What is Hackers' Pub?

i wish i was more excited about the app — hard to say what’s going on behind the scenes and not much feels being shipped product wise. but i don’t want to jinx the developer tools and protocol momentum which feels stronger and more polished than ever before

Benn Jordan's flock camera jammer will send you to jail in Florida now [video]

Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qEllWdK4l_A
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46247415

Here! Finally! I have my sample. The "Live laugh federate" enamel pin.

https://shop.joinmastodon.org/products/live-laugh-federate-soft-enamel-pin

#Merchtodon

i love the principled approach here. this, after @matthieu.bsky.team@bsky.brid.gy’s work on new lex client, and the ongoing permission sets work, feels like a great conclusion for this year in atmosphere. the APIs and SDKs for atproto are finally getting good

Rats Get even Better at Playing DOOM

https://hackaday.com/2025/12/12/rats-get-even-better-at-playing-doom/

"Doom and Quake studio id Software are now home to a 'wall-to-wall' union according to the Communications Workers of America (CWA). The organisation have announced that a group of 165 id workers have just voted to unionise, adding to the ranks of the 300 ZeniMax quality assurance staff who unionised back in 2023."

https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/id-software-devs-form-wall-to-wall-union-with-165-workers-at-doom-studio-the-latest-to-vote-in-favour

I vibe coded a thing for funsies: https://js-framework-quiz.vercel.app/

Training LLMs for Honesty via Confessions

Link: https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.08093
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46242795

Async DNS

Link: https://flak.tedunangst.com/post/async-dns
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46245923

Japan law opening phone app stores to go into effect dec.18th

Link: https://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/news/20251210_B1/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46246006

#japan

Print is back in SF! I’m so excited to see the first print edition of the Gazetteer distributed for free in local coffee shops. Lots of great articles and local news in this issue. https://sf.gazetteer.co/

Wie auch letzten Kongress ist die erste Installation nun vorbereitet für die ersten Helfenden die Montag dann anreisen. #39c3 #39c3camping

Wie auch letzten Kongress ist die erste Installation nun vorbereitet für die ersten Helfenden die Montag dann anreisen. #39c3 #39c3camping

github.com/bluesky-soci...

Curious about what a modern alternative to SwiftData looks like?

• Works everywhere (SwiftUI, UIKit, AppKit, ...)
• Value types instead of reference types
• Full access to SQL
• iCloud sync and sharing
• Type-safe & schema-safe tools

Well…
https://www.pointfree.co/collections/tours/tour-of-sqlitedata

Análisis en Lean (Cap. 1: Introducción a Lean). https://github.com/jaalonso/Analisis_en_Lean/blob/main/Analisis_en_Lean/C1_Introduccion_a_Lean.lean #ITP #LeanProver

Fediverse Report 146 - this week's #fediverse news

- @peertube releases PeerTube v8, focusing on making the software more accessible to organisations and institutions
- @bonfire reaches their crowdfunding goal, and a short explainer of what the software actually is, and why it confuses people
- PieFed continues to improve, with an upcoming question-answer mode and better handling of links

https://connectedplaces.online/reports/fediverse-report-146/

よっこらどっこいし

4af8e83c8a (upstream/main) Fix wrapstodon not falling back to username when display name is not set (#37229)
861202fd08 Change Emoji in Wrapstodon footer 🐘 (#37226)
6821b70796 Add secondary Wrapstodon share button (#37224)
3cc4b59b41 First draft of API to add items to a collection (#37222)
1e67567d8f Change HTTP Signature verification status from 401 to 503 on temporary failure to get remote actor (#37221)
b72b507584 Remember revealed archetype on future Wrapstodon visits (#37219)
8748f0812d Convert Settings class to TS (#37218)
e206b0d0de Wrapstodon: Add nav modal (#37210)
571c93c563 Change Wrapstodon 'About' link to point to joinmastodon.org (#37216)
10f232ca08 Wrapstodon: Allow dismissing banner (#37202)

In the Fediverse track at SFSCon, André Menrath spoke about:

Interoperability of Events in the Fediverse: Status Quo and Vision

https://fediforum.org/2025-11-sfscon/

#fediforum #sfscon #fediverse #socialweb

I'm just brain storming this, please no one fret by the following question.

I kind of see this as old rental video stores. Right now they're telling us that we "own" things online. We don't own it. We're RENTING it at ownership prices. There is no "BUYING" anymore when it comes to digital content. They can remove it whenever they want.

If you had the following choices for consuming your content would you rather:

would you still love me if i was a binary blob

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喧嘩というかすごい怒られた夢見て少し憂鬱

Lower Mainland communities like Surrey, White Rock, and Abbotsford, plus a few neighbours in Washington, are on a temporary island today as the Nooksack River backs up into Sumas Prairie.

#BCstorm #WAwx #weather #flood

I genuinely cannot fathom why people are yeeting Claude Code-generated readmes & docs into their projects. *They are near unreadable.*

Do you think zillions of bullet points, tables, context-less code examples, emojis, and other detritus is documentation? It is not. It is noise.

Please write your docs yourself, using your own human brain! Thank you. 😊

Id Software devs form "wall-to-wall" union

Link: https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/id-software-devs-form-wall-to-wall-union-with-165-workers-at-doom-studio-the-latest-to-vote-in-favour
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46246845

Google Releases Its New Google Sans Flex Font as Open Source

Link: https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/11/google-sans-flex-font-ubuntu
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46246802

#google

2022: Gartner Predicts 25% of People Will Spend At Least One Hour Per Day in the Metaverse by 2026
https://www.gartner.com/en/newsroom/press-releases/2022-02-07-gartner-predicts-25-percent-of-people-will-spend-at-least-one-hour-per-day-in-the-metaverse-by-2026

2025: Meta’s Reality Labs division has racked up more than $70 billion in losses since 2021. Zuckerberg is now preparing to slash Reality Labs’ budget by as much as 30%
https://fortune.com/2025/12/05/mark-zuckerberg-metaverse-layoffs-cuts-facebook-rebrand/

I did something exciting this week! I relaunched my company website: https://futureethics.ai

It says, boldly, that we want to build ethical and sustainable pro-labor businesses that are pro people and the earth. It's scary to put that out in words because I feel like such an optimistic or naive person. But I don't know how else I can be.

I also started a Mastodon server just for work: @indexAdrianna

Over there, I will talk more about work, ideas, ethics, provide updates.

This post should give you an idea of how I'm structuring this: https://futureethics.ai/our-2026-businesses/

熟練クソネミオフトゥン職人の朝は眠い​​

Last day to submit a claim for the Canadian bread price fixing scandal https://www.canadianbreadsettlement.ca/

⚠️ Scam alert: if anyone ever asks you to "temporarily change" the email address on your Mastodon account, DO NOT DO THIS.

There is currently a scammer posing as a server admin telling people to temporarily change their Mastodon account's email to an address supplied by the scammer. This is a scam, don't do it.

Real admins will NEVER ask you to do this.

You can see examples of this scam in the thread at https://ohai.social/@redsad/115708030185038699

(Thanks @markwynerMark Wyner Won’t Comply for the warning about this! 🙏 )

#FediTips

lol it’s so genuinely fun seeing Cory take decades of fluency in how these systems are broken and serve it up for a mainstream audiences. Even if you know “enshittification” well, this is worth the watch. And love to @effElectronic Frontier Foundation! https://youtu.be/d2e-c9SF5nE?

For the first time, the pōhutukawa in the paddock has put on a real show. 25-year-old tree, about 6m tall.

@davidgerard

Gartner in 2021:

"By 2026, non-fungible token (NFT) gamification will propel an enterprise into the top 10 highest valued companies.

NFTs are becoming a way to leverage hyper-tokenization to grow business models exponentially. The value proposition for NFTs is underpinned by the expectation that buyers are willing to pay more for a digital artifact because they belong to a network of people with similar values and interests.

By 2024, Gartner predicts that 50% of publicly listed companies will have some sort of NFT underpinning their brand and/or digital ecosystem presence. NFTs will become a powerful marketing tool to underpin digital ecosystems’ effects and accelerate enterprise valuations."

https://www.gartner.com/en/newsroom/press-releases/2021-10-19-gartner-unveils-top-predictions-for-it-organizations-and-users-in-2022-and-beyond

lol it’s so genuinely fun seeing Cory take decades of fluency in how these systems are broken and serve it up for a mainstream audiences. Even if you know “enshittification” well, this is worth the watch. And love to @effElectronic Frontier Foundation! https://youtu.be/d2e-c9SF5nE?

lol it’s so genuinely fun seeing Cory take decades of fluency in how these systems are broken and serve it up for a mainstream audiences. Even if you know “enshittification” well, this is worth the watch. And love to @effElectronic Frontier Foundation! https://youtu.be/d2e-c9SF5nE?

Berlin Approves New Expansion of Police Surveillance Powers

Link: https://reclaimthenet.org/berlin-approves-new-expansion-of-police-surveillance-powers
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46245041

カメラ勢が早起きするとき、それは旅の始まり

更新してなくてすみません、生きてますが体調が優れない為冬コミは欠席させていただきます。

Among all the (entirely justified) rhetoric about “affordability” I find a striking lack of discussion of half the problem. It’s not just that the rent is too damn high (it is) it’s that the pay is too damn low.

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Framework Raises DDR5 Memory Prices by 50% for DIY Laptops

Link: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Framework-50p-DDR5-Memory
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46245331