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.
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I swear github's UX is "designed" by throwing someone down a flight of stairs and then asking them how things should work while they're heavily concussed.
Signed, spent the last hour trying to figure out how to enable auto-merge on green CI, which somehow requires navigating to three different screens hidden in completely non-obvious places, and then realize that dropdowns show you no available actions to mark required because you _have_ to search for a string that appears in the jobs's name before the asinine UI will admit that they exist and let you select them.
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I feel that LLM training will be ruled fair use. I disagree with that ruling, I think it’s harebrained, but it’s what the Capitalist class wants and we all know how that goes.
What I’m thinking about today is how to take something productive out of this mess.
#ActivityPub is getting its first formal update path since 2018. I wrote about why this matters, how this leads to some strange and funny power dynamics, and about who actually participate
https://connectedplaces.online/reports/fediverse-report-148-on-protocol-governance/
@fediversereportConnected Places So, I think this is a really interesting article, and I agree that participation and representation matter here.
I hope that more ActivityPub implementers step up to become W3C members. There are several funded nonprofits and commercial organizations that could probably afford it. I'd recommend that people who use ActivityPub software let the software creators know that they should participate in the WG process!
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OH ("how do i content warn this" "void, horrifying abuse. mindbreaking even"). so yeah CW: hey here's a fun story i just remembered
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あさだよー！
Why DuckDB is my first choice for data processing https://lobste.rs/s/b9elrl #databases
https://www.robinlinacre.com/recommend_duckdb/
For years, Ring 0, CPU level, was believed to be the highest access level.
But at negative levels, you cause hallucinations in the user. Ring -1, fingers tingle; Ring -2, eyes see flashes of code. It’s believed the same method that creates drug tolerance prevents true higher negative levels.
🚀 I'm excited to announce our brand-new Swift database abstraction layer; focusing on the essentials for now...
📦 Just tagged the Postgres, SQLite, MySQL/MariaDB packages:
- https://github.com/feather-framework/feather-database
- https://github.com/feather-framework/feather-sqlite-database
- https://github.com/feather-framework/feather-postgres-database
- https://github.com/feather-framework/feather-mysql-database
AI/LLM web crawlers
I honestly expect that the future of a lot of the small web is 'you will have to register to have access to this'. This will lead to some sort of community sign-on so that individual sites don't have to run their own registration and etc system.
Duckduckgo has a survey for pro/anti-AI and I cackled so hard at the (current) results
@lexfeathersLex Feathers 🌸 "We don't all feel the same about AI"
Kinda... kinda looks like we do?
Duckduckgo has a survey for pro/anti-AI and I cackled so hard at the (current) results
LLMs are spam generators. That is all.
They're designed to generate plausibly human-like text well enough to pass a generic Turing Test. That's why people believe they're "intelligent".
But really, all they are is spam generators.
We have hit the spamularity.
After committing one of the greatest thefts of all information known to mankind, ChatGPT started showing Ads to everyone while killing all independent websites,wikis, forums, journalism sites, artists' work, songs, and blogs. The circle of life is complete. All this talk of a "changing world" ends with selling your data to the highest bidder while destroying human creators and environments. What innovation.
https://openai.com/index/our-approach-to-advertising-and-expanding-access/
It's been another very shitty and stressful week, but I did enjoy my menu featuring "mago chunty" tonight
Our approach to advertising and expanding access to ChatGPT
Link: https://openai.com/index/our-approach-to-advertising-and-expanding-access/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46649577
we have arrived at peak agentsmaxxing,
> An understanding of READ_ONCE() and WRITE_ONCE() is important for kernel developers who will be dealing with any sort of concurrent access to data. So, naturally, they are almost entirely absent from the kernel's documentation.
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Hi larger #fediverse community. I joined from the forkiverse thing and I'm seeing some posts critical of the new influx of participants. Perhaps you're worried we don't really get you or value the community so I wanted to give a little background you may not know. Before this “experiment” episode there was a much older episode that started things.
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（カラオケボックスで一夜明かして始発で帰るのと同じくらいの時間では…？）
おしごともしようぬ 
cc3c7ba532 (upstream/main) Fix `system` theme being included twice (#37526)
e21cb9f0d0 Update dependency pg to v8.17.1 (#37494)
5727b866b1 Fix error pages not using the new theming infrastructure (#37524)
a9bdf5eef9 Update dependency pg-connection-string to v2.10.0 (#37495)
5b5b00055e Update dependency pino to v10.2.0 (#37507)
e715bb5075 Add high-contrast styles to common stylesheet (#37523)
047338e684 Profile fields redesign (#37513)
918563704f Update the “embedded” styling to the new theme infrastructure (#37520)
e58084a85f Update `theme_color_tags` helper for new theme infrastructure (#37519)
be00db4fa3 Use snowflake ids for collections and their items (#37514)
0d9fcb59a4 New Crowdin Translations (automated) (#37517)
みんなは終電逃す前に帰ろうな！
試験日を間違えたゼーリエ「誰も来ないとはな…全員不合格だ。」
3時間かかったぞ……
うおおお！！無事帰宅
【朗報】フリーレン2期TVerに来てくれた!!
葬送のフリーレン 第2期
第29話 じゃあ行こうか
https://tver.jp/episodes/ep45f0j8br
The RFC 'feat: support localisation of rule messages' is now in the Initial Commenting phase.
LLMs are spam generators. That is all.
They're designed to generate plausibly human-like text well enough to pass a generic Turing Test. That's why people believe they're "intelligent".
But really, all they are is spam generators.
We have hit the spamularity.
This post by Bruce Schneier contains so many thoughtful soundbites:
> The question is not simply whether copyright law applies to AI. It is why the law appears to operate so differently depending on who is doing the extracting and for what purpose.
> Like the early internet, AI is often described as a democratizing force. But also like the internet, AI’s current trajectory suggests something closer to consolidation.
https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2026/01/ai-and-the-corporate-capture-of-knowledge.html
⏳Time is precious. Stop typing out fully qualified argument names in the UCM!
ところでみなさん別に早起きってわけじゃなくて寝れてないだけですよね。お見通しですよ 
味の濃いかぼちゃを探してきて、シンプルに焼いて食べたりするといいのかもしれません
어느 정도냐
생전 김치를 안 먹던 사람인데 김치 맛있네 하면서 한국산 김치를 사먹음
RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:eeffxw7sfmqw2rv2cgi3uj3l/post/3mckrcpfnw22e
Short-lived and IP address certificates are now generally available from Let’s Encrypt. These certificates are valid for 160 hours, just over six days.
https://letsencrypt.org/2026/01/15/6day-and-ip-general-availability
かぼちゃの味をお前は真面目に感じたことがあるか、と言われるとたしかにあんまりないかもしれない
소시지님의 충격적인 포장 안쪽을 보다.
아마 내가 살아있는 시점에선 어렵겠지만 후손 세대는 모두가 동의하고 엄격하고 모호함이 없는 법과 질서를 가지고 지키면서 살수 있으면 좋겠습니다 윤모씨 같은 사람 없이
I've been wondering about Bluesky's decentralization again. I can't think of any reason why I'd want to self-host Bluesky in its current form. I cannot 100% self host "my own Bluesky".
Their main selling points for building their own protocol were easier migration and better discoverability, but right now there's no simple way to migrate my Bluesky account to my own instance. And hosting the centralized parts yourself isn't really possible, or if it were, not affordable, they haven't made that feasible, by design, it seems.
Even if you self-host a PDS, Bluesky's Relay only indexes up to 10 accounts from it. You can run more, but they won't federate, the central infrastructure decides what gets seen. They control this (source: https://docs.bsky.app/blog/self-host-federation#:~:text=For%20a%20smooth%20transition%20into,for%20everyone%20in%20the%20ecosystem.). You can self-host a PDS (Personal Data Server), but you still depend on Bluesky's centralized Relay and AppView. There's no production-ready alternative infrastructure from what I gather.
It feels like I'd be renting a room in a hotel that someone else is running anyway, when I want my own hotel.
If Mastodon gGmbH vanishes tomorrow, my instance keeps running and federating with everyone else. If Bluesky PBC vanishes, the ecosystem would need to scramble to stand up replacement infrastructure that doesn't really exist yet.
ATProto keeps getting evaluated on its promises while other systems get evaluated on their merits. The "portability" selling point depends on infrastructure that isn't mature enough to actually catch you if Bluesky falls.
I trust W3C, the builders and fathers of the World Wide Web, ActivityPub and the Fediverse.
#Decentralization #SelfHosting #SelfHosted #Mastodon #Fediverse #Bluesky #Servers
What are your favorite drawing libraries? https://lobste.rs/s/dtnmwy #ask #visualization
Why DuckDB is my first choice for data processing
Link: https://www.robinlinacre.com/recommend_duckdb/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46645176
Dell UltraSharp 52 Thunderbolt Hub Monitor
Link: https://www.dell.com/en-us/shop/dell-ultrasharp-52-thunderbolt-hub-monitor-u5226kw/apd/210-bthw/monitors-monitor-accessories
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46648885
사실 제품 워런티 기준은 모호함이 없도록 기업이 꽤나 신경써서 작성해놓긴했음 ㅋㅋㅋ... 의외로 국회의원들이 만든 법은 그렇지 않을수도 있겠고 하니...
이번에 회사 제품 워런티 처리하는 과정을 자동화하는 플젝에 끌려들어가서 보고 있는데 해보면서 느끼는건 제품 워런티외에도 대부분 정부 행정과 사법 과정 자동화하는것도 지금 기술로 가능하겠구나 싶음 물론 온갖 사람들 이해가 걸려있는 복잡한 케이스는 사람이 하도록 하겠지만 과거 처리 기록이 있고 법안이 모호함이 없으면 가능한것 같음 아마 나만 이렇게 생각하는건 아니겠지 싶고 ㅎㅎ...
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