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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I've heard anecdotal reports of computer repair places "accidentally" breaking the ram and refunding the customer the catalogue price from six months ago, presumably to feed it into machines of more important corporate customers... so we're already at the scavenging-to-survive stage of AI economic collapse :lolsob:

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선한 사람은 마음의 선한 곳간에서 선한 것을 내놓고, 악한 자는 악한 곳간에서 악한 것을 내놓습니다 🍝.
마음에서 넘치는 것을 입으로 말하는 법입니다 😋.

A good person out of the store of goodness in his heart produces good, but an evil person out of a store of evil produces evil 🍝; for from the fullness of the heart the mouth speaks 😋.

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On the heels of the NixOS 25.11 release, I reproduced the minimal
installation ISO again.

My approach is to take a NixOS VM from 2020, and then build the ISO (almost) without relying on the binary cache. This means it builds essentially all of the build-time dependencies and all of the items that make it into the ISO
from source, without directly relying on Nix-specific prebuilt packages. On the other hand, NixOS is somewhat less strict than for example Debian in
requiring package 'sources' are actually sources, so a few builds (notably go) are actually 'built' from upstream binary releases.

It's very satisfying to see such a long (albeit well-controlled) Rube Goldberg machine of builds results in a single hash that is identical to the one from the ISO you can download from the website.

Full write-up with all details at arnout.engelen.eu/blog/reprodu

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So I hacked my way into being Cyber Policy Initiative Senior Fellow at the University of Chicago's Harris School of Public Policy. I'm workin on rural water critical infrastructure cybersecurity.

Do you even hack utilities? Please chat w me. I need to quickly find out where I"m wrong about some of my assumptions.

Still very entertained by the fact that I *finally* got into the University of Chicago. :D

cpi.harris.uchicago.edu/2025/1

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So I hacked my way into being Cyber Policy Initiative Senior Fellow at the University of Chicago's Harris School of Public Policy. I'm workin on rural water critical infrastructure cybersecurity.

Do you even hack utilities? Please chat w me. I need to quickly find out where I"m wrong about some of my assumptions.

Still very entertained by the fact that I *finally* got into the University of Chicago. :D

cpi.harris.uchicago.edu/2025/1

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춘천 등 강원 4곳 대설주의보 해제
(춘천=연합뉴스) 기상청은 춘천·인제군평지·홍천군평지·강원북부산지에 내렸던 대설주의보를 23일 오후 9시 30분을 기해 해제한다고 밝혔다.
yna.co.kr/view/AKR202512231626

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Day 23 of Advent of Compiler Optimisations!

Switch statements compile to jump tables, right? Well... sometimes. But what happens when your five-case switch becomes pure arithmetic? Or when checking for whitespace turns into a single mysterious constant and some bit manipulation? Turns out compilers have a whole bag of tricks beyond the textbook answer.

Read more: xania.org/202512/23-switching-
Watch: youtu.be/aSljdPafBAw

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8 years @ Apple today! 🎉

This is my third stint here, and I keep coming back b/c of the people. I’ve made some of my closest friends at Apple. There are people who believed in me long before I did, and that belief fundamentally shaped my career.

I’ve worked alongside some of the smartest humans I know...people who can casually say things like “I invented VoiceOver” or “I wrote the Dock.”

The company may have its faults, but I'm grateful to work here, especially getting to do so from Norway.

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