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.
The US National Academies of Sciences refused to remove a climate change chapter from the Reference Manual on Scientific Evidence, despite pressure from Republican attorneys general.
Seit ich gelesen habe, dass es keine Frühjahrsmüdigkeit gibt, fühl ich mich total schlapp. 🤷♂️
The new MacBook Neo is the most repairable MacBook we’ve seen in 14 years. Screwed-in battery tray, modular ports, sensible layout, and day-one repair manuals. It’s not perfect, but it’s a real step forward for MacBook repair. Read the full breakdown at the link below.
https://www.ifixit.com/News/116152/macbook-neo-is-the-most-repairable-macbook-in-14-years
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#iFixit #RightoRepair
청와대 직원들의 초과 근무는 월 62.1시간, 국가 공무원 전체 평균의 3.7배다. 근무 중 쓰러져 병원에 실려 간 직원만 벌써 4명째다. ..라고 한다.
The US National Academies of Sciences refused to remove a climate change chapter from the Reference Manual on Scientific Evidence, despite pressure from Republican attorneys general.
Seit ich gelesen habe, dass es keine Frühjahrsmüdigkeit gibt, fühl ich mich total schlapp. 🤷♂️
Starfield is coming to PS5 on April 7th, alongside two major updates for the game. There’s a free “Free Lanes” update with new locations and dungeons, and a paid “Terran Armada” story update. Full details 👇 www.theverge.com/entertainmen...
Starfield is coming to the PS5...
GPT‑5.4 Mini and Nano
Link: https://openai.com/index/introducing-gpt-5-4-mini-and-nano
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47415441
Holy fuck.
perhaps the *biggest* bummer about the LLMs-are-good-at-coding-specifically craze is that LLM suitability is a good test for bullshit. LLMs reliably produce the kind of information (slop, disinformation, hero images for ad copy) that indicates a social problem. one of the hardest arguments to refute is from those that concede that LLMs extrude this kind of useless uniform gray sludge of information, but observe that most software is useless gray sludge already anyway, so why not do it faster?
The last spam e-mail I've just received. This is funny:
"Hi
I came across Illumos Cafe online and wanted to reach out because we're working with other communities that are offering operating systems."
...ok...
"I’m currently working with a few communities on campaigns that are getting their sales teams meetings with warm leads every month. We’re targeting people who need operating systems using personalized email sequences. "
...WHAT???...
"If I could help you connect with potential clients like this, would that be helpful to you?"
...WHAT????...
LLMs, at their worst...
Jutro jadę na Nodes on a Web — unconference poświęconą (e?) wykorzystywaniu Fediwersum przez instytucje publiczne
We do not need the next best tool, the next best framework, or the next best process for better software engineering.
We need good governance structures & leaders with integrity.
Éirinn go Brách 🇮🇪
Everyday is a good day to remember that the word "boycott" is the name of a british landlord and general agent of empire so revolting that the people of County Mayo shunned him so hard that his name entered the English language as a prototype
but today is a particularly good day
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Boycott#Lough_Mask_affair
Please keep your fingers crossed for me, I'm installing #FreeBSD on my laptop for the first time 🤞
'New' Frankensteined Ghetto retro workshop PC is now setup 😂
i7 / 32GB / 1050 Ti
Mainly for media creation and backup in my workshop:
🔵 SD/MMC
🔵 CF
🔵 SM
🔵 xD
🔵 Sony Pro/Duo
🔵 CD and DVD-RW
🔵 1.4mb and 720k Floppy
🔵 Dedicated Greaseweazel Floppy
🔵 Parallel LPT
🔵 Serial
The plumber has arrived and his name is Mario (yes, I know...).
After an hour of trying things out, he decided he'll have to come back in the next few days with a probe and a special tool, because even he can't figure it out.
The positive side? At least the consolation that I would never have managed to do it on my own.
The Paxos algorithm, when presented in plain English, is very simple (2021) https://lobste.rs/s/qpqawd #distributed
https://www.mydistributed.systems/2021/04/paxos.html
Julian Lam is thinking about running a session on:
Setting up a successful topic-based federating forum without having to find actual users
What an idea! Join us, April 28-30, online, for the next FediForum! https://fediforum.org/2026-04/
RE: https://mastodon.social/@404mediaco/116239928027085487
literally DM me, or any random person, instead of interacting with a chatbot out of loneliness
I feel so grateful again today to spend time in frank discussions with caring people who have genuine problems who want to go beyond blaming people for those problems. And for discussions in which we can confidently and openly acknowledge what's going on and even who bears responsibility for it and even explaining why that's happening, all without needing to assign blame and feel superior.
Éirinn go Brách 🇮🇪
You can use the 'fetch' command to retrieve files over ftp, http or https.
fetch https://www.FreeBSD.org/images/beastie.png
will download the beastie image from the FreeBSD web site.
After Madblog, how many of you would like #ActivityPub and #Indieweb support to come to GPSTracker too?
This is an idea that I’ve been flirting with for a while.
Like many Millennials, 10-15 years ago I was into the Foursquare-mania. It was the age where pubs would offer discount to their Foursquare mayor and where people used to share their Foursquare stats and compete on how many badges they had collected.
Then Foursquare decided to pivot its platform towards the business-side instead, the check-in app was spun off into Swarm, it gradually lost users but it gained trackers, and by now I think only 1-2 of my contacts (out of >100 in the golden age) still use it.
By now I don’t think anyone has filled that gap; there isn’t any social media built around networks that share and recommend their check-ins.
#GPSTracker already supports a lot of tracking, timeline and check-in features, synchronization of geo events with mobile devices, and even stats with arbitrary aggregations (by country, time range, city, region etc.). Plus some features that Foursquare never implemented (like searching for checkins on the timeline by simply selecting an area on the map).
#Microformats already support location tags through the h-adr class, although they are rarely used. Both #Webmentions and ActivityPub could send check-in activities as permalinks to pages with those tags. And the #OpenStreetMap APIs could do the heavylifting of retrieving POIs in in a certain lat/long box.
The only hurdle would be implementing the protocols under the hood, as both the Webmentions and Pubby libraries are in #Python while #GPSTracker is in #Typescript. But it could be a good chance to start writing multi-language bindings for those libraries.
Let me know if it’s something that you would use, or even self-host, and if you know if there’s anything in the Fediverse that already fills this niche.
“Organic molecules delivered from extraterrestrial materials may have played a key role in supplying building blocks for life on Earth,” said one scientist.
Survived my routine dental appointment. I feel exhilarated
🕐 2026-03-17 18:00 UTC
📰 Claude Code / CodexでKaggle金メダルを取った話 (👍 226)
🇬🇧 Using Claude Code/Codex for Kaggle gold: AI handled implementation, ran 1,515 experiments. Humans focused on ideas—which drove most score gains.
🇰🇷 Claude Code/Codex로 Kaggle 금메달: AI가 구현을 처리하고 1,515번 실험. 인간은 아이디어에 집중—대부분의 점수 향상 주도.
You can use the 'fetch' command to retrieve files over ftp, http or https.
fetch https://www.FreeBSD.org/images/beastie.png
will download the beastie image from the FreeBSD web site.
Node.js needs a virtual file system
Link: https://blog.platformatic.dev/why-nodejs-needs-a-virtual-file-system
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47413195
유리히메 2018년 연재 지금 보니 재밌네. 후지마츠 메이 단편 있는데 그림체가 지금이랑 완전히 다르고.
how do you know if a meme is dank
I asked Claude to explain the difference between weighted limits and conical limits in enriched categories, but it got confused and started contradicting itself. I guess not enough training data?
@codinghorrorJeff Atwood 
@GargronEugen Rochko
Well, yes and no. The full argument was that:
- most of the digital film cameras are recording at less than 4k (2.4k was used as a median).
- those that use film, get digitalised before cutting for that ~2.4k, and that's the resolution on which efects are added, and which forms the defacto max-resolution.
=>so what they sell as 4K is often only 2.4k, with stretched pixels.
Further: to stream those streched extra-pixels, they tend to over-compress colour profiles.
@ijuJuho Mäntysalo @codinghorrorJeff Atwood @GargronEugen Rochko yeah, streaming (as opposed to 4k Blu-ray) has effectively made 4k TVs pointless. They mostly target 15mb/s and most of the detail is lost. Same goes for the Dolby Vision dynamic HDR profiles they use for streaming.
Stick a high bitrate Blu-ray of a decent film transfer on a well calibrated display and you’ll be blown away, though.
Remove superfluous SCSS imports file (#38261) by diondiondion has been merged! https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/commit/11112fa9dcacf54d4c790bbb0bc302d2209b57bb
接地してる鳥を撮るならOM-3に換算800mm了解。僕はまだまだOM-5IIでがんばってみるね
【OM SYSTEM】もう「ピント合わせ」で悩まない。カメラ任せで魔法のように鳥を捉え続ける、驚異の体験談。 | THE MAP TIMES
https://news.mapcamera.com/maptimes/bird_om3_100_400/
됒이고양이가 나를 눌러...
Is there an elegant way, in the shell, to say “run this program until this other program is finished”?
I know I could run a thing, get a PID and then append a command with “&& kill pid” or something but that feels clunky.
We’ve just published the first monthly report for our Cyber Resilience Act Readiness project, part of our 2026 effort to prepare the FreeBSD community for the European Union’s landmark cybersecurity regulation.
This update provides a transparent look at our progress across key workstreams, including security and vulnerability handling, SBOM tooling, public documentation, and community engagement.
Read the report:
https://github.com/FreeBSDFoundation/all-projects/blob/main/Cyber%20Resilience%20Act%20Readiness/monthly-updates/2026-02.md
게놈프로젝트 이름답게 한달치 쫙 모아보면 이쁠거같은데 못하겟어요
The new MacBook Neo is the most repairable MacBook we’ve seen in 14 years. Screwed-in battery tray, modular ports, sensible layout, and day-one repair manuals. It’s not perfect, but it’s a real step forward for MacBook repair. Read the full breakdown at the link below.
https://www.ifixit.com/News/116152/macbook-neo-is-the-most-repairable-macbook-in-14-years
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#iFixit #RightoRepair
Make sure you reflect on how lucky you are to have a cat in your life. 🐈
Thanks to 
@alice🅰🅻🅸🅲🅴 (🌈🦄) for encouraging our household to become ungovernable
오늘의 진도... 이 이상 길어지면 감당을 못할 것 같음 자동실행 설정을 추가함 모든 프로그램 색을 커스텀 가능함 바코드에 커서를 올리면 기록이 뜸+프로그램 아이콘을 누르면 주간 사용시간 표시
Tiny nose boop, big happiness
#cats #follow #CatsOfMastodon
Chao-c'
leyrer
tenjuu99(天重誠二)
jnkrtech
Tom Casavant
Sarah Rainsberger
Cat 🐈🥗 (D.Burch) 
