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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."

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https://www.brown.edu/news/2026-07-09/chemical-bonds-relativity
175•hhs•7h ago•58 comments

QuadRF can spot drones and see WiFi through my wall

https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2026/quadrf-can-spot-drones-and-see-wifi-through-my-wall/
513•speckx•13h ago•184 comments

Apple sues OpenAI, accuses ex-employees of stealing trade secrets

https://9to5mac.com/2026/07/10/apple-sues-openai-trade-secret-theft/
808•stock_toaster•8h ago•403 comments

An iroh powered smart fan

https://www.iroh.computer/blog/an-iroh-powered-smart-fan
61•surprisetalk•3d ago•6 comments

An update on residential proxies and the scraper situation

https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/1080822/990a8a5e2d379085/
141•chmaynard•9h ago•131 comments

SpaceX wants to launch 100k more Starlink satellites for 100x the bandwidth

https://www.zdnet.com/home-and-office/networking/spacex-wants-to-launch-100000-more-starlink-sate...
131•CrankyBear•11h ago•383 comments

GPT-5.6 Sol Ultra produces proof of the Cycle Double Cover Conjecture [pdf]

https://cdn.openai.com/pdf/04d1d1e4-bc75-476a-97cf-49055cd98d31/cdc_proof.pdf
406•scrlk•11h ago•317 comments

Combustion engine web-based simulator

https://combustionlab.net
145•mytuny•5d ago•63 comments

The footgun of right-to-left decorative characters

https://blog.alexbeals.com/posts/the-footgun-of-right-to-left-decorative-characters
30•dado3212•4d ago•17 comments

The tech of 'Terminator 2' – an oral history (2017)

https://vfxblog.com/2017/08/23/the-tech-of-terminator-2-an-oral-history/
194•markus_zhang•12h ago•70 comments

Good Tools Are Invisible

https://www.gingerbill.org/article/2026/07/10/good-tools-are-invisible/
389•theanonymousone•19h ago•182 comments

Late Bronze Age Collapse

https://acoup.blog/2026/01/30/collections-the-late-bronze-age-collapse-a-very-brief-introduction/
345•dmonay•17h ago•236 comments

AI 2040: Plan A

https://ai-2040.com/
202•kschaul•1d ago•205 comments

Inference Optimization for MiMo v2.5: Pushing Hybrid SWA Efficiency to the Limit

https://mimo.xiaomi.com/blog/mimo-v2-5-inference
61•theanonymousone•3d ago•24 comments

Silent speech with ultrasound

https://alephneuro.com/blog/silent-speech
32•chrwn•3d ago•8 comments

New York City to ban deceptive subscription practices

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jul/10/new-york-city-deceptive-subscriptions-ban
479•randycupertino•11h ago•235 comments

Computation as a universal and fundamental concept

https://ergo.org/courses/computation-as-a-universal-and-fundamental-concept
110•simonpure•14h ago•79 comments

Snails' teeth beats spider silk as nature's strongest material (2015)

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/spider-silk-loses-top-spot-natures-strongest-material-s...
171•simonebrunozzi•12h ago•134 comments

Alternate clock designs and time systems

https://serialc.github.io/altClocks/
123•ethanpil•4d ago•66 comments

After 7 years in production, Scarf has reluctantly moved away from Haskell

https://avi.press/posts/2026-07-10-after-7-years-in-production-scarf-has-reluctantly-moved-away-f...
105•aviaviavi•16h ago•125 comments

Preemption is GC for memory reordering (2019)

https://pvk.ca/Blog/2019/01/09/preemption-is-gc-for-memory-reordering/
21•mpweiher•2d ago•5 comments

Moss (YC F25) Is Hiring

https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/moss/jobs/52LnqLQ-software-engineer-sdk
1•srimalireddi•8h ago

War Atlas: An interactive cartography of every named war in human history

https://waratlas.org
137•NaOH•11h ago•58 comments

A love letter to flashcards

https://lesleylai.info/en/flashcards/
143•surprisetalk•14h ago•88 comments

The Lindy Effect in Software

https://www.clemsau.com/posts/the-lindy-effect-in-software/
4•ankitg12•3d ago•1 comments

GhostLock, a stack-UAF that has existed in ALL Linux distributions for 15 years

https://nebusec.ai/research/ionstack-part-2/
58•djfergus•8h ago•11 comments

Lost city discovered beneath Egypt's desert with ancient church

https://www.dailymail.com/sciencetech/article-15956159/Incredible-lost-city-discovered-Egypts-des...
171•Bender•4d ago•89 comments

Show HN: Wyrm – Solve algebra by touch, built on an open-source soundness engine

https://github.com/dicroce/wyrm_math
70•dicroce•1d ago•12 comments

Show HN: Getting GLM 5.2 running on my slow computer

https://github.com/JustVugg/colibri
841•vforno•1d ago•207 comments

Successful Companies Go Blind

https://ianreppel.org/how-successful-companies-go-blind/
203•speckx•16h ago•72 comments