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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Machado offers her Nobel Peace Prize to Trump

Nobel Institute says Peace Prize cannot be transferred after Machado suggestion

The Norwegian Nobel Institute said the Nobel Peace Prize cannot be transferred, shared, or revoked, following remarks by Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado suggesting she might give her 2025 award to U.S. President Donald Trump.

reuters.com/world/americas/nob



Nobel Peace Prize laureate and Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado speaks during a press conference in Oslo, Norway December 11, 2025. REUTERS/Leonhard Foeger
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Australia bushfires to burn out of control for weeks

The blazes have torn through more than 300,000 hectares (741,316 acres) of bushland in state since the middle of the week, destroying more than 130 properties, including homes, and leaving thousands without power.

There were more than 30 fires burning in Victoria on Sunday morning.

These fires will not be contained before it gets hot, dry and windy again.

reuters.com/business/environme




The Longwood bushfire burns, in a location given as Longwood, Victoria, Australia, in this handout image released on January 7, 2026. Wandong Fire Brigade/Handout via REUTERS
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The Twilight Forest by Gary Ferguson

In The Twilight Forest, Gary Ferguson brings readers on an expansive journey through the ponderosa forests of the Southwest both to mourn—and to celebrate—the forests that nurtured him. In warm and luminous storytelling, Ferguson weaves together the human and natural history of ponderosa, from its march across the West more than 10,000 years ago.







With their towering, cinnamon-colored trunks and dusky green canopies, ponderosa pine has long been a charismatic icon of the American West. Yet a quiet unraveling has begun: in the past decade, in a vast area from Santa Fe to the Sierras, more than two hundred million ponderosa have died. While some trees will survive in cooler places, scientists estimate that by mid-century less than five percent of the ponderosa in the American Southwest may remain. As the very character of this vast region shifts, what will be left behind? And how can we come to terms with such profound loss?
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Normally Weird and Weirdly Normal: My Adventures in Neurodiversity by Robin Ince, 2025

A powerful, personal exploration of anxiety, ADHD and neurodiversity, Normally Weird and Weirdly Normal reminds us all – no matter how weird we feel – that it’s okay to be a little different. We all are. What if being a bit weird is actually entirely normal? What if sharing our internal struggles wasn’t a sign of weakness, but strength?




For over thirty years, award-winning broadcaster and comedian Robin Ince has entertained thousands in person and on air. But underneath the surface, a whirlwind was at play – a struggle with sadness, concentration, self-doubt and near-constant anxiety. But then he discovered he had all the hallmarks of ADHD and his stumbling blocks became stepping stones. In Normally Weird and Weirdly Normal, Robin uses his own experiences to explore the neurodivergent experience and to ask what the point of 'being normal' really is. Packed with personal insights, intimate anecdotes and interviews with psychologists, neuroscientists and many neurodivergent people he has met along the way, this is a quirky and witty dive into the world of human behaviour.'This is a comforting hug of a book. Insightful, warm, funny and compassionate, it will make readers, whether neurotypical or neurodivergent, feel less alone' – Laura Bates, bestselling author of Everyday Sexism'Weirdness is inescapable, and no one does it better than Robin Ince. A superb book, celebrating the needed weirdness in us all' - Chris Hadfield, astronaut and five-time bestselling author
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"By our current understanding, beyond being one of the rare living things to inhabit the universe, it is your thoughts that are your greatest oddity. We are more than one thing. There is an inside us and an outside us. There is who we present ourselves as being and who we believe ourselves to be. We often spend much, if not all, of our time concealing what our real thoughts are, and it is this elaborate charade that is the cause of many problems."

Robin Ince

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Normally Weird and Weirdly Normal: My Adventures in Neurodiversity by Robin Ince, 2025

A powerful, personal exploration of anxiety, ADHD and neurodiversity, Normally Weird and Weirdly Normal reminds us all – no matter how weird we feel – that it’s okay to be a little different. We all are. What if being a bit weird is actually entirely normal? What if sharing our internal struggles wasn’t a sign of weakness, but strength?




For over thirty years, award-winning broadcaster and comedian Robin Ince has entertained thousands in person and on air. But underneath the surface, a whirlwind was at play – a struggle with sadness, concentration, self-doubt and near-constant anxiety. But then he discovered he had all the hallmarks of ADHD and his stumbling blocks became stepping stones. In Normally Weird and Weirdly Normal, Robin uses his own experiences to explore the neurodivergent experience and to ask what the point of 'being normal' really is. Packed with personal insights, intimate anecdotes and interviews with psychologists, neuroscientists and many neurodivergent people he has met along the way, this is a quirky and witty dive into the world of human behaviour.'This is a comforting hug of a book. Insightful, warm, funny and compassionate, it will make readers, whether neurotypical or neurodivergent, feel less alone' – Laura Bates, bestselling author of Everyday Sexism'Weirdness is inescapable, and no one does it better than Robin Ince. A superb book, celebrating the needed weirdness in us all' - Chris Hadfield, astronaut and five-time bestselling author
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"By our current understanding, beyond being one of the rare living things to inhabit the universe, it is your thoughts that are your greatest oddity. We are more than one thing. There is an inside us and an outside us. There is who we present ourselves as being and who we believe ourselves to be. We often spend much, if not all, of our time concealing what our real thoughts are, and it is this elaborate charade that is the cause of many problems."

Robin Ince

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Saints by Amy Jeffs

From the bestselling author of Storyland and Wild comes a sweeping new legendary of miracles, magic, human frailty, and heroic strength. Illustrated by the author with over thirty original papercut portraits.

In Saints, historian and artist Amy Jeffs illuminates the lives of medieval saints, drawing on official biographies, vernacular romances, artworks, and poetry to tell of wayfaring monks, oak-felling missionaries, and mighty martyrs.



Organized by feast month, this enchanting compendium presents the legends of Brigid, Patrick, Nicholas, and Augustine as well as saints whose stories are less well-known (Ia, Mungo, Scoithín, and Euphrosyne). Combining history and myth, tradition and invention, Jeffs offers transporting tales of demons and dragons, men raised by wolves, and women who commune with birds.
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The Writer’s Room by Katie Da Cunha Lewin, 2025

The Hidden Worlds That Shape the Books We Love

A journey into the unique spaces where some of literature’s greatest writers created their most memorable works.

Virginia Woolf famously wrote in A Room of One’s Own that “it is necessary to have five hundred a year and a room with a lock on the door if you are to write fiction or poetry.”




Writers have worked in all kinds of places, from garrets and sheds to boarding houses, bathrooms, and even while on the move. What is it that fascinates us about the writer’s room? This book takes readers inside literature’s creative spaces to explore this tantalizing question. Beginning with her own secondhand writing desk, Katie da Cunha Lewin invites us to consider how these environments embody the craft of writing and shape the literary works we love. She paints vivid portraits of Woolf’s garden room at Monk’s House, Emily Brontë’s shared table in the parsonage, Sigmund Freud’s study with its legendary couch, and the bustling Parisian cafés where Ernest Hemingway crafted stories in notebooks. She dismantles the familiar furniture of the writer’s room to cast it in a surprising new light, from the hotel rooms where Maya Angelou wrote poetry to the busses where Lauren Elkin wrote on her phone to the kitchen tables around which Audre Lorde and the founders of Women of Color Press convened. Lyrical, insightful, and rich with personal insights, The Writer’s Room reveals how these spaces are brimming with possibilities, shaping the creative process of authors and capturing the imaginations of readers.
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Greenlanders tell ‘absolutely insane’ Trump what they really think

“We don’t belong to America. We are Inuit. We don’t want to be Americans.”

“We will not be Americans, we will not be Danes, we are Greenlanders.”

“We want Greenland to be Greenland, and not be bought. Our life was peaceful. We want it to be simple and peaceful, just like how it is.”

theage.com.au/world/europe/gre



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Greenlanders tell ‘absolutely insane’ Trump what they really think

On the streets of Nuuk, derision of the US president is palpable. A group of boys walking in the snow stop to say “we hate Trump”. One makes the shape of a gun with his hand and pulls the trigger.

www.theage.com.au · The Age

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In SwiftTerm, half of my throughput is sacrificed to the Swift Exclusive Access Check Gods.

github.com/migueldeicaza/Swift

The cost is pretty high, by default the vtebench shows: VteBenchPerf: 767771.7424171193 throughput calls/s If I disable it with: -enforce-exclusivity=none I get: VteBenchPerf: 1181231.021211891 thr...

Cost of -enforce-exclusivity · Issue #437 · migueldeicaza/SwiftTerm

The cost is pretty high, by default the vtebench shows: VteBenchPerf: 767771.7424171193 throughput calls/s If I disable it with: -enforce-exclusivity=none I get: VteBenchPerf: 1181231.021211891 thr...

github.com · GitHub

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Have you ever heard of a shell-less turtle that can grow up to 6 ft (1.8 m) long? Meet the Asian giant softshell turtle (Pelochelys cantorii). Unlike many of its relatives, it has no exterior shell—just a layer of thick rubbery skin covering wide-spanning, fused ribs that protect its internal organs. Its frog-like face adds to its unusual appearance.

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Image Description A photo of an Asian giant softshell turtle. It is brownish in color and incredibly flat in shape. This reptile can be found in freshwater habitats where it burrows beneath the sand with only its snout poking out. Unfortunately, the species is threatened by loss of its riverine and coastal habitats, as well as by being hunted for its meat and eggs. Photo: Alimohamed0, CC0 1.0, Wikimedia Commons
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Les escrocs sont devenus vintage. Fini les mails, ils passent à La Poste. La nouvelle mode, une fausse carte bancaire (super bien imitée) dans votre boîte aux lettres + un QR code à scanner d'urgence pour "l'activer".
Spoiler: ça n'active rien, ça vide juste votre compte. Si vous n'avez rien demandé à votre banque, direction poubelle ! 01net.com/actualites/arnaque-f

Arnaque à la fausse carte bancaire : une nouvelle escroquerie envahit les boîtes aux lettres en France

Les escrocs ne se contentent plus d'envahir votre boîte mail. Les arnaques s’invitent désormais dans vos boîtes aux lettres. Pour berner les Français, les cybercriminels glissent une carte bancaire factice dans le courriel. La lettre prétend que la carte doit être activée de toute urgence… en scannant un QR code.

www.01net.com · 01net.com

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