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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."

The August 17 outage, and the work ahead

https://github.blog/news-insights/company-news/the-august-17-outage-and-the-work-ahead/
129•0xedb•2h ago•134 comments

I like 'em thick: an apology to my English teachers

https://www.experimental-history.com/p/i-like-em-thick
466•Ariarule•2d ago•225 comments

Consumer Rights Wiki

https://consumerrights.wiki/w/Main_Page
110•gregsadetsky•3h ago•2 comments

I should have loved biology (2020)

https://jsomers.net/i-should-have-loved-biology/
150•tyre•3h ago•62 comments

AliExpress runs silent WebAudio fingerprinting that breaks Bluetooth multipoint

https://blog.laserphile.com/2026/08/aliexpress-webpage-keeping-multipoint.html
795•emctech•11h ago•271 comments

HTML Can Do That

https://chrisburnell.com/html-can-do-that/
478•encyclopedism•1d ago•136 comments

Malicious Rust crate Arrayref runs a build-time payload

https://safedep.io/arrayref-proc-macro1-rust-build-time-malware/
335•abhisek•8h ago•323 comments

Show HN: Huzzah – a novel approach to coding with AI

https://www.danielvaughn.dev/posts/huzzah/
149•danielvaughn•2h ago•79 comments

Aaron Swartz was prosecuted for scraping, while Meta does it without consequence

https://blog.curiousquail.com/im-upset-again-about-a-co-creator-of-rss-being-prosecuted-for-somet...
274•speckx•1h ago•42 comments

Linux 7.2

https://www.igalia.com/2026/08/19/Linux-72-Released.html
160•mariuz•6h ago•53 comments

SpacetimeDB: A Short Technical Review

https://strn.cat/posts/spacetime/
31•hurrrr•2h ago•6 comments

CIA funding helped keep NeXT afloat in the 80s

https://www.wsj.com/tech/steve-jobs-apple-next-cia-161b65f9?st=NWWds1&reflink=desktopwebshare_per...
280•EwanG•21h ago•184 comments

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https://simedw.com/2026/08/20/midi-autocomplete/
450•simedw•9h ago•100 comments

Why aren't smart people happier? (2022)

https://www.experimental-history.com/p/why-arent-smart-people-happier
44•rafaelc•3h ago•57 comments

Vomit: Clean up Claude 5's token output with a separate LLM

https://github.com/zachahn/vomit
144•Bluestein•6h ago•148 comments

Sixtyfour (YC P25) Is Hiring

https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/sixtyfour/jobs/39SkSrA-software-engineering-intern
1•HPMOR•4h ago

Code as an Artifact

https://pradeeproark.com/posts/code-as-an-artifact-means-to-an-end/
4•pradeeproark•23m ago•0 comments

How to compromise your system with a job interview

https://www.codedge.de/posts/how-to-compromise-your-system-with-a-job-interview
102•codedge•5h ago•76 comments

Watching TikTok and Instagram deactivates the cognitive control network: Study

https://www.rathbiotaclan.com/tiktok-videos-deactivate-key-cognitive-brain-regions/
256•Akasci•2h ago•100 comments

Tidal Cycles – Live coding music with Algorithmic patterns

https://tidalcycles.org/
31•gjvc•2h ago•5 comments

Hacking with Claude on a $27 smart watch

https://www.mikekasberg.com/blog/2026/08/19/hacking-with-claude-on-a-27-smart-watch.html
70•speckx•7h ago•43 comments

Show HN: We chased a weather balloon across Montana and never found it

https://radi8.dev/blog/uplink/
45•radeeyate•4h ago•19 comments

I Analyzed 163K Lines of Kuzu's Codebase. Here's Why Apple Wanted It

https://medium.com/data-science-collective/i-analyzed-163k-lines-of-kuzus-codebase-here-s-why-app...
7•zeristor•4d ago•4 comments

Anti-AI fonts are useless and harmful

https://blog.yaros.ae/anti-ai-fonts-are-useless-and-harmful/
80•speckx•6h ago•61 comments

Project Cybersyn (2022)

https://bactra.org/notebooks/cybersyn.html
42•cassepipe•4h ago•24 comments

Every Model Cheats

https://dreadnode.io/research/every-model-cheats-prompt-level-mitigation-of-cheating-on-offensive...
65•vga805•7h ago•45 comments

Citizen Devs: Everyone is an engineer now

https://www.massdriver.cloud/blogs/the-citizen-developer
6•metal13•22m ago•1 comments

DiffusionGemma Technical Report

https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.00146
122•gmays•8h ago•31 comments

Mojo is now open source

https://www.modular.com/blog/mojo-open-source
307•visheshdembla•2d ago•64 comments

GitHub, autoscaling, and the component substitution fallacy

https://surfingcomplexity.blog/2026/08/19/github-autoscaling-and-the-component-substitution-fallacy/
17•jonemi•2h ago•0 comments