What is Hackers' Pub?

Hackers' Pub is a place for software engineers to share their knowledge and experience with each other. It's also an ActivityPub-enabled social network, so you can follow your favorite hackers in the fediverse and get their latest posts in your feed.

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Second time this week that someone has explicitly or implicitly accused me of using an LLM to write my Reddit comments.

“Ameliorated is a pretty big word, are you an English major?”

No, dipshit, I just put in the effort to communicate precisely.

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"What we suspected but weren’t told was that their job was to black-out Trump’s name every time they found it. …

When you’ve lost Marjorie Taylor Greene & Lauren Boebert, both of whom have had a look at the unredacted Epstein files, you have a whole lot to worry about. Trump is cornered by the life of sexual abuse he led in the past. He doesn’t just face allegations from women and a legal judgement against him from a woman he raped."


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"The big headline of the day was made by Congressman Jamie Raskin, who upon exiting the redaction room told the press that a search of all the unredacted Epstein files – not just the redacted files released publicly – revealed that Donald Trump’s name appears more than one million times."

~ Lucian K. Truscott


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luciantruscott.substack.com/p/

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"What does it say about the moment we're in that there have been no consequences yet for anybody on this list? There have been overseas, but not here in America. ...

This is going to be an election where, where Trump decides, 'We'll have to keep doing crazier and crazier and crazier things' because he is in such a deep hole right now."

~ Rick Wilson


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lincolnsquare.media/p/epstein-

"The big headline of the day was made by Congressman Jamie Raskin, who upon exiting the redaction room told the press that a search of all the unredacted Epstein files – not just the redacted files released publicly – revealed that Donald Trump’s name appears more than one million times."

~ Lucian K. Truscott


/13

luciantruscott.substack.com/p/

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“'We must be clear: this release does not provide closure. It feels instead like a deliberate attempt to intimidate survivors, punish those who came forward, and reinforce the same culture of secrecy that allowed Epstein’s crimes to continue for decades.' ...

It’s time for the United States of America to have the kind of accountability for the Epstein class that we’re seeing elsewhere in the world."


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"What does it say about the moment we're in that there have been no consequences yet for anybody on this list? There have been overseas, but not here in America. ...

This is going to be an election where, where Trump decides, 'We'll have to keep doing crazier and crazier and crazier things' because he is in such a deep hole right now."

~ Rick Wilson


/12

lincolnsquare.media/p/epstein-

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"It turns, out destroying people’s lives and livelihoods with no allegiance to anything but your own wealth and power is always evil. So, it turns out, it’s the same guys. Same billionaires. Same vibes. Same moral black hole—just different crimes on different days."

~ Cliff Schecter


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blueamp.co/p/donald-trumps-sup

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"The hideous crimes of Trump's ICE in the present and the revelations about the hideous crimes of the past that implicate so many rich and powerful white men, including Trump and his commerce secretary, Howard Lutnick, are together a sort of pincers move. They corral the administration from two angles, clarifying its utter disregard for the human rights of, well, everyone but powerful white men."

~ Rebecca Solnit


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meditationsinanemergency.com/a

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It’s kind of wild when you think about how many Black and Brown teachers, scholars and experts got pushed out of the fedi over the years, but this place still, somehow, considers itself progressive.

In that context, it makes a lot of sense why Blacksky is improving as quickly as it has.

It’s just not as antagonistic to learning and adapting.

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Here are some other talks I recommend:

Wastrel: WebAssembly Without the Runtime by @wingoAndy Wingo (Wastrel uses Hoot!) fosdem.org/2026/schedule/event

Willow - Protocols for an uncertain future (wins "Christine's award for most charming presentation") by @gwilsammy g fosdem.org/2026/schedule/event

Automerge + Keyhive Design Overview by @expedeBrooklyn Zelenka fosdem.org/2026/schedule/event

BLUE - A generic build-system crafted entirely in Guile by @shepherdSergio Pastor Pérez fosdem.org/2026/schedule/event

raylib: a 12-year adventure as a solo-maintainer fosdem.org/2026/schedule/event

Too many other good talks to list of course (and I haven't gotten through all of them) but all of the above talks totally rule

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OpenStreetMap.org has been disrupted today. We're working to keep the site online while facing extreme load from anonymous scrapers spread across 100,000+ IP addresses. Please be patient while we mitigate and protect the service.

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So for a long time I found LISP elegant but I found the syntax infuriating. Then I made my own LISP variant with semi-significant whitespace and helper syntax— each line (up to whitespace or comma) is wrapped in an implicit (), a : wraps a () to the end of the line, a {} wraps its interior in (lambda), a [] wraps its contents in (list ), "x.y" becomes "get x y". Suddenly, I found it usable!

I wonder if I could just make an editor that applies these rules implicitly, and then I could use GUIX.

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For Canadian fintech sovereignty, I’d like to invite people to take a look at what Brazil did with Pix

Pix is an instant payment system managed by the central bank of Brazil - it’s a government thing. It enables people and businesses to pay/receive transactions without fees and without the need of a credit card. All you need is a bank account and a personal identification number you use to link to that bank account. See en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pix_(pay

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Discord claims "most users" will never go through an age verification process because they're already monitoring your behavior.

For the majority of adult users, we will be able to confirm your age group using information we already have. We use age prediction to determine, with high confidence, when a user is an adult. This allows many adults to access age-appropriate features without completing an explicit age check.

Gotta say, constant behavior analysis is not the warm and fuzzy blanket they seem to think it is.

discord.com/safety/how-discord

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