What is Hackers' Pub?

@whitequark✧✦Catherine✦✧ I was thinking if I wanted to make a benchmark to stress test AI systems I'd take the C++ standard and drop/change random paragraphs to create 100 dialects whose exact behavior can't be answered by pattern matching to StackOverflow, and quiz the AI system on it

That's so fetch!

Nodejs fixed 8 vulnerabilities:

https://nodejs.org/en/blog/vulnerability/december-2025-security-releases

There's a bunch of confusing things:
- the announcement is published today at a URL from last month with a link saying "January Security Release is available" linking to itself
- the 'release details' links in the advisory 404 (you want to go to the GitHub releases page instead)
- announcement to nodejs-sec mailing list is only a terse note saying "Security release is now available" with not even a link

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Rest in peace, 1990s Scott Adams who gave the world his brilliant satire on dysfunctional organizations. No rest anywhere, 2010s and on Scott Adams who flooded the media with his conspiracy-laden misanthropy.

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:izxpomdyri45gzhppiiyattq/post/3mccvuvow7s25

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Anthropic has made a large contribution to the Python Software Foundation

Link: https://discuss.python.org/t/anthropic-has-made-a-large-contribution-to-the-python-software-foundation-and-open-source-security/105694
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46601902

Hey look, I'm on someone elses blog!

https://lazybea.rs/ovr-048/

Thanks @hyde📷 🖋 ~hyde for asking me to appear as a guest on your blog :)

RE: https://theforkiverse.com/@pj/115888532620954856

I am quite excited about what #TheForkiverse is doing and to see how it goes.

It seems to be going very well.

This is exactly what fedi was built for and what can make fedi stronger: an independent instance created and run for a specific community, pulling people in.

If you're as confused as I initially was: The Forkiverse is a fedi instance set up by hosts of two podcasts (Search Engine and Hard Fork), the name references the latter:
https://www.searchengine.show/the-fediverse-experiment/

色んな趣味が色々な要因で窮困していっている

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Interesting, Mastodon/fediverse as a teaching/learning tool.

"In the second week of the course, students were asked to compare the moderation policies of one mainstream social media site and a Mastodon instance of their choosing, other than our class instance."

https://sciences.social/@altsocialmedianet/115888227913946469

#mastodon #fediverse #research #study

RE: https://theforkiverse.com/@pj/115888532620954856

I am quite excited about what #TheForkiverse is doing and to see how it goes.

It seems to be going very well.

This is exactly what fedi was built for and what can make fedi stronger: an independent instance created and run for a specific community, pulling people in.

If you're as confused as I initially was: The Forkiverse is a fedi instance set up by hosts of two podcasts (Search Engine and Hard Fork), the name references the latter:
https://www.searchengine.show/the-fediverse-experiment/

Modern HTML features on text-based web browsers

They're easily overlooked between all the Chrome and Safari violence, but there are still text-based web browsers, and people still use them. How do they handle the latest HTML features?

While CSS is the star of the show when it comes to new features, HTML ain’t stale either. If we put the long-awaited styleable selects and Apple’s take

https://www.osnews.com/story/144178/modern-html-features-on-text-based-web-browsers/

#Internet

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진심 내 추구인외

While I think it's good that more mainstream publications do more on the #fediverse the Search Engine/Hard Fork episode on the #forkiverse is a bit ... well it could have done with a bit more research. And "oh look how yanky it all is but we didn't read the manual to run this service but has an LLM Agent just do something" is cringe at best: You're not reading the manual but you want to run a platform for a few thousand people? That's not cute but shows a lack of care and willingness to take responsibility.

"You start to notice materials in every inch of your environment, you wonder how things are made, you study more, and you start to see through walls."
https://map.simonsarris.com/p/ink-in-the-stomach

我過去一個禮拜都在聽李厚辰，狂聽欸，感覺快被掰彎了

That's not the weirdest thing that has been done to me, like the guy who ran a Linux gaming site that made up some weird "fan" story about going to dinner https://theoutcastersnotebook.com/post/a-conversation-with-gol/

투명 물고기 인어곤듀님

폴스타는 진짜 광고 잘만든다. 보면 볼수록 맘에 드는 회사야

袁莉出品
https://cn.nytimes.com/business/20260113/china-american-poverty/zh-hant/

what WHAT aaaaAAAAAA https://chromium-review.googlesource.com/c/chromium/src/+/7184969

Polestar’s new advertising is truly stunning. They have a clear vision of electric vehicles and who is the true villain. We don't need to conquer Mars. 😉 #Polestar Choose better | Polestar www.youtube.com/watch?v=x9Hj...

Ado는 진짜 성대 신기하다 어떻게 저렇게 노래를 부르지?

如果我們多看幾個實驗結果，就知道人對於事件的回憶大約有百分之八十的正確性。換言之，也就是每五件事中，大概會有一件是錯的。不過問題不只是我們會記錯事情；問題在於：我們雖然記錯了，但是卻十分自信。

Ado는 진짜 성대 신기하다 어떻게 저렇게 노래를 부르지?

겁스에서는 산탄총 쏘는 캐릭터가 제법 재미있습니다.

原因探しめんどいしk8sに載せるか…

Flock is going after a website called HaveIBeenFlocked.com that has collated public records files released by police.

https://www.404media.co/police-unmask-millions-of-surveillance-targets-because-of-flock-redaction-error/

コンテナからの名前解決が時間経過で死ぬの、ワケワカメなんだが〜〜

Need to convert a color between CSS formats? 🎨

The Color format converter lets you pick a color and instantly copy it as rgb(), hsl(), hex, and more - anywhere the <color> type is supported in CSS.

Try it here 👇
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/Guides/Colors/Color_format_converter

I'm excited to release Just the Browser! It helps you remove AI features, sponsored content, shopping integrations, and other annoyances from desktop web browsers.

This project includes configuration files (group policies), a simple setup script, and guides for manual installation. It supports Chrome, Firefox, and Edge. Everything is open-source on GitHub.

https://justthebrowser.com

#hashtags have been #enabled

Non-ActivityPub Link header alternate blocks HTML ActivityPub discovery in FetchResourceService (#37439)

Co-authored-by: Claire <claire.github-309c@sitedethib.com> by shleeable has been merged! https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/commit/c6be114cef98b219869cd3181d4eda9243dce5c6

んーまたどんがしんでる

ぐえ

🗑️ I've been working on a read later app over the last few years and it's getting closer to launch.

It archives every page you save so you never lose anything, and renders the original site beautifully. There's also a clean reader mode when you just want the content. Nested tags, auto-tagging, and shortcuts support for the automation nerds.

Sign up to be notified when it launches, I'll also be adding some people to the beta.

https://shelf-links.app/

저 먹고싶은 한국 요리 진짜 너무 많아요 어쩌죠

Someone made a super weird parody of me: https://mastodon.social.fraudulent.link/@GamingOnLinux

What 😅

Here's the reply I got from Evan Solomon, the Canadian Minister for AI. I asked if using X is line with his values.

So I guess its gonna continue being his main source of social media use.

#cdnpoli #stopusingx

Alert: ICE going door-to-door, guns drawn, in these neighborhoods #StPaul #Minneapolis #AbolishIce

Watching them all fall in line to brazenly lie to protect their new secret police/terror squads from accountability for shooting a scared mom in the face 3 times, is a reminder (in case we still needed one) that it’s no where near enough to just replace Trump. It’s the entire immoral & corrupt GOP.

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:4llrhdclvdlmmynkwsmg5tdc/post/3mccvowro4s2b

@edasfrÉric D.
Is this based on illegal exploitation of everyone's work? Sure is.
Is it concentrating power and capital in the hands of even fewer people? Sure is.
Is it significantly amplifying environmental harm? Sure is.
Is it reinforcing bias and stereotypes? Sure is.
Is it still an unprofitable industry? Sure is.
Is it still unknown how it will cope with Model Collapse? Sure is.
Is it still unknown how it impacts a project long term? Sure is.

Legibility, debugging and maintenance are all the same thing on different time scales. How will we fix things that no effort went in to understanding in the first place?

AI Coding Assistants Are Getting Worse https://lobste.rs/s/6skrep #vibecoding
https://spectrum.ieee.org/ai-coding-degrades