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Building my npx business card

https://ashley.dev/posts/turning-feedback-into-features/
8•edent•6mo ago

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steele•6mo ago
Ooh, free real estate, let's colonize and gentrify package management
aabhay•6mo ago
Lmao, gentrify cracked me up
neilv•6mo ago
Do these npx business cards run arbitrary code on your computer?
cypherpunks01•6mo 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•6mo 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•6mo ago
Yeah, this seems like a very smart but inherently flawed idea.
cypherpunks01•6mo 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•6mo ago
May as well just release an executable tbh.
theamk•6mo 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•6mo 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•6mo 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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Anthropic acquires Bun

https://bun.com/blog/bun-joins-anthropic
1622•ryanvogel•12h ago•774 comments

IBM CEO says there is 'no way' spending on AI data centers will pay off

https://www.businessinsider.com/ibm-ceo-big-tech-ai-capex-data-center-spending-2025-12
384•nabla9•12h ago•476 comments

Understanding ECDSA

https://avidthinker.github.io/2025/11/28/understanding-ecdsa/
27•avidthinker•2h ago•3 comments

Paged Out

https://pagedout.institute
328•varjag•10h ago•33 comments

AI Agents Break Rules Under Everyday Pressure

https://spectrum.ieee.org/ai-agents-safety
38•pseudolus•5d ago•5 comments

Sending DMARC reports is somewhat hazardous

https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/spam/DMARCSendingReportsProblems
5•zdw•1h ago•0 comments

OpenAI declares 'code red' as Google catches up in AI race

https://www.theverge.com/news/836212/openai-code-red-chatgpt
560•goplayoutside•15h ago•636 comments

I designed and printed a custom nose guard to help my dog with DLE

https://snoutcover.com/billie-story
467•ragswag•2d ago•57 comments

Counter Galois Onion: Improved encryption for Tor circuit traffic

https://blog.torproject.org/introducing-cgo/
50•wrayjustin•1w ago•5 comments

All Sources of DirectX 12 Documentation

https://asawicki.info/news_1794_all_sources_of_directx_12_documentation
8•ibobev•1w ago•1 comments

Amazon launches Trainium3

https://techcrunch.com/2025/12/02/amazon-releases-an-impressive-new-ai-chip-and-teases-a-nvidia-f...
158•thnaks•11h ago•64 comments

Learning music with Strudel

https://terryds.notion.site/Learning-Music-with-Strudel-2ac98431b24180deb890cc7de667ea92
436•terryds•1w ago•108 comments

Qwen3-VL can scan two-hour videos and pinpoint nearly every detail

https://the-decoder.com/qwen3-vl-can-scan-two-hour-videos-and-pinpoint-nearly-every-detail/
155•thm•2d ago•49 comments

Load ZX Spectrum – first Museum dedicated to our first personal computer

https://loadzx.com/en/
29•elvis70•6d ago•5 comments

Zig's new plan for asynchronous programs

https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/1046084/4c048ee008e1c70e/
254•messe•15h ago•197 comments

All about automotive lidar

https://mainstreetautonomy.com/blog/2025-08-29-all-about-automotive-lidar/
132•dllu•1d ago•61 comments

Interview with RollerCoaster Tycoon's Creator, Chris Sawyer (2024)

https://medium.com/atari-club/interview-with-rollercoaster-tycoons-creator-chris-sawyer-684a0efb0f13
9•areoform•1h ago•0 comments

School cell phone bans and student achievement

https://www.nber.org/digest/202512/school-cell-phone-bans-and-student-achievement
121•harias•12h ago•116 comments

Free static site generator for small restaurants and cafes

https://lite.localcafe.org/
112•fullstacking•10h ago•71 comments

Delty (YC X25) Is Hiring

https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/delty/jobs/aPWMaiq-full-stack-software-engineer
1•lalitkundu•9h ago

DOOM could have had PC Speaker Music

https://lenowo.org/viewtopic.php?t=45
66•minki_the_avali•6h ago•45 comments

Ecosia: The greenest AI is here

https://blog.ecosia.org/ecosia-ai/
91•doener•9h ago•55 comments

100k TPS over a billion rows: the unreasonable effectiveness of SQLite

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325•speckx•12h ago•110 comments

Kohler Can Access Pictures from "End-to-End Encrypted" Toilet Camera

https://varlogsimon.leaflet.pub/3m6zrw6k2bs2p?interactionDrawer=quotes
121•TimDotC•4h ago•120 comments

Python Data Science Handbook

https://jakevdp.github.io/PythonDataScienceHandbook/
250•cl3misch•17h ago•44 comments

YesNotice

https://infinitedigits.co/docs/software/yesnotice/
164•surprisetalk•1w ago•57 comments

Practical Intro to Operational Transformation

https://archive.casouri.cc/note/2025/practical-intro-ot/
28•casouri•6d ago•3 comments

Addressing the adding situation

https://xania.org/202512/02-adding-integers
253•messe•18h ago•89 comments

Mistral 3 family of models released

https://mistral.ai/news/mistral-3
719•pember•15h ago•196 comments