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Building my npx business card

https://ashley.dev/posts/turning-feedback-into-features/
8•edent•11mo ago

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steele•11mo ago
Ooh, free real estate, let's colonize and gentrify package management
aabhay•11mo ago
Lmao, gentrify cracked me up
neilv•11mo ago
Do these npx business cards run arbitrary code on your computer?
cypherpunks01•11mo 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•11mo 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•11mo ago
Yeah, this seems like a very smart but inherently flawed idea.
cypherpunks01•11mo 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•11mo ago
May as well just release an executable tbh.
theamk•11mo 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•11mo 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•11mo 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://internetarchive.ch/
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https://dillo-browser.org/lab/web-fork/
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https://gowers.wordpress.com/2026/05/08/a-recent-experience-with-chatgpt-5-5-pro/
412•_alternator_•10h ago•248 comments

Google broke reCAPTCHA for de-googled Android users

https://reclaimthenet.org/google-broke-recaptcha-for-de-googled-android-users
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https://twitter.com/trq212/status/2052809885763747935
215•pretext•8h ago•122 comments

OpenAI’s WebRTC problem

https://moq.dev/blog/webrtc-is-the-problem/
361•atgctg•1d ago•88 comments

Making Julia as Fast as C++ (2019)

https://flow.byu.edu/posts/julia-c++
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How LEDs are made (2014)

https://learn.sparkfun.com/tutorials/how-leds-are-made/all
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https://apnews.com/projects/pfas-forever-stained/
52•rawgabbit•2d ago•25 comments

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https://lwn.net/ml/all/20260507070547.2268452-1-sashal@kernel.org/
20•signa11•3h ago•5 comments

Mythical Man Month

https://martinfowler.com/bliki/MythicalManMonth.html
201•ingve•2d ago•138 comments

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https://www.kutilek.de/selectric/
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https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cp3pww9g0p5o
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https://www.quantamagazine.org/what-causes-lightning-the-answer-keeps-getting-more-interesting-20...
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LLMs Corrupt Your Documents When You Delegate

https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.15597
20•rbanffy•4h ago•3 comments

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https://www.wiisfi.com/
281•homebrewer•2d ago•71 comments

AI is breaking two vulnerability cultures

https://www.jefftk.com/p/ai-is-breaking-two-vulnerability-cultures
357•speckx•19h ago•142 comments

AWS North Virginia data center outage – resolved

https://www.cnbc.com/2026/05/08/aws-outage-data-center-fanduel-coinbase.html
233•christhecaribou•1d ago•161 comments

Cartoon Network Flash Games

https://www.webdesignmuseum.org/flash-game-exhibitions/cartoon-network-flash-games
360•willmeyers•20h ago•110 comments

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https://lachlan.nz/blog/the-react2shell-story/
162•mufeedvh•20h ago•14 comments

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https://meshtastic.org/docs/introduction/
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https://ze3tar.github.io/post-zcrx.html
194•MrBruh•17h ago•111 comments

Teaching Claude Why

https://www.anthropic.com/research/teaching-claude-why
191•pretext•19h ago•88 comments

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https://www.sigops.org/2026/can-llms-model-real-world-systems-in-tla/
98•mad•20h ago•26 comments

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https://btxx.org/posts/memory/
228•xngbuilds•21h ago•92 comments

Light without electricity? Glowing algae could make it possible

https://www.colorado.edu/today/2026/05/06/light-without-electricity-glowing-algae-could-make-it-p...
84•geox•2d ago•25 comments

Roadside Attraction

https://theoffingmag.com/essay/roadside-attraction/
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The soul of maintaining a new machine

https://books.worksinprogress.co/book/maintenance-of-everything/communities-of-practice/the-soul-...
66•akkartik•3d ago•5 comments

US Government releases first batch of UAP documents and videos

https://www.war.gov/UFO/
308•david-gpu•1d ago•456 comments

All means are fair except solving the problem

https://yosefk.com/blog/all-means-are-fair-except-solving-the-problem.html
66•akkartik•2d ago•48 comments