What is Hackers' Pub?

Which would you prefer to have?

(1/2)

Barring a tourist over a meme mocking the VP? This is what authoritarianism looks like...

Also, that's what I see when I see JD Vance

what they say: no politics in foss

what they mean: I'm a little pee pee baby with no idea what labor means or where foss came from or under what socio-economic conditions technology gets (re-)produced and deployed; please change my diapy, i did a little wee wee because it upsets me when people aren't talking exclusively about 1s and 0s in the platonic realm of pure computing

How Cloudflare blocked a monumental 7.3 Tbps DDoS attack

Link: https://blog.cloudflare.com/defending-the-internet-how-cloudflare-blocked-a-monumental-7-3-tbps-ddos/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44330585

@nesroch檀馨 (단형/ﾀﾞﾝｷﾖｳ) 아 저 메시지는 또 처음 보네요… 새 탭으로 열기를 하면 사파리에서 레퍼러 정보를 없애버리는지 또 안되고, 여러모로 정보 긁어가는 업체들을 막기 위해 일부 사용자의 경험까지 침해할 준비가 되어 있을만큼 공격적으로 막는 것 같아요.

Unpaid open source maintainers should not have to keep up maintaining decades old shit used by billion dollar companies just because a large billion dollar company doesn't want to change compiler flags, actually

Auge @stdevel

I do use AI — though you can see a bit more about my thoughts in roe.dev/blog/using-ai-in-open-source. I tend to use it for: ⚪️ automations (@n8n.io) ⚪️ agent-coding (copilot) ⚪️ code review (@coderabbitai.bsky.social) I use it to _augment_ (running in 'background'). lots more to say tho … !

먛님은 쓰담받고싶다

if we let individual people own corners of human creativity, we'll never get scenes. culture won't be able to advance. but also, they gotta somehow make a living

I did a thing and you can now trivially run #spread integration tests with #ImageGarden and #GitHub actions

https://github.com/marketplace/actions/run-tests-with-image-garden-and-spread

I do use AI — though you can see a bit more about my thoughts about using it in open source on my blog (https://roe.dev/blog/using-ai-in-open-source/). I tend to use it for:

⚪️ automations (@n8n_io)
⚪️ agent-coding (copilot)
⚪️ code review (coderabbit)

I use it to _augment_ (running in 'background').

lots more to say tho … !

https://roe.dev/ama

#ama

I find it fascinating that the response to the latest "outage" has been "ThE sUpPLy ChAiN!!!" rather than "WebPKI is a fundamentally broken mess".

Some impressive mental gymnastics going on among those who understood the incident and nonetheless reached this nonsensical conclusion.

I'm sure this has nothing to do with corporate interest permeating the discourse. /s

I met one of those guys who maintains a large COBOL codebase over the weekend. He's pretty happy with his job, is close enough to retirement that he'll be able to just keep doing this until then. Even though we only chatted for a few minutes, it was neat.

I'm writing my book on Python performance using Quarto (https://quarto.org/) and it's really great technical writing environment out of the box.

But beyond that, it's also extremely customizable.

Each document (an article or chapter) can be a Jupyter notebook, and I have written custom Jupyter magics that e.g. benchmark different functions and generate markdown tables of the results.

So e.g. I'd write:

```{python}
#| echo: false
%%compare_timing --measure=instructions
function1(DATA)
function2(DATA)
```

And it will benchmark both functions and render a Markdown table that shows mean elapsed time and mean CPU instructions.

Rendering the book, including running benchmarks and formatting their results, is completely automated.

#python

Fixes for five Lix CVEs via @hexa https://lobste.rs/s/ihlmb2 #nix #security
https://lix.systems/blog/2025-06-24-lix-cves/

LR(1) parse-tables generator https://lobste.rs/s/odv1yf #c++ #plt #programming
https://github.com/wldfngrs/parser-generator

Relaxing with a fan-art: Roderika from Elden Ring! Painted in my cool down sessions between comic pages. Love her signature worried look!

#eldenring #fromsoftware #krita #fanart

Basic Facts about GPUs

Link: https://damek.github.io/random/basic-facts-about-gpus/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44365320

An official announcement will come soon, but if you are using the #Lix package manager, it's recommended you upgrade NOW.

For more details, read https://lix.systems/blog/2025-06-24-lix-cves/.

This blog post will be updated with more information as we go (PRs in nixpkgs, etc.).

#NixOS

나도 AI를 돈 내고 써야 하나

ooh, new dark pattern I discovered today.

Stuck with MS Teams at $DAYJOB, I continue to hold onto the thick-client instead of succumbing to the heavy-weight web client.

Just about every time I switch to the app after a couple hours of not using it, it pops up a "This is unsupported" interruption with a link to learn more, HUGE, colorful "Try it on the web" button, and a smaller light "continue using this antiquated unsupported piece of junk" type button.

As if that wasn't bad enough, as dark patterns go, when you tab through the controls, focus lands on the "more information" link and on the "try it on the web" button, but the "continue using this" simply won't focus with the keyboard. You HAVE to reach for the mouse to click the "continue using this"

Have I mentioned how much I loathe using MS products, and Teams in particular?

A couple of redditors imagining Matt Berry as The Doctor has ended me

https://old.reddit.com/r/CasualUK/comments/1ljb9vy/what_british_actors_havent_been_cast_in_their/mzigamf/

Run, there's a fuuuuckiiiing Daaarlehhk on the lawn

今天懶到直接把米、豬肉片、高麗菜丟飯鍋，加點黑椒，倒油和醬油進飯鍋直接煮

只是想在高麗菜雪到壞掉前清掉，希望不會太難吃

이거의 다른 예로 지금 카세트 테이프 플레이어를 만들려면 선택지가 하나밖에 없음. 일본 타나신 회사의 메커니즘을... 중국 회사들이 베껴서 여태까지 생산하고 있는 것들. 카세트가 흥했을 때는 여러 회사가 테이프 메커니즘을 만들었겠지만 지금은 타나신을 포함해 다 포기한 지 오래고 그래서 지금은 싸구려부터 하이엔드 기기까지 부품 품질만 조금 다른, 같은 구조의 어셈블리를 쓰고 있음.

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:f7mjkyetd6fas2qbknt65l5v/post/3lseeiwswgs2f

Lix releases are now out, please upgrade. A detailed writeup about the issue and the mitigations is at https://lix.systems/blog/2025-06-24-lix-cves/, scroll a bit down for for instructions on how to protect yourselves.

See also the Discourse announcement post at https://discourse.nixos.org/t/security-advisory-privilege-escalations-in-nix-lix-and-guix/66017, which also links to the various Nixpkgs PRs for those that use Lix from Nixpkgs.

#Nix #Lix

Lix releases are now out, please upgrade. A detailed writeup about the issue and the mitigations is at https://lix.systems/blog/2025-06-24-lix-cves/, scroll a bit down for for instructions on how to protect yourselves.

See also the Discourse announcement post at https://discourse.nixos.org/t/security-advisory-privilege-escalations-in-nix-lix-and-guix/66017, which also links to the various Nixpkgs PRs for those that use Lix from Nixpkgs.

#Nix #Lix

Finding a 27-year-old easter egg in the Power Mac G3 ROM

Link: https://www.downtowndougbrown.com/2025/06/finding-a-27-year-old-easter-egg-in-the-power-mac-g3-rom/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44365806

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we had an interesting @vuejs.org team meeting today (I joined early and had the meeting notes bots to myself for a few minutes)

How I make thumbnails for YouTube, a second channel video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FlFrmuYBMS8

'Meredith,' some guys ask, 'why won't you shove AI into Signal?'

Because we love privacy, and we love you, and this shit is predictable and unacceptable. Use Signal ❤️

I'm drafting an upcoming newsletter about inoculating yourself against the phrenology of programming: identifying it, basic red flags in claims about cognition and developer problem-solving, and unfortunately...papers about programmers that stray over the line

TIL that Bugs Bunny is canon non-cis!

Why the fuck is it so hard to meet non-flakey, cool people who are available, and down to do cool shit.

I'm 35 and starting mostly from scratch. No family, no pets, no obligations, no relationship. I have an amazing fucking job. I've been in nyc my whole life. It shouldn't be this fucking hard.

Yes maybe 🏳️‍⚧️ has something to do with it, but wtf. It's so fucking annoying making all this effort all the fucking time. Pride makes me so fucking depressed cuz I always hope for more.

しーも壊れちゃった

또 졸았다

> ... they would never be used for training LLMs. A separate justification was required for each use. None is even offered here except for Anthropic’s pocketbook and convenience.

> The technology at issue was among the most transformative many of us will see in our lifetimes. but also > Every factor points against fair use. Anthropic employees said copies of works (pirated ones, too) would be retained “forever” for “general purpose” even after Anthropic determined ...

"Claude AI maker Anthropic bags key “fair use” win for AI platforms, but faces trial over damages for millions of pirated works" aifray.com/claude-ai-ma...

Claude AI maker Anthropic bags...

そういや10月までなのでそろそろ期限伸ばさきゃね

WSL和Windows 11…

New https://constraint.systems work from me:
Image Paint - an image brush where pixels are copied and pasted in the direction you click and drag. An attempt to make something that feels tactile like paint, but "goes with the grain" of being digital.
Try it at https://image-paint.constraint.systems

riverのバージョン上げたら壊れた

ok fine on a constructive note: the policy people keep falling into the trap of thinking that interoperability is a tech and policy issue. but thats a sideshow to the actual challenges of implementing interoperability, which is cultural. if you dont have a fedi account you sure as hell dont know the cultural challenges when it comes to interoperability

June was packed. Catch the latest from the world of secure networking:
✅ Grants are now generally available
🧩 App connectors are also GA, access your SaaS services via your tailnet!
🔄 + updates to Docker, K8s, tsrecorder, and the admin console.
https://tailscale.com/blog/june-25-product-update

I'm writing my book on Python performance using Quarto (https://quarto.org/) and it's really great technical writing environment out of the box.

But beyond that, it's also extremely customizable.

Each document (an article or chapter) can be a Jupyter notebook, and I have written custom Jupyter magics that e.g. benchmark different functions and generate markdown tables of the results.

So e.g. I'd write:

```{python}
#| echo: false
%%compare_timing --measure=instructions
function1(DATA)
function2(DATA)
```

And it will benchmark both functions and render a Markdown table that shows mean elapsed time and mean CPU instructions.

Rendering the book, including running benchmarks and formatting their results, is completely automated.

#python

躺床上看書姿勢不良，後來靈機一動，把露營用的折疊躺椅拿來房間用，舒服😌

Technology & Friends - Scott Hanselman on New Technology and Old Friends with host David Giard.

https://davidgiard.com/scott-hanselman-on-new-technology-and-old-friends

#podcast #devcommunity #technology