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.

Hacker News 50 @hn50@social.lansky.name
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Is your Android TV streaming box part of a botnet?

Link: krebsonsecurity.com/2025/11/is
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4

Is Your Android TV Streaming Box Part of a Botnet? – Krebs on Security

On the surface, the Superbox media streaming devices for sale at retailers like BestBuy and Walmart may seem like a steal: They offer unlimited access to more than 2,200 pay-per-view and streaming services like Netflix, ESPN and Hulu, all for…

krebsonsecurity.com

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FreeBSD Foundation @FreeBSDFoundation@mastodon.social
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Shared by Stefano Marinelli

Our latest EuroBSDCon trip report from Leah Budzicka highlights continued interest in FreeBSD among newer and younger developers. Leah discovered the Foundation’s travel grant opportunity on Mastodon, attended the conference through Foundation support, and shared their experience with the broader community.

Read Leah’s report here:
freebsdfoundation.org/blog/202

If you’re new to FreeBSD, we welcome you to explore the Project. What questions do you have about getting involved?

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Dana Fried @tess@mastodon.social
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Shared by nixCraft 🐧

Some helpful advice for all you software devs:

- You cannot solve social problems with code

- You cannot improve a system until you understand why it works the way it does

- You cannot produce tools for someone else without understanding how they work and what they are trying to accomplish

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Shoshana 🏳️‍⚧️ @LilahTovMoon@tech.lgbt
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I hate when websites aren't specific about their password requirements.

The site said I needed to use at least 1 letter and 1 number. So I used a cuneiform 3 (𒐮), but it kept complaining that I hadn't used a number!

Frankly, I was adding way more entropy than a Western Arabic Numeral 3 would have.

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FreeBSD Foundation @FreeBSDFoundation@mastodon.social
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Our latest EuroBSDCon trip report from Leah Budzicka highlights continued interest in FreeBSD among newer and younger developers. Leah discovered the Foundation’s travel grant opportunity on Mastodon, attended the conference through Foundation support, and shared their experience with the broader community.

Read Leah’s report here:
freebsdfoundation.org/blog/202

If you’re new to FreeBSD, we welcome you to explore the Project. What questions do you have about getting involved?

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Hacker News 50 @hn50@social.lansky.name
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PS5 now costs less than 64GB of DDR5 memory. RAM jumps to $600 due to shortage

Link: tomshardware.com/pc-components
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4

An entire PS5 now costs less than 64GB of DDR5 memory, even after a discount — simple memory kit jumps to $600 due to DRAM shortage, and it's expected to get worse into 2026

You can spend $50 more to get an entire PS5 Pro.

www.tomshardware.com · Tom's Hardware

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IEEE Spectrum @ieeespectrum@mastodon.social
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DARPA’s next-generation fab, the Texas Institute for Electronics, will produce chips made of multiple materials, with and without silicon. These chips will power the most advanced microprocessors in the world.
spectrum.ieee.org/3d-heterogen

Why Is DARPA Betting on 3D Heterogeneous Integration?

Can a 1980s-era fab in Austin transform the future of microelectronics with 3D heterogeneous integration?

spectrum.ieee.org · IEEE Spectrum

Link author: IEEE Spectrum@ieeespectrum@mastodon.social

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뉴스봇 - 생활/문화 @news_life@802.3ether.net
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연기 열정 불태운 '영원한 현역' 이순재 별세…향년 91세(종합)
(서울=연합뉴스) 김호준 김경윤 기자 = 현역 '최고령 배우'로 활동해온 배우 이순재가 별세했다. 향년 91세.
yna.co.kr/view/AKR202511250066

연기 열정 불태운 '영원한 현역' 이순재 별세…향년 91세(종합) | 연합뉴스

(서울=연합뉴스) 김호준 김경윤 기자 = 현역 '최고령 배우'로 활동해온 배우 이순재가 별세했다. 향년 91세.

www.yna.co.kr · 연합뉴스

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Freedom of the Press @freedomofpress@freedom.press
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@huertanix, FPF’s senior digital security trainer, spoke with the Huffington Post about the privacy implications of uploading your personal identification onto your phone.

huffpost.com/entry/apple-passp

Apple Has A New Digital ID And Passport Feature On iPhones — But Security Experts Have Thoughts

Security experts weigh the pros and cons of uploading your personal identification onto your phone.

www.huffpost.com · HuffPost

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Privacy & Security News @privacynews@mstdn.plus
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Tor Project Announces Relay Encryption Scheme Improvements

privacyguides.org/news/2025/11

Tor Project Announces Relay Encryption Scheme Improvements

Today, Tor Project announced that Tor's relay encryption algorithms would be replaced by a new encryption design called "Counter Galois Onion."

www.privacyguides.org · Privacy Guides

Link author: Privacy Guides@privacyguides@neat.computer

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Watchful Citizen @watchfulcitizen@goingdark.social
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Shared by Chao-c'

@GrapheneOS is being threatened by French authorities for refusing to add backdoors and they're dealing with coordinated attacks in French media right now. They're pulling out of France entirely, moving all their servers, and fighting off a wave of bullshit one-sided reporting that makes them look like they're helping criminals.

They need us to fight back. Support them however you can, whether that's a dollar, sharing their story, pushing back on the garbage news coverage when you see it, or just telling someone you know about what's happening. All of it matters because they're drowning in attacks from governments and media and bad actors who want them gone.

This is the only Android OS that actually makes me feel like privacy isn't just marketing. They fight for us now they need us to fight for them.

The EU is pushing Chat Control and creating an environment where governments feel empowered to threaten developers into compliance, and if we stay quiet we're letting it happen. Show up for them in whatever way you're able to.

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Bartosz Milewski @BartoszMilewski@mathstodon.xyz
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Type theory and category theory are the product of highly refined abstractions. Since every level of abstraction strips a layer of intuition, the final product is sometimes called abstract nonsense. The only way to navigate such vast halls of abstraction is to keep in mind where those abstractions come from, or how they can be modeled in more familiar surroundings, be it computer programs, logic, or set theory. When studying an elephant, it makes sense to occasionally focus on its trunk, legs, or ears,

Learning category theory is a little like reading a novel that has many hidden layers of meaning.

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큐리아 @qria@hackers.pub
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11월 나온 모델만 가지고 regression 때리면 내년 1월 중순에 SWE-Bench 가 saturate되네요. 굉장히 optimistic 한 전망이지만 반대로 갑자기 exponential grokking이 발생할수도 있으니 무섭네요

Scatter plot showing four AI models' SWE-Bench Verified scores (76.2-80.9%) from Nov 12-24, 2025, with linear regression line projecting 100% achievement by January 15, 2026 at current 11.41%/month improvement rate.
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Lobsters Daily Bot @lobstersdaily@bsd.cafe
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Shared by Stefano Marinelli

Top 25 stories on lobste.rs:

🔗 Why I (still) love Linux
it-notes.dragas.net/2025/11/24
🔥 Score: 0
💬 lobste.rs/s/hcjaj0/why_i_still

🔗 Fifty Shades of OOP
lesleylai.info/en/fifty_shades
🔥 Score: 0
💬 lobste.rs/s/fjf1eh/fifty_shade

🔗 edn.c: A fast, zero-copy EDN (Extensible Data Notation) reader written in C11 with SIMD acceleration
github.com/DotFox/edn.c
🔥 Score: 0
💬 lobste.rs/s/jn95w0/edn_c_fast_

🔗 We stopped roadmap work for a week and fixed 189 bugs
lalitm.com/fixits-are-good-for
🔥 Score: 0
💬 lobste.rs/s/gae4dh/we_stopped_

🔗 Shai-Hulud Returns: Over 300 NPM Packages infected via Fake Bun Runtime Within Hours
helixguard.ai/blog/malicious-s
🔥 Score: 0
💬 lobste.rs/s/od61og/shai_hulud_

🔗 Does Dioxus spark joy?
fasterthanli.me/articles/does-
🔥 Score: 0
💬 lobste.rs/s/rdezfn/does_dioxus

🔗 ntoh*/hton* is a bad API
purplesyringa.moe/blog/ntoh-ht
🔥 Score: 0
💬 lobste.rs/s/xxq1kw/ntoh_hton_i

🔗 What are you doing this week?
/s/x5f9en/what_are_you_doing_this_week
🔥 Score: 0
💬 lobste.rs/s/x5f9en/what_are_yo

🔗 With Love to KDE: Take a Moment
korcenji.neocities.org/Writing
🔥 Score: 0
💬 lobste.rs/s/htdedi/with_love_k

🔗 Alice - new build system for Ocaml
alicecaml.org/
🔥 Score: 0
💬 lobste.rs/s/ttsydj/alice_new_b

🔗 Build a Compiler in Five Projects
kmicinski.com/functional-progr
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💬 lobste.rs/s/9gx2ig/build_compi

🔗 I put a search engine into a Lambda, so you only pay when you search
nixiesearch.substack.com/p/i-p
🔥 Score: 0
💬 lobste.rs/s/vpybud/i_put_searc

🔗 Automating updates to a digital vigil
ntietz.com/blog/automating-upd
🔥 Score: 0
💬 lobste.rs/s/zjxjhc/automating_

🔗 Google Revisits JPEG XL in Chromium After Earlier Removal
windowsreport.com/google-revis
🔥 Score: 0
💬 lobste.rs/s/1nop48/google_revi

🔗 Open Source Has Too Many Parasocial Relationships
pivotnine.com/blog/open-source
🔥 Score: 0
💬 lobste.rs/s/ta9886/open_source

🔗 µcad: New open source programming language that can generate 2D sketches and 3D objects
microcad.xyz
🔥 Score: 0
💬 lobste.rs/s/aqefyy/cad_new_ope

🔗 Why Zig + Qt Feels Like Doing the Impossible Right
dayvster.com/blog/why-zig-+-qt
🔥 Score: 0
💬 lobste.rs/s/a8fm0p/why_zig_qt_

🔗 What does the AGPL require?
runxiyu.org/blog/agpl/
🔥 Score: 0
💬 lobste.rs/s/mzuktr/what_does_a

🔗 Demystifying Determinism in Durable Execution
jack-vanlightly.com/blog/2025/
🔥 Score: 0
💬 lobste.rs/s/w2xqrd/demystifyin

🔗 Making the case that Cargo features could be improved to alleviate Rust compile times
saghm.com/cargo-features-rust-
🔥 Score: 0
💬 lobste.rs/s/5wybjs/making_case

🔗 Misunderstanding that “Dependency” comic
bertptrs.nl/2025/11/24/misunde
🔥 Score: 0
💬 lobste.rs/s/lpvmll/misundersta

🔗 trifold is a tool to quickly & cheaply host static websites using a CDN
jpt.sh/projects/trifold/
🔥 Score: 0
💬 lobste.rs/s/4lidxn/trifold_is_

🔗 How do we keep apps maintained on Flathub? (or building a more respectful App Store)
tim.siosm.fr/blog/2025/11/24/b
🔥 Score: 0
💬 lobste.rs/s/t66357/how_do_we_k

🔗 Powerset’s natural language search system (2012)
brenocon.com/blog/2012/10/powe
🔥 Score: 0
💬 lobste.rs/s/z2uql6/powerset_s_

🔗 An open-source photo editor & digital compositor for the web
mint.photo/
🔥 Score: 0
💬 lobste.rs/s/gw5yp3/open_source

Why I (still) love Linux

I usually publish articles about how much I love the BSDs or illumos distributions, but today I want to talk about Linux (or, better, GNU/Linux) and why, despite everything, it still holds a place in my heart.

it-notes.dragas.net · IT Notes

Link author: Stefano Marinelli@stefano@fedihome.stefanomarinelli.it

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