What is Hackers' Pub?

swift's module system is just a whole different thing one of the things that makes this hard is that every language with "modules" means something different by them. trying to fit one language's idea into another is just gonna confuse things, imho

Thursday evening Windows 98 install on a Pentium II, my kind of Zen 🧘‍♂️😊

does that make sense?

remember the folder metaphor? we have hosting inside of front_of_house. front is not `pub`. this means that siblings can see it, but not access what's inside. so we aren't able to see hosting. making it public means that siblings of front can now see that it exists. it's the same rule, recursively

I was made redundant a couple weeks ago. From a school I’d worked at for 15 years, They gave us 5 days notice

Fortunately, I’m a member of a union. As were all the other teachers.

Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) were with us every step of the way. They made sure it was all above board, kept our dodgy bosses in check, & even helped us negotiate an enhanced redundancy package

So if you haven’t already, join a union

Here's my cat wearing the union badge

#union #iww #cats #CatsOfMastodon

おはよ

World Happiness Report 2026

Link: https://www.worldhappiness.report/ed/2026/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47441784

#TheDearHunter's new album, Sunya, is out now. May need to wait until after midnight depending on your timezone, or trick time with a VPN.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S2Cwqv1IobE

#NP #NowPlaying #TDH

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Congrats to Bluesky for raising $100 million in Series B funding by Bain Capital Crypto. Such a reaffirming and historic day for the open social web.

https://bsky.social/about/blog/03-19-2026-series-b

📬 Check own properties safely with Object.hasOwn()

A safer alternative to hasOwnProperty, works even on objects with a null prototype.

Baseline since 2022 ✅

Learn more 👇
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Reference/Global_Objects/Object/hasOwn

I turned Markdown into a protocol for generative UI

Link: https://fabian-kuebler.com/posts/markdown-agentic-ui/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47439300

DjangoCon US Talks I'd Like to See 2026 Edition: https://micro.webology.dev/2026/03/19/djangocon-us-talks-id-like/

#Django #DjangoCon #Python

podobno karierę fedi-mikrocelebrytki trzeba zaczynać od kontrowersji, godzić się z byciem zaniechaną, a później stopniowo łagodzić swój wizerunek, to prawda?

Wir sind im Sky Garden. Da gibts eine Bar im 35.Stock und man hat eine tolle Aussicht auf London <3
Puh die Cocktails sind stark

@timbray I am shocked, shocked to learn that the not-actually-federated, locked-in social network started by a bunch of cryptocurrency people is all in on cryptocurrency, VC and ads.

I cannot comprehend why you keep giving them the benefit of the doubt. They have told you who they are, repeatedly.

Wren decided to lay facedown on my desk for some reason. It didn't look comfortable, but she purred so much!

#CatsOfMastodon

So I got this bot that allows multiple people to curate a list of toots that are boosted by it, to create a nice topical account to follow.

Now I only need ideas what to boost haha :)

#Activitypub #fediverse

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Soyo (1985 to 2009) gone, but not forgotten!

Super disappointed that this was left undisclosed: https://bsky.social/about/blog/03-19-2026-series-b

I don’t see how you can build a VC-supported free product without slipping into the Torment Nexus which is to say AdTech.

I do believe the Bluesky people really do want to try to do this. But I still don’t see how.

아멀미나

Return of the Obra Dinn: spherical mapped dithering for a 1bpp first-person game

Link: https://forums.tigsource.com/index.php?topic=40832.msg1363742#msg1363742
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47406160

Ich hoffe ihr könnt mir helfen.
Ich will gerade ein Linux Mint parallel zu Windows installieren. Ich möchte das mit Hardware Treibern für Drittanbieter installieren.
Dabei werde ich aufgefordert ein UEFI Secure Boot Passwort zu vergeben, damit diese Treiber installiert werden können. Dieses muss ich dann beim Reboot neu eingeben.

Frage:
Muss ich dieses Passwort dann jedesmal beim Booten eingeben? Oder nur einmal beim Reboot nach der Installation und danach nie wieder?
Ersteres wäre inakzeptabel. Letzteres beträfe ja nur mich einmalig bei der Installation. Das wäre OK.

#Linux #Linuxmint #Secureboot #UEFI #UEFIboot #followerpower #fedihelp

Bei Herr Lehmann jetzt also auch Kunst vom Künstler trennen. What the fuck ey.

@offby1Chris is. respectfully it does not matter who buys the tool _today_. If you are taking a dependency on that tool, then the owning company decides the priorities, resourcing, direction and leadership of that tool, which definitely matters.

I'm really struggling with the idea that the responsibility to correct for corporate evil resides with individuals, and that failing to do so constitutes some form of evil itself.

It would seem tantamount to castigating individuals for not recycling "enough" when the true cause of pollution lies with industry.

It would seem a way for capital to coerce the pro-human and anti-capital to tear each other apart, causing nothing but self-inflicted wounds.

Then again, blithe oblivion to whence one's resources come also seems irresponsible.

But like, I have work to do that is more important than choosing the least impure tool every goddamn day.

Wren decided to lay facedown on my desk for some reason. It didn't look comfortable, but she purred so much!

#CatsOfMastodon

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#ただし摩擦はないものとする

I suspect I am going to get a lot of use out of this new sticker design.

Somebody found the bag of Lego sets.

#CatsOfMastodon

Louder for the people in the back!

Quieter for the people taking a nap. 🤫

RE: https://infosec.exchange/@ubernostrum/116184516972371923

I’m still looking for resources here if you know of any (tl;dr a company threatening debt collection over an account they admit is not mine).

standing in line for my daily allotted ration of 640kb of RAM

How many branches can your CPU predict? https://lobste.rs/s/5d6qru #hardware
https://lemire.me/blog/2026/03/18/how-many-branches-can-your-cpu-predict/

Hyper-optimized reverse geocoding API

Link: https://github.com/traccar/traccar-geocoder
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47440309

Vincent got in my lap and demanded all of the snuggles, until he was so overflowing with love that he had to get onto the bed and start attacking his brother.

He amusingly also timed his attacks to escalate along with the music I was listening to.

#Cats #CatsOfMastodon #FediCats

Here's an example of Fariña's near-perfect mimicry skills. No wonder why I can't find him half the time.

#catsofmastodon #allcatsarebeautiful #Fariña

You can't die of "have to pee", right? Cuz...

#CatsOfMastodon

Puffin says "if you try to go up the stairs, your ankles are getting bapped"

#Cats
#CatsOfMastodon

1052 words (53626 total) on “The Post-American Internet,” a sequel to "Enshittification," about the better world the rest of us get to have now that Trump has torched America #DailyWords

his psychologist recommended that he make new friends so he joined a cult

RE: https://mastodon.social/@hynek/116257116181510736

💯 This.

I have zero regrets promoting UV and Rust. Ty never quite bloomed to be useful to me.

I think Charlie and Astral did Python a huge service, and I appreciate their journey. The project isn't ending, and its are open source, which means we can write our own ending if we don't like how the story ends. (Unlike that crappy GOT series finale.)

I look forward to seeing where it goes and to the tool that comes after UV and eventually replaces it. This is the open source way.

1052 words (53626 total) on “The Post-American Internet,” a sequel to "Enshittification," about the better world the rest of us get to have now that Trump has torched America #DailyWords

Anthropic takes legal action against OpenCode

Link: https://github.com/anomalyco/opencode/pull/18186
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47444748

What if Python was natively distributable?

Link: https://medium.com/@bzurak/what-if-python-was-natively-distributable-3bfae485a408
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47397809