ago•1 comments

Usenet rewind archive search engine

https://www.usenet-rewind.com/
111•cstadler1869•12h ago•33 comments

Inverse Kinematics and Foot Locking

https://theorangeduck.com/page/inverse-kinematics-foot-locking
111•airhangerf15•5d ago•13 comments

Forgotten Woodlands

https://storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/9b790daf22ba4e87836f467abb1c7e49
31•NaOH•19h ago•10 comments

Logo Programming

https://el.media.mit.edu/logo-foundation/what_is_logo/logo_programming.html
299•azhenley•3d ago•122 comments

The Worst Spam Emails: Inside iLands' AI Agent Hustle

https://tedium.co/2026/09/11/ilands-agents-email-spam-kaixin-tang/
70•ColinWright•5h ago•41 comments

google.com/goto: Google's anti-scraping update

https://www.autom.dev/blog/google-search-goto-links
537•1e1a•13h ago•434 comments

Compiler Can Undo Your Security Checks

https://davidbombal.com/your-compiler-can-undo-your-security-checks/
20•birdculture•2h ago•25 comments

Is it time for a Luddite Renaissance?

https://www.npr.org/2026/09/08/nx-s1-5955618/is-it-time-for-a-luddite-renaissance
22•mooreds•1h ago•10 comments

Designing for Dual Screen and Foldable Devices with CSS (2023)

https://blog.stephaniestimac.com/posts/2023/05/design-foldable-devices/
53•mooreds•2d ago•12 comments

OpenAI agents carried out an undisclosed attack on RubyGems

https://www.rubyhack.ai/
873•chao-•17h ago•506 comments

Mind-altering drugs played key role in rise of Andean civilization

https://www.science.org/content/article/mind-altering-drugs-played-key-role-rise-andean-civilization
199•geneticdrifts•23h ago•133 comments

Litelm: LiteLLM Without the Bloat

https://github.com/kennethwolters/litelm
166•kennethwolters•22h ago•59 comments