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Building my npx business card

https://ashley.dev/posts/turning-feedback-into-features/
8•edent•10mo ago

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steele•10mo ago
Ooh, free real estate, let's colonize and gentrify package management
aabhay•10mo ago
Lmao, gentrify cracked me up
neilv•10mo ago
Do these npx business cards run arbitrary code on your computer?
cypherpunks01•10mo 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•10mo 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•10mo ago
Yeah, this seems like a very smart but inherently flawed idea.
cypherpunks01•10mo 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•10mo ago
May as well just release an executable tbh.
theamk•10mo 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•10mo 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•10mo 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."

Axios compromised on NPM – Malicious versions drop remote access trojan

https://www.stepsecurity.io/blog/axios-compromised-on-npm-malicious-versions-drop-remote-access-t...
773•mtud•6h ago•279 comments

Ollama is now powered by MLX on Apple Silicon in preview

https://ollama.com/blog/mlx
255•redundantly•6h ago•114 comments

Artemis II is not safe to fly

https://idlewords.com/2026/03/artemis_ii_is_not_safe_to_fly.htm
328•idlewords•7h ago•204 comments

Universal Claude.md – cut Claude output tokens

https://github.com/drona23/claude-token-efficient
303•killme2008•8h ago•120 comments

Google's 200M-parameter time-series foundation model with 16k context

https://github.com/google-research/timesfm
115•codepawl•4h ago•53 comments

Claude Code's source code has been leaked via a map file in their NPM registry

https://twitter.com/Fried_rice/status/2038894956459290963
56•treexs•48m ago•23 comments

Fedware: Government apps that spy harder than the apps they ban

https://www.sambent.com/the-white-house-app-has-huawei-spyware-and-an-ice-tip-line/
562•speckx•15h ago•187 comments

Do your own writing

https://alexhwoods.com/dont-let-ai-write-for-you/
545•karimf•21h ago•193 comments

GitHub backs down, kills Copilot pull-request ads after backlash

https://www.theregister.com/2026/03/30/github_copilot_ads_pull_requests/
217•_____k•4h ago•132 comments

Clojure: The Documentary, official trailer [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JJEyffSdBsk
193•fogus•4d ago•18 comments

We're Pausing Asimov Press

https://www.asimov.press/p/pause
30•bookofjoe•1d ago•5 comments

RamAIn (YC W26) Is Hiring

https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/ramain/jobs/jezgwo5-ai-ml-research-engineer
1•svee•2h ago

Good CTE, Bad CTE

https://boringsql.com/posts/good-cte-bad-cte/
36•radimm•1d ago•10 comments

Android Developer Verification

https://android-developers.googleblog.com/2026/03/android-developer-verification-rolling-out-to-a...
255•ingve•11h ago•258 comments

Closed Source AI = Neofeudalism

https://geohot.github.io//blog/jekyll/update/2026/03/31/free-intelligence.html
28•0x79de•1h ago•10 comments

How to turn anything into a router

https://nbailey.ca/post/router/
681•yabones•20h ago•231 comments

Turning a MacBook into a touchscreen with $1 of hardware (2018)

https://anishathalye.com/macbook-touchscreen/
320•HughParry•14h ago•149 comments

Mr. Chatterbox is a Victorian-era ethically trained model

https://simonwillison.net/2026/Mar/30/mr-chatterbox/
46•y1n0•7h ago•26 comments

One of the largest salt mines in the world exists under Lake Erie

https://apnews.com/article/cleveland-salt-mine-winter-road-0daf091e3d56f65766bcf6a597683893
24•1659447091•2d ago•14 comments

Oscar Reutersvärd (2021)

https://escherinhetpaleis.nl/en/about-escher/escher-today/oscar-reutersvard
34•layer8•1d ago•2 comments

Bird brains (2023)

https://www.dhanishsemar.com/writing/bird-brains
318•DiffTheEnder•20h ago•200 comments

Agents of Chaos

https://agentsofchaos.baulab.info/report.html
110•luu•3d ago•13 comments

OpenGridWorks: The Electricity Infrasctructure, Mapped

https://www.opengridworks.com
109•jonbraun•12h ago•14 comments

Cherri – programming language that compiles to an Apple Shortuct

https://github.com/electrikmilk/cherri
308•mihau•3d ago•60 comments

Vulnerability research is cooked

https://sockpuppet.org/blog/2026/03/30/vulnerability-research-is-cooked/
182•pedro84•15h ago•126 comments

Unit: A self-replicating Forth mesh agent running in a browser tab

https://davidcanhelp.github.io/unit/
37•DavidCanHelp•4d ago•3 comments

Incident March 30th, 2026 – Accidental CDN Caching

https://blog.railway.com/p/incident-report-march-30-2026-accidental-cdn-caching
57•cebert•8h ago•22 comments

CodingFont: A game to help you pick a coding font

https://www.codingfont.com/
416•nvahalik•18h ago•209 comments

Researchers find 3,500-year-old loom that reveals textile revolution

https://web.ua.es/en/actualidad-universitaria/2026/marzo2026/23-31/ua-researchers-find-3-500-year...
115•geox•3d ago•14 comments

Sony halts memory card shipments due to NAND shortage

https://www.techzine.eu/news/devices/140058/sony-halts-memory-card-shipments-due-to-nand-shortage/
53•methuselah_in•4h ago•20 comments