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.
What would you call an event-driven LLM system? (Say, incoming email -> automatic reply, where the production of the reply may involve running some tools, e.g. to query databases, but does not involve a loop?)
I'm thinking about this because I saw a Mastodon server of eight and a half years shutting down, which is leaving its migrating users in a very awkward position if they have years' worth of posts that are being lost.
It's not, to be clear, the server admin's fault - they don't control Mastodon's feature set. It's squarely the responsibility of Mastodon to supply the server migration tools necessary to resolve these problems for its users.
You know, the other thing I'm thinking is: as a community, we keep telling people to stay off mastodon.social. But if you signed up for mastodon.social in 2016 or 2017, it's one of the only options available that would still be working today with your full post history intact. If you signed up anywhere else, you've *probably* been through multiple migrations and lost your full posting history several times over.
The more and more old servers I see close, the more intolerable it is that Mastodon still doesn't offer a way to migrate data like posts to new accounts. A user's post history is valuable, and it's more valuable the older the account is. Users *should* have the option to migrate those to a new server!
I think for many users, if they lose their posting history when moving to a new server, they have less reason to stay here instead of moving to a new network. If they're losing everything anyway, why not move to bluesky or something else?
The more and more old servers I see close, the more intolerable it is that Mastodon still doesn't offer a way to migrate data like posts to new accounts. A user's post history is valuable, and it's more valuable the older the account is. Users *should* have the option to migrate those to a new server!
What in the Final Destination...
Vivaldi, アクティブにするたびにフリーズする。自分だけなのかもしれないが、Ubuntuだろうとwindowsだろうとリリース当初から永久に不安定。ひとまずedgeに移行してみる。
Well, that was fun, just noticed an "Unknown" network extension in MacOS settings and it turned out to be protonvpn which I'd uninstalled via cleanmymac.
Had to follow:
- https://developer.apple.com/documentation/systemextensions/installing-system-extensions-and-drivers#Examine-the-Installed-System-Extensions
- https://developer.apple.com/documentation/security/disabling-and-enabling-system-integrity-protection
To fix, with multiple reboots
Show HN: The text disappears when you screenshot it
Link: https://unscreenshottable.vercel.app/?text=Hello
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45284311
When Knowing Someone at Meta Is the Only Way to Break Out of "Content Jail"
Link: https://www.eff.org/pages/when-knowing-someone-meta-only-way-break-out-content-jail
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45293273
The Sad, Sad World of Tech Blogging During an Era of Technological Stagnation
L: https://freddiedeboer.substack.com/p/the-sad-sad-world-of-tech-blogging
C: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45293800
posted on 2025.09.18 at 15:17:37 (c=0, p=3)
What in the Final Destination...
小原一真氏、『現代詩手帖』の表紙になっていて知った。（2025年8月号）
https://www.kazumaobara.com
https://www.kazumaobara.com/platformontheborderrussia-ukrainewar
the highs and lows you feel during porting is what i love most about it - you just fit the square into the circle hole until it loses it’s edges
Website Inspo - Collected at the Component Level https://lobste.rs/s/nhkmkg #design #javascript
https://www.inspo.page/
Chrome's New AI Features
Link: https://blog.google/products/chrome/new-ai-features-for-chrome/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45292260
Employees Share Why They Quit on the First Day
L: https://www.buzzfeed.com/carleysuthers/quitting-job-first-day-stories
C: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45293423
posted on 2025.09.18 at 14:42:22 (c=0, p=6)
Cluely Thesis on Virality and Hype
L: https://cluely.com/blog/virality
C: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45293197
posted on 2025.09.18 at 14:26:07 (c=0, p=3)
「勝利の女神：NIKKE」は如何に女性ユーザーを獲得したのか？｜rei https://note.com/beatangel/n/nd1a7104c0c03
stretchy kcalc cant hurt you, stretchy kcalc isnt real
stretchy kcalc:
Kitsune Tails is still on sale for 30% if a weekend of disaster sword lesbian fox girls sounds like a good time https://store.steampowered.com/app/1325260
stretchy kcalc cant hurt you, stretchy kcalc isnt real
stretchy kcalc:
Rust 1.90.0 has been released! ✨🦀
This release makes LLD the default linker on x86-64 linux-gnu and adds `cargo publish --workspace` to publish an entire workspace all at once!
Check out the blog post and release notes for more: https://blog.rust-lang.org/2025/09/18/Rust-1.90.0/
Kitsune Tails is still on sale for 30% if a weekend of disaster sword lesbian fox girls sounds like a good time https://store.steampowered.com/app/1325260
Samsung has rolled out a software update to its smart fridges that will display ads, despite saying they had "no plans" to do so. We're headed for a future where you will have to pay extra for appliances without ads.
www.theverge.com/news/780757/samsung-brings-ads-to-us-fridges
The Last Days of the Managerial Class
L: https://eyeofthesquid.com/the-last-days-of-the-managerial-class-5c95bd74ee60
C: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45293509
posted on 2025.09.18 at 14:50:13 (c=0, p=4)
People of the internet, show me your favourite meme
依舊是滿島光非常有魅力的作品。
#再看一次
I'm ready to accept a definition of "agent" that I think is widely-enough agreed upon to be useful, at least in the AI engineering space:
An LLM agent runs tools in a loop to achieve a goal
(I've been dismissing the term as hopelessly ambiguous for years) https://simonwillison.net/2025/Sep/18/agents/
People of the internet, show me your favourite meme
@babetits romney Ha, you’re banned from entering the US now.
Atlassian CEO promises AI everywhere, clearer views of what your devs are up to
L: https://www.theregister.com/2025/09/18/atlassian_dx_purchase/
C: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45293420
posted on 2025.09.18 at 14:42:17 (c=0, p=4)
おっ。久しぶりに避難訓練しないとなあ
Out now: Tails 7.0, built on Debian 13 (Trixie) and GNOME 48 (Bengaluru). 🚀 Faster startup, upgraded apps & hardware support.✨
🌐 https://blog.torproject.org/new-release-tails-7_0/
when you're crying because you're so proud of your team
Interesting idea of having "unscreenshottable" text:
https://unscreenshottable.vercel.app/?text=Nice%20Try
that uses animated static to make any individual still-frame pure noise, while the eye can still pick out the image/text (if it doesn't give your brain an aneurysm).
But you can still capture the text by screenshotting two successive images and then using ImageMagic to highlight just the differences:
$ composite -compose difference input1.png input2.png output.png
allowing you to view the screen-captured text with in output.png
Quick, which of these Home Screens are checked? This is on the iOS 26 *default wallpaper.*
thank god there’s just so much room for my content, in the phone call screen
さてさて 
48005c55ff (upstream/main) Add short-time HTTP caching of quote authorizations for public posts (#36171)
e2171f5083 Change quoted posts from silenced accounts not to be hidden (#36166)
16a6e5c118 Add click-through for quoted limited accounts (#36167)
c368a16dc1 Fix translate button width in Safari (#36164)
bb3f9ed13b New Crowdin Translations (automated) (#36160)
🚨 Gaza Verified: Emergency appeal for 
@aseelfromgzA S E E L
Aseel, her lovely cat Liza, and her family are in the danger zone in North Gaza and need your help to get to the South.
To find transportation, rent land, and get a tent is going to cost them roughly $4,500 when you figure in the 40% commission they’ll have to pay when withdrawing the money in Gaza. They’ve already raised $330 thanks to your kind donations.
So now we have a goal:
$2,432/$4,500 → $2,068 left to go!
We’re past the half-way mark! Let’s do this!
(I’ll update this as I hear from Aseel as donations start coming in.)
Their preferred method (the money goes straight to them):
https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=7DTFU9TQV44EY
If that’s not possible, their GoFundMe (goes to Aseel’s cousin outside of Gaza and she still has to find another way to send it to them):
Please donate, and share this, if you can.
Together we can save the lives of Aseel and her family and adorable little fluffy Liza.
InfoSec:
"Never ever click on emails, all emails are malware."
Also InfoSec:
"Check out this new security feature which provides passwordless login right from an email link."
the problem with having to go to the birdsite to retrieve images from my account is that my brain refuses to remember x dot com so I start to type x.org every time
mcc
Cat 🐈🥗 (D.Burch) 
" arson. 
