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.
Less than a month left until the Free and Open Source Software Developers’ European Meeting (FOSDEM)!
With over 900 events already announced, here's my little companion web app that works on desktop and can be installed on mobile to help you with the planning: https://fosdem.sojourner.rocks/2026
New features this year (more improvement suggestions welcome):
- Speaker biographies (click on the person's name or visit the speakers page).
- Bookmark export.
比冷凍庫還冷
260107의 #매일전력한시간 주제는
1.혀
2.룸메이트
3.덕분에or때문에
원하는 주제를 고르시거나, 모든 주제를 엮어 창작하셔도 좋습니다.
편하신 시간대에 1시간 동안 전력을 다해주세요.
글/그림/수공예/그외 모든 창작물 가능.
툿을 올리실 때 
@daily_1hour매일_전력_1시간 계정을 태그해주시면 그날 밤~다음 전력 주제 발표 전까지 리노트합니다.
(툿이 리노트할 수 없는 상태라면 마음/북마크만 찍습니다.)
NSFW 컨텐츠의 경우 반드시 CW를 걸어주세요.
earlier today i read something by some guy who was like. youre born, and then you learn a load of facts, and then you die
親知らずの抜歯って、抜いた後めちゃ腫れる＆めちゃ痛いのイメージだったのに、ミリも腫れてない＆ミリも痛くないで困惑
태양 만세!! \[T]/
주님이신 날아다니는 스파게티 괴물 님🍝께서는 악인에게나 선인에게나 당신의 해가 떠오르게 하신다.
2026-01-07T07:37:03+09:00
雪というかあられというか
水曜日〜
Oral microbiome sequencing after taking probiotics
Link: https://blog.booleanbiotech.com/oral-microbiome-biogaia
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46518804
@zkatkat I've been thinking along those lines as well, not as carefully or as deeply, to be sure, but one of the pieces that got me down that road is that there's no way with AGPLv3 to express the constraint that "if you scrape this work for AI training, copyright can't stop you, but you lose the benefits of the license." That feels like it points to a pretty fundamental limitation with the intellectual framing of *GPL licenses — Freedom Zero was a mistake, as you say.
RE: https://androiddev.social/@MishaalRahman/115849772521760098
I feel like you have to ask yourself, what is the point of open sourcing your software like this? This also goes for companies who are antagonistic to their upstreams or “trust me bro I’ll open source it when it’s ready”. What do you think the goal of open sourcing is? And if your answer isn’t to collaborate with other people to make something you couldn’t do alone, why not?
I have encountered the term “full actor isolation” numerous times lately.
I find this vexing.
I appear to have discovered my new favourite epithet for tech billionaires.
Wow, #Gentoo 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.
Take note of how they are weaponizing anti-immigrant propaganda in MN and turning it into government policy. Fascism 101.
@sunnymous.bsky.social 막타치셩 ㅇ_ㅇ)/
会社の食堂の朝ごはんセット
（おにぎり、卵焼き、お漬物、筑前煮で300円！）
I like to think about the time immediately after January 6 2021, when Trump accepted that Biden would be inaugurated, was impeached, was denounced by his GOP colleagues, and left office.
Since ChatGPT came out in late 2022, over *half a million* tech workers have been laid off. That fact, and their voices, aren't really shaping the conversation about AI, and what "AI" really means in culture. So I started to get into it: https://www.anildash.com/2026/01/06/500k-tech-workers-laid-off/
@whitequark✧✦Catherine✦✧ 
@joepie91Sven Slootweg ("still kinky and horny anyway") I mean I literally know of like, A Certain Company that's part of the MIC using one of my libraries, which is what even sparked this whole conversation in the first place. I'm not going for 100% certainty/enforcement here. I'm going for Do Fucking Something Anything At All Besides Bend Over Backwards For Them
@zkatkat @joepie91Sven Slootweg ("still kinky and horny anyway") I mean same, my position is "you will not receive support, you will not be accepted in the community, and your PRs will not be merged" (which turns out[1] to be incredibly controversial even though it's like the lowest bar imaginable)
I think the really important change here is cultural: to kick these people out of our shared communities. licenses are a distraction from that.
I Carry A Torch For You*
Caveat Frog
6,000 #curl stickers: https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2026/01/06/6000-curl-stickers/
…イヒッ♡
@zkatkat I've been thinking a lot about how to revive copyleft, without the poisoned entanglement of FSF. It's a difficult balance, especially whether to have freedom-zero or not, but I think it's important to put it in the context of today's power dynamic: commercial interests are 10 orders of magnitude richer and more powerful than us.
When the copyleft "community" makes a large body of useful software, the license restrictions are an equalizer. This worked up until TiVo, basically.
Calling All Hackers: How money works (2024)
Link: https://phrack.org/issues/71/17
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46518129
おはよう世界
What I'm listening to today: "Playing with live ideas", Fluxus MT
here is something very very loud
What I'm listening to today: "Ambient textures with Serge Modular Medusa", Laurent Hilairet
Beautiful, peaceful little "west coast" electronic piece. Makes me think of like early 20th century piano compositions.
Gently floating on a bed of clouds made of supersaws, the structure of a dream, coming on slow, evaporating like mist
On January 21st, we are hosting the Nix Bern Meetup in our hacker space!
https://www.meetup.com/de-de/nix-bern/events/312068410/?eventOrigin=group_upcoming_events
Damn, shots fired at Financial Times. "Who’s who at X, the deepfake porn site formerly known as Twitter"
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang says robots are 'AI immigrants' that can address labor shortages — can 'do the type of work that maybe we decided not to do anymore'
Jensen Huang, CEO of Nvidia, said that a wave of robots will serve as "AI immigrants" to drive the economy and do the jobs others don't want to do.
#hardware
https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/nvidia-ceo-jensen-huang-says-robots-are-ai-immigrants-that-can-address-labor-shortages-can-do-the-type-of-work-that-maybe-we-decided-not-to-do-anymore
@zkatkat I have also had a lot of similar thoughts of late. The intellectual commons is under attack and it ought not to be surprising that people that contribute to it also act to preserve it for future generations. Defensive licensing seems like a good first step on this road.
새해 시작한지 며칠이나 됐다고 벌써 짐에 사람이 읍어 떼이이이잉
Jasper is giving me “the look”. Cats develop routines. Sometimes they develop these on their own, other times we influence these routines. In this case, Jasper is accustomed to getting a second breakfast because if we gave him all of his breakfast at once, he would throw it up. We’ve since found a new food that he is able to keep down but he still thinks he is owed his second breakfast. 🙄
RSA実装したいなぁ
Did… did you just give me the time in London, Ontario
@zkatkat i am opposed to getting rid of freedom zero enough to personally commit to reimplementing anything i see under such a license under my usual choice of 0BSD.
i do not think you can build a functioning labor movement on top of Cop Stuff. and licenses are Cop Stuff. these are the tools of the enemy.
Loongarch Improvements with Box64
Link: https://box86.org/2026/01/new-box64-v0-4-0-released/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46514807
ICE has been harassing residents and lawful observers unusually aggressively yesterday and today. They walk up to random cars with window-smashing tools in hand and say threatening things. They slow-drive by people’s houses in a “we know where you live” kind of way. They detain people — completely illegally, completely unconstitutionally, of course — but that will mater later and their big photo op matters •now•.
2/
What is it like to live here now?
A message comes through from a neighbor about a swarm of ICE agents in a home just a few blocks away — gone by the time I was there to check it out. Nobody knows whether ICE abducted anyone there.
A message comes through from another neighbor trying to find support for a pregnant woman whose husband was just abducted. She cannot even figure out what she wants to ask for; she is in shock. I have no way to verify this story.
Group of vehicles at this restaurant, at that library, in this suburb. On and on.
3/
Do yourself a favor and don't use Zed.
The license term agreements are predatory. I encourage you to read them before clicking "Accept".
@zkatkat I agree that there is a problem of exploitation that's bad for the health of the FOSS ecosystem, but I'm not sure getting rid of freedom zero is the way to do it.
A worrying recent example from open source hardware is that Prusa proposed a new license that basically doesn't allow commercial use. Their target is to prevent companies in Shenzhen from undercutting them, but in doing so, they would also prevent people from selling parts for repair or selling improvements to existing designs, which is a hugely important part of what got 3D printing to where it is today. IMO, if this license catches on, the 3D printing community is going to collapse and it'll just be corporations in the space.
While there's definitely a need to change the structures and tools we use to defend against corporate capture, I worry your proposed solution could backfire, especially if the solution entails disallowing specific uses in the license, since that's one area where corporate trends move too quickly (notably, how short-lived the NFT trend was, and how quickly AI became the "next big thing").
My other concern is enforceability, i.e. writing an actually valid legal document and setting precedent in courts, but that seems like a solvable problem.
쟈… 오늘 낮 최고기온 43도 준비됐나~!
#멜번 생활
ぢゃんぼー！
Passing of Joe Mancuso author of Masonite (Python web framework)
Link: https://github.com/MasoniteFramework/masonite/discussions/853
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46516137
マジかよ雪降ってきた
@zkatkat i used to like the term "public good" but i think most definitions of it (eg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_good ) still have a lot of propertarian (thus exploitable) baggage. software isn't just information obviously, it performs functions, and very different consequences flow from who is able to access those functions. so "common" is still probably a better fit and i appreciate your ideas and reasoning here.
FOSDEM
Fullmetal Alejandro
NixOS
Jenniferplusplus
