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.
this fall I worked with the core Git folks on writing an official data model for Git and it just got merged! I learned a few new things from writing it. https://github.com/git/git/blob/master/Documentation/gitdatamodel.adoc
OpenAI declares 'code red' as Google catches up in AI race
Link: https://www.theverge.com/news/836212/openai-code-red-chatgpt
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46121870
4.3M Browsers Infected: Inside ShadyPanda's 7-Year Malware Campaign
Link: https://www.koi.ai/blog/4-million-browsers-infected-inside-shadypanda-7-year-malware-campaign
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46122957
Anthropic Acquires Bun
Link: https://www.anthropic.com/news/anthropic-acquires-bun-as-claude-code-reaches-usd1b-milestone
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46124258
LOL somehow Claude would quietly set up config file for WezTerm and break user configuration.
Why??
Retrotechtacular: Learning the Slide Rule the New Old Fashioned Way
https://hackaday.com/2025/12/02/retrotechtacular-learning-the-slide-rule-the-new-old-fashioned-way/
*생성형 AI 기업들은 거의 모두 동일한 기능(챗봇, 검색·요약, 텍스트/이미지 생성, 번역, 코딩 지원 등) 만 제공 *대부분의 기업이 동일 LLM(오픈AI,앤스로픽,구글)에 의존, 차별화 불가능, 종속 *모든 대형 언어모델이 거의 동일한 데이터와 구조(트랜스포머)사용 *AI 에이전트라는 용어는 실제로 알아서 일을 못 하는 상황이기에 마케팅 사기 *코딩 에이전트조차 실행·오류·품질 관리 모두 인간의 감독이 필요 *특이점, 에이전트, AGI 같은 단어는 아직 전혀 실현되지 않았음
I see Anthropic has aquired Bun...
It will be interesting to see if this leads to anthropic investments upstream in JSC / WebKit. I hope so.
https://www.anthropic.com/news/anthropic-acquires-bun-as-claude-code-reaches-usd1b-milestone
AI 버블 혐오자의 가이드
news.hada.io/topic?id=22137
4개월전 아티클인데 무척 인상적이네요.
*생성형 AI는 (현재) 비즈니스 성과, 사용자 확보, 노동 자동화, 실질적인 가치 창출에 거의 기여하지 못함.
*엔비디아 매출의 42%가 MS,아마존,구글의 칩 구매, 메타는 지출의 25%, MS는 47%를 칩 구매에 사용
*매 분기마다 GPU 판매가 늘어야 성장 유지 가능
*미국 증시 35% 가 5-6개 기업의 GPU 구매에 의해 ‘버티는’ 구조
* NVIDIA 외에는 생성형 AI로 흑자 기업이 전무
AI 버블 혐오자의 가이드 | GeekNews
Il web che amo.
Quello dei piccoli blog indipendenti, magari ospitati su qualche VPS dove si offrono anche servizi open source e privacy oriented, istanze del #fediverso, e tanto altro.
Si può parlare di #indieweb?
In ogni caso, impegniamoci per alimentare un WWW più sano.
Per non creare un'accozzaglia di url, mi limiterò a taggare alcuni profili (in ordine sparso), da cui poi ricavare i link:
@stefanoStefano Marinelli 
@lorenzo
@dadodado 
@denial403
@mcc all aboard the 出去
Me: 出 and 去 are a slightly confusing distinction to me, it's subtle and the difference makes sense when I look in the dictionary but I struggle to keep it in my head.
Mandarin: 出去
Me: What
Mandarin: 出去 is also a word you need to know
Why use #React? "This isn’t a rhetorical question. I genuinely want to know why devs choose to build using React. There are many reasons. Alas, none of them relate directly to user experience, other than productive devs will make better websites. (Citation needed.)" https://adactio.com/journal/22265
Today is #GivingTuesday, and we are also around the one-year mark of @snarfed.org and 
@quillmatiqAnuj Ahooja teaming up to build 
@anewsocial.
We've accomplished more than we could've imagined and have incredible momentum going into 2026!
Here's to another year of building A New Social for people, not platforms 🌐
From launching Bounce, to a new settings page, DM notifications, moderation features, and so much more. What a year it's been 🚀
If you believe in our mission and want us to continue this work, please support us on Patreon!
Today is #GivingTuesday, and we are also around the one-year mark of @snarfed.org and @quillmatiqAnuj Ahooja teaming up to build @anewsocial.
We've accomplished more than we could've imagined and have incredible momentum going into 2026!
Here's to another year of building A New Social for people, not platforms 🌐
Holy smokes I now share a film credit with HIDEO KOJIMA. This is so cool.
Anthropic acquires Bun
Link: https://bun.com/blog/bun-joins-anthropic
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46124267
Short PSA for all the Minecraft admins on here: Please consider setting "hide-online-players" in your "server.properties" to true. Doing so will do no harm and instead help protect the privacy of your players.
https://blog.eps-dev.de/admins-protect-the-privacy-of-your-players/
Admins, protect the privacy of your players!
By default, Minecraft servers publish a sample of their currently online players through their Status Response which is shown by the client when hovering over the player count field in the multiplayer menu. Since this Status is given out to everyone who requests it, without prior authentication or authorization, server
blog.eps-dev.de · Lillychans Blog
Link author: 
Lilly 
@lilly@mstd.ink
Do you want to follow a weather account for your town or city?
There is a Fediverse weather service called FediMeteo which has weather accounts for thousands of locations around the world:
To follow a weather account:
1. Go to https://fedimeteo.com
2. Go to the page for the town/city you want
3. Copy-paste the page's address into the search box in Mastodon etc
4. Click "Follow"
You can also follow updates about the FediMeteo project itself at 
@adminFediMeteo
p.s. If your town or city is missing, you can ask if it can added to FediMeteo by contacting @adminFediMeteo or @stefanoStefano Marinelli
p.p.s. If an account looks blank or old, don't worry! Just follow it anyway and the weather posts will start showing up within 6 hours. (This happens if you are the first person to follow an account from your server, more info at https://fedi.tips/why-does-someones-account-page-look-completely-blank-is-it-really-blank)
do a kittys wag they tail
Holy smokes I now share a film credit with HIDEO KOJIMA. This is so cool.
저는 일반 연합유저가 아닌 사실상 연합매거진 계정이다
You can delete a range of ZFS snapshots (a-z) in multiple ways.
The following will delete d and all earlier snapshots:
zfs destroy mypool/data@%d
To delete d and all later snapshots:
zfs destroy mypool/data@d%
To delete all dataset snapshots:
zfs destroy mypool/data@%
Make sure to let ZFS perform a dry run (-n option) first and display (-v) what
it would do to confirm that the delete operation is removing exactly what you
intended.
-- Benedict Reuschling <bcr@FreeBSD.org>
Can we build WeChat Mini Apps using open web standards? https://lobste.rs/s/yvb1ve #android #ios #mobile
https://dmathewwws.com/antler-an-irl-browser
100k TPS over a billion rows: the unreasonable effectiveness of SQLite
Link: https://andersmurphy.com/2025/12/02/100000-tps-over-a-billion-rows-the-unreasonable-effectiveness-of-sqlite.html
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46124205
Thank you for sharing this, Tara.
Your post reflects several qualities that continue to define FreeBSD, including clarity, stability, and long-term design. It’s valuable to hear how newer contributors experience the Project.
Read the full letter: https://lnkd.in/dtcQebh2
New vatnik spam mail domains detected: speakerion.com, nembors.com and allfreemail.net
Do you know good hashtag? Like #fedimailblock or so?
Do you want to follow a weather account for your town or city?
There is a Fediverse weather service called FediMeteo which has weather accounts for thousands of locations around the world:
To follow a weather account:
1. Go to https://fedimeteo.com
2. Go to the page for the town/city you want
3. Copy-paste the page's address into the search box in Mastodon etc
4. Click "Follow"
You can also follow updates about the FediMeteo project itself at @adminFediMeteo
First challenge of the SadServers advent event done
RE: https://mastodon.social/@anewsocial/115651549321396223
I'm so grateful to 
@snarfed.orgRyan Barrett for giving me a chance to partner with him on @anewsocial.
I still can't believe he decided to say yes after the wild essays I sent him over email about all the great things we can do with Bridgy Fed.
What an amazing year. We're just getting started 🚀
Zig's new plan for asynchronous programs
Link: https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/1046084/4c048ee008e1c70e/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46121539
Today is #GivingTuesday, and we are also around the one-year mark of @snarfed.org and @quillmatiqAnuj Ahooja teaming up to build @anewsocial.
We've accomplished more than we could've imagined and have incredible momentum going into 2026!
Here's to another year of building A New Social for people, not platforms 🌐
i just really wish there was some built-in logging thing that showed hit/miss live as they happen together with inferred keys. would really help gain an intuition on it @owoce.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy @unstubbable.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy @storyhb.com@bsky.brid.gy maybe something like this already exists?
진짜 딱 이쯤 걸리겠지...한 데에서 끝낫군...ㅋㅋㅋ 3시간이라도 자야한다...
Ny krabat i vinduet på jobb 🐘😃
become unenshittifiable
cache components is very very fun to play with. i'm a big fan. one thing i'm not sure about is whether to place "use cache" closer to the data layer (particular queries) or ui layer (particular component trees). obviously could do both but i wonder which pattern i'll gravitate towards
Current source of Mandarin learning frustration: 时 and 肘 are not only different but entirely unrelated. Yes, I know one of those radicals is sun and one is moon. I wasted an alarming amount of time entering characters in the dictionary app before figuring it out however
IBM CEO says there is 'no way' spending on AI data centers will pay off
Link: https://www.businessinsider.com/ibm-ceo-big-tech-ai-capex-data-center-spending-2025-12
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46124324
Il web che amo.
Quello dei piccoli blog indipendenti, magari ospitati su qualche VPS dove si offrono anche servizi open source e privacy oriented, istanze del #fediverso, e tanto altro.
Si può parlare di #indieweb?
In ogni caso, impegniamoci per alimentare un WWW più sano.
Per non creare un'accozzaglia di url, mi limiterò a taggare alcuni profili (in ordine sparso), da cui poi ricavare i link:
@stefanoStefano Marinelli @lorenzo@dadodado @denial403
Just released! 🚀
🎶 pylast 7.0.0
🎤 A #Python interface to 
@lastfm and Libre.fm
🗑️ Remove `SCROBBLE_SOURCE_*` and `SCROBBLE_MODE_*` constants. Last used in 2017, you probably weren't using them
📻 Add `chosen_by_user` parameter to `scrobble`. Set to false if you don't have "direct" control over the source, like radio or a stream.
🐍 Add support for Python 3.15
📼 Test against recorded API instead of live
🦀 Replace pre-commit with prek
Thanks to 
@scy!
https://github.com/pylast/pylast/releases/tag/7.0.0
#release #LastFM
Just released! 🚀🐍
Python 3.14.1
Waiting for the .1 to upgrade? This one's especially for you!
🥧 Deferred type annotation evaluation!
🥧 T-strings!
🥧 Zstandard!
🥧 Syntax highlighting in the REPL!
🥧 Colour in unittest, argparse, json and calendar CLIs!
🥧 UUID v6-8!
🥧 And much more!
https://discuss.python.org/t/python-3-14-1-is-now-available/105163
this fall I worked with the core Git folks on writing an official data model for Git and it just got merged! I learned a few new things from writing it. https://github.com/git/git/blob/master/Documentation/gitdatamodel.adoc
I've got a piece up today at @lukeoneil47.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy's Welcome to Hell World. Check it out: www.welcometohellworld.com/a-coordinate...
A coordinated campaign to driv...
It's Giving Tuesday! Don't forget to check in with your company to see if they use Benevity; a 30-second search for "Ruby Central Inc" could unlock matching funds that go directly toward strengthening Ruby’s open-source foundation and developer community.
A new org in the UK
‘TOGETHER AGAINST THE FAR RIGHT’. Love, hope and unity.
March in London in unity and against the far right on March 28
The thing that transforms large-language-model "AI"¹ from "a bad idea"² to "a fatal idea"² is "self-hosting"²: in other words, the idea the people making the AI can "program"¹ the AI by way of inputs to the AI.
This idea is foundational to the OpenAI approach, and it does not work, but the model tech is good enough at lying³ that in a formal QA setting it appears to work.
https://tenforward.social/@SeanAloysiusOBrien/115651339013408174
¹ Scare quotes
² Regular quotes
³ Yes, an unthinking object can lie. It just can't tell the truth.
ACME Challenge for Persistent DNS TXT Record Validation https://lobste.rs/s/kwbowm #security
https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/draft-sheurich-acme-dns-persist-01
Bozhidar Batsov (a.k.a. Bug)
@
Kat Marchán 🐈
@reiver ⊼ (Charles) 
Miguel de Icaza ᯅ🍉
Fullmetal Alejandro
블배온 본3)가온뉘 
Adam Johnson 
