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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."

Om Malik has died

https://om.co/2026/06/24/1966-2026/
508•minimaxir•6h ago•53 comments

Apple to skip high-end M6 Mac chips in favor of AI-focused M7 line

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-06-25/apple-to-skip-high-end-m6-mac-chips-to-launch-...
75•scrlk•8h ago•44 comments

AI children's books, body horror edition

https://lcamtuf.substack.com/p/ai-childrens-books-body-horror-edition
48•surprisetalk•1h ago•6 comments

An entire Herculaneum scroll has been read for the first time

https://scrollprize.org/firstscroll
1007•verditelabs•10h ago•225 comments

The 'papers, please' era of the internet will decimate your privacy

https://expression.fire.org/p/the-papers-please-era-of-the-internet
436•bilsbie•4h ago•206 comments

A data race that doesn't compile

https://corentin-core.github.io/posts/ruxe-type-level-disjointness/
13•stmw•1h ago•4 comments

Framework's 10G Ethernet module exposes USB-C's complexity

https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2026/framework-10g-ethernet-module-usb-c-complexity/
27•Alupis•1h ago•11 comments

The Garbage Collection Handbook: The Art of Automatic Memory Management (2nd Ed)

https://gchandbook.org/
52•teleforce•3h ago•10 comments

Un-0: Generating Images with Coupled Oscillators

https://unconv.ai/blog/introducing-un-0-generating-images-with-coupled-oscillators/
118•babelfish•5h ago•28 comments

A game where you're an OS and have to manage processes, memory and I/O events

https://github.com/plbrault/youre-the-os
105•exploraz•2d ago•22 comments

Oxide computer 3D rack guided tour

https://explorer.oxide.computer/
300•darthcloud•3d ago•122 comments

Eyewitness at the Triangle (1911)

http://trianglefire.ilr.cornell.edu/index.html
9•NaOH•3d ago•0 comments

IBM debuts sub-1 nanometer chip technology

https://newsroom.ibm.com/2026-06-25-ibm-debuts-worlds-first-sub-1-nanometer-chip-technology
269•porridgeraisin•11h ago•150 comments

Show HN: OpenKnowledge – open source AI-first alternative to Obsidian/Notion

https://github.com/inkeep/open-knowledge
212•engomez•10h ago•100 comments

Parallel Parentheses Matching

https://williamdue.github.io/blog/parallel-parentheses-matching
63•Athas•6h ago•9 comments

An oral history of Bank Python (2021)

https://calpaterson.com/bank-python.html
75•tosh•6h ago•26 comments

Migrating from Proxmox to NixOS and Incus

https://www.nijho.lt/post/proxmox-to-nixos/
55•wasting_time•5h ago•27 comments

Show HN: Chess-Inspired Roguelike

https://princechazz.com
221•cowboy_henk•4d ago•75 comments

OS9Map

https://yllan.org/software/OS9Map/
190•LaSombra•11h ago•32 comments

Zig's new bitCast semantics and LLVM back end improvements

https://ziglang.org/devlog/2026/#2026-06-25
216•kouosi•12h ago•87 comments

The Doorman's Fallacy in action

https://rozumem.xyz/posts/17
62•rozumem•6h ago•95 comments

Apple raises prices of MacBooks, iPads

https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/apple-raises-prices-macbooks-ipads-memory-costs-skyroc...
640•virgildotcodes•13h ago•914 comments

Experiments in Sports Seismology for the World Cup

https://pnsn.org/blog/experiments-in-sports-seismology-for-the-world-cup
8•jmward01•4d ago•0 comments

Record type inference for dummies

http://haskellforall.com/2026/06/record-type-inference-for-dummies
15•g0xA52A2A•2d ago•0 comments

Besimple AI (YC P25) Is Hiring

https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/besimple-ai/jobs/yWfhhOR-strategic-projects-lead-audio-data
1•yzhong94•9h ago

The last Romans are still around

https://signoregalilei.com/2026/06/20/the-last-romans-are-still-around/
44•surprisetalk•3d ago•67 comments

Military branches restore flu shot requirement after virus swept through base

https://arstechnica.com/health/2026/06/military-branches-restore-flu-shot-requirement-after-virus...
145•tzs•4h ago•56 comments

GloriousEggroll's Proton has been rebased on Proton 11

https://github.com/GloriousEggroll/proton-ge-custom/releases/tag/GE-Proton11-1
67•d3Xt3r•1d ago•25 comments

The annotated PyTorch training loop

https://idlemachines.co.uk/essays/pytorch-training-loop
64•smaddrellmander•3d ago•12 comments

You can't unit test for taste

https://dev.karltryggvason.com/you-cant-unit-test-for-taste/
247•kalli•1d ago•117 comments