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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Electronic Frontier Foundation @eff@mastodon.social
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Shared by David Beazley

“Flock's ambitions go far beyond license-plate surveillance,” EFF’s @cooperqExploit code not people told @404mediaco404 Media. “Flock's goal isn't to catch stolen cars, their goal is to have total surveillance of everyone all the time." 404media.co/flock-exposed-its-

Flock Exposed Its AI-Powered Cameras to the Internet. We Tracked Ourselves

Flock left at least 60 of its people-tracking Condor PTZ cameras live streaming and exposed to the open internet.

www.404media.co · 404 Media

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Ryan Carver @rcarver@mastodon.social
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RE: hachyderm.io/@pointfreeco/1157

Incredible stuff from PF this year.

I started building the photo management parts of @aphera on the earliest versions of SharingGRDB. I had been debating using SQLite for the document format and it was the push I needed.

Since then, it's been an absolute joy following the development of StructuredQueries and leaning on the patterns PF has promoted for modern persistence and data management.

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Sarah Rainsberger @sarah11918@mastodon.social
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My first actual, intentional day off in years. (Not "I'm hard to reach because I'm travelling," or "I'm sick.")

Am I doing this right?

(Also, me to Joe: "Thank you for being supportive even though I'm a bad singer."

Joe to me: "Thank you for being supportive even though I'm a bad bowler. This is what hobbies are for.")

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Hacker News 50 @hn50@social.lansky.name
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Vince Zampella, Developer of Call of Duty and Battlefield, Dead at 55

Link: comicbook.com/gaming/news/vinc
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4

Vince Zampella, Developer of Call of Duty and Battlefield, Dies at 55

Vince Zampella, the co-creator of Call of Duty, Titanfall, and boss of the Battlefield franchise, has died at age 55.

comicbook.com · ComicBook.com

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💙🩷💜Ⓑⓡⓔⓣⓣ🐡🍉🐧 @brettm@swarm.coiloptic.org
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Jonathan Blow at LambdaConf, demo of Jai, language design explanation, demo of puzzle game written in Jai (his day job), demo of visual debugger/profiler

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=IdpD5QIVOKQ&pp=ygUYam9uYXRoYW4gYmxvdyBsYW1iZGFjb25m

Jonathan Blow - Jai Demo and Design Explanation (KEYNOTE) - Updated

#LambdaConf2025 took place in Estes Park Colorado this past May 12th and 13th.UPCOMING EVENT:The Ultimate CoderCasting call: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/...

www.youtube.com · YouTube

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Django @django@fosstodon.org
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Thank you to membership renewal from Two Rock Software! Two Rock Software, a custom software development firm focused on increasing operational efficiency and client satisfaction for the legal sector.

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Deer Witch Nyx @moss@kind.social
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Harmon is for surgery, and is halfway to affording an Expanded Access Program for a novel surgery that will cure his type of vision loss & impending blindness. Harmon has Usher Syndrome which causes deafblindness.

My bestie was on a team with Harmon at MIT RealityHack, and had such wonderful things to say about working with him, plus just his personality & vibes.

Thanks in advance for boosting, sharing, & giving if you’re safely able:
gofundme.com/f/restore-vision-

Donate to My Race To See Again: Help Me Beat Blindness, organized by Harmon Amakobe

My name is Harmon Amakobe, and I am in a race against time to save my sigh… Harmon Amakobe needs your support for My Race To See Again: Help Me Beat Blindness

www.gofundme.com · gofundme.com

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Piper Thunstrom @pathunstrom@ngmx.com
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Okay, someone is looking for accessibility focused reading and it's been so long since I started from zero, I'm going to crowdsource it.

My accessibility network, what work would you point a newer person to in 2026?

(Please feel free to spread! I know the accessibility focused community isn't a monolith and would also love works outside my corner.)

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Hacker News 100 @hn100@social.lansky.name
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The Illustrated Transformer

Link: jalammar.github.io/illustrated
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4

The Illustrated Transformer

Discussions: Hacker News (65 points, 4 comments), Reddit r/MachineLearning (29 points, 3 comments) Translations: Arabic, Chinese (Simplified) 1, Chinese (Simplified) 2, French 1, French 2, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Persian, Russian, Spanish 1, Spanish 2, Vietnamese Watch: MIT’s Deep Learning State of the Art lecture referencing this post Featured in courses at Stanford, Harvard, MIT, Princeton, CMU and others Update: This post has now become a book! Check out LLM-book.com which contains (Chapter 3) an updated and expanded version of this post speaking about the latest Transformer models and how they've evolved in the seven years since the original Transformer (like Multi-Query Attention and RoPE Positional embeddings). In the previous post, we looked at Attention – a ubiquitous method in modern deep learning models. Attention is a concept that helped improve the performance of neural machine translation applications. In this post, we will look at The Transformer – a model that uses attention to boost the speed with which these models can be trained. The Transformer outperforms the Google Neural Machine Translation model in specific tasks. The biggest benefit, however, comes from how The Transformer lends itself to parallelization. It is in fact Google Cloud’s recommendation to use The Transformer as a reference model to use their Cloud TPU offering. So let’s try to break the model apart and look at how it functions. The Transformer was proposed in the paper Attention is All You Need. A TensorFlow implementation of it is available as a part of the Tensor2Tensor package. Harvard’s NLP group created a guide annotating the paper with PyTorch implementation. In this post, we will attempt to oversimplify things a bit and introduce the concepts one by one to hopefully make it easier to understand to people without in-depth knowledge of the subject matter. 2025 Update: We’ve built a free short course that brings the contents of this post up-to-date with animations: A High-Level Look Let’s begin by looking at the model as a single black box. In a machine translation application, it would take a sentence in one language, and output its translation in another.

jalammar.github.io

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Hugo van Kemenade @hugovk@mastodon.social
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@brianokkenBrian Okken :python: Yes to the warnings.deprecated decorator.

But it's only 3.13+ so many libraries will have to wait until ~October 2028 until they can use it (or only Q4 2026 for those following SPEC 0).

docs.python.org/3/library/warn

Re: youtube.com/live/FdgE0GDC7xU

Source code: Lib/warnings.py Warning messages are typically issued in situations where it is useful to alert the user of some condition in a program, where that condition (normally) doesn’t warrant...

warnings — Warning control

Source code: Lib/warnings.py Warning messages are typically issued in situations where it is useful to alert the user of some condition in a program, where that condition (normally) doesn’t warrant...

docs.python.org · Python documentation

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Deborah Pickett @futzle@old.mermaid.town
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: write a program that prints the full lyrics to the Twelve Days of Christmas, but be about it.

Choose whatever programming language you like. Use the language’s idiosyncrasies to your advantage.

For example, in C you might blend a for-loop with a switch-statement and liberally use case fallthrough. In BASIC you might use computed GOTO. In HTML+CSS you might use counters and selectors to do the numbering. In SQL you might use SQL.

Go.

Submissions so far in: awk, C, Clojure, Haskell, JavaScript, LINQ, Lua, nu, Perl, PostgreSQL, Powershell, Python, Ruby, Rust, Terraform, XQuery, XSLT, as well as a hardware implementation on an Arduino and a couple of very cool visualizations.

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Marcin Czachurski @mczachurski@mastodon.social
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I’m really happy with the migration of to Angular Material M3. The changes in how these components are used are definitely a big improvement - they’re much easier to work with and customize to my needs now.

Next up, I’ll probably focus on hashtag following. I’m still waiting for a decision from NLnet and really hoping it works out. Getting that grant would help me a lot with many things around 🤞

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Lilian “part time twink edition" @lilylunatic@estrogen.network
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Mh, SA-trauma, asking for a bit of a reality check

So I’ve been meaning to bring up to my therapist that I probably don’t need an introduction to trauma, how it affects me and how to cope in general.
And I don’t think this assessment is unreasonable.

It’s been only a bit over two years since I made it out of an also sexually quite abusive relationships and at large my relationships and intimate life are no longer affected for a while now.

I am still cautious around new people, but this is largely due to more recent events. And the rest of the things I do struggle with on more regular bases are more anxiety shaped and have been hammered into me for years or are moreso the result of a lack of opportunities.

Is this coherent? I’ve largely been around very traumatised ppl and this is all hard to compare so I genuinely can’t tell.

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MDN Web Docs @mdn@mastodon.social
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Let's learn about CSP (Content Security Policy) 🛡️

CSP, when set properly,
✅ Blocks malicious scripts from running on your site.
✅ Prevents data injection attacks.
✅ Reduces the risk of clickjacking and other web security threats.

Learn more 👇
developer.mozilla.org/en-US/do

The MDN Web Docs logo, featuring a blue accent color, displayed on a solid black background.

Content Security Policy (CSP) - HTTP | MDN

Content Security Policy (CSP) is a feature that helps to prevent or minimize the risk of certain types of security threats. It consists of a series of instructions from a website to a browser, which instruct the browser to place restrictions on the things that the code comprising the site is allowed to do.

developer.mozilla.org · MDN Web Docs

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BGDon @BrentD@techhub.social
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This piece nails it! The "new" TikTok "deal" is simply an exercise in decorative shape shifting for a situation that has basically been in place for 3 years.

This was never about addressing data privacy, propaganda, or national security. It was always about the US grabbing a big chunk of ownership one of the most popular and successful social media apps. The US Congress just made sure that is was Trump sycophants who got the "win". techdirt.com/2025/12/19/tiktok

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