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.

Caramelized onions & beans with a cashew sauce, broccoli and homemade flatbread. It's not the most photogenic dish, but it's delicious, aromatic and unbelievably creamy. 🥦🧅🫘

Karamelisierte Zwiebeln & Bohen mit Chashew - Sauce, Brokkoli und selbstgemachten Fladenbrot. Es ist nicht das fotogenste Gericht, dafür aber köstlich, aromatisch und unglaublich cremig. 🥦🧅🫘

youtu.be/cgJqkRD_KgI?si=203NEu

A skillet with onion sand beans in a creamy sauce and broccoli florets on top. There's also a wooden cooking spoon in the skillet.

Eine Pfanne mit Zwiebeln und Bohnen in cremiger Sauce und Brokkoliröschen oben drauf. In der Pfanne ist noch ein hölzerner Kochlöffel.On a plate there are onions, beans and broccoli florets in creamy sauce. On the left side of the plate there is a piece of flatbread, on the right a knife and a fork.

Auf einem Teller sind Zwiebeln, Bohnen und Brokkoliröschen in cremiger Sauce. Links vom Teller ist ein Stück Fladenbrot, rechts Messer und Gabel.
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I feel like I'm destined to repeat this message until I die, but: rather than using replacingOccurrences(of:with:) you should almost certainly use replacing(_:with:) instead. (But only if you want to avoid the most random bugs you can imagine.) Details: hackingwithswift.com/articles/

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Do you know of a community that could use their own Federated mapping server? Please DM me.

In six weeks, I've made TONS of progress on Atlas Maps, and I'm confident with real people using it in the field.

atlasdemo.emissary.social

So I spent this morning reaching out to a handful of integrators and consultants, but I can't find everyone.

Please help me reach out to the activists, builders, and organizers you know who need to map local events in their communities.

Who should I contact next?

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Today I am stepping down from my role as the CEO of . Though this has been in the works for a while, I can't say I've fully processed how I feel about it. There is a bittersweet part to it, and I think I will miss it, but it also felt necessary. It feels like a goodbye, but it isn't—I intend to stay on and continue to advise the new leadership and contribute, because Mastodon—and the fediverse—is one of the very few beacons of hope for a better web.

blog.joinmastodon.org/2025/11/

RE: mastodon.social/@mellifluousbo

I am passing the torch to @mellifluousboxFelix Hlatky, who will be the new Executive Director. Felix has been involved with since 2020 and has been instrumental in evolving the organization, raising funds, and growing the team to get us to where we are now. With @haubleshannah aubry and @renchapRenaud Chaput by his side, and the team we have assembled over the years, I have faith that the new leadership will do a stellar job.

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Today I am stepping down from my role as the CEO of . Though this has been in the works for a while, I can't say I've fully processed how I feel about it. There is a bittersweet part to it, and I think I will miss it, but it also felt necessary. It feels like a goodbye, but it isn't—I intend to stay on and continue to advise the new leadership and contribute, because Mastodon—and the fediverse—is one of the very few beacons of hope for a better web.

blog.joinmastodon.org/2025/11/

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Hi! Today is my first official day as the Executive Director of Mastodon, replacing @GargronEugen Rochko as CEO. I joined the Mastodon team more than 5 years ago, mostly working for Mastodon in the evenings on top of a 120% day job. I was the driving force behind the incorporation of the German non-profit, am a co-founder of the US 501c3 non-profit, and I have contributed to most of the fundraising success, which allowed us to expand the team.
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Uber has a sense of levels for AI agents.

L1 - Responders, simple chat bot
L2 - Assistants, ChatGPT without reasoning
L3 - Collaborators, ChatGPT with deep research, Claude Code
L4 - Experts, AI agents SWE teams that build new features
L5 - Autonomous Teams - AI manager builds team of agents to get things done

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The next will be on 2 December 2025 at Reaktor, Yliopistonkatu 4.

meetup.com/pydatahelsinki/even

We'll try something new: a panel discussion on how to land a job, with panelists from three different companies who have interviewed hundreds of candidates.

We will also have some talks as usual, and a new edition of the PyData Helsinki .

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We’re also looking ahead to what comes next. In another blog post published today, we introduced Mastodon’s new leadership team. Our Executive Director is @mellifluousboxFelix Hlatky (formerly, CFO of Mastodon gGmbH), who has already represented Mastodon on international stages.

We also shared an organisational update, and a fundraising update, in that blog post.

blog.joinmastodon.org/2025/11/

This important milestone also marks the beginning of a new era of community governance and collaborative decision-making for Mastodon. Now more than ever, we need to work together to build safe and resilient social spaces. We must build information networks that are resistant to billionaire control and surveillance. It will take all of us working together to do that.

So please consider joining our mission; we have a lot of work to do.

joinmastodon.org/sponsors#dona

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Our Founder, @GargronEugen Rochko is stepping down from his position as CEO. He shared a reflection on his time building and growing Mastodon on our blog.

We want to take a moment to express the Mastodon team’s deep gratitude and admiration for Eugen, and for the technology and community he has built here. We’re thrilled he’s staying on in an advisory capacity.

blog.joinmastodon.org/2025/11/

We’re also looking ahead to what comes next. In another blog post published today, we introduced Mastodon’s new leadership team. Our Executive Director is @mellifluousboxFelix Hlatky (formerly, CFO of Mastodon gGmbH), who has already represented Mastodon on international stages.

We also shared an organisational update, and a fundraising update, in that blog post.

blog.joinmastodon.org/2025/11/

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Our Founder, @GargronEugen Rochko is stepping down from his position as CEO. He shared a reflection on his time building and growing Mastodon on our blog.

We want to take a moment to express the Mastodon team’s deep gratitude and admiration for Eugen, and for the technology and community he has built here. We’re thrilled he’s staying on in an advisory capacity.

blog.joinmastodon.org/2025/11/

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If you want as close to an A/B test in misogyny in industry as you can get, talk to trans women. Legit the same exact person before and after, and many many of us watch our careers stall out. I've seen my raises and bonuses halt entirely for the last 5 years while team members get raises and bonuses. I had a great grand boss directly interfering with my work and bashing my communication styles when I asked many of my colleagues and they said they saw nothing different in how I communicated than a great many of my men colleagues.

Now I daily consider how much longer I'll make it in tech.
@baldurBaldur Bjarnason

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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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This was a triumph. I'm making a note here: HUGE SUCCESS.

I finally figured out how to use "Virtual Terminal" functionality in VisiCorp VisiOn, a graphical operating system from 42 years ago.

Took me only 29 days (mostly 1-2 hours a day after work) to go from "there is no developer documentation for this operating system, and there never were any third-party applications" to "we can make a useful application". The actual Homebrew App was made by Akko to my specifications, so it is a clean-room application implementation.

There are still a few more things I want to discover: on-screen buttons, graphics/bitmaps, and keyboard input.

The documentation for my project is mostly a "brain dump" and can be hard to read. I will write a human-readable description after I implement a game for the OS, and maybe port a BASIC to it, or something. I'm thinking of making a 2048 game, but if you have better ideas, let me know.

git.sr.ht/~nkali/vision-sdk

A screenshot of a Bochs emulator, running a vintage operating system VisiOn. The wallpaper is stripey. there are two windows open - one behind is "Services", with the list of applications. The window in front says "Homebrew Prog" in the title, and "Trans rights are human righs!" (sic) in the window.
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Instead of doing the game jam this time around, we've been making some interesting new demos! And here's GoblinShare: Secure, Peer-to-Peer File-Sharing with Goblins spritely.institute/news/goblin

Combining Goblins, OCapN, and encrypted content addressed storage!

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Solving a Million-Step LLM Task with Zero Errors

Link: arxiv.org/abs/2511.09030
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4

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Solving a Million-Step LLM Task with Zero Errors

LLMs have achieved remarkable breakthroughs in reasoning, insights, and tool use, but chaining these abilities into extended processes at the scale of those routinely executed by humans, organizations, and societies has remained out of reach. The models have a persistent error rate that prevents scale-up: for instance, recent experiments in the Towers of Hanoi benchmark domain showed that the process inevitably becomes derailed after at most a few hundred steps. Thus, although LLM research is often still benchmarked on tasks with relatively few dependent logical steps, there is increasing attention on the ability (or inability) of LLMs to perform long range tasks. This paper describes MAKER, the first system that successfully solves a task with over one million LLM steps with zero errors, and, in principle, scales far beyond this level. The approach relies on an extreme decomposition of a task into subtasks, each of which can be tackled by focused microagents. The high level of modularity resulting from the decomposition allows error correction to be applied at each step through an efficient multi-agent voting scheme. This combination of extreme decomposition and error correction makes scaling possible. Thus, the results suggest that instead of relying on continual improvement of current LLMs, massively decomposed agentic processes (MDAPs) may provide a way to efficiently solve problems at the level of organizations and societies.

arxiv.org · arXiv.org

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Well before I saw this ... graph? Ad? Assault on reason? I *thought* I was pretty smart, but now my brain is running out of my ears.

I don't know what's worse... the pointless levels, the not-a-pie-chart format, that percents don't add to 100?

Why is it a circle?

It's like someone explained the concept of "multiple intelligences" to someone incapable of understanding that concept.

Anyway, I'm told this kind of 'content' is "the future"

I bet the numbers are made up. From nowhere.

"How rare is your intelligence type" with a circular doughnut with percents on various famous people represent different kinds of smart, but they are also ranked from lowest to highest... in a circle.
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