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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tante @tante@tldr.nettime.org
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Wow, moving from GitHub to Codeberg is cool. Haven't run Gentoo for years now but still have a soft spot for it (I learned so much running it as main driver).

I also use Codeberg für my code (and joined the association) but we can't just "move everything to Codeberg". That's neither sustainable nor a good model. We should have more associations like Codeberg to offer those kinds of services. Create a whole web of forges for collaboration while we can watch GitHub go to hell.

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Domestic Enemy Hat @kenwhite.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy
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Never let a single goddamned person on the Right ever claim again that they’re the party of law and order without laughing in their lying face.

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:j53tav4pdcpfxyx2gcfr5fhb/post/3mbrxjvp2i22g

Mehdi Hasan (@mehdirhasan.bsky.social)

So Capitol Police officers were assaulted and injured on Jan 6th, the White House today is blaming them for the violence, and the people who attacked them have been pardoned and are back to mock and abuse them on the 5th anniversary. And the GOP is the party of the police? Really? REALLY?? [contains quote post or other embedded content]

bsky.app · Bluesky Social

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Natasha Jay 🇪🇺 @Natasha_Jay@tech.lgbt
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Names for avid readers 📚 by language (more and more, in the replies👇)

English/Dutch: Bookworm / Boekenwurm

Danish: Reading horse (Lesehest)

French: Ink drinker (Buveur d'encre)

German: Read-rat (Leseratte)

Indonesian: Book flea (Kutu buku)

Romanian: Library mouse (Șoarece de bibliotecă)

Norwegian: Reading horse (Lesehest)

Serbian/Polish: Book moth (Knjiški moljac / Mól książkowy)

Greek: Bookeater (βιβλιοφάγος)

Finnish: Reading maggot (Lukutoukka)

Swedish: Read-louse (Läslus)

Vietnamese: Bookwormweevil (Mọt sách) 

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Matt (It's really me) Hartley @matthartley@fosstodon.org
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Shared by Paolo Melchiorre

Linux desktop voice control has a gap. Talon costs money. Other tools are X11-only or cloud-dependent.

So I built EasySpeak.

youtube.com/watch?v=dl5m2Zo1oIE

github.com/ctsdownloads/easysp

- Free and open source (GPL-3.0)
- Fully local — no cloud, no accounts
- Wayland-native
- "Hey Jarvis, open downloads"

Built for RSI, accessibility, or anyone who wants to talk to their computer.

Voice Control for Linux/GNOME Desktop

EasySpeak is a privacy-focused voice control system for Linux desktops running GNOME/Wayland.Features:- System controls - Volume, brightness, do not disturb-...

www.youtube.com · YouTube

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Street Art Utopia shared the below article:

When Nature Become Art (10 Photos)

STREET ART UTOPIA @streetartutopia@streetartutopia.com

When the urban landscape breathes and the elements become the brush, street art transforms into something living. While most see a cracked wall or a wild bush, these artists see a canvas waiting to bloom. In this collection, we explore moments where the boundary between human creativity and the natural world completely vanishes. From giants grazing on apartment blocks to delicate stone spirits waiting for the tide, these 10 photos prove that the best canvas isn't always a flat wall—it’s […]

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💙🩷💜Ⓑⓡⓔⓣⓣ🐡🍉🐧 @brettm@swarm.coiloptic.org
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"People with chronic kidney disease faced a higher risk of death and serious health problems when two tests of kidney function did not agree with each other ... The study highlights the importance of determining eGFR by measuring both cystatin C and creatinine levels. Doing so could help identify patients with chronic kidney disease who have increased health risks"

https://www.nih.gov/news-events/nih-research-matters/difference-kidney-function-tests-predicts-health-risks

Difference in kidney function tests predicts health risks

Use of two different blood tests may help clinicians better track kidney health and risk for future health problems than either alone.

www.nih.gov · National Institutes of Health (NIH)

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When Nature Become Art (10 Photos)

STREET ART UTOPIA @streetartutopia@streetartutopia.com

When the urban landscape breathes and the elements become the brush, street art transforms into something living. While most see a cracked wall or a wild bush, these artists see a canvas waiting to bloom. In this collection, we explore moments where the boundary between human creativity and the natural world completely vanishes. From giants grazing on apartment blocks to delicate stone spirits waiting for the tide, these 10 photos prove that the best canvas isn't always a flat wall—it’s […]

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Electronic Frontier Foundation @eff@mastodon.social
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“One of the most striking aspects of this case is the extent to which stalkerware companies like pcTattletale operate out in the open,” EFF’s @evacide told @TechCrunch. “I hope that this case changes the risk calculus for makers of stalkerware.”
techcrunch.com/2026/01/06/foun

Founder of spyware maker pcTattletale pleads guilty to hacking and advertising surveillance software | TechCrunch

Bryan Fleming, the founder of hacked stalkerware company pcTattletale, pleaded guilty to federal charges linked to the running of his now-defunct Michigan-based spyware company.

techcrunch.com · TechCrunch

Link author: Zack Whittaker@zackwhittaker@mastodon.social

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Mariatta 🤦🏻‍♀️ :python: @mariatta@fosstodon.org
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Helping my elderly mother-in-law with her bookkeeping.

Her bank is in a different country that uses date format DD-MM-YYYY.

I downloaded the csv from her bank and tried importing it to a spreadsheet.

The spreadsheet app does not understand that date format and doesn't treat it as a "date" column so it doesn't know how to sort the column by date.

I could adjust the data using Python csv module before importing to spreadsheet, but feels like it doesn't need to be this hard. 😩

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jloc0 @jloc0@mastodon.sdf.org
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Shared by Stefano Marinelli

added initial support for FreeBSD today... github.com/quickshell-mirror/q

I get the feeling a lot of people will be happy about this ;)

- Use `copy_file_range(2)` over `sendfile(2)` which has wider compatibility. - Special case pam on freebsd and document `configDirectory` incompatibility. - Disable jemalloc for FreeBSD by default ...

all: initial support for freebsd · quickshell-mirror/quickshell@6742148

- Use `copy_file_range(2)` over `sendfile(2)` which has wider compatibility. - Special case pam on freebsd and document `configDirectory` incompatibility. - Disable jemalloc for FreeBSD by default ...

github.com · GitHub

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Hacker News 50 @hn50@social.lansky.name
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Why Big Companies Keep Failing: The Stack Fallacy (2016)

Link: techcrunch.com/2016/01/18/why-
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4

Why Big Companies Keep Failing: The Stack Fallacy | TechCrunch

Stack fallacy has caused many companies to attempt to capture new markets and fail spectacularly. When you see a database company thinking apps are easy, or a VM company thinking big data is easy  -- they are suffering from stack fallacy. Stack fallacy is the mistaken belief that it is trivial to build the layer above yours.

techcrunch.com · TechCrunch

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mcc @mcc@mastodon.social
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The modern notion of a website with user accounts stems from like 2000 and many of those websites are still in use. Over the course of 25 years, some number of people die. That is a thing that occurs. Websites do not understand death. Websites are a four year old child and they believe this user just hasn't signed on in awhile, and will someday come back. Websites are constantly attempting to involve dead people in activities. At a certain point, four-year-old behavior stops feeling cute.

Eric Davies @iamed2@mastodon.social
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Shared by mcc

@mcc
One of my Facebook friends (a distant cousin) died. His family renamed his account to "Memorial Page (for) <name>" in his native language.

Every year this account is flooded with posts from real people featuring some variation of "Happy birthday Memorialpage!"

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Stefano Marinelli @stefano@fedihome.stefanomarinelli.it
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Shared by Stefano Marinelli

I've realized that I post from this instance mainly in the evening. In a way, it's like an intimate corner, the kind you retreat to at night, when the lights are dimmed and everything goes quiet. It's when the glare and clamor of the day fade away, leaving only the peace of rest. Sending posts from a device just a few meters away.
That's when the absence of an algorithm and the slow pace of the timeline become an immeasurable asset, rather than a problem.

Goodnight, world.


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Stefano Marinelli @stefano@fedihome.stefanomarinelli.it
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I've realized that I post from this instance mainly in the evening. In a way, it's like an intimate corner, the kind you retreat to at night, when the lights are dimmed and everything goes quiet. It's when the glare and clamor of the day fade away, leaving only the peace of rest. Sending posts from a device just a few meters away.
That's when the absence of an algorithm and the slow pace of the timeline become an immeasurable asset, rather than a problem.

Goodnight, world.


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Hacker News 100 @hn100@social.lansky.name
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Opus 4.5 is not the normal AI agent experience that I have had thus far

Link: burkeholland.github.io/posts/o
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4

Opus 4.5 is going to change everything

Three months ago I would have dismissed claims that AI could replace developers. Today, after using Claude Opus 4.5, I believe AI coding agents can absolutely replace developers.

burkeholland.github.io · Burke Holland

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Hacker News 50 @hn50@social.lansky.name
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High-Performance DBMSs with io_uring: When and How to use it

Link: arxiv.org/abs/2512.04859
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4

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High-Performance DBMSs with io_uring: When and How to use it

We study how modern database systems can leverage the Linux io_uring interface for efficient, low-overhead I/O. io_uring is an asynchronous system call batching interface that unifies storage and network operations, addressing limitations of existing Linux I/O interfaces. However, naively replacing traditional I/O interfaces with io_uring does not necessarily yield performance benefits. To demonstrate when io_uring delivers the greatest benefits and how to use it effectively in modern database systems, we evaluate it in two use cases: Integrating io_uring into a storage-bound buffer manager and using it for high-throughput data shuffling in network-bound analytical workloads. We further analyze how advanced io_uring features, such as registered buffers and passthrough I/O, affect end-to-end performance. Our study shows when low-level optimizations translate into tangible system-wide gains and how architectural choices influence these benefits. Building on these insights, we derive practical guidelines for designing I/O-intensive systems using io_uring and validate their effectiveness in a case study of PostgreSQL's recent io_uring integration, where applying our guidelines yields a performance improvement of 14%.

arxiv.org · arXiv.org

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Tobias Adam @namingthings@functional.cafe
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RE: mamot.fr/@pluralistic/11584857

Really love this elegant and pointed description of from @pluralisticCory Doctorow which immediately enters my personal hall of fame:

“Writing code is about making code that runs well. Software engineering is about making code that fails well.”

This pairs really well with Douglas Adams who once talked about the same topic (more or less) in his own, very funny way:

“The major difference between a thing that might go wrong and a thing that cannot possibly go wrong is that when a thing that cannot possibly go wrong goes wrong it usually turns out to be impossible to get at or repair.”

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Lance @analogfusion@mastodon.art
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Has anyone else found that Windows Media Player is no longer finding album information when loading CDs?

It looks like this change may be intentional. I'd be interested in hearing if anyone else has run into the same issue.

I mainly use it for ripping to FLAC. There are other options available but MP was one click. learn.microsoft.com/en-us/answ

Microsoft Learn

All new cds I try to rip show up as unkown - Microsoft Q&A

Every new cd i put into media player displays all information as unknown. previously all information would be automatically added, im wondering if the systems are down or something. I read that they mightve ended the service but i havent seen anything…

learn.microsoft.com

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