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.
As a researcher of alternative social media platforms, I couldn’t resist joining the #forkiverse.
If you’re reading this, I’d love to hear your story. What brought you here? What keeps you here?
Watching the #forkiverse come online is a good model of how to populate the Fediverse. One reason why https://a2mi.social has lasted for all these years is because we started with a core group of people who all wanted to talk to each other. It sidesteps the empty room problem.
I still expect a lot of people to drop off after the newness wears out but I also suspect a core group will stick around and slowly grow.
Anthropic: Developing a Claude Code competitor using Claude Code is banned
Link: https://twitter.com/SIGKITTEN/status/2009697031422652461
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46578701
Dell admits it made a mistake when it abandoned XPS
Link: https://gizmodo.com/dell-admits-it-made-a-huge-mistake-when-it-abandoned-xps-2000705053
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46511592
Shaking that wool
They're gonna tell you the #forkiverse is a community but if you really want that, start a #matrix server.
Every fedi server is less a place than a portal to a shared space nobody controls and whose culture is only what most of the people hanging out there decide. Your choice of portal is mostly about the protection spell you want cast upon you as you walk through. The moderation rules and enforcement processes that somewhat filter what you're able to see. But no algos will assault you here.
今日もかまっていただいている
Ooooh! Massive list of #opensource events. Will need to parse and integrate into my own list of conferences for 2026
https://github.com/EverythingOpenSource/open-source-events https://leaflet.pub/21cdba4b-811a-40a1-a47f-869019326771
언젠가 했던 얘기: "애니나 게임 해외에서 뭐 대박치면 한국은 망해가는 이유 같은 거 진영 가리지 않고 나오는데 늘 하는 얘기지만 우리나라는 인구로 보건 경제 규모로 보건 어이없을 정도로 잘되는 중임 예전부터. 미 일 중과 비비려고 생각하는 것 자체가 좀 터무니없다는 것부터 생각해야 함." 난 애초에 게임이란 분야에 종사하는 회사가 개별 군소 제작사가 아니라 '산업'이라고 부를 수 있는 규모로 존재하는 것만도 기적이라고 생각함.
iCloud Photos Downloader
Link: https://github.com/icloud-photos-downloader/icloud_photos_downloader
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46578921
This week I’m thinking back to this powerful quote (long-circulating, origin unclear):
❝
Sometimes people use “respect” to mean “treating someone like a person”
and sometimes they use “respect” to mean “treating someone like an authority”
and sometimes people who are used to being treated like an authority say “If you won’t respect me I won’t respect you,” and what they mean is “If you won’t treat me like an authority then I won’t treat you like a person.”
❞
Re 
@fsinnFrancisca Sinn: https://mas.to/@fsinn/115874975151407409
We’re #forkizens now. We have no algorithm, no billionaire owner, and absolutely no idea what we’re doing. It’s perfect. #forkiverse
I just discovered that 
@palaisdetokyo joined the fediverse at the end of last year with little fan fare. I see they still haven't added a social link to the bottom of their website either but they did verify their URL here which is more then many institutions.
I added their account to 
@wikidata so maybe they will now automatically show up now on various #fediverse account viewing websites that source from there.
https://wikidata.org/wiki/Q25395733
最後にゴクっといったらめっちゃ熱い
寝付けないので白湯を飲んでる
nobody wants that liquid ass stuff
https://www.cultofmac.com/news/ios-26-adoption-struggles-with-iphone-users
It’s not easy being a male Anna’s hummingbird: hovering with your wings moving 50 beats per second, flashing your gorget to defend the aloe, feeding every 10 minutes in order to have enough nutrition to survive, and positioning yourself in the most complicated lighting situation for the guy who’s trying to photograph you.
으춰
#Forkiverse people, if you want to inject some good news in your timeline make sure to follow my bot 
@TheBrightSide and if you have a feel good news to share tag it on it!
there's a windows 7 key in the epstein files and it's totally functional and activates windows 7 home premium
https://www.justice.gov/epstein/files/DataSet%201/EFTA00002467.pdf
A fun bit of trivia: to the best of my lay understanding, both Anthropic AI and Bluesky are PBLLCs incorporated in Delaware and under Delaware's legal definitions of the term "public benefit."
of all the things we can disagree on in open source, i never would've guessed that the greatest offense the techbros would take of is the attribution clause.
standing on the shoulders of giants has been replaced by "damn, look at all this empty land. nothing has been there before."
A set of Idiomatic prod-grade katas for experienced devs transitioning to Go
Link: https://github.com/MedUnes/go-kata
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46531622
A solid 100 across the board. :D
ごみ収集作業員さん、子供にめっちゃ人気で、車にぬいぐるみ並べててくれたり、子供が手を振るとみなさんにこやかに返してくださったりして好き。ごみ収集車ギミック満載でかっこいいし、うちのこもおもちゃ1台持っててずっと遊んでた
しゅいろハウス遊びに行こうかな
今から
@pj how is your experimental social media holding up to your expectations? Bursting at the seams with photos yet? As someone familiar with only Instagram and some Facebook it is proving hard to navigate and find posts.
Good morning The Forkiverse!! Another 200 people or so joined us overnight. And now the fire marshal is here. He's doing ... a sexy little dance. Wait a minute does this guy even work at the fire department
“Maybe don’t fill every available silence with the sound of people talking” is why I almost never listen to podcasts (or audiobooks)
Brussels plots #opensource push to pry #Europe off #BigTech
According to the Commission, dependence on foreign vendors makes it harder for Europe to control its digital stack, potentially opening the door to security and resilience issues in sensitive sectors. Open source offers a way out of that bind by underpinning "a diverse portfolio of high-quality and secure digital solutions" that can act as viable alternatives to proprietary platforms, the EC said. https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2026/01/11/eu_open_source_consultation/
Zaïd, Malya, Naila : en France, la haine raciste vise aussi les bébés
Des torrents de commentaires racistes se sont déversés en ligne à la découverte du prénom du premier bébé de 2026 né à Avignon. Comme lui, d’autres voient leur existence instrumentalisée dès la naissance, au profit de la théorie complotiste d’extrême droite du « grand remplacement ».
Par 
@MarieTurcan et Khedidja Zerouali › https://www.mediapart.fr/journal/france/110126/zaid-malya-naila-en-france-la-haine-raciste-vise-aussi-les-bebes?at_format=link&at_account=mediapart&at_campaign=mastodon&at_medium=custom7
“Twenty-one lessons sounds like a lot, but they really come down to a few core ideas: stay curious, stay humble, and remember that the work is always about people - the users you’re building for and the teammates you’re building with.”
https://addyosmani.com/blog/21-lessons/
嗚呼、スマイリー原島君の訃報が。65は早過ぎるやろ…。出逢いは41年前。セクシャルのギタリストとして磔磔に初出演した際の対バンが原島君のアクシデンツだった。なので、原島君に再会する度に、「おー、たかし、子供やったのに大きくなったなー」と言われるのであった。中川敬19歳。無念。安らかに。
‚Ein Sonntag im Bett‘
just learned that https://theforkiverse.com went 7 to 2,400 active users in the last 10 days which is the biggest fediverse bump I have seen in quite a while
just learned that https://theforkiverse.com went 7 to 2,400 active users in the last 10 days which is the biggest fediverse bump I have seen in quite a while
Fascinating! It's taken 40 years, but a group have found a faster shortest path technique than Dijkstra’s algorithm!
#gamedev #indiedev #gamemaker #gamedevelopment
https://www.quantamagazine.org/new-method-is-the-fastest-way-to-find-the-best-routes-20250806/
With agentic AI embedded at the OS level, databases storing entire digital lives accessible to malware, tasks whose reliability quickly breaks down at each step, and being opted-in without consent, 
@signalappSignal leadership, 
@Mer__edithMeredith Whittaker and Udbhav Tiwari, are sounding the alarm for the industry to pull back until threats can be mitigated.
'Signal' President and VP warn agentic AI is insecure, unreliable, and a surveillance nightmare
With agentic AI embedded at the OS level, databases storing entire digital lives accessible to malware, tasks whose reliability quickly breaks down at each step, and being opted-in without consent, Signal leadership is sounding the alarm for the industry to pull back until threats can be mitigated.
coywolf.com · Coywolf
Link author: 
Jon Henshaw@jon@henshaw.social
All these years later and I still miss camo cat. http://web.archive.org/web/20070728014622/www.cramper.com/log/logs/jul132005/jul132005.htm
한 18시간 잔듯
@fosdem I'm sure you're well aware of the strike that's planned for the week leading up to FOSDEM. Maybe you want to share it on the website so folks traveling to Brussels can plan accordingly?
For peeps reading along: https://www.brusselstimes.com/1900206/railway-union-announces-week-long-strike-in-january
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