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.

So if coding with LLMs is going to be so incredibly revolutionary. Doesn't that mean that we could easily have multiple web rendering engines?

People are so bent out of shape that Blink is the basis of most of the web. Shouldn't some 12 year old just fork Chromium and be done with this argument?

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Every time I explain to someone that "AI" is really just a "word calculator" that phrase suddenly demystifies the topic and you see the lights go on inside their brain.

The biggest trick the tech bros pulled was simply making ordinary folks believe AI has some kind of mysterious capability. It doesn't.

It's great at highly repetitive pattern matching, and ideal for generating very mediocre output. Mostly, AI is a solution desperately in search of a problem.

#LLM #AI
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i had cause to think about the distinction between deep vs. shallow embeddings today for the first time in awhile and, as usual, my intuition gets them backwards. (the agreed-upon mapping seems to be shallow = "encode object language with corresponding meta-language constructs" and deep = "encode object language as uninterpreted data in the metalanguage".) why is it like this?

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Questions about separating the art from the artist always have this huge negative space around them where all the people who could have been great, become great, and made great things languish invisible, marginalized and silent. We never stare the emptiness of the music and art and poetry we might have had if we hadn’t spent so much effort accommodating and venerating self-mythologizing abusers. Our complicity in this subjugation of the possible, of the art we’ve kept from coming into being.

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, xAI’s flagship model, reportedly burned through $7.8 billion in just nine months in 2025… yet it’s also set to become a key supplier to the . I’ll pretend for a moment that it’s merely a random contractor with no ties to the U.S. government, and that it’s only being chosen because it happens to be exceptionally good at removing face-covering clothing from photos of ICE agents.

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There are loads of self-hosting platforms out there; TrueNAS, @yunohostYunoHost :neopossum_box:, Unraid, Cosmos, Synology, etc, and they all have their own package definition system.

Anyone know of anything that could help maintain (and test?) all those centrally? Like a single definition that can generate/update them all? The more platforms we try to put @manyfold on, the more bitrot there will inevitably be.

I could try to write my own, but if there's anything already out there...

@selfhstselfh.st (Self-Host)

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Might as well share it now: I built an ActivityPub integrated social network for athletes. Some people might claim it was influenced by Strava.

feditrack.javahippie.net/timel

Registration currently requires a password, if you are interested, write me.

Please look at the terms and conditions. This is a personal project, I built something I wanted, so there are no guarantees, use at your own risk.

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To learn more about what your system is doing, take a look at systat(1). For
example, to get various statistics related to virtual memory usage, process
scheduling, device interrupts, system name translation caching, and disk I/O,
enter the following:

systat -vmstat

Other values are icmp, icmp6, ifstat, iostat, ip, ip6, netstat, pigs, sctp,
swap, tcp, or zarc. You can switch between displays using :<display> and exit
back to your shell by typing

:quit

-- Benedict Reuschling <bcr@FreeBSD.org>

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This fucking admin🤯

6 Prosecutors Quit Over Push to Investigate Victim’s

Joseph H. Thompson, a career federal prosecutor who was the acting for last year, was among those who resigned as the sought to examine the woman’s supposed ties to activist groups.


nytimes.com/2026/01/13/us/pros

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ぼちぼちやってこ :saba:

19bc3e76ea Add spec for quote policy update change (#37474)
92ad380e11 Update rubocop to version 1.82.1 (#37475)
c6be114cef Non-ActivityPub Link header alternate blocks HTML ActivityPub discovery in FetchResourceService (#37439)
122b1592ed Add feature flag detection for profile redesign (#37472)
232b9e9cc6 Fix delivery worker counting unsalvageable HTTP errors as successes (#37235)
d5264b3722 Update aws-sdk-s3 to v1.211.0 (#37396)
41639655ff Fix `isDarkMode` utility (#37470)
be60c4585e Fix keyboard navigation in media modal after clicking image (#37464)
5b54cd7f76 Add ability to include inline javascript (#37459)
9b5986b36e Fix `quote_approval_policy` being reset to user defaults when omitted in status update (#37436)
9332f48abe Simplify status batch removal SQL query (#37469)
f8b8fa16f5 Update pino to v10.1.1 (#37443)
6cb533311a New Crowdin Translations (automated) (#37466)
a63a0db568 Update postcss-preset-env to v10.6.1 (#37457)
972ed73062 Update DefinitelyTyped types (non-major) (#37456)

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Conversation with friend that knows rust:

M: How do you expect people to learn rust? It’s so freakin’ broken.

F: What do you mean “broken”? Why?

M: Half of the time I’m trying to even build the bloody thing I run into stupid issues.

F: Well, you must be doing something wrong, show me an example.

M: Here you go:

error: failed to run custom build command for `libfdt-sys v0.0.2`

Caused by:
  process didn't exit successfully: `/mnt/Optane/toolchain/fdtviz/target/debug/build/libfdt-sys-3031182c5b22e2c2/build-script-build` (exit status: 101)
[...]
  cargo:rerun-if-changed=libfdt/libfdt/libfdt.h

  --- stderr
  libfdt/libfdt/libfdt_env.h:10:10: fatal error: 'stdbool.h' file not found

  thread 'main' (3832) panicked at /home/elly/.cargo/registry/src/index.crates.io-1949cf8c6b5b557f/libfdt-sys-0.0.2/build.rs:45:10:
  Unable to generate bindings: ClangDiagnostic("libfdt/libfdt/libfdt_env.h:10:10: fatal error: 'stdbool.h' file not found\n")
  note: run with `RUST_BACKTRACE=1` environment variable to display a backtrace

 /mnt/Optane/toolchain/fdtviz  main  find /usr/lib/* -name 'stdbool.h'                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                 101 ✘ 
/usr/lib/clang/21/include/stdbool.h
/usr/lib/gcc/aarch64-linux-gnu/15/include/stdbool.h
/usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-redhat-linux/15/include/stdbool.h

F: What the fuck :neocat_floof_explode:

M: Yeah, you know what… I think I’m just gonna stick with C for now :akko_giggle:

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Flock itself is the security risk, not the sites making it crystal clear how Flock is violating people's privacy. IMO services like HaveIBeenFlocked are absolutely necessary to wake people up to how dystopian things have become. They're doing a critical service to the country and humanity.

404media.co/police-unmask-mill

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Questions about separating the art from the artist always have this huge negative space around them where all the people who could have been great, become great, and made great things languish invisible, marginalized and silent. We never stare the emptiness of the music and art and poetry we might have had if we hadn’t spent so much effort accommodating and venerating self-mythologizing abusers. Our complicity in this subjugation of the possible, of the art we’ve kept from coming into being.

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i had cause to think about the distinction between deep vs. shallow embeddings today for the first time in awhile and, as usual, my intuition gets them backwards. (the agreed-upon mapping seems to be shallow = "encode object language with corresponding meta-language constructs" and deep = "encode object language as uninterpreted data in the metalanguage".) why is it like this?

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New on the Mystery AI Hype Theater 3000 newsletter:

Labeling resistance to "AI" as "denialism" is an attempt to dismiss it out of hand.
The narrative of the denialism frame is that those opposing "AI" are afraid, under-informed and/or engaging in wishful thinking. None of that is true: The people who oppose the "AI" project are actively fighting and refusing to accept the premise of tech bros and AI boosters.

buttondown.com/maiht3k/archive

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