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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."

Age verification is just a precursor to automated attribution of speech

https://nonogra.ph/age-verification-is-just-a-precursor-to-attribution-of-speech-06-29-2026
116•arkhiver•54m ago•21 comments

GLM 5.2 beats Claude in our benchmarks

https://semgrep.dev/blog/2026/we-have-mythos-at-home-glm-52-beats-claude-in-our-cyber-benchmarks/
596•jms703•10h ago•287 comments

Historical memory prices 1960-2026

https://dam.stanford.edu/memory-prices.html
228•vga1•10h ago•85 comments

Better Images of AI

https://betterimagesofai.org/
41•Curiositry•4h ago•21 comments

5k menus from the New York Public Library’s Buttolph Collection (1880-1920)

https://pudding.cool/2026/06/menu-story/
343•xbryanx•13h ago•88 comments

Knowledge Distillation of Black-Box Large Language Models (2024)

https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.07013
66•babelfish•6h ago•13 comments

I used Claude Code to get a second opinion on my MRI

https://antoine.fi/mri-analysis-using-claude-code-opus
380•engmarketer•12h ago•494 comments

Deciphering Basmala

https://blog.plover.com/lang/bismillah.html
24•lordgrenville•4d ago•9 comments

TOP500 at ISC’26: We have a New Number 1 Supercomputer

https://chipsandcheese.com/p/top500-at-isc26-we-have-a-new-number
90•rbanffy•8h ago•48 comments

Show HN: Zanagrams

https://zanagrams.com/
225•pompomsheep•13h ago•55 comments

The Boeing 747 begins its final descent

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/2026/07/boeing-747-retirement/687304/
161•dbl000•3d ago•216 comments

The Baffling World of Masayoshi Son's Presentations (2020)

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2020-06-23/golden-geese-and-unicorns-inside-the-eccentric...
33•phaser•2d ago•7 comments

Professor denounces mass AI fraud on an exam at Brown

https://english.elpais.com/education/2026-06-28/ai-fraud-at-brown-university-academic-integrity-i...
325•geox•11h ago•433 comments

Librepods: AirPods liberated

https://github.com/librepods-org/librepods
318•rbanffy•9h ago•101 comments

Idler Magazine

https://www.idler.co.uk/
9•tomjakubowski•3d ago•1 comments

Working around dragons with the Lemote Yeeloong laptop and OpenBSD

http://oldvcr.blogspot.com/2026/06/working-around-dragons-with-lemote.html
97•zdw•11h ago•26 comments

Daisugi, the Japanese technique of growing trees out of other trees (2020)

https://www.openculture.com/2020/10/daisugi.html
124•MaysonL•12h ago•39 comments

Show HN: DRM-Free Books

https://frequal.com/Perspectives/DrmFreeAuthors.html
87•TeaVMFan•11h ago•35 comments

Researchers have developed pixels that can emit and analyse light together

https://ethz.ch/en/news-and-events/eth-news/news/2026/06/a-new-type-of-pixel.html
52•tspng•1d ago•37 comments

The KIDS Act would require age checks to get online

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/06/kids-act-would-require-age-checks-get-online
374•bilsbie•16h ago•297 comments

Tokenmaxxing is dead, long live tokenmaxxing

https://12gramsofcarbon.com/p/agentics-tech-things-tokenmaxxing
123•theahura•12h ago•147 comments

A way to exclude sensitive files issue still open for OpenAI Codex

https://github.com/openai/codex/issues/2847
185•pikseladam•16h ago•121 comments

Examining circuit boards from the Space Shuttle's I/O Processor

https://www.righto.com/2026/06/space-shuttle-io-processor-boards.html
94•pwg•12h ago•21 comments

HackerRank open sourced its ATS. My resume scored 90/100. Oh wait 74. No – 88

https://danunparsed.com/p/hackerrank-open-source-ats
5•sambellll•2h ago•0 comments

Model Training as Code

https://aleph-alpha.com/en/blog/model-training-as-code/
29•peterBlue75•3d ago•10 comments

The curious case of the disappearing Polish S (2015)

https://aresluna.org/the-curious-case-of-the-disappearing-polish-s/
215•colinprince•15h ago•72 comments

Show HN: NanoEuler – GPT-2 scale model in pure C/CUDA from scratch

https://github.com/JustVugg/nanoeuler
43•vforno•8h ago•10 comments

You might not need a service worker

https://www.jayfreestone.com/writing/you-might-not-need-a-service-worker/
6•Fudgel•3h ago•0 comments

Show HN: Bash4LLM+ – A lightweight, dependency-free Bash wrapper for LLM APIs

https://github.com/kamaludu/bash4llm/
40•kamaludu•8h ago•15 comments

More evidence is consistent with possible ancient life on Mars (2025)

https://www.cbc.ca/radio/quirks/more-evidence-of-life-on-mars-but-still-no-life-1.7649645
69•pseudolus•16h ago•72 comments