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.
the city of berlin has an official bluesky account and it only has 63 followers lol @hauptstadtportal.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy
I am trying out Helium browser (a new ungoogled chromium fork) and I need a new extension to translate whole websites inline to english. Searching (https://chromewebstore.google.com/search/translate) leads to a lot of them but no way to filter thru to figure out which ones are legit and which are datamining ops. Any recommendations?
香港のすごくかっこいいミュージシャン、何韻詩（デニス・ホー）の近況。
彼女は香港政府にパスポートを没収されたままで、香港以外では音楽活動もできていない状況のはず。
祝兩位平安。
https://youtu.be/orcP5h4An9c
去更新啊
Google Chrome、Microsoft Edge、Vivaldi及Brave
國家資通安全研究院 - 以Chromium為基礎之瀏覽器存在5個高風險安全漏洞，請儘速確認並進行修補 https://www.nics.nat.gov.tw/core_business/information_security_information_sharing/Vulnerability_Alert_Announcements/8fd2063e-0c07-4030-ba24-00a160b2084e/
Physical data center maintenance is risky on a global network. We built a maintenance scheduler on Workers to safely plan disruptive operations, while solving scaling challenges. https://blog.cloudflare.com/building-our-maintenance-scheduler-on-workers/
鍾意同做各行各業嘅人做朋友，因為總可以知道自己接觸唔到嘅事。
朋友最近新入職幫某大拍賣行工作，無耐就親身見證咗一單市值兩億港元嘅買賣，唔知買家身分，只知透過電話成交，成件事唔需要邊一個人落足嘴頭力sell，對方買嘢爽快到好似落街買棵葱。
我：貧窮限制我想像，對我嚟講打電話使錢最熟嗰樣叫買六合彩。
佢：兩億呀，即係金多寶都分分鐘要贏十次。
當中下階層們為經濟不景而煩惱嗰陣，最頂層嗰班人嘅生活仍然都唔乜受到影響。
can you make an RGMII DAC cable?
手握两颗鸡球的感受真的太好了。鸡毛是暖暖的软软的。
Hey babe are you alright? You’ve barely touched the cyberpunk dystopia you fantasized about throughout most of the 90s that you’re currently trapped in.
Had my first successful experience using a browser agent to solve a real problem - in this case I had the Claude in Chrome extension help me find some configuration I had lost deep within the Cloudflare control panel https://simonwillison.net/2025/Dec/22/claude-chrome-cloudflare/
We'll go with "the Three of Pentacles" for this one.
A project from the future and fantastic readme to boot at https://github.com/dnr/styx
It's essentially a layer of the nix package manager that uses linux userspace file-system mechanisms (but not FUSE) to download data on demand as they're read. As in at posix read time.
And not whole files, mind you, but chunks of files. I.e. segments of a file that are common across others will be deduplicated on disk. Not only that but large files can be partially downloaded as needed.
For example, I rarely use most of the fonts bundled in the widely used google noto fonts package which is above 1GiB on disk right now with the version I'm using. A lot LLM related packages like the cuda family and ollama are pretty big as they tend to bundle together code for each hardware/architecture that they support in one package.
On the other hand, nixos upgrades tend to leave lots of versions of the same package in the store. This is such a big issue that I'm usually forced to "garbage collect" the store or update flakes of unrelated projects in lock-step to benefit from version dedup. The chunking aspect would help here a lot as for most packages, different versions are mostly identical chunkwise.
Hearsay against #IPFS has me suspicious of the metadata overhead but intuition says package management is a good usecase for this.
I was previously aware of https://github.com/containers/composefs-rs which tries to do something similar for OCI images but very cool to run across this despite how...early days it is.
Are you ready for the 2026 Nix/NixOS sprint season?
Ocean Sprint will happen in April on Lanzarote, registration is open until 20th January:
https://oceansprint.org/
A great opportunity to meet people from the community, hack and swim with great weather!
Already in February, the first Aurora Sprint will be happening in Reykjavik, Island:
https://aurorasprint.com/
The sprint focuses on Nix for embedded linux systems.
I am proud and ridiculously excited to introduce you to The Computer Upcycle Project! Welcome to Episode 60 of Linux For Everyone, featuring the inspirational 
@codemonkeymikeMike 
!
https://linuxforeveryone.net/episode-60-the-computer-upcycle-project-with-mike-kelly/
Say hi to baby Basil, who has just joined our other lads in the Boar Club. #GuineaPigs
Wind storms last week set in motion disaster recovery plans at NIST, and almost took out a primary time reference: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZRB7pjRVVkI
I'm sure the folks at NIST running the Internet's time clocks were feeling the pressure, and they handled it well.
朋友問我遊英後感想。
第一感想係啲嘢難食到我震驚，第二先係啲博物館好好行😂
あすは31のアイス食べちゃえ…許されるはず…！
それではお疲れさまでした！
RE: https://hachyderm.io/@ekuber/115764131636009189
lmao this is sick actually. https://github.com/rust-lang/miri/blob/3723d3adaa99885a02d77e69d2dff7d45dcc0f23/src/shims/native_lib/trace/parent.rs#L462 
@iximeow check this out
2025 #WebOrigami year-end report https://jan.miksovsky.com/posts/2025/12-22-web-origami-year-end-report
Work this year included substantial syntax changes to make Origami a dialect of #JavaScript expressions: "JavaScript expressions with paths"
This is my face when some versions of Firefox on Android send a HTTP 'Accept: */*' header if you ask them for a reader-mode display of a page. Yes, they re-fetch the page to do so, unlike desktop Firefox.
Jucika's carnival
Flock left at least 60 of its people-tracking Condor PTZ cameras live streaming and exposed to the open internet.
https://www.404media.co/flock-exposed-its-ai-powered-cameras-to-the-internet-we-tracked-ourselves/
How to use #UUIDv7 in #Python, #Django and #PostgreSQL https://www.paulox.net/2025/11/14/how-to-use-uuidv7-in-python-django-and-postgresql/
How to use UUIDv7 in Python, Django and PostgreSQL
Learn how to use UUIDv7 today with stable releases of Python 3.14, Django 5.2 and PostgreSQL 18. A step by step guide showing how to generate UUIDv7 in Python, store them in Django models, use PostgreSQL native functions and build time ordered primary keys without writing SQL.
www.paulox.net · Paolo Melchiorre
Link author: 
Paolo Melchiorre@paulox@fosstodon.org
Currently finishing drafting the OS 8.1 announcement mega thread. When I’m done should I make the website live a little early?
as promised, here is a repository that lets you quickly turn any random VPS into a Forgejo Actions runner in under 30 minutes, for use with Codeberg or your private forge! https://codeberg.org/whitequark/nixos-forgejo-actions-runner
it uses NixOS internally, but Nix knowledge is neither required nor assumed, and the README walks you through the entire process.
"One of the best ways to sharpen your brain, and develop intelligence, is to study mathematics. It challenges and strengthens your mind in a way that very few other things do. It’s like going to the gym – but for your brain!" – Danica McKellar (1975-)
#quote #mathematics #maths #math
the city of berlin has an official bluesky account and it only has 63 followers lol @hauptstadtportal.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy
I just found out that miri now supports ffi at all, and it's like x-mas came early!
https://www.ralfj.de/blog/2025/12/22/miri.html#invoking-native-code-from-miri
Some of us at NLnet will be going to #39c3 \o/. We hope to see you there! Together with 
@PrototypeFund and 
@sovtechfundSovereign Tech Agency will be doing a self-organized session, just like previous years. Join us on Day 3 for the Meet the Funders session where you can ask anything about Free and Open Source funding
https://events.ccc.de/congress/2025/hub/en/event/detail/meet-the-funders-sovereign-tech-agency-nlnet-proto
Hope to see you at Congress!
The U.S. Is Funding Fewer Grants in Every Area of Science and Medicine
Link: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/12/02/upshot/trump-science-funding-cuts.html
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46355077
진심 마작 개열받네
Happy holidays everyone!
To celebrate we are offering one last discount to Point-Free. Get 25% off the first year of your subscription, and unlock access to everything we have planned for next year (it's a lot!).
🎁 https://www.pointfree.co/blog/posts/196-2025-year-in-review
After years of careful observation and listening, I am firmly and deeply convinced that neurodivergence is real.
I have serious doubts about the existence of neurotypicality, though. 🧵
갈라져도 가라앉을 수 없는 배, 깊이를 헤아릴 마음은 버리고 물결치는 포말 위에 말 한마디를 마저 띄우다. 잊혀진 뭍 대신 구름에 닿겠거니 속였던 다짐 대신 잘려나간 달관만 겨우 실어서.
How many modals can you show at the same time? Meetup.com: Hold my beer!
macOS is fun because you're having a normal day, everything is perfectly fine, and suddenly ⌘+W stops working until you restart Chrome.
it's a travesty that this isn't codeberg's logo or mascot
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