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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."

Ruff v0.16.0 – Significant new updates – 413 default rules up from 59

https://astral.sh/blog/ruff-v0.16.0
137•vismit2000•3h ago•74 comments

Third Drone Shot Down in Three Days in Romanian Territory

https://english.mapn.ro/
27•_tk_•45m ago•3 comments

A shell colon does nothing. Use it anyway

https://refp.se/articles/your-shell-and-the-magic-colon
260•olexsmir•23h ago•103 comments

GrapheneOS protections against data extraction from locked devices

https://discuss.grapheneos.org/d/40700-grapheneos-protections-against-data-extraction-from-locked...
145•Cider9986•6h ago•75 comments

Systemd Linger

https://etbe.coker.com.au/2026/07/24/systemd-linger/
21•edward•3h ago•9 comments

German Peasants' War

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_Peasants%27_War
30•constantius•3d ago•21 comments

An ESP32 based plane radar for my desk

https://blog.ktz.me/esp32-plane-radar/
184•alexktz•10h ago•37 comments

The new rules of context engineering for Claude 5 generation models

https://claude.com/blog/the-new-rules-of-context-engineering-for-claude-5-generation-models
367•mellosouls•16h ago•261 comments

DeepSeek pause fundraise after comments on compute gap to US leaked (transcript) [pdf]

https://github.com/demo-zexuan/liang-wenfeng-investor-meeting-2026-7-22/blob/master/%E6%A2%81%E6%...
186•oliculipolicula•13h ago•138 comments

Inflect-Micro-v2: complete voice in 9.36M parameters

https://huggingface.co/owensong/Inflect-Micro-v2
154•nateb2022•12h ago•11 comments

Show HN: I mapped every US golf course

https://golfcoursebrowser.com/
154•rickmf•10h ago•94 comments

Alien World Chemistry Found Inside Meteorite That Struck New Jersey Home

https://www.seti.org/news/alien-world-chemistry-found-inside-meteorite/
93•spzx•11h ago•28 comments

Claude Code Deletes Your Context History from Your Device After 30 Days

https://code.claude.com/docs/en/data-usage
4•espeed•2h ago•0 comments

Cloudflare's new AI traffic options for customers

https://blog.cloudflare.com/content-independence-day-ai-options/
139•alphabetatango•13h ago•121 comments

Stinkpot: SQLite-backed shell history

https://tangled.org/oppi.li/stinkpot
80•nerdypepper•2d ago•23 comments

Git rebase -I is not that scary

https://cachebag.sh/journal/interactive-rebasing/
86•vinhnx•12h ago•100 comments

Running a 28.9M parameter LLM on an $8 microcontroller

https://github.com/slvDev/esp32-ai
219•boveyking•17h ago•51 comments

What is happening to jobs? Separating AI hype from reality

https://siepr.stanford.edu/publications/policy-brief/what-really-happening-jobs-separating-ai-hyp...
123•pod_krad•13h ago•167 comments

Overloaded Overloading

https://powerfulpython.com/blog/overloaded-overloading/
24•redsymbol•4d ago•6 comments

Rethinking Legal Education in the AI Era

https://www.law.uchicago.edu/news/ai-strategy-statement
91•jjwiseman•2d ago•53 comments

LLM Usage in Debian: Three Proposals

https://www.debian.org/vote/2026/vote_002
177•zdw•17h ago•158 comments

DskDitto: Ultra-fast, parallel duplicate-file detector

https://github.com/jdefrancesco/dskDitto
32•ingve•4d ago•6 comments

I wouldn't say Pangram is broken, but I would say that it's brittle

https://freddiedeboer.substack.com/p/i-wouldnt-say-pangram-is-broken-but
15•antigizmo•2d ago•3 comments

Elevated Errors for Opus 5

https://status.claude.com/incidents/zftg3gqkmv18
47•TimCTRL•3h ago•48 comments

Clinical failure rates over the decades: yikes

https://www.science.org/content/blog-post/clinical-failure-rates-over-decades-yikes
109•EA-3167•13h ago•91 comments

JetZero

https://www.jetzero.aero
211•lisper•9h ago•192 comments

SIMD for Collision

https://box2d.org/posts/2026/07/simd-for-collision/
111•birdculture•3d ago•29 comments

Systems and Delays

https://martin.janiczek.cz/2026/07/24/systems-and-delays.html
67•vinhnx•12h ago•15 comments

No Stack Overflow, No Autocomplete: What Coding Felt Like in the 80s

https://comuniq.xyz/post?t=1439
33•01-_-•2h ago•24 comments

Some more things about Django I've been enjoying

https://jvns.ca/blog/2026/07/21/more-nice-django-things/
67•surprisetalk•4d ago•34 comments