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.

The rise and fall of Stack Overflow is a case in point of the parasitic nature of LLMs. LLMs feed their models on places like Stack Overflow to be useful to users, so users flock to them to avoid the eternal snarky comments and just get an answer to their problem right away. But this is a dead end. No new answers will be generated if no one uses Stack Overflow or similar places.

What goes for Stack Overflow goes essentially for the whole internet. Like a mold growing on food, consuming it, and dying once the food is gone - LLMs will kill large parts of the 'old' internet before long.

Graph showing rise and fall of Stack Overflow usage between 2008 and 2026 in numbers of questions asked per month. There's a clear bell curve visible coming from 0 and going to 0.
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> looking for a new schema language > ask the compiler if their schema language is language agnostic or accidentally encodes the language semantics of the language used to first implement the compiler > she laughs and says "it's a good schema language sir" > use the schema language

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It is our moral imperative to consider the "real world" and actual users when assessing the possible security impact of a reported issue. If we deem that there is likely to be zero affected users, then we do more damage than good by insisting on doing the security dance for the issue.

Then we end up with a severity level that is below LOW, and then we treat it as a bug instead. For the good of mankind.

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지금 왜 이 이야기를 왜하냐면 닷컴버블때의 전조현상들과 지금이 너무나 판박이여서 입니다.. 인플레이션(금,은,구리,램등의 가격상승으로 물가상승)을 버티지 못한 연준이 금리를 올려요. AI버블은 거짓말처럼 붕괴하고 주식들은 바닥을 내려찍고 불황이 찾아옵니다. 반대로 트럼프가 연준을 장악하고 금리를 내려요. 달러를 풀어요. 물가는 올라가는데 돈이 풀립니다. 하이퍼 인플레이션이 오고 돈의 가치는 개쓰레기가 되어버립니다. 전자는 진짜를 가려내는 솎아내기의 고통이면 후자는 복구에 수십년이 걸리는 지옥입니다.

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晚上在聽悲慘世界的音樂,突然想到以前跟人聊過的一個很無聊細節,關於主角Jean Valjean到底是怎樣變有錢的,音樂劇跟電影版都沒有提到這件事情,小說版有,他賣的是Jet beads,出獄之後他到了蒙特勒伊,原本這裡的特產Jet beads黑玉,Jean Valjean改用蟲膠為基材製作,這便宜貨反而在市場上大賣所以才賺大錢。小說裡到死前都還在想要怎麼改良產品的Jean Valjean最後跟Cosette講的是手鍊的鍊子不用焊的,改用鍊環相扣比較省錢。
大概是因為小說裡這段太現實了,所以音樂劇跟電影都把到死都是生意人的Jean Valjean給封印,變成是一個女兒最優先的好爸爸Jean Valjean。

我是覺得那個到死都在想怎樣賺錢,把秘訣寫起來留給女兒的Jean Valjean比音樂劇、電影裡的那個版本真實又實在啦😆

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중국 정부가 자국 기업에 미국 및 이스라엘 사이버보안 소프트웨어 사용 중단 지시

* VMware by Broadcom
* Palo Alto Networks
* Fortinet
* Check Point Software Technologies
* 그 외 다수

10여 개의 해당 기업에 이미 며칠 사이에 지침을 발송하였다.

중단 지시 근거는 간첩 활동 및 사보타주 우려이며, 기술 자립화 및 대체 노력의 일환으로 해석된다.

트럼프 대통령의 4월 베이징 방문 전 견제일 수 있다고 한다.

중국은 2024년부터 Delete A를 수립해왔으니, 그저 다음 단계를 시작했을 뿐일 수도 있다.

출처: reuters.com/world/china/beijin

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New, by me: Security researcher Eaton Zveare spent weeks trying to alert a little-known but critical U.S. cargo tech giant that their shipping systems and customers' data were exposed to the web.

After weeks of trying, Zveare asked TechCrunch for help. We were ignored, too. On the third time we emailed the firm's CEO, we included a partial copy of his password to show the seriousness of the flaws.

A couple of hours later, we got a response — from its law firm.

techcrunch.com/2026/01/14/us-c

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중국 정부가 자국 기업에 미국 및 이스라엘 사이버보안 소프트웨어 사용 중단 지시

* VMware by Broadcom
* Palo Alto Networks
* Fortinet
* Check Point Software Technologies
* 그 외 다수

10여 개의 해당 기업에 이미 며칠 사이에 지침을 발송하였다.

중단 지시 근거는 간첩 활동 및 사보타주 우려이며, 기술 자립화 및 대체 노력의 일환으로 해석된다.

트럼프 대통령의 4월 베이징 방문 전 견제일 수 있다고 한다.

중국은 2024년부터 Delete A를 수립해왔으니, 그저 다음 단계를 시작했을 뿐일 수도 있다.

출처: reuters.com/world/china/beijin

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晚上在聽悲慘世界的音樂,突然想到以前跟人聊過的一個很無聊細節,關於主角Jean Valjean到底是怎樣變有錢的,音樂劇跟電影版都沒有提到這件事情,小說版有,他賣的是Jet beads,出獄之後他到了蒙特勒伊,原本這裡的特產Jet beads黑玉,Jean Valjean改用蟲膠為基材製作,這便宜貨反而在市場上大賣所以才賺大錢。小說裡到死前都還在想要怎麼改良產品的Jean Valjean最後跟Cosette講的是手鍊的鍊子不用焊的,改用鍊環相扣比較省錢。
大概是因為小說裡這段太現實了,所以音樂劇跟電影都把到死都是生意人的Jean Valjean給封印,變成是一個女兒最優先的好爸爸Jean Valjean。

我是覺得那個到死都在想怎樣賺錢,把秘訣寫起來留給女兒的Jean Valjean比音樂劇、電影裡的那個版本真實又實在啦😆

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Welcome to our next event as we return to the wonderful Hive Helsinki!

💬 Wrapping chatbots by Felipe Dessoy Caraballo & Nikolai Zharkevich

📜 Refurbishing Old PDFs for Comfortable Reading by Mikael Koponen

⚡️ My year at JetBrains by Alex Grönholm

And the famous HelPy quiz!

meetup.com/helpy-meetups/event

We're also looking for hosts for February and beyond, please get in touch if you'd like to tell a roomful of Python experts about your company.

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I've had some thoughts bouncing around for conference sprints. We talked about it at @ConferenceChats a few weeks ago, so I wrote an initial FAQ on how to prepare for them.

It primarily focuses on gaining new contributors from a project leader prospective.

Let me know what you think!

better-simple.com/django/2026/

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The electrical company cracked open our building today to replace some equipment. While this was going on, an electrical shed several streets away spontaneously exploded and took out power for half of Amsterdam — but somehow not us.

the expensive-looking equipment has been abandoned in the parking lot. I’m sure it’s fine to leave out overnight… 😅

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