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.

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Empire of AI: Dreams and Nightmares in Sam Altman's OpenAI by Karen Hao, 2025

From a brilliant longtime AI insider with intimate access to the world of Sam Altman's OpenAI from the beginning, an eye-opening account of arguably the most fateful tech arms race in history, reshaping the planet in real time, from the cockpit of the company that is driving the frenzy.




When AI expert and investigative journalist Karen Hao first began covering OpenAI in 2019, she thought they were the good guys. Founded as a nonprofit with safety enshrined as its core mission, the organization was meant, its leader Sam Altman told us, to act as a check against more purely mercantile, and potentially dangerous, forces. What could go wrong? Over time, Hao began to wrestle ever more deeply with that question. Increasingly, she realized that the core truth of this massively disruptive sector is that its vision of success requires an almost unprecedented amount of resources: the “compute” power of high-end chips and the processing capacity to create massive large language models, the sheer volume of data that needs to be amassed at scale, the humans “cleaning up” that data for sweatshop wages throughout the Global South, and a truly alarming spike in the usage of energy and water underlying it all. The truth is that we have entered a new and ominous age of empire: only a small handful of globally scaled companies can even enter the field of play. At the head of the pack with its ChatGPT breakthrough, how would OpenAI resist such temptations? Spoiler alert: it didn’t. Armed with Microsoft’s billions, OpenAI is setting a breakneck pace, chased by a small group of the most valuable companies in human history—toward what end, not even they can define.
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Fibers by Dieter Velt, 2022

History, Production, Properties, Market

This textbook covers the production of all relevant natural and man-made fibers, their inner structure, properties, applications, markets and historic development. More than 1,600 photos, maps and sketches complement the text. The properties of important fibers are compared in a large number of tables and graphics to simplify selecting an appropriate fiber for a given application.

link.springer.com/book/10.1007


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the ruins of the age of proprietary social media will resemble Fallout's fictional world: sealed vaults, each with an entire civilization that grew, developed, and eventually died. many buried forever beneath the dust, undiscovered. the rare ones that an adventurer finds their way into offer a unique petri dish of a society, a frozen moment in the flashbulb of collapse.

twitter will not be accessible in this way, it has already been rendered inexcavatable. millions of people deleted their accounts for entirely sensible reasons, severing threads, consigning innumerable interesting and even historically valuable conversations to oblivion.
i don't blame them one bit for doing this. the decision was not truly theirs. it was musk, him alone, who burned the library he'd bought, hoping he could turn it into Biff Tannen's Alternate 1985 Hill Valley.

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the ruins of the age of proprietary social media will resemble Fallout's fictional world: sealed vaults, each with an entire civilization that grew, developed, and eventually died. many buried forever beneath the dust, undiscovered. the rare ones that an adventurer finds their way into offer a unique petri dish of a society, a frozen moment in the flashbulb of collapse.

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일본판 시그널 극장에서 봤는데 주인공 형사 역할로 나온 배우 잘 어울리시던데..

그 일본 배우분 섭외해서 AI 써서 시그널2 주인공 형사를 그분 얼굴로 바꾸면 안될까..?

생각해볼 수 있는 모든 문제점을 해결 가능한 가장 깔끔한 대안인 것 같은데.

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OMFG.

A post-C section mother who was an asylum seeker seeking a visa for crime victims
-- and who had a newborn baby struggling in the NICU
-- was held in Broadview in Chicago with no medical attention (POST C SECTION),
no breast pump (right after birth),
and no treatment for her diabetes.

MONSTERS.

-- John Pfaff

19thnews.org/2025/12/postpartu

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the ruins of the age of proprietary social media will resemble Fallout's fictional world: sealed vaults, each with an entire civilization that grew, developed, and eventually died. many buried forever beneath the dust, undiscovered. the rare ones that an adventurer finds their way into offer a unique petri dish of a society, a frozen moment in the flashbulb of collapse.

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연탐 미나상
마스토돈 앱(Tusky, Megalodon) 사용자인데
프로필 게시물 쪽이 전혀 뜨지 않습니다 ....
뭐가 문제인지 모르겠어요 ...
메갈로돈이 안되길래 터스키는 될줄알았지
근데 터스키도안되네요

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네코미미 매즈미켈슨 프사를 하고 있지만
실상은
:lesbian_flag: 인 인간입니다

웹 프론트엔드 일자리 구하는 주부로 활동하고 있구요
:ko_beepboop:​ 와 ​:ddingddong: 을 주로 하고 있어요
잉마
:09_bird: 이기도 하답니다

덕질하는 게 없어서 탐라에는 일상과 필사 위주로 올라와요
탐라에 아무말 노트 하나 더 추가해보세요

:choccy_milk:

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