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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."

Claude discovers a novel enzyme system with CRISPR-like repeats

https://www.anthropic.com/news/claude-discovers-novel-enzyme-system
405•raahelb•5h ago•437 comments

Linux support is coming to Snapdragon X2 Series

https://www.qualcomm.com/news/onq/2026/09/snapdragon-summit-agentic-ai-pcs-linux
26•aaronday•39m ago•8 comments

VSCode's SSH Agent Is Bananas (2025)

https://fly.io/blog/vscode-ssh-wtf/
76•Rapzid•2h ago•59 comments

Fixing the Portobello Police Station Clock

https://pointinthecloud.com/2026-04-11-211700.html
362•avidly•7h ago•84 comments

LensVLM: Compressing long context as images, expanding only relevant pages

https://huggingface.co/apple/LensVLM-9B
32•victormustar•4h ago•2 comments

We just shipped support for the ugliest part of HTTP: Vary – Cloudflare Blog

https://blog.cloudflare.com/vary-support/
13•thisisfatih•1h ago•2 comments

Italian parliament votes for return to nuclear energy

https://apnews.com/article/italy-nuclear-chernobyl-4891b6b7c7791ae84db6b0bf0f7cf567
492•geox•6h ago•317 comments

The mystery animal on an ancient god's head

https://signoregalilei.com/2026/09/13/the-mystery-animal-on-an-ancient-gods-head/
32•surprisetalk•1d ago•9 comments

A brief history of Windows scroll bar shortcuts

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20260922-00/?p=112719/
96•tybulewicz•5h ago•39 comments

The Curious Power of Punctuation

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2026/09/28/on-the-mark-louis-menand-book-review
13•pepys•1d ago•2 comments

Jev in 25 Lines of Python

https://www.nobodywho.ai/posts/jev-in-25-lines/
611•bashbjorn•15h ago•193 comments

Gemini 3.8 text-to-speech

https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/models-and-research/gemini-models/gemini-3-8-text-to-speech/
229•swolpers•7h ago•116 comments

Radicle: Disclosure of Vulnerability in the Network Protocol

https://radicle.dev/2026/09/23/disclosure-of-vulnerability-in-network-protocol
110•lostmsu•7h ago•42 comments

Tokens too cheap to meter

https://jyn.dev/tokens-too-cheap-to-meter/
216•teoruiz•13h ago•174 comments

Show HN: An atlas of system designs with interactive architecture diagrams

https://atlas-sysdes.vercel.app/
28•mertkahyaoglu•1d ago•17 comments

Mercury 2.5 LLM hits 770 tokens per second

https://artificialanalysis.ai/models/mercury-2-5
5•Retro_Dev•1h ago•3 comments

Making Tailscale Faster

https://tailscale.com/blog/making-tailscale-faster
28•yarapavan•5h ago•6 comments

Swap, ZRAM, Zswap and Hibernate on NixOS

https://blog.matthewbrunelle.com/swap-zram-zswap-and-hibernate-on-nixos/
23•speckx•5h ago•4 comments

Stripe's Knowledge AI Platform

https://stripe.dev/blog/meet-stripes-knowledge-ai-platform
167•ltononro•9h ago•102 comments

I don't want the details

https://michaelheap.com/i-dont-want-the-details/
333•mooreds•10h ago•189 comments

Z80 REPL (2018)

https://abagames.github.io/z80-repl/index.html
138•adunk•12h ago•18 comments

Claude Code reads AGENTS.md only when telemetry is on [fixed]

https://blog.szypowi.cz/p/claude-code-reads-agents.md-only-when-telemetry-is-on/
436•pszypowicz•11h ago•242 comments

Bwbach, My Guardian Goblin

https://robertmay.photography/journal/bwbach-my-guardian-goblin
7•robotmay•1d ago•4 comments

Once Claude can measure something, it can make it faster

https://claude.dev/blog/how-we-made-claude-ai-faster/
135•matthieu_bl•3h ago•85 comments

A refined phylochronology of the second plague pandemic in Western Eurasia

https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2534899123
7•Thevet•2d ago•0 comments

Show HN: I built a post-mortem debugger for native Windows x64/x86 crashes

https://www.forensicdbg.com
17•Loren_SL•4h ago•2 comments

QuestDB (YC S20) Is Hiring a Sales Engineer

https://questdb.com/careers/pre-sales-engineer-north-america/
1•nhourcard•11h ago

28% of job postings on company career sites have been open over 90 days

https://unlisted.careers/ghost-jobs/report/2026-09
205•rubatrejo•6h ago•274 comments

OpenAI breaches Medicare, Albanese reveals

https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/openai-breaches-medicare-albanese-reveals-20260924-p6100u...
117•jonnonz•2h ago•72 comments

UK military jamming other nations' satellites to defend itself, BBC told

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c32l8y8kygdvo
125•thm•5h ago•174 comments