What is Hackers' Pub?

A 400ml bottle of dishwasher rinse aid costs £3.50 in my local ASDA. I buy a 5ltr bottle off the internet for £10.50, saving myself £33.25. I am 50 years old and this represents the culmination of my long term financial investment strategy.

my boys. #dog #dogs #dogsofmastodon #husbandsofmastodon

さて起きねば

VIDEO: #Mastodon made it on the Weekend Update #SNL skit, at least the smartphone icon did.

#SaturdayNightLive

So we’ve just had a rumor that Tim Cook might be leaving Apple soon, hastily corrected to “but he’ll stay on as board chair,” followed soon after by reports that no, everyone relax, he‘s not going anywhere, and now lots of folks right below him on the org chart are heading for the door instead.

Tim, I’m begging you. Read the rapidly emptying room.

RFK Jr.'s claim that COVID vaccines are deadly? Wrong. Wrong. Wrong. In this new extraordinarily large study, vaccinated individuals had a 74% lower risk of death from severe COVID-19 and a 25% lower risk of all-cause mortality compared to those who were unvaccinated. RFK Jr. is. liar and a fraud, as are Vinay Prasad and Tracy Hoeg at FDA who have made similar false claims about these vaccines. https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamanetworkopen/fullarticle/2842305#note-ZOI251269-1

The AI wildfire is coming. it's going to be painful and healthy

Link: https://ceodinner.substack.com/p/the-ai-wildfire-is-coming-its-going
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46183011

The programmers who live in Flatland

Link: https://blog.redplanetlabs.com/2025/11/24/the-programmers-who-live-in-flatland/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46070298

Dollar-stores overcharge cash-strapped customers while promising low prices

Link: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/dec/03/customers-pay-more-rising-dollar-store-costs
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46181962

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For anyone going to #39C3:

While you’re looking at your order page: If you’re part of an Assembly, then you can help the Assemblies Team work out a fair distribution of seating space by selecting your Assembly on your order page. To do so, please click “Change details” at the top of your order page.

So go and get more seats for your assembly!

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ヽ( ・∀・)ﾉ ｳﾝｺｰ

Django-bolt 0.3.12 Update

Django-bolt now has websockets support. 🎉

uv add django-bolt
// Fastest Python web framework powered by Rust and Django

Why do the wise guys over at the orange site keep feeling the need to say that #Perl is dead and that Raku killed it? Sometimes there's also a mocking jibe at Raku as well.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45977900

"Live, and let live" people!🤦🏽‍♂️

My motto for 2026 is going to be:

"Use things that people love to dunk on".

This includes things like Raku, Common Lisp, Emacs, Perl, C, OpenBSD...

#rakulang

Django-bolt 0.3.12 Update

Django-bolt now has websockets support. 🎉

uv add django-bolt
// Fastest Python web framework powered by Rust and Django

0.6.1 of django-new has been released. 🚀

- Lots of UI tweaks.
- `--data` flag for data-specific applications.
- Generate `summary.html` for a user-friendly explanation of the newly created application (h/t @ehmatthesEric Matthes).
- BETA: `--install` to install packages (only `whitenoise` currently supported).

🛠️ https://github.com/adamghill/django-new
📦 https://pypi.org/project/django-new/

#Django #Python #WebDev #API #HTML

Me after reading the news on any given day

@LoginBonusログインボーナスbot ログボ

Ow ow ooowww #smolBSD can now build BIOS bootable images!... i.e. we're opening to non-virtual world https://github.com/NetBSDfr/smolBSD/tree/main/service/biosboot

Reading this absolutely wild article on the relationship between breathing and memory, vaguely hearing @grimalkinaCat Hicks in the distance saying "I'm sorry to have to tell you this again but your brain is part of your body and your body is part of the world."

https://www.lmu.de/en/about-lmu/structure/central-university-administration/media-relations-and-communications/press-room/press-release/memory-research-how-respiration-shapes-remembering-fd0c5cd7.html

@molly0xfffMolly White wheb does your shop open back up?

As a queer person, I sometimes think about cis straight people I know back home (Singapore) who truly think I had no reason to leave home. Even though my country doesn't recognize my marriage, even though there are no immigration benefits that accrue to my foreign same sex spouse, even though there are no anti-discrimination laws that exist to protect me, they think, I can still have a pretty good life as an out queer person. I can have money, and no one is actively wanting to beat me up or hurt me.

That's the problem.

The problem isn't the bigots (because at least I know what to expect), it's the people who think they are not bigots, who believe that I should be thankful and grateful because 'at least nobody is going to beat me up'.

Nobody will beat me up because I have middle class Chinese and cis privilege in that society. It's not the same for other people. It's not because I am accepted or tolerated. Also, that is a tremendously low bar. I expect more of my life. I expect to thrive, not just be grateful to survive.

#TootSea #Singapore #LGBTQ

BRB=be right back
IDK=I don't know
ILY=i love you
LOL=laugh out loud
EDITOR=/bin/ed
USER=ed1conf
SHELL=/bin/sh
PATH=/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/home/ed1conf/bin

Django-bolt 0.3.12 Update

Django-bolt now has websockets support. 🎉

uv add django-bolt
// Fastest Python web framework powered by Rust and Django

こってりはラーメンか問題

Just finished 'git commit murder'. Such a fun! Recommended!

When I read all those delightful Agatha Christie's books, there were always things that didn't make sense for a young South American boy *... Now an adult, reading a story where all the nerd stuff makes sense was fantastic!

Now it's time to get back to serious stuff: 'SSH Mastery'.

* 'meat pudding'?

@mwlMichael Lucas

I failed to recreate the 1996 Space Jam Website with Claude

Link: https://j0nah.com/i-failed-to-recreate-the-1996-space-jam-website-with-claude/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46183294

Apparently Threads has also implemented a post quote feature.

I say “apparently” because posts seen through fedi-link only have “RE:” followed by *absolutely nothing*, but if you use the Threads app and open the same post, it has the expected embedded (quoted) post.

Not sure where the breakdown is, but I’m betting that Threads is not using the same APIs as native Mastodon instances.

Driving me nuts, but getting those folks to abandon Threads for a true Mastodon instance just won’t happen: “but my followers!”

@GargronEugen Rochko

@lrhodesL. Rhodes ⁂ Clbre is Calibre without AI

https://github.com/grimthorpe/clbre

Anyone looking at the US news with increasing horror as it starts firming up the US is going Full Fascist Forward?

And yeah, to my fellow Canadians, you all saw that bit where the new US military strategic planning will shift to "combat operations in the Western Hemisphere" away from competing power blocs.

That is us those are for. Go on. Tell me I'm wrong. It ain't just Venezuelan oil and water on the menu.

They mean to slaughter us. We are nothing to them but resources and possible chattel.

AAAARRRGGGLLLL !!!!!!!!

Calibre Release: 8.16.2 [04 Dec, 2025]
New features
- Allow asking AI questions about any book in your calibre library. Right click the "View" button and choose "Discuss selected book(s) with AI"
- AI: Allow asking AI what book to read next by right clicking on a book and using the "Similar books" menu
- AI: Add a new backend for "LM Studio" which allows running various AI models locally

Ora il canale Telegram LibreCaffè ha anche un sito dedicato, le iscrizioni sono sempre aperte! ☕ https://librecaffe.it

In the Starfleet Technical Manual, there is a throwaway detail of the LCARS user interface that when it is upgraded, users can still utilize the previous several versions. This is because their work is mission-critical and it is unacceptable to compromise the mission by forcing unfamiliar changes; eventual retraining is part of their job, but the flexibility allows them to take the retraining at their own pace.

I think about this from time-to-time and how this is still a sci-fi idea that is seen all too rarely in how we do actual computer UIs.

#StarTrek #LCARS #UI

How UI degrades over time.

Top (Windows 95): great contrast, obvious shapes. Instantly readable.

Middle (Windows 11): shapes are still self-explanatory, but contrast is gone.

Bottom (Windows 11 Insiders): what am I even looking at? The only shape I can understand here is the Run button. Barely visible, though.

Then, on the left, there’s another something that says Run and has an icon. What is it? A window title? Another button? Why does it have to say Run twice?
... 1/3

Sometimes I look in the replies of @mekkaokerekemekka okereke 's posts when he talks about how the Fediverse is not friendly to Black people. Just tons of people tripping over themselves to say they don't see race... therefore they don't see the problem. Making their point even more valid :)

It’s a good idea
#OpenBSD

What was on the #vegan plate tonight?

Butternut Squash, Chickpea and Kale Curry. Served w/ Basmati Rice, and Salt & Pepper Roasted Butternut Squash.

#VeganForTheAnimals #ItsEasy2bVegan #VeganFood #Vegan4Life #SvenskaVeganer #KeepDeathOffThePlate #HomeCooking #Vegansk #Vegaani

F35 Fighter Jet’s C++ Coding Standards https://lobste.rs/s/loqwsc #pdf #c++
https://www.stroustrup.com/JSF-AV-rules.pdf

Defeating Prompt Injections by Design https://lobste.rs/s/ldfsmq #ai #security
https://arxiv.org/pdf/2503.18813

Estimates are difficult for developers and product owners https://lobste.rs/s/lp2m1v #practices
https://thorsell.io/2025/12/07/estimates.html

An Interactive Guide to the Fourier Transform

Link: https://betterexplained.com/articles/an-interactive-guide-to-the-fourier-transform/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46118358

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The widespread publishing of AI slop (and relatedly, even predating LLMs, the enshittification of Google search results) is a much more interesting discussion than most of LLM Discourse.
https://mastodon.green/@Tarnport/115679627597776698

Portrait of a great nation bespoiled by a hate-fueled, malignant regime: People who did everything right, followed all the rules, did all the work, passed the test, and then, at what should have been a celebration, humiliated, pulled out of line, citizenship yanked at the last minute.
https://www.wgbh.org/news/local/2025-12-05/immigrants-kept-from-faneuil-hall-citizenship-ceremony-as-feds-crackdown-nationwide

@silverpill I had to dig around in the code to find the extra_supported_types configuration option:

# Limits
limits:
  media:
    extra_supported_types: ["application/pdf"]
#    file_size_limit: 20M
#    emoji_size_limit: 500K
  posts:
    character_limit: 10000

and was thinking of doing a PR on the docs, but I'm not sure where it would fit

Scala 3 slowed us down?

Link: https://kmaliszewski9.github.io/scala/2025/12/07/scala3-slowdown.html
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46182202

System design interview cheatsheet, by @jadi https://open.substack.com/pub/jadi/p/system-design-interview-cheatsheet?r=24524&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true

👨‍💻 Hallihallo. Kurz was in eigener Sache.

Das hier ist jetzt innerhalb von 48 Stunden auf fast 500 FollowerInnen angewachsen. Es ist eins dieser Spaßprojekte, die ich immer mal wieder ankündige, nur dass ich dieses Mal die Idee zu witzig fand, um sie einfach zu ignorieren.

Also seht es bitte als genau das: Ein Spaßprojekt. Gemessen an journalistischen Standards kommt der Öffentlich Rechtliche Rundfunk dem unerreichbaren Ideal noch am nächsten.

Wenn ihr wirklich etwas zum Besseren verändern wollt, sind Abstimmungen im Internet der falsche Weg (selbst wenn es im Fediverse passiert).

Und wo ihr gerade schon da seid: Lasst euch nicht unterkriegen, bleibt solidarisch mit euren Mitmenschen, macht tolle Sachen. Alles Liebe, @oli