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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://github.com/deepseek-ai/DeepSpec/blob/main/DSpark_paper.pdf
380•aurenvale•2h ago•112 comments

Fintech Engineering Handbook

https://w.pitula.me/fintech-engineering-handbook/
87•signa11•1h ago•25 comments

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43•Seb-C•3h ago•11 comments

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https://openai.com/index/previewing-gpt-5-6-sol/
1028•minimaxir•19h ago•648 comments

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59•edward•1d ago•71 comments

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https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/nox-metals/jobs/M1f1enD-software-engineer
1•zane_heng•12m ago

Linux on Older Hardware: The Complete Revival Guide

https://www.fosslinux.com/158206/linux-on-older-hardware-revival-guide.htm
86•tapanjk•2d ago•37 comments

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108•droidjj•8h ago•46 comments

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https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/535/why-does-kinetic-energy-increase-quadratically-no...
265•ProxyTracer•13h ago•124 comments

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21•snikolaev•1d ago•1 comments

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19•tomcam•2d ago•10 comments

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470•bobrenjc93•13h ago•586 comments

OpenTTD 16.0-Beta1

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187•untilted•7h ago•33 comments

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https://howtotestfrontend.com/courses/jest-vitest-fundamentals
14•howToTestFE•2d ago•7 comments

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341•justincormack•4d ago•188 comments

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https://spectrum.ieee.org/ai-in-mathematics
144•rbanffy•13h ago•109 comments

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https://kirill.korins.ky/articles/hellishly-slow-level-13-deflate-compression/
69•zX41ZdbW•4d ago•20 comments

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https://fusion-lang.org/
87•efrecon•3d ago•37 comments

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https://grack.com/blog/2026/06/25/dissecting-a-failed-nation-state-attack/
74•signa11•9h ago•12 comments

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https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2026/06/26/openai-says-us-government-will-vet-users-its...
1065•alain94040•17h ago•1122 comments

Cultures of Making and Relating

https://blog.khinsen.net/posts/2026/06/25/cultures.html
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IBM MCGA Gate Array Reverse Engineering

https://github.com/schlae/IBM_MCGA
39•userbinator•6h ago•8 comments

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80•PaybackTony•11h ago•18 comments

Ultrasound imaging of the brain

https://alephneuro.com/blog/ultrasound-brain
290•rossant•1d ago•114 comments

The gap between open weights LLMs and closed source LLMs

https://blog.doubleword.ai/frontier-os-llm
228•kkm•14h ago•183 comments

Om

https://daringfireball.net/2026/06/om
413•throw0101a•12h ago•19 comments

Foreign funds help make housing unaffordable: research

https://news.mccombs.utexas.edu/research/foreign-funds-help-make-housing-unaffordable/
91•hhs•12h ago•29 comments

We can still stop California's 3D printer surveillance scheme

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/06/we-can-still-stop-californias-3d-printer-surveillance-scheme
419•hn_acker•15h ago•148 comments

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130•Eridanus2•18h ago•20 comments