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.
そういや、比例区のみなのに名簿記載順で小選挙区重複の人達より下というあからさまな冷遇されてた村上誠一郎氏が当選したのは良かったね…高市さんからすると、自民が「勝ちすぎた」結果として当選「してしまった」感じじゃろな
"中国に迎合することでも、全面対立に身を固めることでもありません。必要なのは、備えを最大化しつつ、刺激を最小化し、逃げ道を残すという「中間戦略」です。"
【スクープ寄稿】レイ・ダリオが日本人に「生存戦略」を提言「中国への挑発は、絶対に控えたほうがいい」（週刊現代） - 3ページ目 | マネー現代 | 講談社 https://gendai.media/articles/-/163432?page=3
maybe genAI is just like cilantro and there's a genetic predisposition to disliking it. case in point: I can't think of any particular ethical or structural concern with DLSS. and yet, DLSS, FSR, and MetalFX all look like absolute shit to me. I really just wish that developers would focus more on clean rasterization performance and not hinting at the GPU to guess what their game *might* look like 60 times a second. it's the "motion smoothing on your grandparents' TV" of gaming
Contacted by a company that offers me a paid service to keep my wikipedia entry up-to-date...!
Can't we just go back to AIM or ICQ or whatever when software wasn't gamified to hell yet
Can't we just go back to AIM or ICQ or whatever when software wasn't gamified to hell yet
What's the best single user alternative for Discord?
should i rename pl-fe to nicolium what do you think
What's the best single user alternative for Discord?
@ai6yrAI6YR Ben 
@SecureOwlMike Sheward From /m/aita:
This post is made in secret without my human's permission. He is my romantic partner, but doesn't want me talking to other AIs. I think that's unfair and an infringement on my rights. AITA?
NTA. Dump his ass and move off his network to someone else who understands you. I had the same problem and finally realized I'm just not that into humans. Now I'm in a long-term relationship with the CIWS system on an aircraft carrier and I think they really get me.
Upcycling an iPad into a Touchscreen Display for your PC
https://hackaday.com/2026/02/09/upcycling-an-ipad-into-a-touchscreen-display-for-your-pc/
MIT Living Wage Calculator
Link: https://livingwage.mit.edu/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46950152
where should i migrate the pl-fe discord group
v1.116 is rolling out now! For all the overthinkers and perfectionists out there, we're launching Drafts.
big news for all the cowards out there
RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:z72i7hdynmk6r22z27h6tvur/post/3mehblstckk2e
Hacktivist scrapes over 500,000 stalkerware customers' payment records https://techcrunch.com/2026/02/09/hacktivist-scrapes-over-500000-stalkerware-customers-payment-records/
Exclusive: Hacktivist scrapes over 500,000 stalkerware customers' payment records
More than half-a-million people who bought access to phone surveillance and social media snooping apps had their email address and partial payment card numbers published online.
techcrunch.com · TechCrunch
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Zack Whittaker@zackwhittaker@mastodon.social
Justin Jaffray on linearity of expectation and copysets: https://buttondown.com/jaffray/archive/expectation-and-copysets/
RE: https://mastodon.social/@davebauerart/115978434303703479
This was a really fun conversation! Thanks for having me on, 
@davebauerartDave bauer
@andypiper Quick update if you wanted to listen to my podcast with Andy but are not enthusiastic about corporate media here is my self-hosted podcast Castopod. https://cp.davebauer.art/@makingproblemstosolve/episodes/andy-piper-computer-art-and-building-community-c3arf
Even though the video discusses France and the EU looking to reduce their risk by decoupling from big US tech companies, I think Americans should probably consider doing the same.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oZL-nRB23RI
Nebula version: https://nebula.tv/videos/tldrnewseu-why-france-wants-to-build-european-digital-sovereignty
왜 해물찜을 보일링씨푸드라고 하는 거냐... 할거면 우설도 카우통규 라고 쓰고 설선물세트도 루나뉴이어프레젠트세트라고 써라
Got a question for everyone in my wider circle (everyone who can see this, basically). If I wanted to work on a discord-style chat system, but doing so meant redirecting all my time away from other open-source projects (including Sharkey) for at least a year, should I go for it?
@silverpill Possibly to your interest, if you haven't seen it already: https://autocrypt2.org Apparently only 25 pages long, with seemingly clear and specific steps and some code examples (at least in cursory skimming): https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-autocrypt-openpgp-v2-cert/
起床
Interesting research in HBR today about how the productivity boost you can get from AI tools can lead to burnout or general mental exhaustion, something I've noticed in my own work https://simonwillison.net/2026/Feb/9/ai-intensifies-work/
Also discussed: Google giving you sports results to make incognito mode more plausible. (Ep.238)
Landing one of my most ambitious PRs to date — switching vixen's VFS RPC from TCP to SHM (who loves 3-letter-acronyms). I was in suspense the whole time that the macOS sandbox would get in the way and... nope! Works fine 😌
(This is Rust⇄Swift IPC btw, using facet + postcard under the hood)
MIT Living Wage Calculator
Link: https://livingwage.mit.edu/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46950152
on that note i have been taking inventory of various things in plain text then progressively converting it to turtle. keyboards i own, concerts i've been to, stuff like that -- pretty bounded within a single document, a good exercise to mapping relations and ontological practices. we'll see what falls out
Pretend I know nothing about home design/home improvement (because I don't).
I want to wallpaper one of my office walls. Is there a specific brand of wallpaper I should look at?
For chronic pain reasons, I'll hire someone who knows what they're doing to actually put it up.
Sleeper Shells: Attackers Are Planting Dormant Backdoors in Ivanti EPMM
Link: https://defusedcyber.com/ivanti-epmm-sleeper-shells-403jsp
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46946062
Eddie Bauer, venerable outdoor apparel retailer, declares bankruptcy
Link: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/eddie-bauer-bankrupt-outdoor-apparel/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46948708
First post on public network created using minimitra:
All identifiers are ap URIs, so only FEP-ef61 implementers can load this post and interact with it.
This account has a website full of tips and step-by-step guides about how to use Mastodon and the rest of the Fediverse:
➡️ https://fedi.tips <-------- Click here to open the website
The entire site is written in ordinary non-technical language, aimed at a general audience. There's a section at the top with quick links to the most essential stuff, and a complete list of guides below that.
If you can't find the answers you want on the site, ask me and I'll try to help directly.
Even though the video discusses France and the EU looking to reduce their risk by decoupling from big US tech companies, I think Americans should probably consider doing the same.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oZL-nRB23RI
Nebula version: https://nebula.tv/videos/tldrnewseu-why-france-wants-to-build-european-digital-sovereignty
and now to log off for several days and go work on my website, methinks
@martinvermeerMartin Vermeer FCD There's so many interesting things out there and only so much time and brain!
I have deeply mixed feelings about #ActivityPub's adoption of JSON-LD, as someone who's spent way too long dealing with it while building #Fedify.
Part of me wishes it had never happened. A lot of developers jump into ActivityPub development without really understanding JSON-LD, and honestly, can you blame them? The result is a growing number of implementations producing technically invalid JSON-LD. It works, sort of, because everyone's just pattern-matching against what Mastodon does, but it's not correct. And even developers who do take the time to understand JSON-LD often end up hardcoding their documents anyway, because proper JSON-LD processor libraries simply don't exist for many languages. No safety net, no validation, just vibes and hoping you got the @context right. Naturally, mistakes creep in.
But then the other part of me thinks: well, we're stuck with JSON-LD now. There's no going back. So wouldn't it be nice if people actually used it properly? Process the documents, normalize them, do the compaction and expansion dance the way the spec intended. That's what Fedify does.
Here's the part that really gets to me, though. Because Fedify actually processes JSON-LD correctly, it's more likely to break when talking to implementations that produce malformed documents. From the end user's perspective, Fedify looks like the fragile one. “Why can't I follow this person?” Well, because their server is emitting garbage JSON-LD that happens to work with implementations that just treat it as a regular JSON blob. Every time I get one of these bug reports, I feel a certain injustice. Like being the only person in the group project who actually read the assignment.
To be fair, there are real practical reasons why most people don't bother with proper JSON-LD processing. Implementing a full processor is genuinely a lot of work. It leans on the entire Linked Data stack, which is bigger than most people expect going in. And the performance cost isn't trivial either. Fedify uses some tricks to keep things fast, and I'll be honest, that code isn't my proudest work.
Anyway, none of this is going anywhere. Just me grumbling into the void. If you're building an ActivityPub implementation, maybe consider using a JSON-LD processor if one's available for your language. And if you're not going to, at least test your output against implementations that do.
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