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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."

Claude Opus 4.6

https://www.anthropic.com/news/claude-opus-4-6
1179•HellsMaddy•4h ago•512 comments

GPT-5.3-Codex

https://openai.com/index/introducing-gpt-5-3-codex/
787•meetpateltech•3h ago•303 comments

My AI Adoption Journey

https://mitchellh.com/writing/my-ai-adoption-journey
140•anurag•2h ago•45 comments

We tasked Opus 4.6 using agent teams to build a C Compiler

https://www.anthropic.com/engineering/building-c-compiler
217•modeless•2h ago•184 comments

It's 2026, Just Use Postgres

https://www.tigerdata.com/blog/its-2026-just-use-postgres
22•turtles3•35m ago•1 comments

Orchestrate teams of Claude Code sessions

https://code.claude.com/docs/en/agent-teams
253•davidbarker•4h ago•116 comments

MenuetOS – a GUI OS that boots from a single floppy disk

https://www.menuetos.net/
50•pjerem•2d ago•6 comments

LinkedIn checks for 2953 browser extensions

https://github.com/mdp/linkedin-extension-fingerprinting
159•mdp•1h ago•81 comments

There Will Come Soft Rains (1950) [pdf]

https://www.btboces.org/Downloads/7_There%20Will%20Come%20Soft%20Rains%20by%20Ray%20Bradbury.pdf
92•wallflower•4d ago•22 comments

Don't rent the cloud, own instead

https://blog.comma.ai/datacenter/
1025•Torq_boi•16h ago•428 comments

Flock CEO calls Deflock a “terrorist organization” (2025) [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l-kZGrDz7PU
261•cdrnsf•2h ago•153 comments

Claude Opus 4.6 extra usage promo

https://support.claude.com/en/articles/13613973-claude-opus-4-6-extra-usage-promo
31•rob•1h ago•8 comments

PsiACE/Skills – A small, shared skill library

https://github.com/PsiACE/skills
37•recrush•3h ago•4 comments

Ardour 9.0

https://ardour.org/whatsnew.html
164•PaulDavisThe1st•3h ago•28 comments

Review of 1984 by Isaac Asimov (1980)

https://www.newworker.org/ncptrory/1984.htm
4•doruk101•19m ago•1 comments

Maihem (YC W24): hiring senior robotics perception engineer (London, on-site)

https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/maihem/8da3fa8b-5544-45de-a99e-888021519758
1•mxrns•4h ago

Psychometric Jailbreaks Reveal Internal Conflict in Frontier Models

https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.04124
37•toomuchtodo•3h ago•33 comments

150 MB Minimal FreeBSD Installation

https://vermaden.wordpress.com/2026/02/01/150-mb-minimal-freebsd-installation/
112•vermaden•4d ago•17 comments

Recreating Epstein PDFs from raw encoded attachments

https://neosmart.net/blog/recreating-epstein-pdfs-from-raw-encoded-attachments/
26•ComputerGuru•1d ago•0 comments

The New Collabora Office for Desktop

https://www.collaboraonline.com/collabora-office/
132•mfld•8h ago•80 comments

Company as Code

https://blog.42futures.com/p/company-as-code
197•ahamez•9h ago•99 comments

When internal hostnames are leaked to the clown

https://rachelbythebay.com/w/2026/02/03/badnas/
413•zdw•16h ago•219 comments

Advancing finance with Claude Opus 4.6

https://claude.com/blog/opus-4-6-finance
112•da_grift_shift•4h ago•25 comments

Nanobot: Ultra-Lightweight Alternative to OpenClaw

https://github.com/HKUDS/nanobot
189•ms7892•12h ago•102 comments

GB Renewables Map

https://renewables-map.robinhawkes.com/
115•RobinL•9h ago•45 comments

OpenClaw: When AI Agents Get Full System Access. Security nightmare?

https://innfactory.ai:443/en/blog/openclaw-ai-agent-security/
11•i-blis•4d ago•3 comments

Hypernetworks: Neural Networks for Hierarchical Data

https://blog.sturdystatistics.com/posts/hnet_part_I/
7•mkmccjr•5h ago•1 comments

A Broken Heart

https://allenpike.com/2026/a-broken-heart/
140•memalign•4d ago•38 comments

CIA suddenly stops publishing, removes archives of The World Factbook

https://simonwillison.net/2026/Feb/5/the-world-factbook/
261•ck2•7h ago•104 comments

Fela Kuti First African to Get Grammys Lifetime Achievement Award

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/2/1/fela-kuti-becomes-first-african-to-get-grammys-lifetime-a...
107•defrost•4d ago•25 comments