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.

Not a hot take but I find the whole generations thing (Millennial, Gen X, etc) extremely silly. Obviously there are people who grew up at the same time and have similar experiences, but um, did you know people are born every day? Like I'm directly in between Millennial and Gen Z, so I only identify with about 30% of either of their "things". I had VHS growing up, but I was still a kid when the Recession happened. I got my first cell phone in high school(I think?), and it was one of those slide keyboard ones that were very briefly popular. The idea that people are born within a span of like 8 years and then they skip 5 is just goofy. And yet many people seem to really take it all seriously.

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This post on using LLMs to write code by Simon Willison helped me why LLMs aren't appealing to me and what goals they serve. In short, I don't want to manage an eager intern, and I'm not interested in creating features that wouldn't be worth writing if I had to understand all the parts myself. The one task that appeals to me is using an LLM to describe a new code base. But my overall take is that using LLMs to write code is an efficient technical debt generator :)

simonwillison.net/2025/Mar/11/

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One of the terms we use when talking about the social web is "decentralisation".

I realised during the talks at that social networking is *already* decentralised; our data, our connections, and our attention are spread across a dozen social platforms.

We need RE-centralisation; I want my social networking experience to be centred on *me*. Starting with an account on a platform I choose, and radiating out to friends, family, neighbours and colleagues, communities, topics.

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This post on using LLMs to write code by Simon Willison helped me why LLMs aren't appealing to me and what goals they serve. In short, I don't want to manage an eager intern, and I'm not interested in creating features that wouldn't be worth writing if I had to understand all the parts myself. The one task that appeals to me is using an LLM to describe a new code base. But my overall take is that using LLMs to write code is an efficient technical debt generator :)

simonwillison.net/2025/Mar/11/

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Scoop: Alleged Co-Founder of sanctioned cryptocurrency exchange Garantex arrested in India.

Authorities in India today arrested the alleged co-founder of Garantex, a cryptocurrency exchange sanctioned by the U.S. government in 2022 for facilitating tens of billions of dollars in money laundering by transnational criminal and cybercriminal organizations. Sources close to the investigation told KrebsOnSecurity the Lithuanian national Aleksej Besciokov, 46, was apprehended while vacationing on the coast of India with his family.

krebsonsecurity.com/2025/03/al

A photo of Varkala beach, in Southwest India. To the left are tall, green and orange cliffs above a broad, curved beach with people lounging here and there. To the right is the ocean, with whitecaps coming toward the shore.Aleksej Besciokov, pictured looking at his computer screen. He has cropped hair that is tinted orange and pink.
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カメラマンメンタルがそんなに強くないので知りたいんですが、画像を編集されてネットにあげられるのってどれくらい抵抗感あるんですか…?

私はいただいたものをそのまま上げる(微妙なものはそもそも上げない)運用をしており、お写真をそのまま渡す場合は適当に加工して上げてください!みたいな感じで渡すようにしているのですが

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Thank you to the 14 principled members of US Congress who signed this letter to Secretary Noem demanding the immediate release of Mahmoud Khalil. It should be a source of shame that every single member of Congress, or at least in the Democratic caucus, didn't sign this.

Does Trump need to literally light the Constitution on fire before they act?

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LF Quick Hits are back—big shifts in AI, security, and energy this week!

❓ What’s really driving AI performance?
⚡ Why is Europe betting big on open infrastructure?
🔐 The latest security push for OSS maintainers

📺 Find out in this week’s LF Quick Hits—60 seconds, no fluff.

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