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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."

Fable turned reMarkable into Tom Riddle's diary from Harry Potter

https://github.com/MaximeRivest/Riddle
176•modinfo•3h ago•109 comments

How to sequence your own DNA at home

https://bradleywoolf.com/links-1/sequencing-my-own-dna-at-home
72•bilsbie•2h ago•17 comments

OpenWrt One – Open Hardware Router

https://openwrt.org/toh/openwrt/one
461•peter_d_sherman•8h ago•184 comments

CoMaps – FOSS Offline Maps

https://www.comaps.app/
337•basilikum•7h ago•65 comments

GLM 5.2 and the coming AI margin collapse

https://martinalderson.com/posts/the-upcoming-ai-margin-collapse-part-1-glm-5-2/
191•martinald•6h ago•120 comments

Ternlight – 7 MB embedding model that runs in browser (WASM)

https://ternlight-demo.vercel.app/
88•soycaporal•3h ago•29 comments

NSA and IETF: Fairness

https://blog.cr.yp.to/20260706-fairness.html
53•WatchDog•3h ago•24 comments

A global workspace in language models

https://www.anthropic.com/research/global-workspace
283•in-silico•9h ago•101 comments

Small AI Models Gain Traction In places with unreliable networks

https://spectrum.ieee.org/small-language-models-ai-pharmaceuticals
23•sscaryterry•2h ago•4 comments

Pruning RAG context down to what the answer actually needs

https://www.kapa.ai/blog/how-we-prune-rag-context
60•emil_sorensen•7h ago•6 comments

A 2048-spin bulk acoustic wave Ising machine for number partitioning and Sudoku

https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.02112
29•Jimmc414•2d ago•4 comments

AMD Ryzen AI Halo – $4k AI Dev Kit

https://www.lttlabs.com/articles/2026/07/06/amd-ryzen-ai-halo
284•LabsLucas•11h ago•203 comments

Resetting Xbox

https://news.xbox.com/en-us/2026/07/06/resetting-xbox/
492•dijksterhuis•12h ago•477 comments

Linux on the Atari Jaguar

https://cakehonolulu.github.io/linux-for-jaguar/
113•cakehonolulu•8h ago•19 comments

OpenSSH 10.4/10.4p1 Released

https://www.openssh.org/txt/release-10.4
31•throw0101a•4h ago•7 comments

Stealth robotics startup (YC S26) is hiring principal engineers (Palo Alto)

1•david-venegas•10h ago

Full Writeup of the Windows GDID

https://github.com/SmtimesIWndr/gdid-reversal
44•typeofhuman•4h ago•21 comments

Acronym Fatigue Series Introduction: why I'm wary of acronyms

https://devz.cl/posts/acryonym-fatigue-series-why-i-m-wary-of-engineering-acronyms/
24•DanielVZ•4h ago•11 comments

Craig Mod built his own Good Reads

https://craigmod.com/roden/115/
11•natbennett•3d ago•5 comments

OfficeCLI: Office suite for AI agents to read and edit Microsoft Office files

https://github.com/iOfficeAI/OfficeCLI
131•maxloh•9h ago•36 comments

Learning to code is still worthwhile

https://stevekrouse.com/learn-to-code
115•stevekrouse•5h ago•113 comments

The Music of Destruction

https://thebaffler.com/latest/the-music-of-destruction-fuelling
13•lermontov•4d ago•3 comments

Poly/ML – A Standard ML Implementation

https://github.com/polyml/polyml
28•Lyngbakr•4h ago•4 comments

Evaluation order and nontermination in query languages

https://www.rntz.net/post/2026-06-11-datalog-nontermination.html
24•luu•4d ago•2 comments

Aluminum foil (2021)

https://dernocua.github.io/notes/aluminum-foil.html
244•firephox•13h ago•106 comments

The LLVM Compiler Infrastructure

https://cacm.acm.org/federal-funding-of-academic-research/the-llvm-compiler-infrastructure/
47•tosh•2d ago•5 comments

Rotman Lens

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rotman_lens
81•thomasjb•5d ago•21 comments

Januscape: Guest-to-Host Escape in KVM/x86 [CVE-2026-53359]

https://github.com/V4bel/Januscape
81•Imustaskforhelp•9h ago•26 comments

M/PC – A Concatenative OS

https://wiki.xxiivv.com/site/m_pc.html
42•caminanteblanco•6h ago•5 comments

AI: The ROI Runway Could Be Long Outside the Tech Sector

https://www.apollo.com/wealth/insights-news/insights/daily-spark/ai-the-roi-runway-could-be-long-...
58•u1hcw9nx•5h ago•50 comments