What is Hackers' Pub?

knee jerk keyboard

teaching my cat about the "cat" command in Linux

A uniquely British problem.

Python 3.14 and the implementation of PEP 768 allows debuggers to safely attach to a remote Python process. 📲

Welcome to a new era of debugging! 🐛

https://rawomb.at/posts/python-remote-exec/

#python #debugging #pep

“My friends will get hurt.” — Trump

"For decades, they identified as high-skilled professionals who stood apart from the usual management-labor divide. ... But these days, with the notable exception of those atop the A.I. wave, more and more tech employees see themselves as rank-and-file workers stuck in a conventional conflict with management"

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/26/business/tech-employees-activism-kickstarter.html

teaching my cat about the "cat" command in Linux

Five Years of Tinygrad

Link: https://geohot.github.io//blog/jekyll/update/2025/12/29/five-years-of-tinygrad.html
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46422757

タイミーでもやるか

@inthehandsPaul Cantrell @nikitonsky Yes. In LLM’s they found a fake human replacement that never talks back. That’s what they were after.

Corporate fraudsters love AI because LLMs will fake it if necessary. For a while, company figures will look fine, and when the house of cards collapses, nobody will have to go to jail. Just imagine how easily you can build something like Dieselgate with vibe coding.

If you don't believe this, check out how easy it is to get an LLM to prove 2+2=5 without any sign of malicious intent.

#ai #llm

でももう手放せるものなくない？

もっと断捨離するか…

絵チャで描いたフリーレン #フリーレン #葬送のフリーレン

remember to leave big tech

https://pad.riseup.net/p/online-tools-for-the-pandemic-keep

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작법서는 한권만 남기고 안녕이다

크리쳐라는거 솔직히 정답이 진짜로 없는거라(실존하지않으니까) 누가 크리쳐 잘그리는법. 뭐냐고 해도 앞서 물어봐야 할 게 많음 저는 제 스타일에 대해서만 설명할수 있어요,,,

An obsequious “always yes” machine…well, your head might say it’s far-fetched, but the instinct for psychological self-defense won’t let your brain let go of it.

You might say “Don’t they understand [fact about LLMs]???” but often the appeal isn’t factual; it’s emotional.

Ignore that at your peril.

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I am being a bit cheeky, but I really do think this is a powerful psychological force that shapes orgs far more than we realize: it can be emotionally damaging to have people tell you “no” or question your ideas, and leadership means getting that •all the time•. People in management / executive positions — who are in fact very much people, all too human — will go to great lengths to protect their own psyches from the injury of pushback.

This is a •powerful• force in orgs.

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Writing #Swift macros might be the least favourite activity in my Swift Algebraic Effects library development.
I'm already sitting on 1k+ LOC of absolutely disgusting spaghetti code to make an Effect macro work with all sorts of function types – sync, async, throwing, generic, local, global, static, etc. On top of that, needing to account for MainActor vs nonisolated DAI clients.
Lucky, I have robust tests, so can't wait to start refactoring it (could be a good task for an LLM).

젠틀리머 땅콩베개 샀는데 경추베개보다는 훨씬 잘맞아서 잘 쓰고 있는데 다만 똑바로 누운 자세가 아니면 애매할 때가 많음ㅠㅠ

A bright aurora over the boreal forest north of Fairbanks in mid-February. The display was strong enough to soften the stars and light the snow-covered trees below.

Prints and Wall Art in my Aurora Gallery: https://photos.lwpetersen.com/Galleries/Alaska-Photos/Aurora-Borealis

#alaska #auroraborealis #northernlights

But now, LLMs offer a beautiful new promise: your brilliant notions can proceed full speed without any pesky underlings at all!

You can just •build the app• or •launch the campaign• or whatever, and nobody will tell you annoying things like “that won’t work” or “that timeline is unrealistic” or “that will create even larger problems” or “people will die.” The chat LLM is there to say YES to your hitherto-unacknowledged brilliance!

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hacking your robot girlfriend with whistled DTMF tones

#MisskeyWrapped2025
https://misskey-wrapped.korange.work/share/9c8cdf74-84a6-4cb9-be20-e96150ae2668

はぇ～

Underlings are so annoying!

Sometimes you can make this problem go away by exploiting weak labor power (see: factories, agriculture, sanitation).

Sometimes you can create a toxic org culture when information •only• flows down the hierarchy, so no pushback can ever reach your sensitive ears. (Public school administrations are rife with this.)

Sometimes you can do it by making your catastrophic failures look like a string of successes to the people up the chain. (Large corporations are swimming in this.)

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If you’re a mediocre manager / executive / admin / leader, what this feels like is •you• have a brilliant idea that will fix things or save a bazillion dollars or boost the metrics or whatever, but all these annoying underling keep telling you that you can’t do that for reasons that you don’t understand and that make no sense to you and you suspect they’re kind of making up.

And you keep saying “Can’t you just…” and they keep giving these confusing gobbledygook answers and the result is that your brilliant leadership cannot come to fruition.

4/

I don't get retrocomputing. I'm not against it, y'all do you, I'm happy that you've found something cool that works for you, I just don't get it. I especially don't get whatever cursed thing @dabeazDavid Beazley is doing (I guess "if ed was good enough for Ken Thompson" etc etc). It's like Alex Honnold deciding to do El Capitan blindfolded. Why not?

稼いでいるはずだがお金がない

저는 블친들을 똑똑하게 키워서 대충 말하면 알아들어요 그치 블친아? 어? 한국어 할 줄 아셨어요?

When a terrible idea comes from on high, there’s always pushback from the folks on the ground who actually understand how things work: the engineers at the computers, the teachers in the classrooms, the facilities crews, the kitchen staff, whatever. The folks who live their lives zoomed in on a specific thing may be missing the big picture, but they’re the ones who first see when a managerial notion will have execution problems.

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https://aftermath.site/best-split-keyboards-diy-qmk-zmk-corne/

Chris Person speaking my language with this morning's bonus Aftermath blog about split keyboards

#keyboards

People up a few levels in org hierarchies are always coming up with ideas that sound great and make sense in a Powerpoint or on a spreadsheet, but are actually terrible ideas if you understand how they’ll play out.

This is only human! Management is about seeing things zoomed out — and all problems look smaller at a distance. It’s just a hazard of the job. Anyone in such a role is susceptible, even the best; what distinguishes •good• managers / administrators is that they mindfully, actively counter this self-trap.

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みんごる4遊んでたらもうこん

Holy cow fake QR codes in the wild! Stop the hacklore @boblordBob Lord 🔐 ! :)

https://vancouversun.com/news/whistler-fraudulent-qr-codes-parking-payment-scam

I agree with @nikitonsky , and I think this is at root of much of the managerial mania for LLMs.

Having their terrible ideas go unchecked by underlings with expertise is basically crack cocaine for bad org leadership.

1/ https://mastodon.online/@nikitonsky/115792431499413784

그래도 블스 한국어권 클러스터에서는 어케어케 트랜스친화적 분위기가 많이 형성된 것 같아서 다행임 당사자시각에는아직아닌것같다구요?ㅈㅅ합니다

"The second and, in my mind, more likely possibility is that Trump once again deployed stochastic terror, confident someone would act on it for him."

The second point where the NYT buried the lede:

When Greene publicly advocated for the women sexually assaulted by Epstein who testified before a Congressional committee, Trump called her shouting with rage and telling her that his "friends will get hurt" if the Epstein files are disclosed.

#Trump #Epstein #MarjorieTaylorGreene
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@atoponceAaron Toponce ⚛️ It's just amazing (and really disappointing) that so many people so quickly gave up thinking (critical or otherwise) the moment LLM slop generators hit the market.

Smart people went all in on outsourcing their brain cells to... this.

@atoponceAaron Toponce ⚛️ Also have you noticed these type of posts are always from CEO/CTO of AI companies. I have yet to see an honest engineer think that slop is going to be ok.

"It's ok that our product produces shit code, it's not us, it's your expectations"

Um...

家附近有家小超市，老闆祖上是廣州人，一家人都還會說粵語。我偶爾會光顧，剛剛去他們那裡找蘿蔔，我是用粵語問的，而且並沒有先寒暄，就很隨意輕鬆的問他有沒有蘿蔔，老先生顯然一時沒有反應過來以為聽錯了（我們這一片華人/東亞人比較少），我再開口的時候，他驚地看了我一眼，確認自己沒有聽錯，才給我指：「蘿蔔在那個筐裡，你往底下翻一翻。」

@stefanoStefano Marinelli I still wait for the moment when someone asks me with what AI I write the release news and articles.

People cannot imagine anymore that there a people out there that do things completely without AI. I like to do things without it because I feel more intelligent when doing so (if that makes sense).

Omg @catsaladCat 🐈🥗 (D.Burch) ⁠ it's the starter pack I always dreamed of! ❤️❤️❤️

https://fedidevs.com/s/Nzg5/

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