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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."

Om Malik has died

https://om.co/2026/06/24/1966-2026/
874•minimaxir•12h ago•100 comments

We All Depend on Open Source. We Will Defend It Together

https://akrites.org/letter/
77•dhruv3006•3h ago•25 comments

An entire Herculaneum scroll has been read for the first time

https://scrollprize.org/firstscroll
1292•verditelabs•17h ago•270 comments

Libre Barcode Project

https://graphicore.github.io/librebarcode/
141•luu•6h ago•14 comments

Why current LLM costs are not sustainable

https://aditya.patadia.org/p/ai-and-cloud-costs
71•adityapatadia•1h ago•65 comments

Framework's 10G Ethernet module exposes USB-C's complexity

https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2026/framework-10g-ethernet-module-usb-c-complexity/
161•Alupis•8h ago•86 comments

What happened after 2k people tried to hack my AI assistant

https://www.fernandoi.cl/posts/hackmyclaw/
144•cuchoi•6h ago•51 comments

The 'papers, please' era of the internet will decimate your privacy

https://expression.fire.org/p/the-papers-please-era-of-the-internet
698•bilsbie•11h ago•331 comments

The Garbage Collection Handbook: The Art of Automatic Memory Management (2nd Ed) (2023)

https://gchandbook.org/
135•teleforce•10h ago•21 comments

A game where you're an OS and have to manage processes, memory and I/O events

https://github.com/plbrault/youre-the-os
203•exploraz•2d ago•37 comments

Oxide computer 3D rack guided tour

https://explorer.oxide.computer/
366•darthcloud•3d ago•146 comments

IBM debuts sub-1 nanometer chip technology

https://newsroom.ibm.com/2026-06-25-ibm-debuts-worlds-first-sub-1-nanometer-chip-technology
317•porridgeraisin•17h ago•172 comments

Doing a masters while working in Spain

https://jan-herlyn.com/blog/doing-a-masters-while-working/
43•MHard•4d ago•19 comments

Un-0: Generating Images with Coupled Oscillators

https://unconv.ai/blog/introducing-un-0-generating-images-with-coupled-oscillators/
148•babelfish•12h ago•34 comments

Show HN: OpenKnowledge – open source AI-first alternative to Obsidian/Notion

https://github.com/inkeep/open-knowledge
271•engomez•17h ago•134 comments

22-year-old Mozart's handwritten notebook unearthed in 'major discovery'

https://www.classicfm.com/composers/mozart/handwritten-notebook-discovered-major-paris/
43•thunderbong•5d ago•4 comments

My Steam Machine Is a 50ft HDMI Cable

https://blog.matthewbrunelle.com/my-steam-machine-is-a-50ft-hdmi-cable/
7•speckx•2d ago•1 comments

Show HN: Chess-Inspired Roguelike

https://princechazz.com
292•cowboy_henk•5d ago•97 comments

Apple to skip high-end M6 Mac chips in favor of AI-focused M7 line

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-06-25/apple-to-skip-high-end-m6-mac-chips-to-launch-...
254•scrlk•15h ago•241 comments

An oral history of Bank Python (2021)

https://calpaterson.com/bank-python.html
115•tosh•13h ago•36 comments

OS9Map

https://yllan.org/software/OS9Map/
226•LaSombra•18h ago•44 comments

Apple raises prices of MacBooks, iPads

https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/apple-raises-prices-macbooks-ipads-memory-costs-skyroc...
717•virgildotcodes•20h ago•1028 comments

The Doorman's Fallacy in action

https://rozumem.xyz/posts/17
112•rozumem•13h ago•151 comments

Zig's new bitCast semantics and LLVM back end improvements

https://ziglang.org/devlog/2026/#2026-06-25
237•kouosi•19h ago•120 comments

Hey Nico, you didn't vibe code your data room but stole it from Papermark

https://twitter.com/mfts0/status/2070080422482977095
329•mmunj•21h ago•136 comments

Parallel Parentheses Matching

https://williamdue.github.io/blog/parallel-parentheses-matching
86•Athas•13h ago•10 comments

Record type inference for dummies

http://haskellforall.com/2026/06/record-type-inference-for-dummies
42•g0xA52A2A•2d ago•1 comments

The last Romans are still around

https://signoregalilei.com/2026/06/20/the-last-romans-are-still-around/
90•surprisetalk•3d ago•113 comments

Eyewitness at the Triangle (1911)

http://trianglefire.ilr.cornell.edu/index.html
23•NaOH•3d ago•1 comments

Texas Man Gets 30 Years in Prison for Transporting 'Anti-Government' Pamphlets

https://reason.com/2026/06/25/texas-man-gets-30-years-in-prison-for-transporting-anti-government-...
16•mrtesthah•1h ago•3 comments