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.
how do I know if i'm in the wrong timeline
It is not too late to register your Trumpet Winsock.
What kinds of talks are we excited about for RustConf 2026?
🦀 Rust in production
🧪 Lessons learned building and shipping
🌍 Real-world impact
If Rust is part of your work, we’d love to hear your story. Submit now: https://bit.ly/4pwaWUU #rustconf #rustconf26
Three more days: that's how long we have before our deadline to reach our goal of welcoming 100 new #FSF associate members. We can do this: we need just 38 more people to join us to help further software freedom for all: https://u.fsf.org/4a6
hey! whyyy
自分のインターネットが期待どおり壊れてるの眺めるのむっちゃ楽しい!!
Games Workshop bans staff from using AI, management not excited about the tech
Link: https://www.ign.com/articles/warhammer-maker-games-workshop-bans-its-staff-from-using-ai-in-its-content-or-designs-says-none-of-its-senior-managers-are-currently-excited-about-the-tech
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46607681
"Just the Browser helps you remove AI features, telemetry data reporting, sponsored content, product integrations, and other annoyances from desktop web browsers."
There's something to this.
It’s time I crank up the search for new work to 11, because wow I really need it.
Bottom line: you bring me aboard your web publishing or software team because there are many fires vying for your attention and I figure out which ones to put out first.
My CV: https://jaredwhite.com/cv/
My biz site: https://www.whitefusion.studio
I'm design-focused: smooth fast UX & providing delightful experiences. Deep frontend, full-stack, and open source expertise.
Boosts greatly appreciated!
#FediHire #GetFediHired
Friendly reminder #ActivityPub protocol development will go back behind permissioned closed doors (unless you pay w3c or are deemed an invited expert) at w3c in the near future. RIP 2018-2025 open ActivityPub governance in SWICG.
X offering the use of Grok to create and share pictures of undressed women and children is horrendous.
The EU Commission has already:
• taken investigative steps
• ordered the company to retain internal documents.
X now has to fix its AI tool in the EU - and they have to do it quickly.
If not, we will not hesitate to take additional measures under the DSA.
Bevy 0.18 is out now!
It features Atmosphere Occlusion and PBR Shading, Generalized Atmospheric Scattering Media, Solari features, PBR Fixes, Font Variations, Automatic Directional Navigation, Fullscreen Materials, Cargo Feature Collections, Camera Controllers, and more!
No management needed: anti-patterns in early-stage engineering teams
Link: https://www.ablg.io/blog/no-management-needed
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46605854
RE: https://mastodon.social/@hennavirkkunen/115888721732640894
its been a while since weve seen politicians join mastodon, interesting
Anthropic invests $1.5 million in the Python Software Foundation and open source security via 
@pauloxPaolo Melchiorre https://lobste.rs/s/mb07nn #python
https://pyfound.blogspot.com/2025/12/anthropic-invests-in-python.html
I am kind of upset that pinning a post on Mastodon updates and bumps it in Pleroma/Akkoma
(it's very unlikely to be an issue with nuxt content)
良い動き。日本での追求は腑抜けている印象だけに期待している
旧統一教会などは「社会悪」 徹底捜査を指示＝韓国首相 | 聯合ニュース https://jp.yna.co.kr/view/AJP20260113002300882
Bevy 0.18 is out now!
It features Atmosphere Occlusion and PBR Shading, Generalized Atmospheric Scattering Media, Solari features, PBR Fixes, Font Variations, Automatic Directional Navigation, Fullscreen Materials, Cargo Feature Collections, Camera Controllers, and more!
Lord Mayor ChunChun checking in with his subjects
今は亡き森永卓郎氏も映っているな。良い終わり方だったな。
「じゃ、乾杯。さよなら！」 「ニュースステーション」最終回 久米宏さんあいさつ(2026年1月13日) - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CcKF_CuaPds
W-2が届き始めたよううえええええええん
Bandcamp has posted to Reddit that they are prohibiting music that is created wholly or with subtantial use of AI on their platform. Full post with guidelines and how to report AI music.
https://www.reddit.com/r/BandCamp/comments/1qbw8ba/ai_generated_music_on_bandcamp/
my third fediversary on #maau 🥲 
thanks for not kicking me off yet 
@xrobauRob Thomas [Admin m.au] 
非表示だしペンちょっと変えたので上げとく
We're hiring. If you or someone you know are looking for a role in HR/finance, 
@freedomofpressFreedom of the Press is a great place to work. https://freedom.press/careers/job/?gh_jid=4649061005
information management is one of the most pressing issues of our time because of information overload. even assuming you have entirely correct info, how do you know you're not missing anything? how do you organize the information you already have? discovery, retrieval, evaluation, integration. the information you have shapes the decisions you make. all else flows from that.
ネット無償漫画『みそしる』4ページ
キュアアルカナ・シャドウちゃん！
Support your local community infrastructure providers
Praxis is not comparing text synthesizers to an intern, actually.
When an intern doesn't know how to do something, they will learn in the attempt. They will grow in their abilities, and become greater than before.
Literally zero of the words I just used can even be applied to the text synthesizer. Except maybe "attempt". The comparison is inherently dehumanizing. Please find another way to say "it sucks, but less than I assume you assumed"
“The American people deserve to know that the central bank is led by a total slut,” Attorney General Pam Bondi said of the photo, promising that more sexually explicit images of Powell were on the way.
https://theonion.com/doj-releases-jerome-powell-deepfake-nudes/
Games Workshop bans staff from using AI, management not excited about the tech
Link: https://www.ign.com/articles/warhammer-maker-games-workshop-bans-its-staff-from-using-ai-in-its-content-or-designs-says-none-of-its-senior-managers-are-currently-excited-about-the-tech
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46607681
@stefanoStefano Marinelli GNU OpenBSD is the best Linux distro
@libreleahLeah Rowe is not a Rowebot @stefanoStefano Marinelli
The best distro is the one that fit your mental mood and usage.
Some people love to own the tech, others love own a part of the tech, but the majority want to be owned by the tech.
Reminder: BSDCan 2026 Call for Submissions Closes January 17
The deadline to submit talks, papers, and tutorials for BSDCan 2026 is approaching quickly. If you’re interested in sharing your work with the BSD community, now is the time to send in your proposal.
📅 Submission deadline: January 17, 2026
Details & submission guidelines: https://www.bsdcan.org/2026/papers.html
We encourage developers, researchers, and practitioners across the BSD ecosystem to participate.
I'm typically not the kind of person who buys merch, but since my Mastodon experience is such a great one (and the merch is really cute), I decided to support it and buy a plushtodon and a mug.
I also had the thought, that this is the perfect way to introduce myself to the Mastodon communities, so here we go:
Well, hi! My name is.. not public for now, because I'm a very privacy conscious person, especially when it comes to the vast space, that is the internet - so just call me 'Chestnut'. ^^
A few years ago I started my privacy journey - and learned a lot!
I enjoy and appreciate good software/hardware and I think, that there are a lot of awesome people and projects, that help the world build a privacy oriented, productive, safe and fun online world. Yes, I'm talking to you 
@Mastodon, 
@fedoraFedora Project, 
@nitrokey, 
@signalappSignal, 
@Em0nM4stodonEm 
, 
@GrapheneOS, 
@torvaldsLinus Torvalds, 
@techlore, 
@protonprivacyProton, 
@organicmaps, 
@librewolf, 
@mullvadnetMullvad VPN, 
@privacyguides, 
@torprojectThe Tor Project, 
@privacytestsPrivacyTests.org & so many more! <3
storytime: how I first read Les Misérables
because i've been kind of salty on here today and i want to balance it out with something nice:
music-wise i've been on a Les Mis kick recently. i hadn't seen the show, though i would have at least heard of it, if only from posters and T-shirts, by the time I was a teenager (i'm not sure exactly how old; anywhere from 12 to 16?) and on holiday in the summer with my aunt and uncle and cousins who lived in the States. they were also middle-class but had more money than my family did, and so it wasn't a big deal for my aunt to let me loose in a bookstore and say "pick out a book." wanting the most bang for my buck, i went for a big hardcover of Les Misérables, and was amazed she actually bought it for me.
i think i probably just knew it was one of those Classic Novels.
we were off to a seaside weekend in Rehoboth Beach, Delaware. i had never seen or swum in the ocean so i was looking forward to it; unfortunately, it was cold and rainy the entire weekend.
i did not really notice or care, because i was completely engrossed in Les Misérables which i read cover to cover that weekend, digressions and all. it was the antiquated Charles Wilbour translation, the first English translation, which often just straight up uses English analogues of French words even when they are uncommon or don't quite mean the same thing: "orthography" instead of "spelling" for "orthographie", "confound" instead of "confuse [with]" for "confondre". i actually don't really mind this; it's even a little charming. i was completely in my own world. the motel could have been swallowed up by an earthquake and i wouldn't have noticed.
i still haven't actually seen the musical, nor swam in the ocean for that matter. i like the songs because they call to mind the passages in the book that is engraved in my memory from that dreamy, rainy weekend in Delaware.
misskey.ioに新しい絵文字 
(blobcat_onechancenaiyo)が追加されたかも。
I'm typically not the kind of person who buys merch, but since my Mastodon experience is such a great one (and the merch is really cute), I decided to support it and buy a plushtodon and a mug.
I also had the thought, that this is the perfect way to introduce myself to the Mastodon communities, so here we go:
Well, hi! My name is.. not public for now, because I'm a very privacy conscious person, especially when it comes to the vast space, that is the internet - so just call me 'Chestnut'. ^^
misskey.ioに新しい絵文字 
(komugichan_onechance)が追加されたかも。
i think the unprecedented part with this shift is that we’re not only going up the abstraction ladder but we also have a tool that’s capable of going *down* the ladder on its own, often with better results. like when i ask it to symbolicate a crash using partial data or inspect some archaic system
i’m planning to work on a course but i don’t know how much of the things im teaching are gonna stay relevant. even the meta skills — like how to approach a problem or debug systematically — how much of those will just end up built-in. and in which cases will we need a human to go down the ladder.
Superhuman AI Exfiltrates Emails
Link: https://www.promptarmor.com/resources/superhuman-ai-exfiltrates-emails
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46592424
Dr. Anna Latour
Misty
세랄이 
Foone🏳️⚧️
Bozhidar Batsov (a.k.a. Bug)
Laurens Hof
Andy Piper
Alice I. Cecile
Chao-c'
雨宮凪沙/nagiko
白長谷
