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.
Obscure game question for you: have you ever played a PC game called "Watchy"? Even better, do you have a copy? It was sold in boxes that look like this.
The reason I'm wondering is because every online game catalogue tells you "Watchy" is an alternate title for another game by the same company. But I don't... think that's true, based on the boxes and the company website. I just don't have a copy of a game or demo to prove it.
Edit: Mystery solved! Check the replies.
Okay, I could give them a battle of wills. Can I give enough spicy takes to break their will before they break me.
“'More to the point, if there’s no limit to which he’s willing to use the presidency to profit himself, then there’s no limit to the ways America could be up for sale,' Libowitz said.”
https://www.rawstory.com/alternet-posts/trump-donors-2674355138/
Martin Fendrych 𝕏📤 https://xcancel.com/RpsAgainstTrump:
BREAKING: Ukraine hit two oil tankers of Russia’s shadow fleet in the Black Sea with marine drones.
A Ukrainian secur…
https://xcancel.com/fendrych_m/status/1994839810218102804
#DjangonautSpace Session 5 has landed! ✨
We've posted a debrief recapping the contributions to #Django and the ecosystem during our cosmic mission 💜🚀
https://djangonaut.space/comms/celebrating-session-5-achievements/
This mission may be complete, but stay tuned—another liftoff isn’t far away. 🌌
Martin Fendrych 𝕏📤 https://xcancel.com/RpsAgainstTrump:
BREAKING: Ukraine hit two oil tankers of Russia’s shadow fleet in the Black Sea with marine drones.
A Ukrainian secur…
https://xcancel.com/fendrych_m/status/1994839810218102804
Why is it always my job to learn to accept MAGA relatives’ politics and never their job to learn to accept mine
Really great DjangoChat podcast episode on AI, so nice to hear some solid pro-AI arguments, and grounded yet skeptical voices on the subject https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4fyG7FOgcRQ
Britischer Dramatiker Tom Stoppard gestorben
Zu Stoppards wichtigsten Werken zählen „Rosencrantz und Guildenstern Are Dead“, die Trilogie „The Real Thing“, „The Coast of Utopia“ und „Leopoldstadt“.
Sir Tom Stoppard obituary: playful and prolific playwright
https://www.thetimes.com/article/89b0204d-8417-44c7-9d97-a24033fc4417?shareToken=1c377b33e7de4fa6f40bf5372ba021db
x.com/gotry7/statu...
가젤이 호랑이 받아냈다는 말에 다시보기
현욱 on X: "가젤 그와중에 같이 떠밀려 쓰러지는 ...
In a wide-ranging interview with 
@GargronEugen Rochko, creator of the decentralized social network 
@Mastodon, Rochko shared why Threads federation fell flat, why #ActivityPub and #ATProto will likely never merge, and what it will take to grow the #Fediverse.
예술이란 무엇입니까?
#Animation video accounts to follow:
➡️ 
@blender - FOSS 3D & 2D animation suite
➡️ 
@chrisfastmedia - Blender tutorial videos
➡️ 
@spencer_magnusson - Blender tutorials & tips
➡️ 
@marco - 3D graphics artist, making short films & clips
➡️ @aryeom - Making 2D creative commons animation with FOSS
➡️ 
@ninjadodoChristiaan Moleman - Game dev & animator
➡️ 
@axaneco - Short 3D animations with Blender
➡️ 
@scarpyro - Wood carver animating tiny animals
➡️ 
@animation - Public domain & creative commons animations
me: I don’t wanna be glazed at my funeral, I want people to remember all the bad things about me as well
partner: …honey, about the worst thing anyone could say about you is that you’re a bit shit at answering your texts
🔞 Alterskontrolle 🆔 soll VERPFLICHTEND für alle 📧 E-Mails, 💬 Messenger & 🗨️ Chats werden! 😱
⚠️ Der wohl größte Anschlag 💣 auf digitale Anonymität aller Zeiten! 🚫👀
📰 Die Berliner Zeitung sprach mit mir über die EU-Pläne zur #Chatkontrolle 👇
https://www.berliner-zeitung.de/politik-gesellschaft/geopolitik/jurist-zur-eu-chatkontrolle-anlasslose-massenueberwachung-li.10007885
We're learning more about what Vitamin D does to our bodies
Link: https://www.technologyreview.com/2025/11/21/1128206/vitamin-d-bodies-bone-health-immune/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46088998
Testing Shows Automotive Glassbreakers Can't Break Modern Automotive Glass
Link: https://www.core77.com/posts/138925/Testing-Shows-Automotive-Glassbreakers-Cant-Break-Modern-Automotive-Glass
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46088379
An agenda makes a meeting, a meeting 😤
I'm home again after a 24-hour unconference conference with ~20 friends. I had a blast and learned so much about so many different topics such as Gleam, Odin, Zig to name a few.
Today is the International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People.
https://www.un.org/en/observances/international-day-of-solidarity-with-the-palestinian-people
면허 열심히 땄는데 왠지 운전 안할거같은 기분이 든다
I love this line. It's so true it hurts.
"Few IT projects are displays of rational decision-making from which AI can or should learn. "
Major AI conference flooded with peer reviews written by AI
Link: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-03506-6
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46088236
On my way back from the high school reunion. Not sure if I ever shared this story here (probably on Twitter), but when I was 16 I sent a photocopied letter to a bunch of people (~25 kids, 1 teacher) to tell them I was (am) gay. Well… today I talked to that teacher briefly in passing. I said “Ananja, you were my favourite teacher!”, not expecting her to remember me at all. But she saw my name and immediately said: “oh, Anneke, I still have that letter from you at home” 🥹😭 that feels good :)
You tell 'em, Lisa
드라이브 용량이 슬슬 간당간당인건가
abc has commands &if, &if2, &iff, &iiff, &jf, &kf, &lf, &mf, &mfs, &nf, and &of. i think it should also have &yiff. In this essay I will
I think this is great, CURL is 🔝 
@bagderdaniel:// stenberg://
je m'alloc (i manage my own memory, for those who don't speak french)
my friend made an amazing video game with beautiful comic illustration about the housing shortage in amsterdam
LibreOffice has never once insulted my intelligence by unhelpfully popping up to ask if I want help writing a document.
It just sits there, silently awaiting my input. #LibreOffice
Decided to introduce one of my kids to Duke Nukem 3D, and only now – almost 30 years after playing the game originally – am I realizing that the pig cops had “LARD” written on their shirt, and not LAPD.
쓴 기억이 있는 텍스트를 어디다 뒀는지 기억이 나지 않아서 찾을 수 없는 상황
흑흑..
アバターできた
Got desperately stuck at the absolute final section of a level in a game, and happened to notice on Backloggd that the only review is someone else saying they couldn't make the final jump either. I actually think this might be bugged...? Not sure this game is *beatable*.
#39c3 Meine Walther WSR 160 wird im Moin-Cluster bei den Mainframe Leuten mit dabei sein.
Wer schon immer wie ganz früher mal mechanisch rechnen möchte, hat hier die Gelegenheit dazu.
Walthers Freund, SX-64 ist auch dabei.
Since I mention working on it every month, if you follow me, you probably already know Astro has a newsletter. But, have you subscribed to it?
Visit the web archive at https://buttondown.com/withastro/archive/ and if you like what you see, subscribe before the November edition goes out tomorrow!
Beginning to realize just how much "achievement is not ability" is a well known truism in psychology but perhaps not in tech 😬
To display the compression ratio for the ZFS dataset /var/log on the pool
mypool, run the following command:
zfs get refcompressratio mypool/var/log
The refcompressratio will only display the compression ratio for that specific
dataset, not the descendant datasets. To include the child datasets, the
command looks like this:
zfs get compressratio mypool/var
-- Benedict Reuschling <bcr@FreeBSD.org>
The CRDT Dictionary: A Field Guide to Conflict-Free Replicated Data Types
Link: https://www.iankduncan.com/engineering/2025-11-27-crdt-dictionary/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46087022
oh GOD I want this so bad: https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/54140
"I Work For an Evil Company, but Outside Work, I’m Actually a Really Good Person"
Values demand a sacrifice. Don't collaborate.
Beginning to realize just how much "achievement is not ability" is a well known truism in psychology but perhaps not in tech 😬
Paul Cantrell
Chao-c'
Paolo Melchiorre
Carlton Gibson
just small circles 🕊
phildini
유진🎀 
