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.
RE: https://mastodon.social/@nateberkopec/115979440969064170
they also completely fucking suck at moving code between files. you say "move this code" and it introduces random bugs while doing so, AND THEN TELLS YOU IT DID THE RIGHT THING. this has caused us countless problems at work because the slopsuckers pull this constantly
If you're aged 30 or more, then 50% of all human fossil fuel emissions happened during your lifetime
New OpenAI tool renews fears that “AI slop” will overwhelm scientific research
New "Prism" workspace launches just as studies show AI-assisted papers are flooding journals with diminished quality.
https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/01/new-openai-tool-renews-fears-that-ai-slop-will-overwhelm-scientific-research/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social
i get why some people crosspost to multiple apps but it's so weird when you never open the app or engage with the replies here it's like a shitty hologram or something
The history of C# and TypeScript with Anders Hejlsberg https://lobste.rs/s/gyj2fv #video #historical
https://youtu.be/uMqx8NNT4xY
Pagelove: Building a better web — for humans and machines https://lobste.rs/s/gc7ase #api #web
https://page.love/blog/04-the-shape-of-pagelove.html
🏚️ 
하 안하던 실수를 다 하네 ㅡㅡ
To keep nefarious cuties like 
@alice🅰🅻🅸🅲🅴 (🌈🦄) out, we added additional security to our locks!
@catsaladCat 🐈🥗 (D.Burch) 
@alice🅰🅻🅸🅲🅴 (🌈🦄) I'll bet they could never get past this one, though.
aaaand I updated my “Reasons for and against Goat Farming” page that I go back to every now and then to compile more reasons, to add two more wins for the goats:
Goats do not hallucinate project plans like an LLM.
If a goat however does start hallucinating you can simply enjoy goat curry for dinner.
does anyone have a list of employers that do not use LLMs I think that’s what would improve my life a lot
#openai profit
2015: $ 0
2025: $ 0,000,000,000
(stole this from a meme, but i don't want to boost/see that face)
I DON'T KNOW. MAYBE TRY ASKING COPILOT #AI
Here's 
@bagderdaniel:// stenberg:// getting the #EOSAwards26 started at the magnificent Solvay Library in Brussels.
The Sovereign Tech Fund Invests in Scala
Link: https://www.scala-lang.org/blog/2026/01/27/sta-invests-in-scala.html
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46809420
I somehow missed this: https://nationalshutdown.org. When it came up, I heard worry that participating might let their coworkers down.
But the thing is, it could be the opposite.
Here's @bagderdaniel:// stenberg:// getting the #EOSAwards26 started at the magnificent Solvay Library in Brussels.
Great speech @bagderdaniel:// stenberg:// !
#osawards #opensource
Social movements expert Erica Chenoweth joins us later today to answer your questions.
Leah and Ezra will cover the regime’s death squads, the Senate vote on DHS funding, No Kings Day, and much more on today’s edition of our weekly chat: https://www.mobilize.us/indivisible/event/874938/
#dailykittens
#britishshorthair
#catsofmastodon
#catoftheday
Mini Mia Meow (hi 
@fkamiah17MiniMia 🏴 🇵🇸 )
And
Maxi cats
They are siblings but Max must be almost double Mia’s weight
Mia hasn’t been sterilised and elodie wondered if this was affecting her growth
The Crowd Supply campaign for the GameTank is about 33% over and 31% funded.
I don't really know marketing. I'm just an engineer who made a fun thing and wants to share it with anyone in world who'd appreciate it.
My markup on the console in this campaign is negligible.
If you like what I'm doing:
- Backing is a huge help
- Backing with extra carts is a huge help
- Sharing this to other weirdos like me who spend time energy and money on retro dev is a huge help
this is salad bar and i love her a lot
바다.
Mozilla is building an AI 'rebel alliance' to take on OpenAI, Anthropic
Link: https://www.cnbc.com/2026/01/27/mozilla-building-an-ai-rebel-alliance-to-take-on-openai-anthropic-.html
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46812653
A friend pointed out last night that WinRAR is more profitable than OpenAI and I can't stop thinking about it.
[새 포럼 게시물] 2026년 3월 포항 세미나 (장소, 날짜 미정 / 서버 운영 관련) #Ubuntu #UbuntuKR #우분투 https://discourse.ubuntu-kr.org/t/2026-3/50441
i.e. i'd expect to not have two separate loading states. just click Next, it does the resolution, then redirect. any reason why not that?
Just learned about FediSky, a project by @msonnberger.com@bsky.brid.gy that adds an ActivityPub instance sidecar to a PDS.
Think Bridgy Fed except hosted by the PDS owner or Wafrn except reversed.
Still in early dev, but keeping an eye on this space 👀
Interoperability with Mastodon...
Data Privacy Week is still ongoing! 🔒
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Here's what we're doing to make privacy accessible to everyone! 🧵
#PrivacyGuides #DataPrivacyWeek #Activism #SocialMedia #Privacy #Thread
Primrose briefly went outside to check on the catio, but the snow and negative temperatures encouraged her to come right back inside.
RE: https://social.jvns.ca/@b0rk/115974397642744776
there's this very strange attitude i keep seeing over and over in the tech industry about how knowledge is good but learning is bad. it's the "no take only throw" meme but for training and senior developers, lol
thank you to Julia for reading and writing about this!
A sign of the times? A toy maker accidentally sewed the mouth of their plushie horse on upside down. Now the frowning "crying horses" giving you the side-eye are a big viral hit with exhausted, unhappy workers in China's Yiwu "Trade City."
It's an "he gets me" thing I guess?
@queen_fennec and why the heck would all Dutch government services depend for authentication on a non-public organisation? Before even considering the option that such company could be sold to a US corp. Maybe time to have DigID as a public service by a public entity?
@WtebbensWouter Tebbens ⁂ @queen_fennec Outsourcing has been the mantra for decades...
would forkiverse admins be mad if I tried to find the love of my life on here?
Well, though I'm definitely against the resources #AI uses, I'm also not 100% against the cases where it can help. This time I tried to see how far it could help me setup a secure, rootless #podman server.
My conclusion after a week; the basics are ok, you get it going faster then looking up guides, but anything more complicated config-wise and it quickly just breaks down. Anything a bit more niche and you're way better off just going through the guides and actually learning it. Which is in one hand not that surprising, but in the other makes clear it only ever gets things somewhat right with stuff that is used a lot, like Docker. And that's super obvious given the training sets, but I was just reminded of that again and this is just a hobby! For anything niche and complex at work I would be horrified to use it willy nilly.
'Huge news!' Expert cheers as a federal judge shuts down #Trump's scheme to have #ICE arrest and detain thousands of legal refugee claimants
“Senior U.S. District Judge John Tunheim ordered that the moves to arrest #Minnesota's 5,600 refugees, transport them to other states, and interrogate them in detention cannot continue — and that anyone who was shipped out to other states in this manner must be returned to Minnesota.”
Went for a #mountainbike ride yesterday. I'm really grateful for the nice hills I have close by. It's excellent for clearing my head, getting a hard workout and enjoying nice views.
蛤，越南河內今年7月要實施「燃油機車禁入市中心」的政策，也太硬了吧
https://www.thenewslens.com/article/263348
1/ I wonder how the courts will square the circle when someone shoots an ICE or Border Patrol agent stating they had the right to do so under the 2A against the backdrop of laws and consequences of shooting federal agents.
Since the 2A advocates will argue the entire point of having the right to bear arms is to protect oneself from government tyranny.
What happens when someone actually does that?
Just learned about FediSky, a project by @msonnberger.com@bsky.brid.gy that adds an ActivityPub instance sidecar to a PDS.
Think Bridgy Fed except hosted by the PDS owner or Wafrn except reversed.
Still in early dev, but keeping an eye on this space 👀
Interoperability with Mastodon...
Incidentally, one of the cool/frustrating things I've learned after a decade of living in various older masonry buildings is that you actually *can't* insulate them very much without fucking up the moisture balance.
Every masonry wall takes on water through leaks and the natural porosity of the brick/stone. That moisture has to leave the wall cavity through open joints or weeps. If you've ever seen those little pieces of rope hanging off a brick building, they're to let water wick out!
Cavity walls (2000+ years old!) allow air circulation within the wall, and damp-proof courses cut off capillary action from the soil.
https://npshistory.com/publications/preservation/masonry-walls-moisture.pdf
But the problem of moisture balance is way, WAY more complex than that. There's vapor pressure and thermal effects for each layer of the wall, and those forces change throughout the year with internal and external heating and moisture.
https://www.wbdg.org/resources/moisture-management-concepts is hands-down the best overview I've come across for this problem.
Deno v2.6.7 just dropped with and upgrade to V8 14.5 and VSCode debugging capabilities, better handling of JSR scope in package.json and 22 other fixes.
This morning in Minneapolis:
Somebody posted in one of the local chats that their neighbor didn’t come home last night, looking for help finding them. Family doesn’t know where they are. They’d been taking the legal path to seek asylum. ICE doesn’t have their name (but that means very little; they hide names, kidnap anonymously, even discard people’s IDs).
Meanwhile, confirmed ICE sightings are ramping up in my area now after some relative early morning quiet.
Just in case you wondered how things are going here.
Well, though I'm definitely against the resources #AI uses, I'm also not 100% against the cases where it can help. This time I tried to see how far it could help me setup a secure, rootless #podman server.
My conclusion after a week; the basics are ok, you get it going faster then looking up guides, but anything more complicated config-wise and it quickly just breaks down. Anything a bit more niche and you're way better off just going through the guides and actually learning it. Which is in one hand not that surprising, but in the other makes clear it only ever gets things somewhat right with stuff that is used a lot, like Docker. And that's super obvious given the training sets, but I was just reminded of that again and this is just a hobby! For anything niche and complex at work I would be horrified to use it willy nilly.
Inspired by the movement & website from 
@leavexLeave X - Protect Democracy - a team of passionate & talented Canadians have gotten together with a similar goal:
Pictured below is a showcase of our politician tracker tool! You can view Federal, Provincial, and even Municipal politicians - copy their emails!
We are trying to get people to join the #Fediverse, that begins with us lobbying our politicians who want our votes!
#Canada #DigitalSovereignty #MastoCanadaGOV #cdnpoli #Mastodon
Maybe a slightly more modern look for Portals?
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