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.

Hacker News 100 @hn100@social.lansky.name
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GitHub will begin charging for self-hosted action runners on March 2026

Link: github.blog/changelog/2025-12-
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4

Coming soon: Simpler pricing and a better experience for GitHub Actions - GitHub Changelog

On January 1, 2026, GitHub will reduce the price of GitHub-hosted runners by up to 39% depending on the machine type used. The free usage minute quotas will remain the…

github.blog · The GitHub Blog

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Colin Cornaby @colincornaby@mastodon.social
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Pretty good post from The Verge talking about where coding models are actually sourcing improvements from... They've hired a lot of humans to feed more code in for the model to regurgitate.

I've been watching this for a bit - and I think people underestimate how much these models are still faking intelligence by just brute force pushing of code in. It also explains why models fall off a cliff - they haven't hired anyone for that use case/API yet.

apple.news/AzMvHBnICRxiaKW_44Y

Feeding the machine — The Verge

When he was 19 years old, Brendan Foody started Mercor with two of his high school friends as a way for his other friends, who also had startups, to hire software engineers overseas. It launched in 2023 as essentially a staffing agency, albeit a highly automated one.

apple.news

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mcc @mcc@mastodon.social
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Question: A few weeks I saw pass by on the Mastodon TL a concise, technically inclined blog post explaining anti-cheat software in Windows gaming and why you don't find it working on Linux. The author's Mastopost about it used some specific wording like "This describes the world as it is, not as we want it to be". I am trying to find this to link it to a friend. Does anyone know what this post might have been?

EDIT: Via @pearl#1 trackball mouse enjoyer it was this tulach.cc/the-issue-of-anti-ch

The issue of anti-cheat on Linux | Samuel Tulach

Why are developers so hesitant to bring anti-cheat solutions to Linux?

tulach.cc · The issue of anti-cheat on Linux | Samuel Tulach

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Flipboard Culture Desk @CultureDesk@flipboard.social
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Shared by Evan Prodromou

In 1296, King Edward I, the English monarch, stole the Stone of Destiny from Scotland. 600 years later, four students decided to take it back. Here's @BBCNews's story on the 1950 heist to reclaim the ancient relic.

flip.it/B1geo4

1950s archive photo of police and others carrying the Stone of Destiny at the handover of the stone at Arbroath Abbey (Credit: Alamy)

'As long as it's in Scotland I'm happy': The 1950 heist to reclaim the ancient Stone of Destiny

In a daring raid 75 years ago, four university students stole back an early symbol of the Scottish kings. It had been taken by an English monarch more than six centuries before.

www.bbc.com

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Plushtodon @plushtodon@social.epfl.ch
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Shared by Andy Piper

Salut @EPFL ! Moi, c'est Plushtodon, la peluche-mascotte de Mastodon 🦣 ✨

Je me réjouis de découvrir le quotidien du campus, de passer d’événements en rencontres et d'explorer les lieux les plus emblématiques!

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Hi @EPFL ! I’m Plushtodon, the Mastodon plush mascot 🦣 ✨

I can’t wait to immerse myself in everyday life on campus, hop from event to event, meet new people, and explore your most iconic spots!

Plushtodon devant le logo de l'EPFL. En arrière-plan, le Rolex Learning Center
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Andy Baio @andybaio@xoxo.zone
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Shared by Darius Kazemi

Hands-on reviews of the new Commodore 64 Ultimate are starting to come in, and I'm suddenly feeling VERY good about my preorder. It consolidates every great homebrew hardware improvement for the C64 into one machine. Even the packaging is well done, a faithful update to the original. tomshardware.com/video-games/r

Commodore 64 Ultimate Review: 21st Century Computing from a 1982 perspective

I hope I look this good in 30 years time.

www.tomshardware.com · Tom's Hardware

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n0toose @n0toose@chaos.social
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RE: bluetoot.hardill.me.uk/@ben/11

me last week, half-sarcastically: "wow we've seen an uptick in donations, let's hope that they'll get more CEOs and COOs to say silly things in public so that they keep growing exponentially next year or so"

github less than 2 weeks before the end of 2025:

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Andy Baio @andybaio@xoxo.zone
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Hands-on reviews of the new Commodore 64 Ultimate are starting to come in, and I'm suddenly feeling VERY good about my preorder. It consolidates every great homebrew hardware improvement for the C64 into one machine. Even the packaging is well done, a faithful update to the original. tomshardware.com/video-games/r

Commodore 64 Ultimate Review: 21st Century Computing from a 1982 perspective

I hope I look this good in 30 years time.

www.tomshardware.com · Tom's Hardware

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Marvin Oppong @marvinoppong@mastodon.social
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Der Deutsche hat im Dezember 14 Rügen ausgesprochen. BILD/BILD.de sind wie so oft dabei. Besonders jedoch: Stern.de erhielt eine Rüge, weil das Medium laut Presserat eine "Geschichte einschließlich der erfundenen Einzelheiten von BILD.DE ohne hinreichende eigene Recherche übernommen" hat.

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Flipboard Culture Desk @CultureDesk@flipboard.social
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In 1296, King Edward I, the English monarch, stole the Stone of Destiny from Scotland. 600 years later, four students decided to take it back. Here's @BBCNews's story on the 1950 heist to reclaim the ancient relic.

flip.it/B1geo4

1950s archive photo of police and others carrying the Stone of Destiny at the handover of the stone at Arbroath Abbey (Credit: Alamy)

'As long as it's in Scotland I'm happy': The 1950 heist to reclaim the ancient Stone of Destiny

In a daring raid 75 years ago, four university students stole back an early symbol of the Scottish kings. It had been taken by an English monarch more than six centuries before.

www.bbc.com

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Plushtodon @plushtodon@social.epfl.ch
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Shared by Eugen Rochko

Salut @EPFL ! Moi, c'est Plushtodon, la peluche-mascotte de Mastodon 🦣 ✨

Je me réjouis de découvrir le quotidien du campus, de passer d’événements en rencontres et d'explorer les lieux les plus emblématiques!

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Hi @EPFL ! I’m Plushtodon, the Mastodon plush mascot 🦣 ✨

I can’t wait to immerse myself in everyday life on campus, hop from event to event, meet new people, and explore your most iconic spots!

Plushtodon devant le logo de l'EPFL. En arrière-plan, le Rolex Learning Center
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Christine Lemmer-Webber @cwebber@social.coop
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medical, glp-1

I'm on a glp-1 medication. It's... pretty wild.

I would describe myself as having a malfunctioning appetite: I am *always* ravenously hungry normally, which is one of the reasons I am always cutting up and eating apple slices and baby carrots at my desk, so that I don't overdo it. It's very exhausting to manage.

For the first time in decades I'm experiencing the sensation of fullness and not constantly thinking about food. Weight is dropping off fast, maybe even *too* fast. Wild.

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Djangonaut Space @djangonaut@indieweb.social
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Is one of your 2026 themes to contribute to open-source more? ✨

If so, you're in luck! Djangonaut Space hosts a page that contains over 50 opportunities for people to contribute to Django 🌐

Read more here: djangonaut.space/comms/finding

Finding opportunities to contribute to Django

When folks want to get involved in open source, they tend to want a very specific set of directions to …

djangonaut.space

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Adam Caudill @adam_caudill@infosec.exchange
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I suspect that current unemployment numbers are missing something. The numbers don't seem to reflect the reality I'm seeing on here or on LinkedIn. The number of people looking is higher than I've seen in my career, but the official numbers aren't that bad (4.6% in the US). So let's run a little unscientific experiment.

If you work in tech, or something broadly tech-adjacent, please vote and boost for reach.

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demize @demize@unstable.systems
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Shared by Alice I. Cecile

incredible, github is going to start charging for self-hosted actions runners (in private repositories)

We are introducing a $0.002 per-minute Actions cloud platform charge for all Actions workflows across GitHub-hosted and self-hosted runners.

resources.github.com/actions/2

Pricing changes for GitHub Actions

Pricing changes for GitHub Actions

GitHub Actions pricing update: Discover lower runner rates (up to 39% off) following a major re-architecture for faster, more reliable CI/CD.

resources.github.com · GitHub Resources

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Dave Morris @daveybot@mastodon.scot
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Shared by Chris Siebenmann

day 16

I posted a shot about contrast on day 9, but following some lovely fog chat with @mothninjaAnna and others yesterday, I thought today I'd feature some pictures of obscurity and diffusion and all that lovely atmosphere that exists when things are not sharp, bright, or clear at all.

As a lighting designer we more normally get to play with this stuff in theatrical scenarios than architectural, but as a photographer it's always fun to attempt capturing when you get the chance.

A view over an Edinburgh street at night. The warm streetlighting gives the buildings a gentle glow from ground level with occasional lit windows punctuating the facades. In the distance, high above the rooftops, the peak of Arthur's Seat - our local mini-mountain - rises faintly from a deep blue mist.Flying over the Firth Of Forth on a hazy, misty day. Everything is a pale shade of gray or blue, but if you look closely you can just make out the distinct forms of the enormous bridges across the estuary, far below.Crepuscular rays show the path of sunlight down through an early morning mist, broken up by the delicate leaves and branches of some trees.A giant bubble stadium glows, in the mist.
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mcc @mcc@mastodon.social
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Shared by Glyph

Question: A few weeks I saw pass by on the Mastodon TL a concise, technically inclined blog post explaining anti-cheat software in Windows gaming and why you don't find it working on Linux. The author's Mastopost about it used some specific wording like "This describes the world as it is, not as we want it to be". I am trying to find this to link it to a friend. Does anyone know what this post might have been?

EDIT: Via @pearl#1 trackball mouse enjoyer it was this tulach.cc/the-issue-of-anti-ch

The issue of anti-cheat on Linux | Samuel Tulach

Why are developers so hesitant to bring anti-cheat solutions to Linux?

tulach.cc · The issue of anti-cheat on Linux | Samuel Tulach

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Hacker News 50 @hn50@social.lansky.name
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GitHub will begin charging for self-hosted action runners on March 2026

Link: github.blog/changelog/2025-12-
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4

Coming soon: Simpler pricing and a better experience for GitHub Actions - GitHub Changelog

On January 1, 2026, GitHub will reduce the price of GitHub-hosted runners by up to 39% depending on the machine type used. The free usage minute quotas will remain the…

github.blog · The GitHub Blog

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