What is Hackers' Pub?

We cooked a new feature for Godot and iOS lovers. A plugin to Godot to deploy to Xogot on iOS or iPad:

Details:

https://blog.xogot.com/introducing-xogot-connect-remote-debugging-for-godot-on-iphone-and-ipad/

Rust's insistence that you manage aliasing in your types leads to better design, in the end.

It's common for programs in other languages to rely implicitly on global variables, or to take an "everything pointer" argument that can be used to reach all sorts of things they may or may not need.

You generally can't take this shortcut in Rust, which is sometimes frustrating when porting programs. Instead, functions generally wind up taking the things they need as separate arguments, and complex functions are less likely to just be hung on "&self."

In addition to eliminating aliasing-related bugs, this makes the code a lot easier to analyze and test, in my opinion. It's basically the same thing dependency injection did at the application level, but for functions. And, yeah, sometimes I have to spend a while thinking about how to shape my code to take advantage of it, but I wind up happier with the result.

#rustlang

my roommate bought a label printer that looks like it went through a war and lost.

but it's a zebra industrial model so I have no doubt it still works perfectly

I don't think enough people appreciate the large scale public art experiment known as the "google maps reviews for boring things"

Go and look up your local supermarket or anything else that shouldn't really have reviews (something that is boring/banal) and you will find some gems I promise you

I present to you as an example, the reviews for a landfill waste gas generator site:

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Early evidence suggests that mRNA COVID-19 vaccines, when given shortly before cancer immunotherapy, may significantly boost survival rates by activating the immune system. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/commentary/2025/11/12/world/can-covid-19-vaccine-save-cancer-patients/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #commentary #worldnews #mrna #covid19 #vaccines #health #medicine #cancer

It’s really tiring hearing the, “open source is bad for security!” argument whenever it pops up, but especially in domains that *have a lot of work to be done* when it comes to adopting open source, like LLMs and AI models.

Being MORE open is not the problem here. Opening up the weights and releasing under open licenses does not suddenly create security vulnerabilities, unless you believe solely in security through obscurity—which, I’m sorry, the tech industry has moved on from for the better.

2025 Component Abuse Challenge: Light an LED With Nothing

https://hackaday.com/2025/11/12/2025-component-abuse-challenge-light-an-led-with-nothing/

🙌 New Changelog interview!

Prolific software blogger, Sean Goedecke, joins us to discuss why he believes software engineers need to be involved in the politics of their organization, how to avoid worry driven development, what is "good taste" in software engineering, where agentic coding will take our industry, why getting the main thing right is so important, and how to get your blog to the top of Hacker News.

💫 https://changelog.fm/666 #podcast

Valkey 9.0's redis_info says "7.2.4" despite the fact that they support commands added in Redis 7.4.0. Sigh.

I guess I need to adjust my logic to use feature detection, not version. The inevitable result of the Great Redis Schism I suppose.

We're potentially looking for a professional and technical writer with experience in vulnerability research to help with the backlog of Labs research waiting to be published.

If you might be a fit, please contact us with a CV/profile at hello@watchTowr.com

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GLP-1 drugs linked to lower death rates in colon cancer patients

Link: https://today.ucsd.edu/story/glp-1-drugs-linked-to-dramatically-lower-death-rates-in-colon-cancer-patients
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45905408

the NTP foundation (yeah the time thing) is begging for scraps of cash, like a few thousand dollars - a low level manager at amazon, google, apple and meta could each whip out the corp credit card, give them $5k each and problem solved, but no, they're too far up their own arse to do that

https://www.ntp.org/

Cat's out of the bag:
FEX, an emulator I've been working on these past 4 years, is going to be part of the Steam Frame to bring x86 Windows games to an ARM Linux VR headset! 😊

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OmKrKTwtukE&t=205s

Really happy to have been part of the journey and of the team that got FEX to where it is today. Can't wait for the release and community reception!

#steamframe

Valkey 9.0's redis_info says "7.2.4" despite the fact that they support commands added in Redis 7.4.0. Sigh.

I guess I need to adjust my logic to use feature detection, not version. The inevitable result of the Great Redis Schism I suppose.

I don't think I'm getting any sleep tonight.
#Alps #AuroraWatching #SolarStorm #Aurora

One Weird Hashing Trick https://lobste.rs/s/d6hdwo #c #math
https://notes.hella.cheap/one-weird-hashing-trick.html

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It’s really tiring hearing the, “open source is bad for security!” argument whenever it pops up, but especially in domains that *have a lot of work to be done* when it comes to adopting open source, like LLMs and AI models.

Being MORE open is not the problem here. Opening up the weights and releasing under open licenses does not suddenly create security vulnerabilities, unless you believe solely in security through obscurity—which, I’m sorry, the tech industry has moved on from for the better.

Microsoft announces a new marketing strategy for the Year of the Linux Desktop 😉 Thank you for doing this. 😂 Nobody asked for this kind of product that breaks all privacy and safety standards. So choose wisely

A brief look at FreeBSD

Link: https://yorickpeterse.com/articles/a-brief-look-at-freebsd/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45899189

@whitequark✧✦Catherine✦✧ oh believe me, you're high on my list of people who seem to be suffering from Foone, and I mean that as a compliment

Sagt mal… #Linux Bubble… hab' ich das falsch in Erinnerung oder hat sich das geändert: Um Daten mit #dd aus irgendeiner Quelle auf STDOUT anzuzeigen habe ich immer "of=-" benutzt. Heute landen die Daten in diesem Fall in einer Datei Namens "-"
WT…?

おとなりさんに草刈り業者さんが来ているのでにぎやかNC

"Does the leadership at my company promote a xenophobic agenda and use the wealth I help them acquire to donate directly to bigoted causes and politicians I find despicable? Yeah, sure. Did I celebrate my last birthday at Drag Brunch? Also yes." https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/i-work-for-an-evil-company-but-outside-work-im-actually-a-really-good-person

If releasing the Epstein files would end your presidency, then your presidency must end. It’s that simple.

Microsoft announces a new marketing strategy for the Year of the Linux Desktop 😉 Thank you for doing this. 😂 Nobody asked for this kind of product that breaks all privacy and safety standards. So choose wisely

I think it’s worth taking a moment to appreciate all the non technical work that goes behind this announcement.

The KDE e.V. and broader ecosystem is mature enough to develop working relationships with a major vendor, and keep working with them!

Congrats to the whole @kde ecosystem for these massive news again!

https://floss.social/@kde/115538228166622434

I mean, just listen to him talk:

Hackers aren’t just sitting in dark rooms typing away anymore. With AI, they can launch faster, smarter attacks that slip past traditional security systems. AI can be trained to find weaknesses in seconds, or even disguise itself to look like a human user, making it very hard to spot.

In this sort of attack, AI can do the heavy lifting that used to take hackers weeks. It can scan for weaknesses across huge systems in minutes, and once it finds a way in, it can copy normal user behavior so it doesn’t raise any alarms. That makes it far easier for criminals to slip through the cracks without being noticed.

That’s why this airport attack is so concerning. It shows how quickly the rules of cybersecurity are changing. If hackers are using AI to get in, we need AI detectors on the other side to keep them out.”

the official ingress-nginx is retiring which is a very popular Kubernetes Ingress Controller based on NGINX server. They are recommending modern alternatives. https://kubernetes.io/blog/2025/11/11/ingress-nginx-retirement/

The University of California, San Diego just shared that between 2020 and 2025, the number of students whose math skills fall below middle-school level increased nearly thirtyfold, from roughly 30 to 921 students.

The combination of the pandemic and usage of ChatGPT is leading to students who are unprepared for college and college grads who are unprepared for the workforce.

This is an under-investigated phenomenon when discussing the dearth of entry level white collar jobs.

暗号資産、公開鍵暗号のアルゴリズムは使ってるけど本質はハッシュ関数とデジタル署名よねw

Steam Frame

Link: https://store.steampowered.com/sale/steamframe
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45903325

Project Euler

Link: https://projecteuler.net
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45902898

@malwareminigunBilly O'Neal

Let's try this. Compare Jeff's Wikipedia entry with DHH's

Jeff has got a "Philanthropy" section.

DHH has a "Political views" section.

@codinghorrorJeff Atwood

@espen it is but I am not necessarily kind to nazis, if that’s ok with you.

I wonder how hard it would be to build; a basic steam engine, then use it to turn a turbine or dynamo, then use it to run my SteamBox

steam all the way down.

let's go on an Adventure together

きょうもやってこ

7e7f63a2ef (upstream/main) Use the native script for Divehi (#36254)
ed3710e58f Fix `Update` importing old previously-unknown activities and treating them as recent ones (#36848)
8abec0ffcb Revert "Ensure the boost button shows a numeric value (#36805)" (#36850)
00cbc1b910 Fix deprecation warning in Vite (#36849)
f303f3458d Fixes blank screen in browsers that don't support `Intl.DisplayNames` (#36847)
9f3573d446 Fix filters not being applied to quotes in detailed view (#36843)
4b1532e008 Fix duplicate counters (#36844)
ff0fca018a New Crowdin Translations (automated) (#36838)

https://www.wiz.io/blog/forbes-ai-50-leaking-secrets

We looked at 50 leading AI companies and found that 65% had leaked verified secrets on GitHub. Think API keys, tokens, and sensitive credentials, often buried deep in deleted forks, gists, and developer repos most scanners never touch.

Valve Announces New Steam Machine, Steam Controller and Steam Frame

Link: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Steam-Machines-Frame-2026
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45903840

Biogeochemical sensing robots 2,000 meters deep in the ocean have found that marine heatwaves are preventing the ocean from sequestering carbon as expected. The ocean’s carbon storage is struggling. https://spectrum.ieee.org/ocean-robots-mbari-bgc-argo?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=fedica-Mastodon-Daily-Pipeline

僕はYubiKeyだいすきなのでTwitterには第二要素を登録していません #なにいってんだこいつ

Pot lights are a mistake, an architectural foible that’s ubiquitous because it makes a place look glamorous when you’re walking through thinking of renting/buying it. Looks good in photos too. And they’re fine for cooking or reading because you’re looking down. But for activities like conversation or chilling in front of the screen, they glare annoyingly. Nice glass wall or ceiling light fixtures are way easier on the eyes.

#Architecture

Does your main project currently have a way to make a cutout?

Wow, the lack of ANY factual support for such a claim amounts to hyperbole. And from a CEO peddling a service to "guarantee content integrity." File this one under "Umbrella salesman predicts torrential rain."

https://www.wgcu.org/science-tech/2025-09-23/detection-expert-says-hackers-likely-used-ai-to-penetrate-airport-system

Obsidian Importer now lets you generate Markdown files from a CSV.

It converts thousands records in seconds and automatically generates a Base that you can use to explore and edit the data.

Wow, the lack of ANY factual support for such a claim amounts to hyperbole. And from a CEO peddling a service to "guarantee content integrity." File this one under "Umbrella salesman predicts torrential rain."

https://www.wgcu.org/science-tech/2025-09-23/detection-expert-says-hackers-likely-used-ai-to-penetrate-airport-system