What is Hackers' Pub?

Show HN: I used AI to recreate a $4000 piece of audio hardware as a plugin

Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46471648

"Hey I heard you use Linux, what distro should I-
"Debian"
"But what if I wan-
"Debian"
"But I don't want-
"Debian"
"But what if-
"DEBIAN."

​​　だいぶ目がさめてしまった​​

Shout out to @danDan Ports @dev and @ricciRob Ricci for the thankless job of moderating. They are true allies, usually finding and banning harassers before I even see them. As it is Juno’s birthday, here is a video of her enjoying a pile of catnip.

If you are a man in tech,
read this please 👇

https://www.euronews.com/next/2024/02/11/four-in-five-men-in-tech-say-women-are-treated-equally-as-women-criticise-invisible-challe

FreeBSD Home NAS, part 3: WireGuard VPN, routing, and Linux peers

Link: https://rtfm.co.ua/en/freebsd-home-nas-part-3-wireguard-vpn-linux-peer-and-routing/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46487120

Just finished a massive TRIM session. And for once, it had nothing to do with data storage.

#Gardening

It's a bad feeling when every general programming discussion venue you're in are now 80% discussions of how /not/ to program.

1. Read an article about AI (today it was https://steve-yegge.medium.com/welcome-to-gas-town-4f25ee16dd04)
2. Start to spiral about the future of work
3. Remember there are still COBOL programmers supporting mainframes, so I'm guessing it'll all be ok

Repeat ad infinitum

My little cousin asked for an Amazon Echo believing that she could ask it to play any song, she was disappointed in finding out she needs a subscription for that.

I’m considering to teach her how to maintain a digital music library on her phone she could then play on Echo trough Bluetooth but in the last years I had little experience with Android. I need recommendations on a good and ad-free music player app with easy library management and maybe a great looking UI too. Free and paid options are both good but subscriptions are a deal breaker.

To see how much disk space is left on your UFS partitions, use

df -h
-- Dru <genesis@istar.ca>

Attention Is Bayesian Inference

Link: https://medium.com/@vishalmisra/attention-is-bayesian-inference-578c25db4501
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46439064

Cold-blooded software (2023)

Link: https://dubroy.com/blog/cold-blooded-software/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46488261

Men in tech stop patronizing women in tech 2026 challenge.

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hmmm, c'est possible que je sois un peu moins présente ou réactive sur les réseaux dans le futur, dans les réponses et mp etc...
jvais "bien" mais j'suis fatiguée irl et le social en ligne est un peu dur à gérer par moments
luv u all tho 🫶

えこ日記　えこと猫と布団

I backed @dotmeow.meow ∙ see ya around ^-^' . Was gonna do that earlier but it's been like 10 years since the last time I logged into Kickstarter, so I had to jump through a few hoops. Hopefully, they're successful but what should I do with my 25 domains?

(Yes, I know I can use them to get more years on the same domain)

Since invading another country is the "ultimate crime" under international law, I trust the US will be banned from all sporting competitions like Russia was, or do the rules not work like that?

Web development is fun again

Link: https://ma.ttias.be/web-development-is-fun-again/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46488576

..개발계정을 그림계도 겸하게끔 해볼까?

ok here's a challenge: without looking it up, what is this ad, which is featured on the sleeve for an Australian computer magazine's cover disc, for?

Als ich mit meinem Lütten auf dem Congress in HH-Eidelstedt auftauchte, war das Chaos groß. Wau Holland beauftragte den Pressesprecher (IMHO war das Martin Virtel), einen rauchfreien Raum zu suchen, was schwierig war und betreute das Baby während ich reportierte.

Heute ist es anders. Bericht vom Chaos Kinder Congress: https://taz.de/39-Chaos-Communication-Congress/!6138448&/

(Das Kind von damals ist inzwischen Pulmologe und hat über Silvester in der Klinik die Rauchvergiftungen übernommen)

Als ich mit meinem Lütten auf dem Congress in HH-Eidelstedt auftauchte, war das Chaos groß. Wau Holland beauftragte den Pressesprecher (IMHO war das Martin Virtel), einen rauchfreien Raum zu suchen, was schwierig war und betreute das Baby während ich reportierte.

Heute ist es anders. Bericht vom Chaos Kinder Congress: https://taz.de/39-Chaos-Communication-Congress/!6138448&/

(Das Kind von damals ist inzwischen Pulmologe und hat über Silvester in der Klinik die Rauchvergiftungen übernommen)

ねこ、布団に入ってくるわ、ずっと枕元で寝てるわ、人類は嬉しいです

ﾌﾟｪ

working at a FAANG company used to be this impressive thing because these companies were ostensibly doing all the most exciting innovation and hiring all the best software people to make it happen.

i dunno if that was ever actually true but it certainly hasn’t been true for years. these companies are not doing anything impressive or innovative in tech, they’re solely in the business of making money.

something i dont think a lot of tech workers have figured out yet: the tech industry isn’t in the business of making tech products anymore. they’re a banking/advertising empire with tech as a front business.

Hello everyone I moved to a new self-hosted blog thing and here is my first post on why "PC Compatible" is a social construct https://www.codon.org.uk/~mjg59/blog/p/what-is-a-pc-compatible/

A freelance journalist friend of mine who writes about science and math has discovered that someone is using LLMs to impersonate him to try to get assignments.

Deeply creepy but also, um, being a freelance science journalist is about as lucrative as running a lemonade stand. Choice of scams here is woefully underthought.

Bison return to Illinois' Kane County after 200 years

Link: https://phys.org/news/2025-12-bison-illinois-kane-county-years.html
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46436279

Y’know, the recent discussion about the US world dominance relying on the petrodollar has me thinking: it sure is a coincidence that, since 2012, we’ve rocketed from one horrifically energy inefficient techno-fascist bubble to another without pause. Each outpacing renewables like clockwork

Huh 👀

ok here's a challenge: without looking it up, what is this ad, which is featured on the sleeve for an Australian computer magazine's cover disc, for?

Anyone have a Tangle invite?

I charged $18k for a Static HTML Page (2019)

Link: https://idiallo.com/blog/18000-dollars-static-web-page
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46469877

#html

Whoops, I made a mistake in my blog post and my explanation for how the smoke detector works was completely backwards 🫣 Should have double checked my assumptions....

Thanks @ClickyMcTicker and @lapoLapo Luchini for pointing it out!

https://82mhz.net/posts/2026/01/how-does-a-smoke-alarm-work/

🐄 💀 💥 💤 #emoji #poll

I don't see any problem here.

https://www.churchtimes.co.uk/articles/2025/31-october/news/uk/full-ban-of-conversion-therapy-would-criminalise-mainstream-christian-teaching-government-told

Watching in sadness as a software dev buys entirely into vibe coding. They literally don’t read code any more; they prompt and run and test and commit, only fixing issues as they bump into them. Holy shit.

@inthehandsPaul Cantrell if it hasn’t already been mentioned, Cory Doctorow @pluralisticCory Doctorow has been presenting a great proposal for how smaller nations can hit the US power base where it hurts (while helping their own people) by taking advantage of Trump’s destruction of free trade treaties: treaties that locked the world into using monopolized American tech. The locks are gone now.

Doctorow’s recent talk on the new possibility of a post-American Internet: https://media.ccc.de/v/39c3-a-post-american-enshittification-resistant-internet#t=9

Thanks to Roy Tam, John Elliot and Microsoft OEM Adaptation kit, I managed to convert Windows 3 fonts to a format that Windows 1 display driver I'm using for this port can understand.

The font comes from Windows 3, but the pixel data is Windows 1 FNT, and it is stored in Windows 2 FON container created by Windows 2 RC.EXE

RE: https://masto.es/@cavalleto/115820657000569516

@cheeaunChee Aun 🤔 Does Phanpy let people quote posts and add attachments? I thought Mastodon didn't allow that.

If you use an AI-generated image for your article/post, this indicates to me you might have also used AI-generated text.

If you use AI-generated text for your article/post then:

1- I have no idea if you verified the veracity of any claimed facts.

2- I have no idea what your own voice is.

3- I have no idea if this truly expresses your own views, and if you even cared to read it.

4- I have no idea what your intention is with this, other than exploiting my attention and clicks with the least amount of efforts on your part.

5- This shows me you have no respect at all for the labour that was stolen to build these tools, exploiting millions of artists and writers to make billions of dollars without any compensation to them whatsoever.

Why would I want to engage with any content like that?

• I don't want to communicate with a machine (I can do that by myself).

• I don't want to participate in this disgusting exploitation of artists and writers.

• And I want to communicate with another human, of course.

If your intention isn't to communicate with another human, then stop deceiving them making them think they are

#NoAI #StopTheSlop

i wish the tool was somehow more proactive about keeping the DAG in a good shape since it's one of most important project assets. i actually wouldn't mind spending time having convos about pieces of it and to making sure it captured all important research and decision points just right

archive #1
23-011, 23-019, 24-008, 24-011

#art

Sleeping Rough in Alaska with a USPS Cargo Bike https://hackaday.com/2026/01/04/sleeping-rough-in-alaska-with-a-usps-cargo-bike/ #TransportationHacks #governmentauction #micro-camper #bikecamper #cargobike #e-bike #rv

Cléo ville absolut ut. Hon ångrade sig rätt snabbt 😅
#finncleo #catsofmastodon #FediPets