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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Max the Miracle Dog by Kerry Irving, 2020

The Heart-Warming Tale of a Life-Saving Friendship

'Are you ready, Max? If anyone's going to help me do this, it's you.' The heart-warming tale of a life-saving friendship. In 2006, a traumatic car accident changed Kerry Irving's life forever. Suffering from severe neck and back injuries, Kerry was unemployed and housebound, struggling with depression and even thoughts of suicide.





He went from cycling over 600 miles a month to becoming a prisoner in his own home. With hope all but lost, Kerry's wife encouraged him to go on a short walk to the local shop. In the face of unbearable pain and overwhelming panic, he persevered and along the way, met an adorable yard dog named Max. As the Spaniel peered up through the railings, Kerry found comfort and encouragement in his soulful brown eyes. This chance encounter marked a turning point in both their lives. In Max, Kerry found comfort and motivation and in Kerry, Max found someone to care for him. This is their remarkable, inspiring story.
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An American Genocide by Benjamin Madley, 2016

The United States and the California Indian Catastrophe
Between 1846 and 1873, California's Indian population plunged from perhaps 150,000 to 30,000. Benjamin Madley is the first historian to uncover the full extent of the slaughter, the involvement of state and federal officials, the taxpayer dollars that supported the violence, indigenous resistance, who did the killing, and why the killings ended.




This deeply researched book is a comprehensive and chilling history of an American genocide. Madley describes pre-contact California and precursors to the genocide before explaining how the Gold Rush stirred vigilante violence against California Indians. He narrates the rise of a state-sanctioned killing machine and the broad societal, judicial, and political support for genocide. Many participated: vigilantes, volunteer state militiamen, U.S. Army soldiers, U.S. congressmen, California governors, and others. The state and federal governments spent at least $1,700,000 on campaigns against California Indians.
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Schools That Learn by Peter M. Senge, 2012

A Fifth Discipline Fieldbook for Educators, Parents, and Everyone Who Cares About Education

"A rich, much-needed remedy for the standardized institutions that comprise too much of our school system today... ideal for teachers and parents intent on resurrecting and fostering students' inherent drive to learn...An essential resource."
-Daniel H. Pink, author of DRIVE and A WHOLE NEW MIND





"Schools that Learn is a magnificent, grand book that pays equal attention to the small and the big picture - and what's more integrates them. There is no book on education change that comes close to Senge et al's sweeping and detailed treatment. Classroom, school, community, systems, citizenry---it's all there. The core message is stirring: what if we viewed schools as a means of shifting society for the better!" -Michael Fullan, author of Change Leader and Learning Places A new edition of the groundbreaking book that brings organizational learning and systems thinking into classrooms and schools...
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Ethics for the Very Young by Erik Kenyon, 2019

A Philosophy Curriculum for Early Childhood Education
Can you be brave if you’re afraid? Why do we “know better” and do things anyway? What makes a family? Philosophers have wrestled with such questions for centuries. They are also the stuff of playground debates. Ethics for the Very Young uses the perplexities of young children’s lives to spark philosophical dialogue.






Its lessons scaffold discussion through executive function games (Telephone, Red Light Green Light), dialogic reading of picture books and Reggio Emilia’s art-based inquiry. In the process, children develop skills of dialogue and critical thinking through increased selective attention, self-control, cognitive flexibility and perspective taking. While the elements of this method are familiar, they are here fused into an organic whole grounded in the history of philosophy and defended by current work in developmental psychology. Building on Wartenberg’s Big Ideas for Little Kids, the present curriculum uses a series of 23 picture books to frame discussions of character, bravery, self-control, friendship, the greater good, respect and care. Its goal is not to “teach morals” but to help children articulate and develop their own perspectives through dialogue with each other. Each lesson presents teachers’ reflections on how this exploration of life's enduring questions transformed their school’s culture.
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The Myth of the Nuclear Revolution by Keir A. Lieber & Daryl G. Press, 2020

Power Politics in the Atomic Age
Leading analysts have predicted for decades that nuclear weapons would help pacify international politics. The core notion is that countries protected by these fearsome weapons can stop competing so intensely with their adversaries: they can end their arms races, scale back their alliances, and stop jockeying for strategic territory.




But rarely have theory and practice been so opposed. Why do international relations in the nuclear age remain so competitive? Indeed, why are today's major geopolitical rivalries intensifying? In The Myth of the Nuclear Revolution, Keir A. Lieber and Daryl G. Press tackle the central puzzle of the nuclear age: the persistence of intense geopolitical competition in the shadow of nuclear weapons. They explain why the Cold War superpowers raced so feverishly against each other; why the creation of "mutual assured destruction" does not ensure peace; and why the rapid technological changes of the 21st century will weaken deterrence in critical hotspots around the world. By explaining how the nuclear revolution falls short, Lieber and Press discover answers to the most pressing questions about deterrence in the coming decades: how much capability is required for a reliable nuclear deterrent, how conventional conflicts may become nuclear wars, and how great care is required now to prevent new technology from ushering in an age of nuclear instability.
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Blowfish's Oceanopaedia by Tom 'The Blowfish' Hird, 2017

291 Extraordinary Things You Didn't Know About the Sea

From luminous squid to invisible plankton, from sandy shorelines to the bone-crushing pressure of the deep, marine conservationist Tom "The Blowfish" Hird takes us on an incredible journey revealing what lurks beneath the waves. A treasure chest of fascinating facts, full-colour photos and vintage line drawings.




Blowfish's Oceanopedia is a stunningly beautiful guide to all we know about our oceans and the weird and wonderful creatures that inhabit them.
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The Poppy: a Cultural History from Ancient Egypt to Flanders Fields to Afghanistan by Nicholas J. Saunders, 2013

This is a story spanning three thousand years, from the ancient Egyptian fights over prized medicinal potions to the addicted veterans returning home from the American Civil War, from the British political machinations during the Opium Wars with China to the struggle to end Afghanistan's tribal narcotics trade.





Nicholas J. Saunders brings us the definitive history of this ever-enduring but humble flower of the fields. In the aftermath of the horrific trench warfare of the First World War, the poppy – sprouting across the killing fields of France and Belgium, then immortalised in John McCrae's moving poem – became a worldwide icon. Yet the poppy has a longer history, as the tell-tale sign of human cultivation of the land, of the ravages of war and of the desire to escape the earthly realm through inspired Romantic opium dreams or the grim reality of morphine drips.
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“Modern models can write and adapt exploit code, sift through huge volumes of stolen data, and orchestrate tools faster and more cheaply than human teams.”

“They lower the skills barrier for entry and increase the scale at which well-resourced actors can operate. We are effectively putting a junior cyber-operations team in the cloud, rentable by the hour.”

Roman V. Yampolskiy

aljazeera.com/economy/2025/11/




A dangerous tipping point? AI hacking claims prompt cybersecurity debate

Anthropic's announcement of world's first AI-led hacking campaign prompts both alarm and scepticism among experts.

www.aljazeera.com · Al Jazeera

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30-Second Chemistry: The 50 Most Elemental Concepts in Chemistry, Each Explained in Half a Minute by Nivaldo Tro, 2020

30-Second Chemistry presents the 50 most important ideas in the science of matter – its composition, structure, properties and how it changes. As the central science that bridges biology and physics, chemistry explains the diversity of all things tangible at a molecular level.



Understand chemistry, and you’ll know why some things oxidize and others explode; why food is good to eat and coal is not. 30-Second Chemistry breaks the subject down into 50 bitesize elements that help us understand the nature of matter, including: • Atoms, molecules and compounds • States of matter• Chemical reactions and energetics • Inorganic chemistry • Organic chemistry • Biochemistry • Nuclear chemistry Chemistry is the heart of cooking, it can keep you safe, and it explains why things work. This book brings the subject out of the lab and boils it down to its essential elements – in just 30 seconds. If you like this, you might also be interested in 30-Second Elements, 30-Second Physics and 30-Second Biology.
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30-Second Evolution by Mark Fellowes, 2015

Adapt or die: it's nature's most famous imperative. But how does evolution actually happen? It's too slow to see, but it's going on all around you, all the time. Even if you're on top of the key terms - variation? Natural selection? Parent-offspring conflict? - you still need some context to put them in. From populations to speciation and polymorphism to evolutionary psychology, here's the one-stop source for all you need to know.


Evolution unlocks the laboratory of life, dissecting it into the 50 most significant topics that provide the missing links to understand the natural world's four-billion-year ancestry and the process of natural selection in which species either adapt in myriad ways - mutation, ingenuity, and intelligence - to meet the challenges of a changing environment, or die. Unravel the development of living organisms, at micro and macro level - from genes to geniuses.
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30-Second Philosophies by Stephen Law & Julian Baggini, 2020

The 50 Most Thought-provoking Philosophies, Each Explained in Half a Minute

A full-colour illustrated tour through philosophy's most famous – and most mind-bending – ideas I Think Therefore I Am, Existentialism, Dialectical Materialism? The Socratic Method and Deconstruction? Sure, you know what they all mean. That is, you've certainly heard of them.



30-SECOND PHILOSOPHIES takes a revolutionary approach to getting a grip on the 50 most significant schools of philosophy. The book challenges leading thinkers to quit fretting about the meaning of meaning for a while and explain the most complex philosophical ideas – using nothing more than two pages, 300 words, and a metaphorical image. Here, in one unique volume, you have the chance to pick the potted brains of our leading philosophers and understand complex concepts such as Kant's Categorical Imperative without ending up in a darkened room with an ice pack on your head.
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Germany withholds support for extension for first time

At a preliminary vote in a UN General Assembly subcommittee in New York, the German representative abstained, for the first time withholding support for the UN’s agency for Palestinian refugees.

The resolution passed with 144 votes in favour, 11 against and 16 abstentions. A final vote in the full General Assembly, which is set to extend UNRWA’s current mandate from mid-2026 to mid-2029, is scheduled for December.


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오늘 2025년 11월 20일은 트랜스젠더 추모의 날입니다. 우리 곁을 떠나간 트랜스젠더, 논바이너리, 젠더퀴어, 젠더 비순응자 동지들을 기억하며 살아남은 트랜스젠더 동지들은 다 같이 삶과 투쟁의 의지를 키워 나가도록 합시다.

TRANSGENDER DAY OF REMEMBRANCE NOVEMBER 20 트랜스젠더 추모의 날 11월 20일
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It bothers me that a static let is ‘not concurrency safe’. Messes with my intuition that it is *more* correct to make it a computed property even though I understand that “when should I instantiate this?” Is the core problem

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[보도자료] 손솔 의원, “차별금지법안” 22대 국회에서 처음으로 공동발의 추진 jinboparty.com/pages/?p=286... 차별과 혐오는 주장에 대한 반박이 아니라 존재 자체를 공격합니다. 건강한 토론의 가능성을 차단합니다. 그렇게 대한민국 민주주의는 차별이라는 단어 앞에 멈춰 섭니다. 이렇게 혐오와 차별에 대해 이야기하지 않을수록 혐오와 차별을 막아내자는 말들은 더 위축됩니다. 때문에 더더욱 국회가 앞장서서 이 논제에 관해 이야기해야 합니다.

jinboparty.com/pages/?p=286&b...

[보도자료] 손솔 의원, “차별금지법안” 22대 국회에서 처음으로 공동발의 추진

새 시대를 여는 대중적 진보정당의 길을 가겠습니다.

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