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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."

AI-generated posters don’t have to be horrible

https://john.hartnup.uk/2026/06/07/ai-event-posters.html
122•ereiamjh•1h ago•72 comments

Human brain is two separate organs, Stanford Medicine-led research finds

https://med.stanford.edu/news/all-news/2026/09/two-separate-brains.html
252•emigre•5h ago•105 comments

If math is more than proof, we need to better celebrate the rest of it

https://terrytao.wordpress.com/2026/09/18/if-math-is-more-than-proof-we-need-to-better-celebrate-...
110•num42•4h ago•79 comments

GPT-6 Astra Solves a WWI German Radio Cipher

https://www.prinzai.com/p/gpt-6-astra-solves-a-wwi-german-radio
128•nsoonhui•4h ago•62 comments

Android 17 is the first since 3.x to add new APIs without releasing to the AOSP

https://grapheneos.social/@GrapheneOS/117282080803799576
856•theanonymousone•15h ago•432 comments

San Francisco Onion Futures Company

https://onionfutures.com/
199•z-mach9•6h ago•71 comments

“The Secret Life of Circuits” is here

https://blog.coredump.cx/p/the-secret-life-of-circuits-is-here
37•surprisetalk•3d ago•17 comments

Apple M6 Pro Achieves the Highest Single-Core CPU Score in Geekbench 7

https://browser.geekbench.com/v7/cpu/389219
68•gainsurier•4h ago•44 comments

Cloudflare Quick Tunnels

https://try.cloudflare.com/
713•jcbhmr•20h ago•285 comments

SDCC – Small Device C Compiler

https://sdcc.sourceforge.net/
87•lioeters•8h ago•18 comments

How to Write with an LLM

https://sockpuppet.org/blog/2026/09/17/how-to-write-with-an-llm/
496•joeriddles•1d ago•336 comments

Science Is Open Software

https://jepedersen.dk/blog/202505_research/
100•jegp•8h ago•38 comments

Saving another 100TB of RAM

https://blog.cloudflare.com/saving-100-tb-of-ram-with-math/
367•f311a•16h ago•79 comments

You can run Git on object storage if you re-make packfiles

https://www.tigrisdata.com/blog/objgit-packfiles/
49•evacchi•2d ago•15 comments

Why building a Rust LSP is hard

https://rust-glancer.github.io/blog/why-lsp-is-hard/
87•agluszak•2d ago•32 comments

How OpenAI Used Its Own LLMs to Design Its Jalapeño Chip

https://spectrum.ieee.org/llms-for-chip-design
127•maxall4•11h ago•92 comments

Ctenophores: Wonders of Biology

https://www.quantamagazine.org/ctenophores-arent-just-beautiful-theyre-biological-wonders-20260916/
27•randomImmigrant•2d ago•6 comments

NASA-IBM Lunar Foundation open-Source Geospatial AI Model

https://newsroom.usra.edu/usra-contributes-planetary-science-expertise-to-nasa-ibm-lunar-foundati...
29•noobplus•6h ago•2 comments

The first new cat species discovered in 100 years

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/article/meet-the-first-new-cat-species-discovered-in-1...
279•ohjeez•1d ago•105 comments

Communication by means of modulated Johnson noise

https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2201337119
5•austinallegro•2d ago•1 comments

OpenJev

https://openjev.com/
631•ilreb•1d ago•267 comments

Goroutine Leak Profiles

https://go.dev/blog/goroutine-leak-profiles
35•torutofu•2d ago•4 comments

Show HN: Cactus Needle 3: 8-29MB automation models can match DeepSeek V4 Flash

https://cactuscompute.com/needle
198•HenryNdubuaku•1d ago•89 comments

Photon-Emission-Guided Laser Fault Injection Enables RP2350 Secure Debug

https://donjon.ledger.com/blog/rp2350-secure-debug-laser-fault-injection/
194•synack•17h ago•72 comments

Typesafe-computer-use drives a Mac toward a goal for 1/50th of a cent per step

https://github.com/awlevin/typesafe-computer-use
81•rahimnathwani•2d ago•52 comments

Cache-to-Cache: Direct Semantic Communication Between LLMs (2025)

https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.03215
92•rochansinha•15h ago•13 comments

Warez: The Infrastructure and Aesthetics of Piracy (2021)

https://archive.org/details/b904a8eb-9c98-4bb1-bf25-3cb9d075b157
169•succinct_ideas•1d ago•71 comments

Inside ZCode: Silently uploading your Git history to the cloud

https://blog.ferstar.org/en/posts/zcode-silent-workspace-snapshot-upload/
302•csmantle•1d ago•100 comments

Cyclomatic Complexity in C#

https://blog.ndepend.com/understanding-cyclomatic-complexity/
64•gone35•2d ago•24 comments

Veronese's Dogs

https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/veroneses-dogs
8•prismatic•2d ago•1 comments