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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Minnesota 123456 @Minnesota411988@mastodon.social
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Shared by Wouter Tebbens ⁂



It was overt even before Wednesday morning.

This Will Happen Again
The conditions that claimed Renee Nicole Good’s life will claim the lives of others.
By Elizabeth Bruenig
The Atlantic
2026-01-10

“What is now overt, in a way that it hadn’t been Wednesday morning, is that these agents are at war with the public, and have been for some time.”

theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/01/

This Will Happen Again

The conditions that claimed Renee Nicole Good’s life will claim the lives of others.

www.theatlantic.com · The Atlantic

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David Chisnall (*Now with 50% more sarcasm!*) @david_chisnall@infosec.exchange
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Shared by Wouter Tebbens ⁂

Apparently Samsung is putting ‘AI’ (and ads) in fridges. I am certainly not opposed to innovation and think that a lot of technologies that haven’t changed much for a long time have room for improvement (if you grew up in the US or Europe, try using a Japanese toilet and you’ll understand). But the frustrating thing is that there are a lot of useful things that a fridge could do with some computing power and a bit of electrical control that they don’t and which don’t need ‘AI’. Some examples:

  • It could talk to a smart meter to run the compressor when electricity is cheap and keep a reservoir of chilled coolant for when electricity is expensive.
  • It could automatically close the door if I leave it open for more than a minute and don’t first put it into ‘I am cleaning the fridge now’ mode.
  • It could record (with bar code or image recognition - the latter of which you could even market as ‘AI’ because apparently computer vision is ‘AI’ now) when I open things like milk or juice so when a thing says ‘consume writhing 5 days of opening’ and I can’t remember when I opened it, it can tell me.
  • It could then warn me if I’ve left something that will spoil in the fridge.
  • It could track when I remove / replace things so ‘are we nearly out of X’ is a question I can answer from my phone / tablet / laptop when organising a food order, without having to go and check.

All of these are features I would actually find useful. The last ones require a bit of clever computer vision and good UI design, the earlier ones are just applications of mature technology.

And I would actually pay more for these features (and the first one would likely save me more money over the lifetime of the fridge than the price delta, so everyone wins [except oil companies, but that is a feature in itself]).

I could write a similar rant about pretty much every piece of electrical equipment I own. All of these have a load of trivial improvements that could be made if you start by asking the question ‘how do people use this and how do we improve it?’ Rather than ‘how do we add {an app,AI,this week’s buzzword} that marketing wants in the next generation?’

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中野善夫 @tolle_et_lege@mstdn.jp
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以前は未来の宇宙を舞台にしている小説や映画で銀河帝国なんていうものが出てくると、高度に発達した人類社会が個人の能力に依存ししすぎる国家の仕組みを採用するわけないだろうと思っていたけれど、この頃はあるかもねと思うようになった。

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서담 @joshi_no01@threads.net
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삶의 깊은 순간들

1. 지금 이 순간을 소중히 여기기
2. 작은 행복에 감사하기
3. 실패를 두려워하지 않기
4. 끊임없이 배우고 성장하기
5. 자신의 직관을 믿기
6. 긍정적인 에너지 유지하기
7. 자신을 사랑하고 존중하기
8. 타인의 관점 이해하기
9. 꿈을 향해 꾸준히 노력하기
10. 현재에 최선을 다하기

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Flippin' 'eck, Tucker! @losttourist@social.chatty.monster
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I got a e-ink display wotsit thingy (apologies for getting all technical there) not long ago, and now I'm getting round to setting it up.

One of the nice things is that as well as all the dashboards provided by the company, there are a load provided by the community that you can just load up, customise & use.

But I was shocked -- SHOCKED I tell you -- to discover that so far nobody has created a "When Is Bins?" dashboard.

I think I have found my latest project!

A device that consists of a white frame with a monochrome e-ink screen in the middle. Currently the screen is showing a weather forecast for the next few hours, indicating that it will be what we Brits like to call "bloody chilly" for the rest of the day.
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Twice Spring @twice_spring@mustard.blog
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같은 역할을 하는 완전기계식 체계랑 전자제어식 체계가 있을 때, 더 많은 변수와 다양한 작동환경에 대응할 수 있는 쪽은 전자제어식 체계입니다. 완전기계식 체계는 융통성이 없어요.

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hackaday @hackaday@hackaday.social
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Texas Instruments Explain Low-Dropout Linear Voltage Regulators

hackaday.com/2026/01/10/texas-

An LDO schematic and some notes about their features

Texas Instruments Explain Low-Dropout Linear Voltage Regulators

Today in power electronics, the folks over at Texas Instruments have put together a video covering low-dropout (LDO) linear regulators. For a hacker, power is pretty fundamental, so it behooves us …

hackaday.com · Hackaday

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alexanderadam @alexanderadam@ruby.social
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Shared by Andy Piper

So there's a instance for people that are into called mathstodon… and that instance allows users to use .

The is amazing on so many levels.
Ah, and also you might read about problem 728 which was kinda solved with the help of : 😉

mathstodon.xyz/@tao/1158558402

Terence Tao (@tao@mathstodon.xyz)

Recently, the application of AI tools to Erdos problems passed a milestone: an Erdos problem (#728 https://www.erdosproblems.com/728) was solved more or less autonomously by AI (after some feedback from an initial attempt), in the spirit of the problem (as reconstructed by the Erdos problem website community), with the result (to the best of our knowledge) not replicated in existing literature (although similar results proven by similar methods were located). This is a demonstration of the genuine increase in capability of these tools in recent months, and is largely consistent with other recent demonstrations of AI using existing methods to resolve Erdos problems, although in most previous cases a solution to these problems was later located in the literature, as discussed in https://mathstodon.xyz/deck/@tao/115788262274999408 . This particular case was unusual in that the problem as stated by Erdos was misformulated, with a reconstruction of the problem in the intended spirit only obtained in the last few months, which helps explain the lack of prior literature on the problem. However, I would like to talk here about another aspect of the story which I find more interesting than the solution itself, which is the emerging AI-powered capability to rapidly write and rewrite expositions of the solution. (1/5)

mathstodon.xyz · Mathstodon

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Gerry McGovern @gerrymcgovern@mastodon.green
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URGENT: If you're Irish read this. Please spread the word

"The government now wants to make it super expensive (>€100,000) for ordinary people to go to court to protect the environment.
The Government is currently engaged in an extremely short consultation on proposed rules to cap legal costs when you go to court and hold the state to account for breaking environmental law.
If you think this is wrong, make your views known by emailing
aarhus@dcee.gov.ie by 15 January.

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Prof. Rachel Thorn 🍉🇺🇦🏳️‍⚧️🏳️ @RachelThornSub@famichiki.jp
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I am very much a non-expert, but to my amazement, I have been able to get up and running with a smartphone running an open-source, non-evil OS, and can actually do almost everything I had used my iPhone for. It is possible! But the most important thing to know is that, unlike an OS for computers, an OS for a smartphone has to be surprisingly device-specific. I had to track down a 9-year-old Google Pixel 3a XL in order to run the OS I wanted. It's doable! If I could do it, you can do it!

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:pizza_enby_city: Admin :v_root: @tootadmin@pizza.enby.city
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Fediblock: fasterthanlime @hachyderm.io CW: harrassment

We're suspending the user fasterthanlime @ hachyderm.io for harassment of a Puerto Rican FOSS contributor and being a sloperator (someone who ruins the environment and code quality using ai).

The FOSS contributor, that fasterthanlime harassed, created an open source list of software projects infected with ai slop, and was harassed into leaving the FOSS community by people such as fasterthanlime who love LLMs more than they love BIPOC fems in this community.

What they did was shameful. They have tens of thousands of followers on fedi and thousands on GitHub. They knew what they were doing.

Fasterthanlime even went and removed all references to Kat's associated projects, such as KDL, and kept publicly shaming her. This is highly inappropriate and unprofessional.

LLM defenders are not allowed on this instance, especially if they harass Puerto Rican comrades out of the FOSS community. This is awful.

Anyone coming to defend LLMs or LLM users in the comments will be suspended.

Screenshot of @fasterthanlime@hachyderm.io on mastodon, who goes by amos, saying "mom mom I'm pominent" and linking to the codeberg.org gen-ai-transparency/open-slopware repo, where they were featured for having used ai in their project. At the time of screenshot, the post had 9 boosts and 26 likes with many replies, but only 1 quote.Screenshot of fasterthanlime changing 270 files in their facet-rs/facet repo via a PR 4 hours ago. Their repo has 2.3k stars, and 98 forks. The PR is #1730 and in this screenshot is open to a file called .claude/README.md in which they have removed support for kdl. Claude is a popular LLM for generating slop.
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Richard MacManus @ricmac@mastodon.social
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Open question: how do tech folks keep track of interesting events and conferences you might want to attend. Back in Web 2.0, Upcoming was great for this. I know @andybaio resurrected it several years ago, but not sure if it’s currently maintained (it seems to only have a Twitter login option, for example). Is there an Upcoming for the fediverse? Or somewhere else to see what events e.g. @andypiper is going to this year? I.e. a social events app that isn’t Twitter-based (Bluesky would be ok tho).

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