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.
Anyway I remain baffled by how many people responded "yeah, of course?" to this while my response was "why would you do that!!" and I'm thinking that the people responding yes must have been exposed to dairy cows whereas I had only ever encountered cows in a ranching context https://mastodon.online/@Pepijn/115645813940637553
So, I need to order a Debian-compatible laptop to arrive in Italy very soon (like next week or early the week after that). Two 2TB SSD drives (we're setting up RAID 1 mirroring), 64 GB RAM, a good GPU (it will be used for some graphics-intensive applications), and solidly built (it will soon be in Egypt and used in desert conditions).
If it has Debian GNU/Linux pre-installed, that would be amazing! But if not, we can install the OS -- we just need to know that the laptop is 100% Debian-compatible and that we're not going to run into any installation issues.
Anyone have recommendations for where to order from?
(I know about System76 and have had great experiences with them before, so they're already on the list. Their shipping page indicates that maybe they can meet the "must arrive in Italy very soon" requirement, but I'm trying to gather options right now.)
this is the future they took from you
1D Conway's Life glider found, 3.7B cells long
Link: https://conwaylife.com/forums/viewtopic.php?&p=222136#p222136
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46137253
Want to use a modern GPU API on Android without going full Vulkan? #WebGPU is now part of Jetpack! Full flavor, zero barriers. 😉
https://developer.android.com/jetpack/androidx/releases/webgpu
너무 일찍 자서 너무 일찍 일어나는 바람에 아무 말이나 작성해 봅니다. 
Exciting RustConf 2026 updates!
📣 CFP opens this month
🌍 Visa letters available now
🏛 Returning to Montréal with an accessible new venue
Check out the full update: https://rustfoundation.org/media/rustconf-2026-early-details/
#rustlang #rustconf #rustconf26
Want to use a modern GPU API on Android without going full Vulkan? #WebGPU is now part of Jetpack! Full flavor, zero barriers. 😉
https://developer.android.com/jetpack/androidx/releases/webgpu
Heavy thunderstorm day, so rewatching 'Bedazzled' for the first time since forever, probably decades. And a few dated early 2000's product-of-its-time elements aside, it's still a fun casual watch, with an actually solid message by the end.
Elizabeth Hurley as the Devil remains iconic in every scene, and Brendan Fraser's sensitive, awkward nerd vibe continues to occupy a soft spot in my heart.
#Bedazzled #Movies #FilmMastodon #CineMastodon #CatsOfMastodon #Cats #cat #Floof #BrendanFraser
The #SovereignTechFellowship directly advances the Agency’s mission to secure and strengthen critical digital infrastructure. By providing key maintainers with strategic, predictable support, the program reduced operational risk, improved response capacity, and ensured continuity for high-impact open source components.
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Yesterday’s event demonstrated that investing in the individuals who perform essential maintenance work is a practical lever for increasing the resilience of the digital systems we all depend on.
Relive the highlights and download the Fellowship evaluation report ➡️ https://www.sovereign.tech/publications/evaluation-sovereign-tech-fellowship-2025
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What a night! ✨
It was great to see how the event came together, with our Fellows traveling from near and far, our guest speakers on stage, and everyone interested in the Sovereign Tech Agency and supporting the Fellowship. A heartfelt thank you!
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The #SovereignTechFellowship directly advances the Agency’s mission to secure and strengthen critical digital infrastructure. By providing key maintainers with strategic, predictable support, the program reduced operational risk, improved response capacity, and ensured continuity for high-impact open source components.
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What a night! ✨
It was great to see how the event came together, with our Fellows traveling from near and far, our guest speakers on stage, and everyone interested in the Sovereign Tech Agency and supporting the Fellowship. A heartfelt thank you!
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Reminder that you can watch the real-time cybers here:
Or take part in them here:
Why Are 38 Percent of Stanford Students Saying They're Disabled?
Link: https://reason.com/2025/12/04/why-are-38-percent-of-stanford-students-saying-theyre-disabled/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46150715
RE: https://fosstodon.org/@ThePSF/115649918389532044
Very proud to be working with the Sovereign Tech Agency!
we have reached the point where under the right circumstances, your fridge can send you to a mental health facility. because it can show you ads.
I just learned this week about the Global PyLadies Conference—happening virtually this Fri & Sat Dec 5th and 6th.
And Dawn Wages 
@BajoranEngineerdawn is one of the keynoters!
And Dingding Lu + Gauri Kasar (who I know from the Postgres team on Azure) are teaching a 1.5 hour workshop titled "Build Agentic AI with Semantic Kernel and Graph RAG on PostgreSQL" (on Sat Dec 6th at 10am PST)
I suppose it's not a surprise to see #PostgreSQL at a #Python conference!
If you're just learning about this PyLadies conference, check out the schedule! And here is the link to Dingding and Gauri's workshop re Postgres: https://pretalx.com/pyladiescon-2025/talk/QSJHYR/
#Postgres #PyLadies #PyLadiesCon #conference #workshop #AI #Azure
this is the future they took from you
in meinem briefkasten war ein fragebogen von der regierung
da soll ich ankreuzen ob ich bereit wäre gegen brasilien oder angola auf dem schlachtfeld zu kämpfen
ich weiß nicht was ich davon halten soll
let rec을 결국 구현했고 타입 젠이 영 이상하지만 일단 코드젠이 얼추 되고 있다.... (TS Output)
Cat 🐈🥗 (D.Burch) 
Hugo van Kemenade
isEven(S(O)) == false
isEven(S(S(O)) == true!!!!!
The RAM shortage comes for us all: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9rbz0akyLyQ
Pantone got a memo from Trump that said the colour of the year ‘better be white’
An Irish navy ship spotted five drones operating near the flight path of the Ukrainian president's aircraft as he arrived for a State visit to Ireland on Monday night. https://www.irishtimes.com/ireland/2025/12/04/drones-spotted-near-zelenskiys-flight-path-to-dublin-triggering-major-security-alert/
Hello venture capitalists
I have invented quantum computer
What does it do? Yes it does!! Trust me!!!
Now I just need $ Billion
With it I will buy:
* Regulatory capture
* No one else can invent a quantum
* Then sell the company to other investors and cash out before [redacted]
Thank you for coming to my talk
Die Hoteldusche tut ihr Bestes, um mein Ableben zu beschleunigen. In unregelmäßigen Intervallen will sie mich entweder kochen oder mir mit einer Ladung Kaltwasser einen Herzinfarkt verpassen.
Reminder that you can watch the real-time cybers here:
Or take part in them here:
Facetted reflections in Amsterdam Centraal.
I accidentally unprogrammed my universal remote, and I've apparently lost the little manual that tells me how to reprogram it.
worst of all? I can't google the name... it has no name
Pantone got a memo from Trump that said the colour of the year ‘better be white’
おしごとしようぬ 
46f3b39fae (upstream/main) Fixes YouTube embeds (#37126)
65b216353e Handle dark/light/contrast theme modes in common CSS (#37095)
0dac31dfd5 Create new entrypoint for sharable Wrapstodon (#37121)
75b9e9a8b0 Enable missing before actions in Collection API (#37122)
88aed3c11a Fix streamed quoted polls not being hydrated correctly (#37118)
9921fa1af7 First draft API to delete collections (#37117)
5a7a4fff11 First draft of Collection update API (#37110)
9cf52fb976 New Crowdin Translations (automated) (#37115)
baef5b1659 Update dependency @optimize-lodash/rollup-plugin to v6 (#37062)
832d8c7397 Use thread support helper in concurrent insert tag spec (#37112)
d063af2594 Add coverage for array vs string in `Tag.find_or_create_by` (#37113)
“If everyone who streamed All Hell on Spotify had done so using Tidal instead, we would have received an extra £31,847.38, which would double the amount we made from streaming of the album in this time period. Or if everyone used Apple Music it would have been £12,331 more.”
Los Campesinos! break down streaming royalties. In other news, Fuck Spotify.
https://loscampesinos.com/heres-how-much-money-los-camp-make-from-streaming/
Anyone know how to pronounce JIZHICMS? Every time I read it I think Jizz High CMS and I don't think that's quite right.
New Retro Requisition:
Alcatel TELIC-1 Mitel Terminal (1985)
여자친구 보고샆어 ㅠㅠㅠ
I was having some rice porridge and Karvinen was very sure that he needed to have the porridge also.
Kaleidoscopic Pop Culture Portraits by Van Orton https://theinspirationgrid.com/kaleidoscopic-pop-culture-portraits-by-van-orton/ #art #PopCulture #illustration #ArtInspiration #ArtInspo #inspiration #InspirationGrid
An Irish navy ship spotted five drones operating near the flight path of the Ukrainian president's aircraft as he arrived for a State visit to Ireland on Monday night. https://www.irishtimes.com/ireland/2025/12/04/drones-spotted-near-zelenskiys-flight-path-to-dublin-triggering-major-security-alert/
主持人進一步丟出敏感問題：
「如果未來美國自己生產的晶片比重調高，台灣對美國還有那麼重要嗎？美國會不會因為自製能力變強，就不願再為台灣承擔風險？」
對此貝森特直接否認，還形容這好比「因為我買了保險，就會希望自己房子失火」，他認為是錯誤比喻。
美財長：晶片產能將逐步回流美國，但美台關係依舊穩健 https://abmedia.io/us-treasury-taiwan-relations-chips-dealbook-summit
There were two especially bizarre claims in the Techrights case:
1) I had conspired with someone else to launch an associated claim (by which he means someone else who felt Roy had defamed him asked me who my solicitors were and I told them) and the two cases should be merged
2) My legal fees were being paid by someone else (heavily implied to be either Microsoft or someone associated with Microsoft), which would have been nice if true because I'd be able to afford a very nice time off work now
Anyone know how to pronounce JIZHICMS? Every time I read it I think Jizz High CMS and I don't think that's quite right.
The last month of my life: BreakingTTAPs
This is a custom transport-triggered, 32 bit processor that will be fabricated by GlobalFoundries on their 180nm process (via of http://wafer.space)
I'll make a video at some point, but some high level details here.
- Transport-triggered architecture
- ~20Mhz
- Two 32 bit data buses (i.e. two instructions per cycle)
- 1024 double slot instruction memory
- 256 word stack
- 4kb of general RAM
- 80 or so various instruction types
- 16 GPIO, SPI, UART, 8 bit parallel memory loader interface
Clock speed is sorta up in the air. Still optimizing, but simulations say it should hit ~20MHz in all "process corners" (i.e. if the fab makes slow transistors and the chip is 125C hot). Probably faster in nominal case but we'll see
Instruction set is pretty standard set of ALU, LSU, comparisons, branching, bit manip, etc. But I snuck in a few fun extras like a pseudorandom number generator, tanh and multiply-and-accumulate to try some light ML inference (rough plan is reservoir computing)
Chip was written in Spade HDL (http://spade-lang.org), which transpiles down to SystemVerilog. That's then fed into a LibreLane build process that turns the verilog into transistors. All open source!
Few tweaks left before the final deadline. Then it's off to the fab and we'll see if it works in three months!
Really hope there isn't a bug in the memory loader, otherwise it'll be DOA and not much to do about it. But even so, was a great learning experience!
"In the survey [of 1,207 U.S. likely voters], 63 percent of Americans said they support Medicare for All, even knowing that it “would eliminate most private insurance plans and replace premiums with higher taxes.”"
https://jacobin.com/2025/12/medicare-for-all-health-popularity/
Paul Cantrell
Chao-c'
Stefan Bohacek
✧✦Catherine✦✧