What is Hackers' Pub?

A new version 20260314 of the C64 music editor, SID Factory II, has been released.

https://blog.chordian.net/sf2/

#SF2 #C64

INFORUM: AI error jails innocent grandmother for months in Fargo fraud case. “Angela Lipps spent nearly six months in jail in Tennessee and North Dakota after being misidentified by Fargo police through AI facial recognition in a bank fraud investigation.”

Greg: Why you gotta post weird pictures of me to your socials?

d: The fediverse must have its #caturday due, little shouty one.

아 속 안 좋아 불닭 먹어야징

I spoke about agentic engineering at the Pragmatic Summit last month, in a fireside chat hosted by Eric Lui - here's the half hour video plus highlight quotes and extra notes from our conversation https://simonwillison.net/2026/Mar/14/pragmatic-summit/

INFORUM: AI error jails innocent grandmother for months in Fargo fraud case. “Angela Lipps spent nearly six months in jail in Tennessee and North Dakota after being misidentified by Fargo police through AI facial recognition in a bank fraud investigation.”

Signal's recent disclosure of how little it could share in response to a grand jury subpoena is pretty telling. Its defaults are very strong. But if you want to go further, we have a guide on really how to really maximize its privacy settings. https://freedom.press/digisec/blog/locking-down-signal/

프랑스말 전치사를 쓴 이상한 버거 이름이 남작이 되었다가 벌써 사망했네…

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:yvyzfzuoclnnlj3aaa7vxlvb/post/3mgzsn6ptos2c

UBI Is Your Productivity Dividend – The Only Way to All Share What We All Built

Link: https://scottsantens.substack.com/p/universal-basic-income-is-your-productivity
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47378399

HasThisTypePatternTriedToSneakInSomeGenericOrParameterizedTypePatternMatchingStuffAnywhereVisitor

https://eclipse.dev/aspectj/doc/latest/weaver-api/org/aspectj/weaver/patterns/HasThisTypePatternTriedToSneakInSomeGenericOrParameterizedTypePatternMatchingStuffAnywhereVisitor.html

To see the 10 largest files in a directory or on a UFS partition, use

du -h /partition_or_directory_name | sort -rh | head
-- Dru <genesis@istar.ca>

More movement, underground.

#photography

New in Colombia! 🇨🇴
"Mujer de cerámica" by Mago One in El Carmen de Viboral, Colombia for Vibora Fest.

Ars Technica Fires Reporter Benj Edwards After He Published Story With AI-Fabricated Quotes
https://daringfireball.net/linked/2026/03/14/ars-technica-benj-edwards-ai-fabricted-quotes

After more than 10 years, @jazzband is sunsetting.

I started it in 2015 because maintaining Open Source alone was exhausting. The idea was simple: shared access, shared responsibility. It's been an honor to watch it grow: 3,135 members, 84 projects, and a lot of code shipped together.

https://jazzband.co/news/2026/03/14/sunsetting-jazzband

(1/3)

“Karp’s message is loud and clear: My technology will take political capital away from one of your greatest enemies—liberal women with degrees—and give one of your favorite demographics to patronize—working-class men—more political power to transfer to you.”

These fucking women-hating weirdo assholes.

I used to think my nemesis was the finance bro. My mistake. It's the Tech Bro. Specifically, this kind.

https://newrepublic.com/post/207693/palantir-ceo-karp-disrupting-democratic-power

Philosoph Jürgen Habermas Gestorben

Link: https://www.spiegel.de/kultur/philosoph-juergen-habermas-mit-96-jahren-gestorben-a-8be73ac7-e722-4543-8344-4515c4040363
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47376848

LLM code is the lead pipe of our generation of software engineers. They’re going to be replacing it for decades and wondering how we were so foolish

"The government of Brazil has revoked the visa of Darren Beattie, a far-right adviser to United States President Donald Trump who had planned to visit ex-President Jair Bolsonaro in his prison cell in Brasilia."

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/3/13/brazil-pulls-visa-of-trump-adviser-who-asked-to-visit-bolsonaro-in-prison

#uspol #bolsonaro #lula

Once again, Pi Day rolls around, and once again I forget to actually do anything substantial to promote PCalc.

Even worse, I added Tau in the latest releases, and the Pi people and the Tau people have been at war for decades. Don't ask…

But the current iOS version is 3.14.x and so Pi wins for today!

https://pcalc.com

Nanny state discovers Linux, demands it check kids' IDs before booting.

#Linux #opensource #privacy

https://www.theregister.com/2026/03/13/opinion_os_verification/

If you live in the USA, put March 28th in your diary.

https://www.nokings.org/

#USPolitics #NoKings

이란이 너무 맞는 소리를 하잖아...

What happens when US economic data becomes unreliable

Link: https://mitsloan.mit.edu/ideas-made-to-matter/what-happens-when-us-economic-data-becomes-unreliable
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47378638

Is your timeline a bit empty? Do you want it to be filled with interesting posts and nice accounts?

Here's a simple non-technical guide to all the different ways you can discover accounts to follow on Mastodon and the wider Fediverse:

➡️ https://fedi.tips/how-do-i-find-accounts-to-follow-on-mastodon-and-the-fediverse-how-do-i-find-my-friends

There's no algorithm on here so discovering people and posts may take a bit more effort, but it also tends to produce higher quality more humane results.

If I've missed a method let me know 🙂

#FediTips #Mastodon

Happy Pi day!

걍 모든 정보값이 중요한 것의 디자인에 대비를 약하게 주지 말 것을 주장하는 디자이너입니다 (모든 디자이너들이 접근성과 유니버셜 디자인이라는 개념을 알면 좋겠습니다)

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:bud2vesqgfr2jthepsz5id7w/post/3m55nhy6aac2g

I watched Hoppers yesterday. This movie is full of fluffy and adorable animals. I believe every great change starts from a little paw. Some people don’t believe a little paw can change anything — but that paw is anything but small. #Moviesky

To see the 10 largest files in a directory or on a UFS partition, use

du -h /partition_or_directory_name | sort -rh | head
-- Dru <genesis@istar.ca>

🕐 2026-03-14 18:00 UTC

📰 プログラマの抱いている不動産データについての誤謬 (👍 107)

🇬🇧 Common misconceptions programmers have about real estate data modeling, inspired by 'Falsehoods About Names'
🇰🇷 부동산 데이터 모델링에 대한 프로그래머들의 흔한 오해들 ('이름에 대한 오류' 오마주)

🔗 https://zenn.dev/estie/articles/39efe1ebf6b188

#RealEstate #DataModeling #Zenn

Thoughts on generative A.I https://lobste.rs/s/ypes5v #ai #philosophy
https://kghose.github.io/generative-ai/

Developing a 2FA Desktop Client in Go https://lobste.rs/s/b4vncq #video #go
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HFu3CUtrOQ8

If you live in the USA, put March 28th in your diary.

https://www.nokings.org/

#USPolitics #NoKings

Once again, Pi Day rolls around, and once again I forget to actually do anything substantial to promote PCalc.

Even worse, I added Tau in the latest releases, and the Pi people and the Tau people have been at war for decades. Don't ask…

But the current iOS version is 3.14.x and so Pi wins for today!

https://pcalc.com

I watched Hoppers yesterday. This movie is full of fluffy and adorable animals. I believe every great change starts from a little paw. Some people don’t believe a little paw can change anything — but that paw is anything but small.

After more than 10 years, @jazzband is sunsetting.

I started it in 2015 because maintaining Open Source alone was exhausting. The idea was simple: shared access, shared responsibility. It's been an honor to watch it grow: 3,135 members, 84 projects, and a lot of code shipped together.

https://jazzband.co/news/2026/03/14/sunsetting-jazzband

(1/3)

I'm becoming borderline fluent at shopify and I hate it

A court record reviewed by 404 Media shows privacy-focused email provider Proton Mail handed over payment data related to a Stop Cop City email account to the Swiss government, which handed it to the FBI.
https://www.404media.co/proton-mail-helped-fbi-unmask-anonymous-stop-cop-city-protestor/

小説投稿サイトに必要なのは「AI読者」だ——埋もれた作品に、最初の読者を。｜Masa Kei https://note.com/masa_kei/n/n05a4a9a0f24f

> このAI読者という仕組みは、書き手だけでなく投稿プラットフォーム自体にも利点がある。
> 読者ゼロの作品を減らすことにより、書き手の離脱率が下がる。AI読者がSNSで作品を紹介することは、これまで閉じた生態系だった投稿サイトと外部の読者をつなぐ経路になる。埋もれた名作が発掘されるたびに、そのプラットフォームへの信頼が積み上がる。
> コンテストの一次審査をAI読者が担い、AIによる寸評を読みつつ人間の編集者が作品を読む。そういう運用も現実的だ。

ということを考えている人もいるというのは、意外ではないですね。で、あなたたちはいったい何を求めて小説を書いて/読んでいるんです？

did you know that stare in the name stands for stare akkoma-fe

"The government of Brazil has revoked the visa of Darren Beattie, a far-right adviser to United States President Donald Trump who had planned to visit ex-President Jair Bolsonaro in his prison cell in Brasilia."

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/3/13/brazil-pulls-visa-of-trump-adviser-who-asked-to-visit-bolsonaro-in-prison

#uspol #bolsonaro #lula

… does anyone have any contacts at #Beagleboard? 😉

Always appreciate a tree with its own webpage: https://www.bgpa.wa.gov.au/gija-jumulu

내가 생각하는? https://moim.live 는 hackerspub에 모인 사람들이 다양한 주제로 모이기 위한 수단으로서의 서드파티 서비스로도 접근하고 있음.

"Even worse was the suggestion by Grammarly’s A.I. version of me to replace the first sentence of the news article with an anecdotal opening describing a fictional person named Laura whose privacy had been violated.

“Laura, a patient searching for relief from a chronic condition, clicks through her hospital’s website to schedule an appointment. In just a few moments, her most private medical details — her reason for visiting, her doctor’s name and even the treatment she seeks — are quietly sent to Facebook, without her knowledge,” the bot suggested with a button allowing the user to paste that excerpt straight into the article.

Replacing a factual sentence with an imagined story about a person who doesn’t exist is not only bad editing. It’s a deception that could end my career as a journalist (or the career of any journalist who took that terrible advice).

And this is the problem with A.I. It doesn’t know truth from fiction. It doesn’t know an investigative news article from an offhand comment. It flattens all content into word associations.

What Grammarly made wasn’t a doppelgänger. As the writer Ingrid Burrington wrote on Bluesky, it was a sloppelgänger — A.I. slop masquerading as a person.

And it must be stopped."

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/13/opinion/ai-doppelganger-deepfake-grammarly.html

#AI #GenerativeAI #Copyright #Writing #Hallucinations

내가 생각하는? https://moim.live 는 hackerspub에 모인 사람들이 다양한 주제로 모이기 위한 수단으로서의 서드파티 서비스로도 접근하고 있음.

Is your timeline a bit empty? Do you want it to be filled with interesting posts and nice accounts?

Here's a simple non-technical guide to all the different ways you can discover accounts to follow on Mastodon and the wider Fediverse:

➡️ https://fedi.tips/how-do-i-find-accounts-to-follow-on-mastodon-and-the-fediverse-how-do-i-find-my-friends

There's no algorithm on here so discovering people and posts may take a bit more effort, but it also tends to produce higher quality more humane results.

If I've missed a method let me know 🙂

#FediTips #Mastodon

これすき😆

https://youtu.be/5yOom-T1aKI

Is your timeline a bit empty? Do you want it to be filled with interesting posts and nice accounts?

Here's a simple non-technical guide to all the different ways you can discover accounts to follow on Mastodon and the wider Fediverse:

➡️ https://fedi.tips/how-do-i-find-accounts-to-follow-on-mastodon-and-the-fediverse-how-do-i-find-my-friends

There's no algorithm on here so discovering people and posts may take a bit more effort, but it also tends to produce higher quality more humane results.

If I've missed a method let me know 🙂

#FediTips #Mastodon