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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."

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https://www.alqst.org/ar/posts/1190
441•giuliomagnifico•2h ago•156 comments

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399•healsdata•2h ago•331 comments

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https://qwen.ai/blog?id=qwen3.7
283•kevinsimper•4h ago•101 comments

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https://spidermonkey.dev/blog/2026/05/20/saying-goodbye-to-asmjs.html
110•eqrion•3h ago•56 comments

Map of Metal

https://mapofmetal.com/
223•robin_reala•4h ago•71 comments

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https://lithub.com/nobel-laureate-olga-tokarczuk-apparently-used-ai-to-write-her-latest-novel/
11•bookofjoe•16m ago•7 comments

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https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20260519-google-tackles-attempts-to-hack-its-ai-results
80•tigerlily•4h ago•41 comments

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https://blog.habets.se/2026/05/Everything-in-C-is-undefined-behavior.html
359•lycopodiopsida•9h ago•510 comments

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https://github.com/deng-ai-lab/SFHformer
33•teleforce•2d ago•3 comments

Testing distributed systems with AI agents

https://github.com/shenli/distributed-system-testing
10•shenli3514•46m ago•0 comments

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https://www.fire.org/news/victory-tennessee-man-jailed-37-days-trump-meme-wins-835000-settlement-...
79•ceejayoz•56m ago•18 comments

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https://medium.com/advanced-deep-learning/autoregressive-next-token-prediction-kv-cache-in-transf...
14•coarchitect•2d ago•0 comments

Gemini 3.5 Flash

https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/models-and-research/gemini-models/gemini-3-5/
888•spectraldrift•21h ago•611 comments

FiveThirtyEight articles on the Internet Archive

https://fivethirtyeightindex.com/
306•ChocMontePy•13h ago•73 comments

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https://torrentfreak.com/annas-archive-hit-with-19-5m-default-judgment-and-global-domain-takedown...
145•iamnothere•2h ago•103 comments

I’ve built a virtual museum with nearly every operating system you can think of

https://virtualosmuseum.org/
887•andreww591•23h ago•193 comments

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240•ranit•13h ago•115 comments

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57•danieltanfh95•2h ago•27 comments

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5•brudgers•2d ago•1 comments

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https://github.com/antoinezambelli/forge
587•zambelli•1d ago•210 comments

No way to parse integers in C (2022)

https://blog.habets.se/2022/10/No-way-to-parse-integers-in-C.html
35•konmok•4h ago•30 comments

Google changes its search box

https://blog.google/products-and-platforms/products/search/search-io-2026/
632•berkeleyjunk•20h ago•868 comments

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242•iancmceachern•3h ago•221 comments

Infomaniak transitions to a foundation model to protect user data privacy

https://news.infomaniak.com/en/infomaniak-foundation-sovereign-cloud/
127•darktoto•9h ago•34 comments

Remove-AI-Watermarks – CLI and library for removing AI watermarks from images

https://github.com/wiltodelta/remove-ai-watermarks
345•janalsncm•16h ago•213 comments

Gemini CLI will stop working from June 18, 2026

https://developers.googleblog.com/an-important-update-transitioning-gemini-cli-to-antigravity-cli/
322•primaprashant•21h ago•168 comments

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102•pramodbiligiri•5h ago•104 comments

Apple unveils new accessibility features

https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2026/05/apple-unveils-new-accessibility-features-and-updates-with-...
705•interpol_p•1d ago•371 comments

Mistral AI acquires Emmi AI

https://www.emmi.ai/news/mistral-ai-acquires-emmi-ai
304•doener•20h ago•91 comments

OpenAI Adopts Google's SynthID Watermark for AI Images with Verification Tool

https://openai.com/index/advancing-content-provenance/
314•smooke•19h ago•171 comments