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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laura lemay @lemay@mastodon.social
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Shared by Cat 🐈🥗 (D.Burch) :paw:⁠:paw:


Cato the new cat is a fetcher, and he's very good at it. He's even good at the "drop the ball right at my feet" part.

Only problem is that he wants to do it over and over and over and will start tapping my leg and going 'mrrpr mrrp rrrrp" if I don't keep throwing it for him.

He has also discovered the box of cat toys so if he loses one under the couch he just goes and gets another one.

(video has sound but is not critical)

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Alameda Post @alamedapost@newsie.social
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"...Americans have experienced threats from government extremism before, including Jim Crow, racial injustice, the McCarthy era, and the Japanese internment, and have risen up against them," writes Alameda Mayor Marilyn Ezzy Ashcraft in her latest article. alamedapost.com/features/alame

Mayor Ashcraft: Don’t Give Up, Don’t Give In

"...Americans have experienced threats from government extremism before, including Jim Crow, racial injustice, the McCarthy era, and the Japanese internment, and have risen up against them," writes Alameda Mayor Marilyn Ezzy Ashcraft in her latest article.

alamedapost.com · Alameda Post

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IEEE Spectrum @ieeespectrum@mastodon.social
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Norway achieved near-total EV adoption in 2025. Can other countries use that blueprint? spectrum.ieee.org/norway-ev-po

How Did Norway Achieve Near-Total EV Adoption?

What lessons can other countries learn from Norway's electric vehicle journey?

spectrum.ieee.org · IEEE Spectrum

Link author: IEEE Spectrum@ieeespectrum@mastodon.social

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mhoye @mhoye@cosocial.ca
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Being on Team Words Mean Things is difficult these days, particularly when multibillion-dollar companies put out breathless press releases saying "By using our massive language model, whose training data includes every version of GCC ever released, and having it autocorrect its own output by testing it against GCC, we managed to make a C compiler that mostly works for only $20,000 in a week and gosh I have so many feelings."

I mean, what the fuck are we even doing here.

anthropic.com/engineering/buil

The fix was to use GCC as an online known-good compiler oracle to compare against. I wrote a new test harness that randomly compiled most of the kernel using GCC, and only the remaining files with Claude's C Compiler. If the kernel worked, then the problem wasn’t in Claude’s subset of the files. If it broke, then it could further refine by re-compiling some of these files with GCC. This let each agent work in parallel, fixing different bugs in different files, until Claude's compiler could eventually compile all files. (After this worked, it was still necessary to apply delta debugging techniques to find pairs of files that failed together but worked independently.)
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Gabriele Svelto @gabrielesvelto@mas.to
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Shared by Em :official_verified:

On the one hand I'm very tired. The state of the world around us is truly terrible and nobody can ignore it. But on the other hand I'm not giving up. The struggle will be long but we must never give up hope. We'll make this world a better place, this society a better society and ultimately ourselves better human beings.

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Indivisible @indivisibleteam@mastodon.social
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Shared by Em :official_verified:

It’s extra important for our Members of Congress to hear from us right now. With a DHS funding deadline looming next week, we must demand that Democrats hold the line and refuse to fund DHS without ironclad limits on ICE and CBP, actual accountability for abuses, and clear guardrails to stop raids and intimidation: act.indivisible.org/sign/ice-o

Tell Your Members of Congress to rein in ICE NOW

On January 24, federal forces with the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) killed Alex Pretti in Minneapolis. This was just over two weeks after the killing of Renee Good. These killings are a direct result of unchecked violence, impunity, and abuse carried out by federal immigration enforcement agencies against members of our communities. Congress is currently negotiating funding for DHS, which includes ICE and Border Patrol. We are demanding our Members of Congress draft a new bill that, at minimum: Ensures there is not one penny more for ICE or CBP Pulls ICE and Border Patrol out of Minneapolis and the rest of our communities Prevents ICE or Border Patrol enforcement at designated ‘sensitive locations’ such as houses of worship, day cares, and hospitals Restricts ICE and Border Patrol’s ability to target people based on their race, language or accent, place of employment, or location at the time of the apprehension Ends the administration’s unlawful practice of warrantless home entry and arrests Use this tool to instantly contact your Members of Congress with a clear message: Protect our communities by reining in ICE NOW. The email to your Members of Congress:

act.indivisible.org · Indivisible Guide

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Charlie Stross @cstross@wandering.shop
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THOUGHT FOR THE DAY:

The singularity has been cancelled.

What we're getting is wall to wall spam generators, optimized for passing the (modified) Turing test and convincing gullible humans that they are "intelligent".

Instead of the singularity, we are getting the spamularity.

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mcc @mcc@mastodon.social
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Re-discovering that "Hesitation Marks" is the one and only Nine Inch Nails album that Tidal doesn't have¹ and cracking up all over over again

"Oh, you didn't want *that* one"

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¹ I think the last time I looked into this it turned out to be a Canada geoIP thing.

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Hacker News 100 @hn100@social.lansky.name
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An Update on Heroku

Link: heroku.com/blog/an-update-on-h
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4

An Update on Heroku

Today, Heroku is transitioning to a sustaining engineering model focused on stability, security, reliability, and support. Heroku remains an actively supported, production-ready platform, with an emphasis on maintaining quality and operational excellence rather than introducing new features. We know changes like this can raise questions, and we want to be clear about what this means for customers. There is no change for customers using Heroku today. Customers who pay via credit card in the Heroku dashboard—both existing and new—can continue to use Heroku with no changes to pricing, billing, service, or day-to-day usage. Core platform functionality, including applications, pipelines, teams, …

www.heroku.com · Heroku

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Hacker News 50 @hn50@social.lansky.name
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An Update on Heroku

Link: heroku.com/blog/an-update-on-h
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4

An Update on Heroku

Today, Heroku is transitioning to a sustaining engineering model focused on stability, security, reliability, and support. Heroku remains an actively supported, production-ready platform, with an emphasis on maintaining quality and operational excellence rather than introducing new features. We know changes like this can raise questions, and we want to be clear about what this means for customers. There is no change for customers using Heroku today. Customers who pay via credit card in the Heroku dashboard—both existing and new—can continue to use Heroku with no changes to pricing, billing, service, or day-to-day usage. Core platform functionality, including applications, pipelines, teams, …

www.heroku.com · Heroku

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