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 gave a lightning talk at a bunch of conferences in 2025 about some of the exciting new things coming in Python 3.14, including template strings.

One thing we can use t-strings for is to prevent SQL injection. I illustrated this with xkcd 327 aka “Little Bobby Tables”.

I localised most of the slides for the PyCon I was at, including this comic. Here they are!

hugovk.dev/blog/2026/localisin

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Everything You Need to Know About Email Encryption in 2026

If you think about emails as if they're anything but the digital equivalent of a postcard--that is to say, they provide zero confidentiality--then someone lied to you and I'm sorry you had to find out from a furry blog that sometimes talks about applied cryptography. CMYKat At the end of 2025, at the 39th Chaos Communications Congress in Hamburg, Germany, a team of security researchers posted some devastating…

soatok.blog/2026/01/04/everyth

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Happy New Year! Hope you all had a good holiday. It’s shaping up to be a great year on the open social web!

We’ve been busy working on new features, internal improvements, bug fixes, and exploring new networks over the last couple months. Here are the noticeable changes on the bridge since our last update:

Bug fixes:

Internal:

As usual, feel free to ping us with feedback, questions, and bug reports, and please support us on Patreon! You can follow the now label on GitHub to see what we’re currently focusing on. See you on the bridge!

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TIL a great phrase: “no pasarán!” One of the moderators on our team mentioned it as part of her 2026 well wishes to the mod team.

It basically means “they shall not pass” in reference to fascists. It had a rich etymological history, beginning in France and moving to Spain. Originating in opposition to Nazis and fascists.

More:
thisdayinquotes.com/2013/07/no

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Hey Guys, gals, people and pets, Satya Nadella is getting tired of people calling AI Slop output AI Slop. If everyone can stop that's be great as it is upsetting Microslops share holders.

Don't start calling Microslop Microslop or use the tag as it might burst the AI bubble and then Microslop might have to take SlopPilot out of Windows. As you know, that would be terrible.

windowscentral.com/artificial-

The Microsoft four coloured squares logo next to the Microslop name.
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Alright I have a question about the GAME BOY and/or the Z80 PROCESSOR.

I am using the Z80 stack instructions for the first time. In this demo, every time I step forward 1 frame, 1 value is pushed to the Z80 stack. You can see in the upper right the SP, bottom right the end of memory, bottom left the Game Boy screen.

I expect that the stack will grow up from the end of memory. But bafflingly, It's growing up "from the end". It appears each frame the *bottom stack value* moves back in memory…

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"AI로 인건비 줄이려다 비용만 늘어"…뼈아픈 ‘도어맨 오류’ "눈에 보이는 업무만 자동화한 대가"...AI 도입 역효과 사례 잇따라 zdnet.co.kr/view/?no=202... AI 기반 고객 서비스 도입 부작용 잇따라 "AI는 인간 대체할 때보다, 인간 판단과 결합될 때 가장 큰 효과" “효율성만을 기준으로 판단하면 단기 비용은 줄일 수 있을지 몰라도, 고객 경험과 장기 성과는 훼손될 수 있다”

"AI로 인건비 줄이려다 비용만 늘어"…뼈아픈 ‘도어맨...

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I know this is already on Mastodon team's radar, but I do want to stress how important this feature is.

github.com/mastodon/mastodon/i

We won't get rid of the racism and the mansplaining on the fediverse overnight, but giving people control over their replies would significantly improve everyone's experience, and make this place a lot more inviting.

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