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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."

OpenAI unveils its first custom chip, built by Broadcom

https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/24/openai-unveils-its-first-custom-chip-built-by-broadcom/
597•jamdesk•10h ago•347 comments

Anthropic says Alibaba illicitly extracted Claude AI model capabilities

https://www.reuters.com/world/china/anthropic-says-alibaba-illicitly-extracted-claude-ai-model-ca...
154•htrp•8h ago•278 comments

LuaJIT 3.0 proposed syntax extensions

https://github.com/LuaJIT/LuaJIT/issues/1475
89•phreddypharkus•3h ago•50 comments

Ending All Respiratory Infections

https://blog.interceptfund.com/p/ending-respiratory-infections
80•EthanFantl•2h ago•30 comments

Blogging can just be stating the obvious

https://blog.jim-nielsen.com/2026/blogging-stating-the-obvious/
116•Curiositry•4h ago•45 comments

Cloudflare launched self-managed OAuth for all

https://blog.cloudflare.com/oauth-for-all/
33•terryds•1h ago•6 comments

Show HN: Write SaaS apps where users control where their data is stored

https://github.com/wolfoo2931/linkedrecords/
10•WolfOliver•5d ago•0 comments

Dostoyevsky isn't difficult

https://www.autodidacts.io/dostoyevsky-isnt-difficult/
71•surprisetalk•2d ago•61 comments

Qualcomm to Acquire Modular

https://www.reuters.com/business/qualcomm-buy-ai-startup-modular-2026-06-24/
166•timmyd•14h ago•39 comments

Mixing Visual and Textual Code

https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.15855
22•doppioandante•2h ago•2 comments

RubyLLM: A Ruby framework for all major AI providers

https://rubyllm.com/
360•doener•13h ago•60 comments

45°C cooling design cuts data center water use to near zero

https://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/liquid-cooling-ai-factories/
238•nitin_flanker•13h ago•165 comments

PR spam today looks like email spam in the early 2000s

https://www.greptile.com/blog/prs-on-openclaw
191•dakshgupta•13h ago•112 comments

Computer use in Gemini 3.5 Flash

https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/models-and-research/gemini-models/introducing-computer-use-...
190•swolpers•10h ago•119 comments

GLM-5.2 is a step change for open agents

https://www.interconnects.ai/p/glm-52-is-the-step-change-for-open
151•vantareed•2d ago•90 comments

Zombie unicorns are haunting Silicon Valley

https://www.economist.com/business/2026/06/21/zombie-unicorns-are-haunting-silicon-valley
10•andsoitis•1h ago•4 comments

Optimizing [sqlx:test] rebuild time

https://kobzol.github.io/rust/2026/06/21/optimizing-sqlx-test-rebuild-time.html
4•ibobev•2d ago•0 comments

What I'm Finding About LLM Code Style and Token Costs

https://www.jimmont.com/llm-style-token-costs
17•jimmont•3h ago•7 comments

Writers and Drugs

https://lithub.com/are-writers-intrinsically-vulnerable-to-alcohol-and-drugs/
13•dang•2h ago•5 comments

15 sorting algorithms in 6 minutes (2013) [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kPRA0W1kECg
10•akkartik•1d ago•0 comments

Bible as RAG Database

https://www.crosscanon.com/
62•jacksonastone•2h ago•35 comments

Exploring the internal representations of Pangram 3.3.2

https://www.pangram.com/pangram-space
15•krackers•2h ago•5 comments

The Xteink X4 E-Ink Reader

https://blog.omgmog.net/post/xteink-x4-e-ink-reader/
193•felixdoerp•11h ago•118 comments

Medical students are using popular research tool to pump out misleading studies

https://www.science.org/content/article/medical-students-are-using-popular-research-tool-pump-out...
5•rndsignals•1h ago•0 comments

Ask HN: Where is our profession (programmer) going?

17•syntaxbush•1h ago•10 comments

Crawling BitTorrent DHTs for Fun and Profit [pdf]

https://www.usenix.org/legacy/event/woot10/tech/full_papers/Wolchok.pdf
74•dgellow•3d ago•27 comments

Elastic lays off 7% of employees

https://www.elastic.co/blog/ceo-ash-kulkarni-announcement-to-elastic-employees
160•dakrone•6h ago•144 comments

Show HN: Nub – A Bun-like all-in-one toolkit for Node.js

https://github.com/nubjs/nub
217•colinmcd•13h ago•63 comments

Matt's Script Archive: The Scripts That Reshaped the Web

https://tedium.co/2026/06/22/matts-script-archive-retrospective/
18•1317•2d ago•8 comments

There are a few things that I look back on as my mistakes in the early days

https://twitter.com/ID_AA_Carmack/status/2069799283369345247
505•shadowtree•12h ago•252 comments