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Building my npx business card

https://ashley.dev/posts/turning-feedback-into-features/
8•edent•11mo ago

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steele•11mo ago
Ooh, free real estate, let's colonize and gentrify package management
aabhay•11mo ago
Lmao, gentrify cracked me up
neilv•11mo ago
Do these npx business cards run arbitrary code on your computer?
cypherpunks01•11mo 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•11mo 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•11mo ago
Yeah, this seems like a very smart but inherently flawed idea.
cypherpunks01•11mo 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•11mo ago
May as well just release an executable tbh.
theamk•11mo 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•11mo 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•11mo 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."

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https://www.noctua.at/en/expertise/blog/how-can-it-take-so-long-to-release-black-fan-versions
226•buildbot•5h ago•104 comments

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5•holg•33m ago•0 comments

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https://education.ti.com/en/products/calculators/graphing-calculators/ti-84-evo
454•thatxliner•13h ago•379 comments

SKILL.make: Makefile Styled Skill File

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9•teaonly•1h ago•1 comments

A Gopher Meets a Crab

https://miren.dev/blog/gopher-meets-crab
33•radimm•2d ago•10 comments

Artemis II Photo Timeline

https://artemistimeline.com/#artemis-ii-walkout-nhq202604010003
201•geerlingguy•2d ago•17 comments

The USB Situation

https://randsinrepose.com/archives/the-usb-situation/
20•herbertl•2d ago•9 comments

New research suggests people can communicate and practice skills while dreaming

https://www.newyorker.com/culture/annals-of-inquiry/its-possible-to-learn-in-our-sleep-should-we
338•XzetaU8•15h ago•194 comments

Ask.com has closed

https://www.ask.com/
261•supermdguy•5h ago•131 comments

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4•nip•46m ago•1 comments

To Restore an Island Paradise, Add Fungi

https://e360.yale.edu/digest/atoll-islands-sea-level-rise-fungi
62•Brajeshwar•2d ago•10 comments

K3k: Kubernetes in Kubernetes

https://github.com/rancher/k3k
51•jzebedee•5h ago•28 comments

LFM2-24B-A2B: Scaling Up the LFM2 Architecture

https://www.liquid.ai/blog/lfm2-24b-a2b
37•nateb2022•2d ago•9 comments

Bitmap and tilemap generation from a single example

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7•futurecat•1d ago•0 comments

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https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/collectwise/jobs/rEWfZ6R-senior-forward-deployed-engineer
1•OBrien_1107•4h ago

I'm Peter Roberts, immigration attorney who does work for YC and startups. AMA

160•proberts•18h ago•216 comments

Lib0xc: A set of C standard library-adjacent APIs for safer systems programming

https://github.com/microsoft/lib0xc
149•wooster•14h ago•53 comments

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12•trangram•4h ago•12 comments

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76•susam•10h ago•23 comments

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259•whoishiring•18h ago•279 comments

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183•dionysou•2d ago•114 comments

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504•sleepingNomad•1d ago•145 comments

Eka’s robotic claw feels like we're approaching a ChatGPT moment

https://www.wired.com/story/when-robots-have-their-chatgpt-moment-remember-these-pincers/
140•zdw•2d ago•194 comments

Open source ballistic simulator with NASA SRTM terrain masking (Python/C#)

https://github.com/InsaneInfinity/Balistic
3•insane_infinity•1h ago•1 comments

Integer Overflow Checking Cost

https://danluu.com/integer-overflow/
29•iwsk•2d ago•5 comments

Direct electrochemical black coffee quality appraisal using cyclic voltammetry

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-026-71526-5
52•bookofjoe•2d ago•18 comments

Create an MP4 video of a web page scrolling at a steady speed

https://github.com/upenn/web-scroll-video
30•shawnzam•7h ago•11 comments

Apocalypse Early Warning System

https://ews.kylemcdonald.net/
186•carlsborg•17h ago•95 comments

Whohas – Command-line utility for cross-distro, cross-repository package search

https://github.com/whohas/whohas
142•peter_d_sherman•18h ago•35 comments

DeepSeek V4–almost on the frontier, a fraction of the price

https://simonwillison.net/2026/Apr/24/deepseek-v4/
102•indigodaddy•16h ago•44 comments