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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."

Asahi Linux 7.1 Progress Report

https://asahilinux.org/2026/06/progress-report-7-1/
81•pantalaimon•52m ago•9 comments

Claude Code is steganographically marking requests

https://thereallo.dev/blog/claude-code-prompt-steganography
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https://phys.org/news/2026-06-newly-australian-ballista-spider-snare.html
58•chimpanzee•2d ago•7 comments

Claude Sonnet 5

https://www.anthropic.com/news/claude-sonnet-5
1144•marinesebastian•17h ago•675 comments

ArXiv's Next Chapter

https://blog.arxiv.org/2026/06/30/arxivs-next-chapter/
141•subset•8h ago•43 comments

Godot will no longer accept AI-authored code contributions

https://www.pcgamer.com/gaming-industry/open-source-game-engine-godot-will-no-longer-accept-ai-au...
200•pjmlp•3h ago•124 comments

I Don't Maintain My Homelab

https://cleberg.net/blog/homelab-maintenance.html
20•surprisetalk•1d ago•14 comments

Google copybara: moving code between repositories

https://github.com/google/copybara
221•reconnecting•11h ago•40 comments

Dexter (YC F24) Is Hiring a Founding Engineer in Berlin

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https://ayushtambde.com/blog/matrix-orthogonalization-improves-memory-in-recurrent-models/
48•at2005•5h ago•2 comments

Claude Science

https://claude.com/product/claude-science
502•lebovic•17h ago•147 comments

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https://www.conception.bio/science-and-updates/the-first-early-human-eggs-from-stem-cells
130•dsr12•5h ago•83 comments

Nano Banana 2 Lite

https://deepmind.google/models/gemini-image/flash-lite/
387•minimaxir•18h ago•154 comments

Department of Commerce has lifted export controls on Claude Fable 5 and Mythos 5

https://twitter.com/AnthropicAI/status/2072106151890809341
717•Pragmata•11h ago•416 comments

How does a pull-back car work? Illustrated teardown

https://mechanical-pencil.com/products/car
205•Muhammad523•2d ago•38 comments

Register Korea's First PC 'SE-8001' as a National Important Material

https://www.dongascience.com/en/news/30374
9•mushstory•2h ago•3 comments

Leanstral 1.5

https://docs.mistral.ai/models/model-cards/leanstral-1-5-26-06
236•vetronauta•14h ago•82 comments

CERN bids farewell to the LHC and enters Long Shutdown 3

https://home.cern/cern-bids-farewell-to-the-lhc-and-enters-long-shutdown-3/
248•HelloUsername•1d ago•72 comments

Pine64 launch $50 smart speaker for Home Assistant tinkerers

https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2026/06/pine64-pinevoice-riscv-smart-speaker-launch
29•edward•1h ago•6 comments

Single header Parser Combinators for C

https://github.com/steve-chavez/CParseC
39•steve-chavez•7h ago•4 comments

Forestiere Underground Gardens

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forestiere_Underground_Gardens
73•onemoresoop•9h ago•16 comments

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https://nibblestew.blogspot.com/2026/06/pystd-standard-library-similar-ish.html
32•ibobev•4d ago•28 comments

From brain waves to words: a new path to communication without surgery

https://ai.meta.com/blog/brain2qwerty-brain-ai-human-communication/?_fb_noscript=1
165•alok-g•13h ago•82 comments

Building a custom octocopter from scratch with no prior hardware experience

https://karolina.mgdubiel.com/drone/
376•noleary•3d ago•79 comments

I ported Kubernetes to the browser

https://ngrok.com/blog/i-ported-kubernetes-to-the-browser
273•peterdemin•14h ago•82 comments

Tokyo has only two barley tea makers, we visited one to see how mugicha is made

https://soranews24.com/2026/06/30/tokyo-has-only-two-barley-tea-makers-and-we-visited-one-to-see-...
141•zdw•15h ago•36 comments

Ante: A new way to blend borrow checking and reference counting

https://verdagon.dev/blog/ante-blending-borrowing-rc
98•g0xA52A2A•2d ago•22 comments

I built a mmWave material classification radar (2025)

https://gauthier-lechevalier.com/radar
184•GL26•17h ago•49 comments

Hatari – Online Atari ST/STE/TT/Falcon Emulator

https://hatari.frama.io/hatari/online/hatari.html
77•gregsadetsky•12h ago•12 comments

Have you restarted your computer this week?

https://taonaw.com/2026/06/27/have-you-restarted-your-computer.html
193•surprisetalk•20h ago•338 comments