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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old world: "if you talk the computer into contradicting itself it will say 'logic error logic error' and shut down"

new world: "the computer is entirely non-sentient and understands nothing so it will constantly contradict itself but we're putting it in charge of the nukes anyway"

You're absolutely right, Jonathan! Global Thermonuclear War is a popular game with thousands of ways to win. You're really onto something amazing here and I think the doubters just aren't able to understand the paradigm shift you're bringing the world with these insights

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As we mark and honour those we’ve lost, let’s also uplift those still here doing the hard work.

@thisismissemEmelia 👸🏻 has poured so much into Mastodon, FIRES, and trust & safety spaces for the benefit of the entire fediverse, often at great personal cost, yet her work is often undervalued.

Please consider supporting her: support.thisismissem.social/

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As we mark and honour those we’ve lost, let’s also uplift those still here doing the hard work.

@thisismissemEmelia 👸🏻 has poured so much into Mastodon, FIRES, and trust & safety spaces for the benefit of the entire fediverse, often at great personal cost, yet her work is often undervalued.

Please consider supporting her: support.thisismissem.social/

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Adversarial Poetry as a Universal Single-Turn Jailbreak Mechanism in LLMs

Link: arxiv.org/abs/2511.15304
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4

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AP: "This active role beyond the borders is part of the quiet transformation of its parent agency, U.S. Customs and Border Protection, into something more akin to a domestic intelligence operation. Under the Trump administration's heightened immigration enforcement efforts, CBP is now poised to get more than $2.7 billion to build out border surveillance systems such as the license plate reader program by layering in artificial intelligence and other emerging technologies."
abc7news.com/post/border-patro

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