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.
In TextKit 2 – what is the correct way of drawing extra horizontal padding around a custom attribute? I inject text attachments before and after but seems like the correct way would be to do this through the fragments somehow?
Playing Factorio on a Floppy Disk Cluster
https://hackaday.com/2026/01/13/playing-factorio-on-a-floppy-disk-cluster/
Federal bill criminalizing sexual deepfakes wouldn’t cover X images: expert https://www.winnipegfreepress.com/canada/2026/01/13/federal-bill-criminalizing-sexual-deepfakes-wouldnt-cover-x-images-expert
My dream was about debugging code to align satellite dishes, and my boss not liking my idea to try and improve signal strength by trying going off-center to better target the satellite. He was afraid it'd wear out the positioning servos to make them retest their alignment periodically
UTC使ってこうぜ (Atlantic/ReykjavikはGMT表記になるんだねえ…
$ for TZ in Pacific/Honolulu UTC Atlantic/Reykjavik Asia/Tokyo; do TZ=$TZ date; done
Tue Jan 13 09:31:57 HST 2026
Tue Jan 13 19:31:57 UTC 2026
Tue Jan 13 19:31:57 GMT 2026
Wed Jan 14 04:31:57 JST 2026
Show HN: Self-host Reddit – 2.38B posts, works offline, yours forever
Link: https://github.com/19-84/redd-archiver
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46602324
The rapid rise and slow decline of Sam Altman
Link: https://garymarcus.substack.com/p/the-rapid-rise-and-slow-decline-of
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46605452
chaosdorf meta
github war gestern, ich hab das in nen web.de share gelegt #oh #dorfleaks
discord muzzle feature
Important news regarding our use of Twitter: Owing to the current circumstances, we have taken the decision to stop using our Twitter account. We cannot in good conscience continue to use a platform which is linked to image-based sexual harassment and violence, and AI-generated child sexual abuse material.
Many new people asking what Mastodon and the Fediverse actually are, and how servers connect to each other. I've tried to do a simple non-technical guide about this:
➡️ https://fedi.tips/what-is-mastodon-what-is-the-fediverse
TL:DR - The phone network lets you choose a provider and call people on other providers. Mastodon and the wider Fediverse do this for social networks.
If you prefer videos, these are useful:
"What is Mastodon?"
https://fedi.video/w/cbQE3NRw76FayQCSdb14TU
"Introducing the Fediverse"
https://videos.elenarossini.com/w/64VuNCccZNrP4u9MfgbhkN
New blog post: GeoIP-Aware Firewalling with PF on FreeBSD
Running a mail server means constant brute-force attempts. My solution: geographic filtering. SMTP stays open for global mail delivery, but client ports (IMAP, Submission, webmail) are restricted to Central European IP ranges only.
Result: ~90% reduction in attack logs, cleaner signal-to-noise ratio, smaller attack surface.
Using MaxMind GeoLite2 + PF tables with ~273k CIDR blocks.
https://blog.hofstede.it/geoip-aware-firewalling-with-pf-on-freebsd/
Many new people asking what Mastodon and the Fediverse actually are, and how servers connect to each other. I've tried to do a simple non-technical guide about this:
➡️ https://fedi.tips/what-is-mastodon-what-is-the-fediverse
TL:DR - The phone network lets you choose a provider and call people on other providers. Mastodon and the wider Fediverse do this for social networks.
If you prefer videos, these are useful:
"What is Mastodon?"
https://fedi.video/w/cbQE3NRw76FayQCSdb14TU
"Introducing the Fediverse"
https://videos.elenarossini.com/w/64VuNCccZNrP4u9MfgbhkN
AI Generated Music Barred from Bandcamp
Link: https://old.reddit.com/r/BandCamp/comments/1qbw8ba/ai_generated_music_on_bandcamp/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46605490
弊ぼっちのRubyが4.0.1になりました。んふふ。
this new discord update is awful
Am I just messaging to the ether here or will people see this?
Learned about the forkiverse while walking my dog in Seattle wa. It’s an oddly sunny day in the otherwise dark and wet pnw.
Cat 🐈🥗 (D.Burch) 
Evan Prodromou
Inside Fediverse
Stefano Marinelli
Misty
Christine Lemmer-WebberPush me
and then just touch me
'til I can get my
The other senior career prosecutors who resigned include Harry Jacobs, Melinda Williams & Thomas Calhoun-Lopez. Mr. Jacobs had been Mr. Thompson’s deputy overseeing the fraud investigation, which began in 2022. Mr. Calhoun-Lopez was the chief of the violent & major crimes unit.
Mr. Thompson, Mr. Jacobs, Ms. Williams & Mr. Calhoun-Lopez declined to discuss the reasons they resigned. The #DOJ did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
…After #ReneeNicoleGood was shot, the #DOJ decided to forgo a #CivilRights investigation that would establish whether the #ICE officer’s use of #DeadlyForce was justified. That decision led several career prosecutors at the department’s civil rights division in Washington to resign in protest, MS Now reported Monday.
#Trump #law #murder #ExtraJudicialKillings #Minneapolis #Minnesota #RightToProtest #UseOfForce #PoliceBrutality #MafiaState #Sturmabteilung
https://www.ms.now/news/doj-civil-rights-division-officials-quit-harmeet-dhillon
Holy mackerel. Joe Thompson quit.
"Three Minnesota federal prosecutors resigned over the Justice Department’s push to investigate the widow of a woman killed by an ICE agent and its reluctance to investigate the shooter, according to people with knowledge of their decision.
"Joseph H. Thompson, who was second in command at the U.S. attorney’s office and oversaw a sprawling fraud investigation that has roiled Minnesota’s political landscape, was among those who quit Tuesday, according to three people with knowledge of the decision."
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/13/us/prosecutors-ice-shooting-renee-good.html
Es gibt tatsächlich Menschen, die sich beschweren, dass sie die AI-Tools nicht im CLI von Produktivsystemen einsetzen dürfen.
Was läuft bei denen falsch?
Code-Assistenten? Ok, da greifen noch viele Mechanismen. Aber Admin-Aufgaben?
AI hat auf produktiven Maschinen nichts verloren. Punkt. Keine Ausnahme. Keine Diskussion.
Excellent stance by #Bandcamp on AI.
"We reserve the right to remove any music on suspicion of being AI-generated."
Bandcamp’s Mission and Our Approach to Generative AI
https://blog.bandcamp.com/2026/01/13/keeping-bandcamp-human/
ㅋㅋㅋㅋ Grok 너도 엿이나 먹어라
Mike Tomlin will reportedly step down as Stealers head coach after 19 seasons.
Signal leaders warn agentic AI is an insecure, unreliable surveillance risk
Link: https://coywolf.com/news/productivity/signal-president-and-vp-warn-agentic-ai-is-insecure-unreliable-and-a-surveillance-nightmare/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46605553
'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
Es gibt tatsächlich Menschen, die sich beschweren, dass sie die AI-Tools nicht im CLI von Produktivsystemen einsetzen dürfen.
Was läuft bei denen falsch?
Code-Assistenten? Ok, da greifen noch viele Mechanismen. Aber Admin-Aufgaben?
AI hat auf produktiven Maschinen nichts verloren. Punkt. Keine Ausnahme. Keine Diskussion.
My team at Bookshop.org is hiring a junior software developer. #GetFediHired
https://bookshop.org/info/careers/associate-software-engineer
Rappel que ce site existe : https://filigrane.beta.gouv.fr/
Pour ajouter un filigrane sur nos documents (genre carte d'identité) avant de les envoyer à des entreprises ou institutions qui demandent dix mille trucs sensibles pour la moindre démarche et les gardent à tout jamais et se font hacker toutes les 5 minutes 🙃
ça permet de limiter les risques d'usurpation d'identité en cas de fuite de données
ich hatte Angst die 2x16GB DDR4 RAM, die nachm upgrade übrig blieben seien unverkäuflich und wollte sie einem bedürftigem Wesen schenken...
I love the hashtag DirectoryTraversalMemes 😂
"Corporations who make billions from FOSS should give back their fair share"
vs.
"Don't ever take money from the evil corporation, it will corrupt FOSS"
round 103828483, FIGHT!
President Trump tells the Detroit Economic Club he’s now “Venezuela’s biggest fan."
#Grok, 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 #Pentagon. 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.
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?
お仕事iPhoneのiOSを更新しろってメールが来て乗り物酔いしながら更新を始めたらお仕事iPhoneのiOSを更新しろってMDMがダイアログを出してきて邪魔ったらないねw #ダークモード
@whitequark✧✦Catherine✦✧ You were looking for IP cameras. Perhaps one of these might suit you? https://thingino.com/
The last week at work has involved understanding a complicated piece of code, and understanding an undocumented requirement, to make sure that I make the correct single-line change so that everyone stays happy.
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?
shitpost
why do they call it shallow embedding when you shallow embed the object syntax of deep metalanguage encode the syntax
And with that, we have reached our goal on Kickstarter!!! That went incredibly quickly and I don't know how to thank all of you.
However!! We are not done yet!! But one of the scariest hurdles has been surmounted and we are bouncing off the walls here!!
🎉🎉🎉
AI Generated Music Barred from Bandcamp
Link: https://old.reddit.com/r/BandCamp/comments/1qbw8ba/ai_generated_music_on_bandcamp/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46605490
[$] A high-level quality-of-service interface
Quality-of-service (QoS) mechanisms attempt to prioritize some processes (or network traffic, disk I/O, etc.) over others in order to meet a system's performance goals. This is a d [...]
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.
RE: https://theforkiverse.com/@taylorlorenz/115867181742104333
seeing tech journalists still this confused how to use the fediverse this far into things; we should take it as a sign that we need to rethink how this whole cross instance cross domain flow works
What's a Forkiverse?
#Grok, 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 #Pentagon. 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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