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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cliffle @cliffle@hachyderm.io
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After many years of mostly WFH, the original Oxide custom keyboard is back in its original habitat -- at my original desk! -- in Emeryville.

I've upgraded its brain to the reCODE rev C of course.

A mid sized mechanical keyboard on a desk with a Thinkpad. The key caps are white, green, and charcoal, which were the Oxide brand colors until about 2022.
cliffle @cliffle@hachyderm.io
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Shared by ✧✦Catherine✦✧

When (Google) X moved into our new digs in 2015, I suggested naming the conference rooms after dead products to keep us humble: Newton, Edsel, etc. This did not go over well.

At Oxide I've got my choice of dead computer company mugs each morning, and guess what our naming scheme for our conference rooms is....

(Oh I made that sign out of walnut and oak)

Anyway, culture fit could be much worse

A selfie in front of a conference room sign reading "Control Data" while holding a mug that reads "Amdahl."
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Swift Language @swiftlang@mastodon.social
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Swift 6.2 is here, including so much 🆕🥳:
⏩Approachable concurrency
🦺Opt-in strict memory safety
📦WebAssembly support
🏃Faster build perf for macros
🐞Enhanced async debugging
📚Inline stack-based arrays
🚇Subprocess support
🧪Test result attachments
swift.org/blog/swift-6.2-relea

Swift 6.2 Released

We’re excited to announce Swift 6.2, a release aimed at making every Swift developer more productive, regardless of where or how you write code. From improved tooling and libraries to enhancements in concurrency and performance, Swift 6.2 delivers a broad set of features designed for real-world development at every layer of the software stack.

swift.org · Swift.org

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gavcloud @gavcloud@sonomu.club
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@liaizonwakest ⁂ found another cool type foundry site built in notyourtype.nl/info/

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Info | notyourtype foundry

notyourtypefoundry(nytf) is a (very) small digital type foundry dedicated to showcasing and supporting the type design works of BIPOC and FLINTA* designers. We assist these people by planning, organizing, and publishing their designs. Additionally, we hope to get financial suppport (funding) in the future to start host (free) workshops that offering BIPOC and FLINTA* designers, makers a platform for learning and doing type design collectively and publishing their typefaces( if they want to).

notyourtype.nl · notyourtype foundry

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Æ. @aesthr@wandering.shop
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Shared by Sven Peter

About 16 years ago Apple released "Snow Leopard", a new major version of Mac OS X that had no new user-facing features and focused mostly on stability and bug fixes.

And people fucking loved it.

Sounds so weird looking back from today.

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구슬아이스크림 @icecream_mable@hackers.pub
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Shared by Jaeyeol Lee

갑자기 불현듯 하이텔이나 나우누리 같은 옛날 PC통신이 떠올라서 난 한 번도 그 시절을 겪어본 적이 없었는데 어떤 느낌일까 싶어서 해보고 싶어가지고 검색 해봤는데 생각보다 쉽게 사설 BBS를 접속하는 프로그램을 찾아내서 탐방했음. 미국은 사설 BBS가 아직 명맥을 이어가는 것 같은데 국내 거는 사실상 멸종한 것 같다...여튼 하니깐 어릴 때 친구네집 펜티엄 컴퓨터 갖고 스치듯 했던 MS-DOS 갬성이 엄청 느껴져서 하는 내내 헤벌레 미소 지으면서 했다 ㅋㅋㅋ 나갈 때 작별인사 페이지도 따로 있어서 살짝 감동 먹음 🥹

참고로 사용한 프로그램은 MuffinTerm이고 애플 계열 기기에서 돌아간다 (아이패드 포함). 접속한 BBS는 8bit-boyz라는 미국 레트로 컴퓨팅 커뮤니티다.

8bit-boyz BBS 접속 사진
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Miguel Arroz @arroz@mastodon.social
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Shared by Jeff Geerling

macOS Tahoe UI has a HUGE new feature for folks like me who have 24/7 Mac Minis running and access them remotely: you can now type the boot password remotely via SSH!

Power on the Mac, then SSH to it. A simple SSH server will handle your request. Typing the password there is equivalent to typing it on the keyboard. The connection then closes and the machine boots normally.

Combine this with "Start up automatically after a power failure" and you can ditch that KVM!

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Michael Lucas :flan_set_fire: @mwl@io.mwl.io
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Today in

"ZFS support in Linux distributions varies. The broader Linux community questions the compatibility between the GPL and the CDDL and in response, distributions have added and removed installer ZFS support. Intellectual property attorneys who have considered CDDL/GPL compatibility often say “it’s an interesting question,” which is lawyerese for “$500 an hour and the hearing’s gonna be *lit*.” This doesn’t matter to users, but operating system vendors are risk-adverse. The result? OpenZFS considers Linux a top-tier platform. Most Linux distributions do not consider ZFS a top-tier filesystem."

No, no sponsorships yet. Gotta finish the last crowdfund before starting another. (Stupid ethics!)

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Adam Greenfield @adamgreenfield@social.coop
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“I fear the car is the predictive historical model [for LLMs]: small wins for individuals + huge wins for a handful → massive externalities and collective action problems that will take generations to fix.” – @luis_in_briefLuis Villa

The language of “wins” aside, this is the most correct take. IMO, the nigh-Butlerian inability to concede that LLMs might deliver *any* gains of *any* scale for *any* party we so often see here impedes both analytic clarity & credibility with low-engagement interlocutors.

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Hacker News 50 @hn50@social.lansky.name
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Implicit Ode Solvers Are Not Universally More Robust Than Explicit Ode Solvers

Link: stochasticlifestyle.com/implic
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4

Implicit ODE Solvers Are Not Universally More Robust than Explicit ODE Solvers, Or Why No ODE Solver is Best - Stochastic Lifestyle

A very common adage in ODE solvers is that if you run into trouble with an explicit method, usually some explicit Runge-Kutta method like RK4, then you should try an implicit method. Implicit methods, because they are doing more work, solving an implicit system via a Newton method having “better” stability, should be the thing you go to on the “hard” problems. This is at least what I heard at first, and then I learned about edge cases. Specifically, you hear people say “but for hyperbolic PDEs you need to use explicit methods”. You might even intuit from this “PDEs can have special properties, so sometimes special things can happen with PDEs… but ODEs, that should use implicit methods if you need more robustness”. This turns out to not be true, and really understanding the ODEs will help us understand better ... READ MORE

www.stochasticlifestyle.com · Stochastic Lifestyle

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