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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."

YouTube to automatically label AI-generated videos

https://blog.youtube/news-and-events/improving-ai-labels-viewers-creators/
902•nopg•14h ago•554 comments

A Eureka machine that thinks like nature and explores what AI cannot

https://iisc.ac.in/a-eureka-machine-that-thinks-like-nature-and-explores-what-ai-cannot/
72•kunalsin9h•3h ago•25 comments

I analysed 20 years of my chats

https://drobinin.com/posts/am-i-a-bad-friend/
139•valzevul•11h ago•46 comments

I think Anthropic and OpenAI have found product-market fit

https://simonwillison.net/2026/May/27/product-market-fit/
879•simonw•17h ago•1004 comments

Hallucinate – Massively Multiplayer Online Rave

https://hallucinate.site
218•stagas•6h ago•89 comments

SimCity 3k in 4k (2025)

https://www.thran.uk/writ/hdid/2025/12/simcity-3k-in-4k.html
372•speckx•17h ago•150 comments

The Problem with the Ferrari Luce EV Offers a Lesson for Every Leader

https://www.inc.com/connor-jewiss/the-problem-with-the-ferrari-luce-ev-offers-a-lesson-for-every-...
24•connorjewiss•1h ago•24 comments

What Apple and Google are doing to push notifications

https://www.jacquescorbytuech.com/writing/what-apple-and-google-are-doing-your-push-notifications
289•iamacyborg•15h ago•290 comments

I'm Getting into Mesh Networks (Meshtastic, MeshCore, and Reticulum)

https://www.jonaharagon.com/posts/im-getting-into-mesh-networks-meshtastic-meshcore-and-reticulum/
209•Panda_•14h ago•78 comments

The Ask

https://randsinrepose.com/archives/the-ask/
82•digitallogic•2d ago•48 comments

Rust (and Slint) on a Jailbroken Kindle

https://sverre.me/blog/rust-on-kindle/
167•homarp•14h ago•22 comments

DuckDuckGo search saw 28% more visits after Google said people love AI mode

https://www.pcgamer.com/hardware/duckduckgos-ai-free-search-saw-nearly-28-percent-more-visits-in-...
879•HelloUsername•18h ago•417 comments

Rapira (Рапира) – Soviet programming language interpreter

https://github.com/begoon/rapira
16•begoon•3d ago•8 comments

A New Typst Template for Pandoc (2025)

https://imaginarytext.ca/posts/2025/typst-templates-for-pandoc/
81•ankitg12•2d ago•13 comments

FBI Arrests CIA Official with $40M in Gold Bars in His Home

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/27/us/politics/fbi-arrest-cia-official-gold-bars.html
341•cwwc•11h ago•225 comments

Warm up your MacBook (2019)

https://z3ugma.github.io/2019/11/18/warm-up-your-macbook/
84•kristianp•13h ago•83 comments

Incident with Pull Requests, Issues, Git Operations and API Requests

https://www.githubstatus.com/incidents/xy1tt3hs572m
306•maxnoe•22h ago•198 comments

Go: Support for Generic Methods

https://github.com/golang/go/issues/77273
251•f311a•1d ago•214 comments

Biff is a command line datetime Swiss army knife

https://github.com/BurntSushi/biff
28•burntsushi•7h ago•12 comments

RamAIn (YC W26) Is Hiring

https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/ramain/jobs/hqvmyKN-founding-gtm-engineer
1•svee•8h ago

Investigating how prompt politeness affects LLM accuracy (2025)

https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.04950
76•KnuthIsGod•2d ago•74 comments

More Whimsical OEIS Sequences

https://www.jeremykun.com/shortform/2026-05-22-1528/
3•surprisetalk•1d ago•0 comments

Google employee charged with $1M Polymarket insider trading bet on search term

https://www.cnbc.com/2026/05/27/google-employee-polymarket-insider-trading.html
186•pseudolus•9h ago•111 comments

Zero Lines Maze: What the 8-Bit Guy's One-Liner Can Still Teach Us

https://retrogamecoders.com/zero-lines-maze/
50•ibobev•1d ago•18 comments

Stress disrupts hippocampal integration of overlapping events, memory inference

https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.aea5496?user_id=66c4bf745d78644b3aa57b08
127•gmays•18h ago•20 comments

My new obsession: A horse-racing board game of pure luck

https://alexanderbjoy.com/horse-race-board-game/
80•surprisetalk•2d ago•52 comments

Mini Micro Fantasy Computer

https://miniscript.org/MiniMicro/index.html#about
256•nicoloren•1d ago•82 comments

Can we have the day off?

https://mlsu.io/posts/day-off/
1077•mlsu•9h ago•630 comments

Canada to order military plane fleet from Sweden in shift from US suppliers

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/may/27/canada-sweden-saab-globaleye-aircraft
553•tosh•17h ago•396 comments

All of human cooking compressed into 2 megabytes

https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.22391
412•josefchen•1d ago•163 comments