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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."

Exploit brokers pay $500k for WordPress RCEs. I found one with GPT5.6 and $25

https://slcyber.io/research-center/exploit-brokers-pay-500000-for-a-wordpress-rce-i-found-one-wit...
138•infosecau•3h ago•77 comments

Show HN: I replaced a $120k bowling center system with $1,600 in ESP32s

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https://github.com/hgaiser/moonshine
210•wertyk•11h ago•90 comments

LoRA Speedrun – a public wall-clock leaderboard for fine-tuning techniques

https://github.com/Saivineeth147/lora-speedrun
94•Vineeth147•6h ago•15 comments

Eliminating Go bounds checks with unsafe

https://blog.andr2i.com/posts/2026-07-06-eliminating-go-bound-checks-with-unsafe
20•abnercoimbre•5d ago•12 comments

Claude Code uses Bun written in Rust now

https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jul/19/claude-code-in-bun-in-rust/
540•tosh•1d ago•708 comments

Self-Powered Trailers Promise Leaner Freight Runs

https://spectrum.ieee.org/self-powered-trailers-freight-decarbonization
45•rbanffy•1w ago•26 comments

Orion Browser by Kagi

https://orionbrowser.com/
217•sebjones•16h ago•155 comments

Sealed tomb filled with paintings and inscriptions discovered in Egypt

https://www.labrujulaverde.com/en/2026/07/sealed-tomb-of-a-high-official-or-priest-filled-with-pa...
53•isaacfrond•5d ago•43 comments

What I learned selling 2,500 MIDI recorders: Hardware is not so hard

https://chipweinberger.com/articles/20260719-hardware-is-not-so-hard
500•chipweinberger•1d ago•232 comments

Xiaomi-Robotics-1

https://robotics.xiaomi.com/xiaomi-robotics-1.html
248•ilreb•6h ago•187 comments

Minecraft: Java Edition now uses SDL3

https://www.minecraft.net/en-us/article/minecraft-26-3-snapshot-4
325•ObviouslyFlamer•23h ago•212 comments

The Zen of Parallel Programming

https://smolnero.com/posts/the-zen-of-parallel-programming
170•edgar_ortega•5d ago•23 comments

Airbus Takes Flight from AWS

https://www.theregister.com/columnists/2026/07/20/airbus-takes-flight-from-aws-what-happens-next-...
22•bbg2401•1h ago•7 comments

What does the Riemann zeta function have to do with the distribution of primes?

https://hidden-phenomena.com/articles/rh
9•mb1699•2d ago•1 comments

Bananas sprout in Rayleigh Garden UK after 15 years

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cvg8edqq5g5o
162•teleforce•21h ago•126 comments

HomeLab #1: MikroTik as a Home Router

https://justsomebody.dev/blog/mikrotik-home-router
131•rafal_opilowski•16h ago•104 comments

Qwen 3.8

https://twitter.com/Alibaba_Qwen/status/2078759124914098291
892•nh43215rgb•1d ago•622 comments

11,700 Free Photos from John Margolies' Archive of Americana Architecture

https://www.openculture.com/2026/07/free-photos-from-john-margolies-archive-of-americana-architec...
73•gslin•4d ago•3 comments

When can a power company take your land for data center infrastructure?

https://theconversation.com/when-can-a-power-company-take-your-land-for-data-center-infrastructur...
112•1vuio0pswjnm7•7h ago•88 comments

How proprietary formats have become Microsoft’s main tool for lock-in

https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2026/07/17/microsofts-main-tool-for-lock-in/
112•cube00•6h ago•75 comments

1-Bit LLM in the Browser

https://huggingface.co/spaces/webml-community/bonsai-webgpu
48•simonebrunozzi•3d ago•18 comments

Claude Fable produced a counterexample to the Jacobian Conjecture

https://xcancel.com/__alpoge__/status/2079028340955197566
446•loubbrad•8h ago•279 comments

I joined the IndieWeb, here's what I learned

https://en.andros.dev/blog/0b8e451e/i-joined-the-indieweb-heres-what-i-learned/
213•andros•1d ago•110 comments

Who Is America's Homer?

https://www.plough.com/articles/who-is-americas-homer
86•samclemens•5d ago•180 comments

I burned all my tokens researching how to save tokens

https://quesma.com/blog/custom-deep-research-pipeline/
139•bkotrys•23h ago•186 comments

HMD Touch 4G

https://www.hmd.com/en_int/hmd-touch-4g
82•thisislife2•17h ago•89 comments

C64 Basic Dungeon Crawler: Goblin Attack (C64 Basic Part 8)

https://retrogamecoders.com/c64-basic-dungeon-part8/
76•ibobev•20h ago•6 comments

Dupes took over the world

https://www.vox.com/podcasts/493930/dupe-culture-fender-ugg-quince-tiktok-amazon-online-shopping
100•gumby•5d ago•95 comments

Talk: The Art of Braiding Algorithms

https://pgadey.ca/notes/talk-relatorium-2026/
45•surprisetalk•4d ago•1 comments