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.

Hacker News 50 @hn50@social.lansky.name
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Experts Warn of Growing Parrot Crisis in Canada

Link: ctvnews.ca/ottawa/video/2026/0
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4

Experts warn of growing parrot crisis in Canada

The largest parrot rescue in eastern Ontario is launching a pilot project to help address what experts are calling a parrot crisis. CTV’s Katelyn Wilson reports

www.ctvnews.ca · CTVNews

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Elena Rossini ⁂ @_elena@mastodon.social
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An important PSA for people who are active on and who, upon hearing that the ICE account was officially verified, are saying: "I will just block it."

Blocking on Bluesky is NOT PRIVATE: it's very easy to see who is blocking any account by visiting sites that list that information.

I took a screenshot from clearsky.app, listing all the accounts that are blocking ICE (I pixelated avatars and usernames for privacy purposes).

The safest bet is to mute (that info is private) 😫

a screenshot of the site ClearSky updating in real time the Bluesky accounts that are blocking ICE. The page reads "U.S. immigration and customs enforcement" blocked by 72233 (accounts) with the date of the block... some seconds ago
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Eniko Fox @eniko@mastodon.gamedev.place
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if you were feeling excited about block game (the one I'm developing enikofox.com/blockgame) before, has hytale coming out done anything to dampen that excitement?

Block Game | Ultima/TES meets Minecraft

Ultima/Elder Scrolls meets Minecraft voxel sandbox game with building and crafting.

enikofox.com

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Hacker News 50 @hn50@social.lansky.name
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IKEA for Software

Link: tommaso-girotto.co/blog/an-ike
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4

IKEA for software | Tommaso Girotto

The core product of the company I currently work for is a software platform to manage solar mini-grids. From a user's perspective, the platform consists of an admin panel and a suite of mobile-first web apps that our customers use to monitor and control solar mini-grids. It is a fairly standard IoT system a set of tables to track the state of energy meters, process inbound and outbound commands from and to devices on the field and some RBAC tables are some of the center pieces.

tommaso-girotto.co

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Elena Rossini ⁂ @_elena@mastodon.social
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Shared by Cat 🐈🥗 (D.Burch) :paw:⁠:paw:

An important PSA for people who are active on and who, upon hearing that the ICE account was officially verified, are saying: "I will just block it."

Blocking on Bluesky is NOT PRIVATE: it's very easy to see who is blocking any account by visiting sites that list that information.

I took a screenshot from clearsky.app, listing all the accounts that are blocking ICE (I pixelated avatars and usernames for privacy purposes).

The safest bet is to mute (that info is private) 😫

a screenshot of the site ClearSky updating in real time the Bluesky accounts that are blocking ICE. The page reads "U.S. immigration and customs enforcement" blocked by 72233 (accounts) with the date of the block... some seconds ago
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Ulrike Franke @rikefranke.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy
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“Palantir is working on a tool for Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) that populates a map with potential deportation targets, brings up a dossier on each person, and provides a “confidence score” on the person’s current address,”

Report: ICE Using Palantir Too...

Report: ICE Using Palantir Tool That Feeds On Medicaid Data

ICE is using a Palantir tool that uses Medicaid and other government data to stalk people for arrest. This is exactly the kind of data privacy abuse that EFF has been warning about.

www.eff.org · Electronic Frontier Foundation

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Elena Rossini ⁂ @_elena@mastodon.social
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An important PSA for people who are active on and who, upon hearing that the ICE account was officially verified, are saying: "I will just block it."

Blocking on Bluesky is NOT PRIVATE: it's very easy to see who is blocking any account by visiting sites that list that information.

I took a screenshot from clearsky.app, listing all the accounts that are blocking ICE (I pixelated avatars and usernames for privacy purposes).

The safest bet is to mute (that info is private) 😫

a screenshot of the site ClearSky updating in real time the Bluesky accounts that are blocking ICE. The page reads "U.S. immigration and customs enforcement" blocked by 72233 (accounts) with the date of the block... some seconds ago
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Maikel 🇪🇺 🇪🇸 @maikel@vmst.io
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@evanprodromou @cwebberChristine Lemmer-Webber I've tried to dive deep into Activity Pub as an option to make this: codeberg.org/maikelthedev/spar and I keep finding walls where the protocol fits but Mastodon, the software, doesn't, so I'm here asking you both directly:

> Is there an actual reference ActivityPub implementation?

The stochastic parrot is telling me the closest is GoToSocial but I can't obviously trust an LLM. I went all over the activitypub.rocks/, checked all the tools there, skim read pages and pages, watched many videos and still can't figure if there's such thing as a reference version. Is there such a thing?

Summary card of repository maikelthedev/sparkr, described as: The repository containing Sparkr, a federated Grindr alternative

sparkr

The repository containing Sparkr, a federated Grindr alternative

codeberg.org · Codeberg.org

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상어학땡스 :spinny_cat_gay: @thx@mustard.blog
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뭔가 일본에서는 돼지김치를 먹는다는데
정작 한국인인 나는 돼지김치라는 요리를 본적이 음따
제육볶음이나 주물럭은 봤어도

돼지김치볶음은 군대 말곤 본 적이 없어

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Andy B. Scheuert @Andy_Scheuert@troet.cafe
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Merz’ neuer Kampf: Der kranke Deutsche – oder warum die Realität mal wieder stört

Bundeskanzler Merz hat wieder einmal den moralischen Zeigefinger erhoben – diesmal gegen den „hohen Krankenstand“ . Statt sich mit den Ursachen zu befassen (Burnout, Pflegenotstand, prekäre Arbeitsbedingungen?), schlägt er vor, was sonst: die Abschaffung der telefonischen Krankschreibung.
Weil alles natürlich nur faulende Arbeitnehmer sind die das System ausnutzen.
Eine Vorverurteilung Deluxe wie immer.
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Oliver Pfleiderer @LinHead@d-64.social
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Fakt wäre übrigens zu sagen, dass die Möglichkeit der telefonischen Krankmeldung sowohl die Praxen als auch die Patient*innen entlastet.

apotheken-umschau.de/gesundhei

Kommentar: Fasst die telefonische Krankschreibung nicht an!

Die telefonische Krankschreibung ist in der Kritik, manche fordern bereits ihre Abschaffung – dabei gibt es viele Gründe, sie zu behalten.

www.apotheken-umschau.de · Apotheken Umschau

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Ulrike Franke @rikefranke.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy
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As Rasmussen says: “the world’s attention is now focused on something that does not represent a threat — namely Greenland, a friendly ally of the US — instead of focusing on what should be the focal point right now: namely, how can we force Putin to the negotiation table in Ukraine?”

Former Nato chief attacks Trum...

Former Nato chief attacks Trump’s ‘gangster’ talk on Greenland

Anders Fogh Rasmussen says US president is using island as a ‘weapon of mass distraction’ from real threats such as Russia’s war in Ukraine

www.ft.com

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에스텔 뉴스계정 @transborder.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy
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그는 또 이재명 대통령의 ‘친중·반미’ 우려가 불식됐으며, 한·미 동맹은 더욱더 굳건해졌다고 평가했다. 도널드 트럼프 미국 대통령에게 윤석열 전 대통령을 구해달라고 요청한 한국 내 일부 극우 시위에 대해선 “난 그들이 미쳤다고 생각했다”고 말했다. 2026.01.17 13:20 www.khan.co.kr/article/2026...

조셉 윤 전 미 대사대리 “성조기 흔들던 한국 시위대 ...

조셉 윤 전 미 대사대리 “성조기 흔들던 한국 시위대 모습 정말 기이했다”

조셉 윤 전 주한 미국 대사대리는 북한이 핵무기 보유국 인정과 제재 완화 약속 없이는 미국과의 대화에 응하지 않을 가능성이 크다고 내다봤다. 그는 또 이재명 대통령의 ‘친중·반미’ 우려가 불식됐으며, 한·미 동맹은 더욱더 굳건해졌다고 평가했다. 도널드 트럼프 미국 대통령에게 윤석열 전 대통령을 구해달라고 요청한 한국 내 일부 극우 시위에 대해선 “난 ...

www.khan.co.kr · 경향신문

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Eniko Fox @eniko@mastodon.gamedev.place
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My blog post about how software rendered depth based occlusion culling in Block Game functions is out now!

enikofox.com/posts/software-re

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Software occlusion culling in Block Game

My GPU is the integrated Radeon Vega 8 that comes with my AMD Ryzen 7 5700G CPU. I tell you this so you know that my workstation is not a graphical computing powerhouse. It is, in fact, quite weak. To its credit my integrated GPU shows up as 48% faster on UserBenchmark than the GPU in my low end hardware target; a laptop I bought in 2012.That, and the fact I want my game to run well even on a potato, is why I recently decided to try my hand at writing a software rendered occlusion culling solution for the Block Game (working title) I’m developing as I’ve always been interested in the idea. Blocks and chunks are axis aligned cubes, which makes things easier, and block games tend to have a ton of hidden geometry in the form of underground caves. There are other ways to cull these, but the algorithms tend to be fairly complex and this seemed like a good way to avoid that complexity and stick with something very conceptually simple.In this post I’ll be explaining the development process and the solution that I eventually landed on. If you like you can also read the development thread I posted on Mastodon and Bluesky.Before I start though I’d like to say that this came out quite well, better than I expected. It runs in half a frame at 60 FPS or less (threaded, of course) and generally culls at least 50% of the chunks that survive frustum culling. Above ground, looking straight ahead at the horizon it’ll cull around between 50 and 60% of chunks, but indoors and below ground in caves it can cull upwards of 95% of chunks, resulting in framerates of 400+ even on my weak system. All around a resounding success, though it has some cases where it breaks down which I’ll touch on at the very end of this post.Comparison of depth occlusion culling on/off, off on left, on on right.

enikofox.com · Eniko does bad things to code

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Mensch, Marina @energisch_@troet.cafe
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Es muss doch langsam allen klar sein, dass wir diesem Egomanen und Kriminellen nicht mal den kleinen FingerNAGEL geben dürfen - ganz bestimmt auch nicht wirtschaftlich. Der gebärt sich wie ein Teenage Bully, böse, nachtragend, zerstörerisch. Den kann kein Mensch in Verhandlungen besänftigen. Dem müssen Grenzen gesetzt werden. Auch durch Boykott.
Dazu müssen wir endlich und schnell raus aus den Abhängigkeiten mit den Tech-Giganten des Silicon Valley.

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ゆらのふ @eulanov@m.eula.dev
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「偽旗」陰謀論が急拡大──何もかもが“でっち上げ”になる時代 | WIRED.jp wired.jp/article/false-flag-co

> 現在、ほぼすべてのニュースが一部の陰謀論者によって、真実から目をそらすために仕組まれた陽動作戦──偽旗──であるとのレッテルを貼られてしまっている。

> 「偽旗」陰謀論は、実はインターネットの登場よりも、はるか以前から存在していた。多くの陰謀論と同様に、偽旗も現実に起きた出来事を土台に広がってきた側面がある。今回のケースでも、過去に軍や諜報機関が攻撃を偽装し、戦争の口実にしたという歴史的事実が、その背景にある。

> しかし、英シンクタンクの戦略対話研究所（ISD）が『WIRED』に独占提供した最新調査によると、SNS上で「偽旗（false flag）」という言葉が使われる投稿数が、これまでに例を見ない水準に達していることが明らかになった。いまや陰謀論が渦巻くネット空間では、あらゆる出来事が偽旗として扱われがちなのだ。

「偽旗」陰謀論が急拡大──何もかもが“でっち上げ”になる時代

あらゆる出来事を「偽旗（false flag）」だとする陰謀論が、XなどのSNSで急激に広まっている。米国のメディアや公的機関への信頼が失われるなか、重大ニュースを作り話だとみなす風潮が強まっているのだ。

wired.jp · WIRED.jp

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