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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."

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https://www.boxofcables.dev/azure-linux-4-0-is-microsofts-first-general-purpose-linux/
77•haydenbarnes•3h ago•51 comments

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https://fb.watch/HxPu0fSyeH/
168•jenders•5h ago•39 comments

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https://github.com/anthropics/defending-code-reference-harness
361•binyu•10h ago•109 comments

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https://github.com/alibaba/open-code-review
127•geoffbp•6h ago•28 comments

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https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.04032
138•Anon84•7h ago•27 comments

WiFi Time

https://mitxela.com/projects/wifi_time
29•surprisetalk•2d ago•0 comments

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https://www.scotthyoung.com/blog/2026/05/27/revolutionize-schooling/
132•andrewstuart•2d ago•206 comments

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https://tiki.li/blog/blqsort
141•birdculture•2d ago•28 comments

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384•tristanj•7h ago•169 comments

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11•rawgabbit•3h ago•0 comments

Reverse-Engineered Userspace Driver for Asus ZenVision Lid OLED on Linux"

https://github.com/tarpediem/zenvision-linux
43•berlianta•2d ago•7 comments

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https://magenta.withgoogle.com/magenta-realtime-2
12•selvan•2h ago•3 comments

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https://herbsutter.com/2026/06/04/c-the-documentary-released-today/
7•ingve•1h ago•0 comments

Dear Microsoft, enough is enough

https://www.politico.eu/sponsored-content/dear-microsoft-enough-is-enough/
21•giuliomagnifico•1h ago•12 comments

When AI Builds Itself: Our progress toward recursive self-improvement

https://www.anthropic.com/institute/recursive-self-improvement
414•meetpateltech•13h ago•550 comments

The Causes of Long Covid

https://www.science.org/content/blog-post/causes-long-covid
82•maxall4•3h ago•30 comments

The Pentagon is running an AI propaganda mill targeting Latin America

https://theintercept.com/2026/06/02/la-tilde-propaganda-latin-america-pentagon/
25•Fricken•1h ago•4 comments

Samurai City

https://worksinprogress.co/issue/samurai-city/
140•zdw•3d ago•24 comments

Retro-Tech Parenting

https://havenweb.org/2026/05/28/retro-tech.html
279•mawise•14h ago•187 comments

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https://github.com/huawei-csl/KVarN
127•theanonymousone•15h ago•13 comments

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https://www.alexedwards.net/blog/go-experiments-explained
12•ingve•3d ago•2 comments

Queen bees emerge from special wax chambers

https://cen.acs.org/materials/biobased-materials/queen-bees-special-wax/104/web/2026/06
64•gmays•8h ago•10 comments

VoidZero Is Joining Cloudflare

https://blog.cloudflare.com/voidzero-joins-cloudflare/
612•coloneltcb•17h ago•268 comments

South Korean Forums Will Need to Scan Every Images with AI Censorship Tools

https://discuss.privacyguides.net/t/south-korean-online-communities-will-need-to-scan-every-image...
101•Cider9986•6h ago•85 comments

JLink JTAG Access on the Pinecil

https://danielmangum.com/posts/jlink-jtag-pinecil/
53•hasheddan•2d ago•9 comments

Pass the Cherries: Review of Twilight of the Dons

https://literaryreview.co.uk/pass-the-cherries
3•Petiver•2d ago•0 comments

Latent Agents: A Post-Training Procedure for Internalized Multi-Agent Debate

https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.24881
26•PaulHoule•7h ago•0 comments

Show HN: Mercek – A Desktop IDE for AWS ECS

https://www.mercek.dev/
46•utibeumanah•9h ago•17 comments

Castor: CERN Advanced STORage Manager

https://castor.web.cern.ch/content/home.html
51•naves•10h ago•20 comments

Making Debian or Fedora persistent live images

https://sigwait.org/~alex/blog/2026/05/28/smdBC8.html
71•henry_flower•3d ago•8 comments