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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I mean, I get it, you can't just call people from the US Americans, after all there are other countries in the Americas. But, usians? No thanks. We already have a perfectly good word. It's Yankee or Yanks. Maybe that's a little offensive to confederate types but nobody cares what they think.

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I'm honored to be named a @ThePSFPython Software Foundation fellow🐍
This reflects work I started in 2018 at @pyOpenSci —creating inclusive pathways for scientists to spend less time fighting with their code and more time solving the challenges that matter.

None of this happens alone. To everyone who's participated in our peer review process, contributed to our guidebooks, supported our beginner-friendly sprints, or helped welcome new community members—thank you.

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I had the displeasure of reading an article in the Harvard student paper by an economics major who said in apparent seriousness that comp sci majors are wasting time on theory classes like “Introduction to Algorithms and their Limitations” when they could be learning REAL skills like prompt engineering.

Algorithms are not useless theory, you unbalanced red-red tree. They’re the entire fucking point of the degree, you empty hash bucket. Go gamble daddy’s money on a startup your buddies thought up last night, you quadratic insert operation

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Mobster on the left had the journalist Jamal Khashoggi murdered and dismembered with a bone saw.

Mobster on the right says that’s just fine: “A lot of people didn't like the gentleman you're talking about. Whether you like him or didn't like him, things happen.”

They don't even bother to pretend.

Mohammed bin Salman and Donald Trump in the Oval Office, before a background of gaudy fake-gold tat.
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Disney has lost Roger Rabbit
by Cory Doctorow @pluralisticCory Doctorow

«Copyright is a very weak tool for protecting creators’ interests, because copyright only gives us something to bargain *with,* without giving us any bargaining *power,* which means that copyright becomes something we bargain away.

«The middlemen who control access to our audiences have all the power, so when Congress gives creators new copyrights to bargain with, the Big Five (or Four, or Three, or Two, or One) just amend their standard, non-negotiable contract to require creators to sign those new rights over as a condition of doing business.
doctorow.medium.com/https-plur

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Just discovered swiftpackageindex.com/tomasf/C yesterday.

Back at @SwiftLeeds 2025, Aline Borges was explaining me how she's creating her models for 3D printing using code. I thought that was great but it would be really nice to do it in Swift instead of OpenSCAD and I would put that on my TODO list.

Yesterday, I was going through my (way too big) podcast backlog and finally listened to the August episode (#60) of Swift Package Indexing and the 1st pick was basically the answer I was looking for.

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AI and rich people and economics

A sudden depressing, grim thought: a world in which rich people believe "AI" will take over all of the menial paperwork jobs is one where the rich people don't have to care if the not-rich people get educated, can read, and so on. Capable public schooling? Necessary if you need a lot of clerks and people who can read and type, not necessary if "AI" is doing it all for your company.

Suddenly I see the attacks on public schooling in a new light.

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RE: infosec.exchange/@JessTheUnsti

SO. FUCKING. MUCH. THIS.

The day I came to work as myself for the first time I went from being the project lead and expert that everyone deferred to to having every single idea being questioned or completely ignored. In one day. On the same team.

That was almost 6 years ago... I could write a dissertation on the difference in how women and men are treated in the workplace especially in the tech sphere at this point.

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서울시가 운영하는 위기 10대 여성 지원 시설은 3곳. 그중 가출 청소년에게 행정 절차 없이도 긴급히 숙식을 지원하는 ‘일시 생활 지원’을 주요 사업으로 하는 곳은 ‘나무’가 유일합니다. 하지만 서울시는 ‘유사 기관과 기능 중복’, ‘실적 감소’를 이유로 운영 중단을 결정했습니다.

여성 가출청소년들 버팀목이었는데…‘나무’ 이제 사라진대...

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Remember kids, always check for planets before taking a 5 minute exposure with a 4 meter telescope to look for Kuiper Belt Objects!

Background: My collaborator running the processing for our survey is now wading through that hilarious/super annoying mistake I made, but was able to be utilized by other members of my team to add to another ongoing survey and help find even more moons of Saturn news.ubc.ca/2025/03/saturn-128

An image from the Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope showing a horribly over-exposed bright planet at the bottom, and weird circular reflections throughout the telescope image.
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‘입법 능력자’ 김예지…일 잘해서 박수 받을 때 드러난 진짜 품위 www.hani.co.kr/arti/politic... "의정보고서도 특별하다. 2023년 최초로 ‘배리어프리 의정보고서’를 발간한 뒤 여러 시도를 이어가고 있다. 점자 의정보고서를 함께 제공하거나, 발달장애인이 읽기 쉽게 제작한 ‘이지 리드’(Easy-Read) 형태의 보고서도 낸다. 소리를 통해 정보에 접근하는 이들을 위해 큐알(QR)코드를 삽입하기도 하고, 의정보고 영상에는 음성 해설과 수어 통역 등을 추가하고 있다."

‘입법 능력자’ 김예지…일 잘해서 박수 받을 때 드러난...

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