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.

william.maggos @wjmaggos@liberal.city
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When articles, videos and podcasts are native , maybe people will just boost them directly instead of everybody writing their own posts linking to them. I really wish quote boosts had this functionality in mind. Same with podcatchers, video players and reader apps in the future. Show me what's most boosted in my social graph of the content type you're designed for.

Making all media management better and attention more democratically allocated is the "killer app" of the .

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Guinan @guinan@tenforward.social
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Shared by Misty

LB: queer.party/@maffsie/115220978

Ten Forward will welcome any queer.party members who wish to make Ten Forward their new home on the fediverse.

Make sure to mention that you are coming from queer.party in the signup form.

your purple friend (@maffsie@queer.party)

friends, i’m sorry, but queer.party will, after eight and a half years, shut down on the 15th of December, 2025. for more information, please see the announcement posted on the home timeline - this announcement also includes links to, and a list of, other instances that have offered invites or opened registrations to queer.party’s users. a full timeline of the shutdown is posted on SourceHut, where queer.party's source code is hosted: https://paste.sr.ht/~maff/67f89a7d69279ee04ea7e352056149f86ac08ec4 Thank you for being here. It’s been lovely.

queer.party · Queer Party!

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mhoye @mhoye@mastodon.social
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I really don't think I have a rigorous ideological position, and generally I'll admit my values could stand more thought and introspection, but I've gotta tell you that when I say "if we generally agree something is bad then we should definitely stop subsidizing that thing", a surprising number of people get super fucking mad about that.

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Electronic Frontier Foundation @eff@mastodon.social
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Shared by zunda

Learn how ICE is getting data from our phones, license plates, even tax data, and why we have to work together to protect our communities, from KQED News and EFF's @cooperqExploit code not people:
kqed.org/news/12055606/how-ice

How ICE Is Using Your Data — and What You Can Do About It | KQED

ICE’s reach may get even wider due to a new partnership with a spyware company. But there have always been tools at the immigration agency’s disposal. KQED speaks to privacy advocates on what people should know about ICE’s access to their personal data.

www.kqed.org

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dante @dante@masto.posting.haus
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I really like discord for the most part but in light of the CEO being hauled into a senate hearing on "radicalization" makes me worry about the future of it. Though basically all alternatives I've seen have some level of annoying tradeoffs

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Chris Trottier @atomicpoet@atomicpoet.org
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Some guy copied my writing, dumped it into ChatGPT, told it to mimic me—and claimed this “proved” I use an LLM.

Thing is, ChatGPT can mimic anyone. For example, Shakespeare. Also, Hemingway. Pick your author. That’s literally what it’s built for.

And just because it can whip up a passable Shakespeare or Hemingway doesn’t mean those guys were AI sleeper agents. Same story here.

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Jana Ballweber @JanaBallweber@mastodon.social
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Shared by leyrer

"Verschickt worden war die Aufforderung, das Pfalzlied zu singen, laut Kreis von der Stadt Bad Dürkheim: "Die Meldung hätte innerhalb von KATWARN auf einem eigens eingerichteten sogenannten Themen-Abo Wurstmarkt verschickt werden sollen und keinesfalls über die übergeordnete Warnfunktion." Die Stadt wollte demnach eine Kategorie innerhalb der App nutzen, auf der unwichtigere Meldungen gesendet werden können, hatte aber aus Versehen die Katastrophen-Ebene genutzt." 🤯

swr.de/swraktuell/rheinland-pf

Aus Versehen: Bad Dürkheim fordert 7.000 Bürger via KATWARN zum Singen auf

Was war denn da los? Tausende Bürger wurden per Warnmeldung aufgefordert, das Pfalzlied zu singen. Der Kreis Bad Dürkheim ist not amused.

www.swr.de · SWR Aktuell

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Fontwerk @fontwerk@typo.social
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Shared by wakest likes your bugs ⁂

A post by @typographica, which refers to a request by @morningtype – ‘What if instead of /feed.xml, there was /fonts.xml? Just imagine being able to subscribe to a release feed without the noise and baggage of other social platforms. No algorithms. No ads. Just fonts.’ – has now inspired us to additionally provide such an RSS feed in addition to our regular blog feed.

There is no faster way to stay informed about new Fontwerk releases (and there are quite a few planned for the coming months!).

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Hacker News 50 @hn50@social.lansky.name
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Depression Reduces Capacity to Learn to Actively Avoid Aversive Events

Link: eneuro.org/content/12/9/ENEURO
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4

Depression Levels Are Associated with Reduced Capacity to Learn to Actively Avoid Aversive Events in Young Adults

Depression and anxiety are often characterized by altered reward-seeking and avoidance, respectively. Yet less is known about the relationship between depressive symptoms and specific avoidance behaviors. To address this gap, we conducted two studies. In Study 1, undergraduates and online workers completed an uninstructed go/no-go avoidance task ( N Total = 465) as a reverse translation of a rodent paradigm. Participants exhibited a wide range of symptom scores on the Beck Depression Inventory-II (BDI-II), ranging from low to severe. In Study 1, cues were used to signal the response type (go/active vs no-go/inhibitory) required to avoid an aversive sound. Higher depressive scores were associated with poorer acquisition of active avoidance in undergraduates. Overall participants showed lower accuracy for active than inhibitory avoidance. To examine whether the better no-go trial performance reflected a prepotent response to avoid aversive outcomes, in Study 2, undergraduates ( N Total = 330) completed a version of the task that included reward-seeking. Here all participants showed higher accuracy for active reward-seeking and inhibitory avoidance, consistent with a prepotent response to inhibit action to avoid aversive consequences. These findings suggest that in young adults, depressive symptoms are associated with difficulty in overriding prepotent responses to actively avoid aversive outcomes in the absence of reward. This work bridges the gap between preclinical animal models and clinical research, offering insights that could guide the development of more targeted clinical interventions.

www.eneuro.org · eNeuro

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Hacker News 50 @hn50@social.lansky.name
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Anthropic irks White House with limits on models’ use

Link: semafor.com/article/09/17/2025
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4

Anthropic irks White House with limits on models’ use

The AI firm declined requests by contractors working with federal law enforcement that could see its tools being used for surveillance.

www.semafor.com

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dansup @dansup@mastodon.social
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Shared by @reiver ⊼ (Charles) :batman:

While others build walled gardens, we're preparing to tear down walls.

As TikTok creates separate US and global apps, we're putting the finishing touches on ActivityPub integration in Loops.

Soon you'll share your loops across the entire fediverse - no borders, no corporate silos.

The future is federated. 🌐

joinloops.org

Loops - Short videos. Your community. Your rules.

All the fun of short-form video, none of the corporate control. Loops is federated, open-source, and designed to give power back to creators and communities.

joinloops.org

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dansup @dansup@mastodon.social
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While others build walled gardens, we're preparing to tear down walls.

As TikTok creates separate US and global apps, we're putting the finishing touches on ActivityPub integration in Loops.

Soon you'll share your loops across the entire fediverse - no borders, no corporate silos.

The future is federated. 🌐

joinloops.org

Loops - Short videos. Your community. Your rules.

All the fun of short-form video, none of the corporate control. Loops is federated, open-source, and designed to give power back to creators and communities.

joinloops.org

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