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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."

Claude Sonnet 5

https://www.anthropic.com/news/claude-sonnet-5
938•marinesebastian•9h ago•529 comments

Claude Code is steganographically marking requests

https://thereallo.dev/blog/claude-code-prompt-steganography
1505•kirushik•12h ago•433 comments

Google copybara: moving code between repositories

https://github.com/google/copybara
88•reconnecting•4h ago•13 comments

From Julia to Rust: a differentiable tensor stack for scientific computing

https://tensor4all.org/blog/introducing-tenferro-rs/
27•postflopclarity•13h ago•2 comments

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

https://twitter.com/AnthropicAI/status/2072106151890809341
359•Pragmata•3h ago•154 comments

Forestiere Underground Gardens

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forestiere_Underground_Gardens
25•onemoresoop•2h ago•2 comments

Claude Science

https://claude.com/product/claude-science
389•lebovic•10h ago•125 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
121•alok-g•6h ago•64 comments

Nano Banana 2 Lite

https://deepmind.google/models/gemini-image/flash-lite/
321•minimaxir•10h ago•127 comments

Leanstral 1.5

https://docs.mistral.ai/models/model-cards/leanstral-1-5-26-06
119•vetronauta•7h ago•26 comments

How does a pull-back car work? Illustrated teardown

https://mechanical-pencil.com/products/car
125•Muhammad523•2d ago•28 comments

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

https://hatari.frama.io/hatari/online/hatari.html
43•gregsadetsky•5h ago•3 comments

Deriving the SVD (Single Value Decomposition) from scratch

https://stillthinking.net/posts/connections-in-math-svd/
19•pcael•2d ago•4 comments

Scaling Laws, Carefully

https://lilianweng.github.io/posts/2026-06-24-scaling-laws/
27•tehnub•4d ago•10 comments

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

https://verdagon.dev/blog/ante-blending-borrowing-rc
59•g0xA52A2A•2d ago•15 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/
137•HelloUsername•1d ago•35 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-...
91•zdw•7h ago•18 comments

I ported Kubernetes to the browser

https://ngrok.com/blog/i-ported-kubernetes-to-the-browser
180•peterdemin•6h ago•63 comments

TabFM: A zero-shot foundation model for tabular data

https://research.google/blog/introducing-tabfm-a-zero-shot-foundation-model-for-tabular-data/
48•brandonb•5h ago•6 comments

I built a mmWave material classification radar (2025)

https://gauthier-lechevalier.com/radar
148•GL26•10h ago•39 comments

Stroustrup's Rule (2024)

https://buttondown.com/hillelwayne/archive/stroustrups-rule/
66•bmacho•3d ago•10 comments

Structural Correctness

https://blog.sao.dev/structural-correctness/
11•stuartaxelowen•1d ago•0 comments

Building a custom octocopter from scratch with no prior hardware experience

https://karolina.mgdubiel.com/drone/
337•noleary•2d ago•70 comments

Long Island's decommissioned nuclear power plant

https://nickcarr.com/scouting-a-decommissioned-nuclear-power-plant/
89•mkmk•6d ago•26 comments

Supersonic flight returning to US after half-century ban

https://www.forbes.com/sites/suzannerowankelleher/2026/06/30/faa-supersonic-flight-no-boom/
3•lobbly•1h ago•0 comments

Knoppix

https://www.knopper.net/knoppix/index-en.html
268•hoangvmpc•14h ago•106 comments

Have you restarted your computer this week?

https://taonaw.com/2026/06/27/have-you-restarted-your-computer.html
126•surprisetalk•13h ago•230 comments

Show HN: My 13-year-old built an ant colony tracker

https://formicarium.es
49•abelgvidal•10h ago•36 comments

Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds (1852)

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/24518
172•lstodd•14h ago•55 comments

Reading the internals of Postgres: Database cluster, databases, and tables

https://www.buraksen.dev/articles/internals-of-postgresql-db-cluster-and-tables
60•buraksen•1d ago•1 comments