What is Hackers' Pub?

@rdicosmoRoberto Di Cosmo & @zacchiroStefano Zacchiroli just received an #EOSAwards26 for @swheritageSoftware Heritage - congratulations to them, very proud to be part of their team!

Mac ARM VMs on ARM are generally tons better than the state of Mac Intel VMs on Intel (which is currently really terrible). Super fast CPU + graphics and really just hard to even tell I'm running a VM. Big exception is this dumb “licensing" based limit of 2 VMs at a time.

I think I am going to avoid using Mastodon this weekend. First time since 2011 I cannot attend FOSDEM 😭 and I see it everywhere.
#FOSDEM

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x.com/coding_lupin... 근데 난 한국에서도 인터넷만 하는데

x.com/coding_lupin/s...

My fellow Canadians, if you want to be part of the USA, you can move there freely on your own. I encourage you to do so.

"To go to a foreign country and to ask for assistance in breaking up Canada, there's an old-fashioned word for that, and that word is treason," said Eby ahead of the meeting.

#Canada #CanPoli #CdnPoli #USA #USPoli #Alberta #Separatism #Fascism #FarRight #ABPoli #BCPoli
https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/eby-alberta-separatism-9.7066320

RE: https://mastodon.social/@STPo/115977879479030822

Excusez-moi?! I'm still on Mastodon, still working on Mastodon--I love it here. Seems like the journalist has now removed the paragraph from the article, but has not published a retraction, and the false statement is still in the audio version. Where did they get this idea from?

x.com/beretta_774/... 다 거기서 거기 ㅠ

b on X: "요즘 인터넷을 켜놓고 있으면 존나 '좁...

Currently accepting applications for business partners (must provide snacks).
#cats #CatsOfMastodon #cat #business

MicroPythonOS - The Ultimate MicroPython Operating System https://lobste.rs/s/zcfnh9 #osdev #python
https://micropythonos.com/

Drug trio found to block tumour resistance in pancreatic cancer

Link: https://www.drugtargetreview.com/news/192714/drug-trio-found-to-block-tumour-resistance-in-pancreatic-cancer/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46812159

明日外出なのでそろそろ寝ないとと
少し焦っていろいろ見落としてました…！​​​​
​​は10kb以内、覚えておかないと…！​​​​

大家知道陳歌辛嗎？戰前老上海的音樂家，戰後迎來悲慘結局。

但他在上海灘留下的音樂是值得被記憶的，小時候我老媽在廚房哼的音樂很多是他的作品。

說起來我媽也是老靈魂，以她的年紀這也是他老爸以上年紀的音樂，那是那個年代的音樂、我媽時代的鄉懷，儘管那不是她的故鄉，但那是那時代的音樂。

1960年的鄉懷，不屬於自己的異鄉的鄉懷，這是在那個時代的音樂

https://youtu.be/nXiTdPsivwk?si=jSHO3-iGvL5ZHVh2

How it feels to follow @catsaladCat 🐈🥗 (D.Burch) ⁠

Oh quirky and learned Mastodonians, I come before you with a dream. Funded by the Canada Counsel for the Arts, I’m researching Friedrich Dulon and Maria Theresia Von Paradis, both 18th century European musicians renowned in their time, and both Blind. I’m looking for info about a German translator and writer of the time, Pfeffel, who was also Blind. I’d love to find some of his fables in English. Dulon met and admired him, and Leopold Kozeluch created a secular cantata for Maria Theresia von Paradis, setting Pfeffel's German text ("Ich war ein kleines Würmchen") to music. If anyone who likes digging and is multi-lingual could uncover this piece of music or his fables in any form accessible to an English speaker, I’d love to be able to incorporate it into story writing, storytelling, or even singing. As a Blind person myself I'm really interested in bringing their work to life for a modern audience, but I'm mono-lingual, and a terrible researcher. Please boost for reach.

Today, we’re launching Encrypt It Already, a new website pushing tech companies to deliver stronger privacy protections to their users by enabling and expanding the use of end-to-end encryption across their products or services. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/01/introducing-encrypt-it-already

Sleepy.

#photography

Launch HN: AgentMail (YC S25) – An API that gives agents their own email inboxes

Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46812608

実は寝落ちてました​​

회사 네트워크 스위치 작업이 새벽 3시에 끝났다...

얼른 밥 닦고 자야지

Okay, could someone point me to a good #NoAI / #NoLLM manifesto to link to?

Like, I've tried searching but apparently "NoAI" and "NoLLM" have already been claimed by LLM companies, and the queries with the f-word… okay, I should not have tried these.

Update: Radio France removed the last paragraph in the piece that claimed " @GargronEugen Rochko had quit his own social network [Mastodon] because he was fed up the behavior of certain users."

But this preposterous lie is still in their radio broadcast. The clip has been up for 10 HOURS now.

Maybe @Mastodon could use this as leverage to set the record straight and get some exposure with French listeners.

I'm this close to getting my LinkedIn account out of hibernation to write to Radio France about it

Aura (Kent, UK) has been more vocal asking for cuddles lately. She doesn't normally meow unless going to the vets, but now at home she's been meowing so much more when she wants attention.

#cats #cat #CatNews #CatsOfMastodon

https://cat-news.news/

new from me: Musk buying Twitter has strongly impacted the cultures of the atmosphere and the fediverse. What impact will TikTok's new US ownership have on the open social web?

https://connectedplaces.online/reports/fr151-tiktok-wont-be-another-twitter/

FR#151 – TikTok Won’t Be Another Twitter

The identities of both the fediverse and the atmosphere have been strongly influenced by Elon Musk’s acquisition of Twitter. Bluesky’s growth trajectory, Mastodon’s cultural identity, and the entire discourse and self-understanding of making social platforms resistant to billionaire purchase are all downstream of that transfer of ownership of Twitter. Three years after Twitter changed hands, we now have a second case study, with TikTok’s transition from the Chinese Bytedance to a majority American ownership last week. The culture of ActivityPub and ATProto are shaped by what it means to watch a dominant Big Tech platform become owned by a fascist oligarch, and the question now is whether TikTok will leave a similar mark. Early signals of the impact of the transfer of ownership is how users claim that TikTok is now blocking mentions of Epstein and ICE, or Emmy-winning Palestinian journalist Bisan Owda reporting a permanent ban from her 1.4 million follower account.

The standard story about why X is hard to leave centers on network effects, the idea that the network is valuable because everyone else is there. This isn’t exactly wrong, but misses a nuance in what makes a platform sticky. People don’t make individual choices based on the user count of the entire network, they make choices based on their perception of the network effects. People perceive which accounts matter to them, and are making their platform choice based on that. Crucially, this perception is shaped by the platform’s architecture.

Twitter and X’s chronological timeline (and even to an extent their algorithmic feed, more so for Twitter than for X) make the network legible. You can see who of your follows is actually there, and who is posting. This also makes it visible when prominent accounts go quiet or announce their departure. This legibility is what made coordinated migration possible: you could see others leaving, which gave you permission to leave.

Beyond this legibility, Twitter had also accumulated a particular political significance, it had created the common knowledge that it was the place where public discourse happened, where news broke, and where politicians and journalists gathered. This common knowledge was never fully accurate, but accurate enough to make Twitter feel like the agreed-upon stage for public political life.

Together, this created a unique set of circumstances for the case of staying or leaving Twitter: leaving means abandoning the agreed-upon place for public political life. Moreso, it was a visible act that others could see you do. This move of people towards Mastodon and Bluesky was as much about joining a new platform as it was about making a collective political starement.

TikTok’s structure differs from X in two meaningful ways. The first is that its TikTok’s architecture makes the network much more invisible to its own users. The For You Page algorithm is not strongly influenced by the accounts you follow, instead it responds instantly to the videos you most recently watched and liked. This makes it very hard for people to build a mental model of what their network on TikTok actually is. TikTok’s algorithm selects from a pool so vast that individual departures are virtually undetectable by people. You cannot see who has left, because it is very hard to build a stable sense of who was there in the first place. The ban of Bisan Owda got the attention of Al Jazeera, but not every ban will get that attention. Most followers might never notice her absence, with the algorithm simply serving them a never ending supply of other videos.

This creates a coordination problem for migrating to other platform. While Twitter and X were not great for coordinating collective actions to join other platforms like Mastodon and Bluesky, it was in fact possible, as both platforms did experience such spikes in people joining. This pattern has died down in the last year for people going from X to either Bluesky or Mastodon, suggesting that collective actions to join other platforms are both possible but not guaranteed to happen and can be disrupted.

The second way that a migration away from TikTok might look different than X, is that where Twitter and X are the centers of political discourse, TikTok is the center of culture. When journalists and politicians left Twitter, they were making a statement about the public political sphere. When creators leave TikTok, they are making a career decision about where their audiences are. These actions have different motivations, with different symbolism, and will likely not create the type of collective identity that has developed on Bluesky and Mastodon as a result of people leaving Twitter and X. The fediverse and Bluesky both carry the imprint of being “the place people went when they refused to stay on Musk’s platform.” This does not mean that TikTok users won’t move to differrent platforms. It means that this move, if it happens, likely won’t follow the same “leaving” narrative that has shaped open social’s current identity.

There’s a lesson here from what actually happened with the moves away from Twitter. In raw numbers, Meta won, as Threads has now overtaken X in daily active users, and has around 140M daily active users on mobiel, compared to Bluesky’s 3 million total daily active users. Bluesky, although much smaller than both other platforms, does hold outsized political impact already, especially for politicians on the left side of the political spectrum. While Threads did win the ‘number-go-up’ game, it’s political and cultural relevance is surprisingly low in Western countries.

Meta is well-positioned to repeat this numerical victory with TikTok, and Instagram Reels already competes directly for the same attention and the same creators. If TikTok users move away due to privacy concerns or content moderation frustrations, Reels is the lowest-friction alternative option, together with YouTube Shorts. But this tells us little about whether open social will benefit, because open social platforms select heavily for early adopters and the type of people who want to built the future of social platforms.

There’s a another structural difference worth noting, beyond the nature of the migration itself, namely that video is harder than text when it comes to running independent social networking platforms. Text-based social media is relatively cheap, and accessible for self-hosting. You can run a Mastodon or GoToSocial instance on a cheap VPS, especially if the server is only for a few people, same with self-hosting a ATProto PDS. Video is in an entirely different category, with storage costs, bandwidth costs, transcoding costs, CDN costs that are both much larger than text, and scale superlinearly with usage. Then there is moderation, and where the moderation of text is already diffecult and expensive, video moderation either requires massive (and expensive) compute for automated systems, as well large-scale human labor for manual review.

Skylight, the ATProto-based TikTok alternative, crossed 380,000 users this week with around 95,000 monthly active users. The pattern of signups is arguably just as interesting as the numbers itself, with CEO Tori White says that compared to previous signup waves, this one is more sustained, with continuing elevated signups of around 4k new people per day, whereas previous waves had a more spike-and-crash pattern. What makes this possible for Skylight is ATProto’s infrastructure model. Skylight does not need to set up their own complete infrastructure stack, instead it uses Bluesky’s relay, CDN and AppView.

This model, where an app on ATProto can start out as a client, grow its own user base, and gradually built out infrastructure later is a genuine novel pattern that we’ve not really seen before. It does create dependencies however, where Skylight’s existence is contingent on Bluesky’s continued funding and moderation.

ActivityPub has it’s own TikTok-style video platform with Loops, which has a different path to viability. The fediverse model assumes instances run by independent operators, which are largely hobbyist volunteers. This works well enough for text-based platforms, where costs are manageable. For video at scale, the question of ‘who is going to pay for this’ becomes unavoidable however. Loops cannot bootstrap on shared infrastructure the way Skylight can, and each instance must bear its own costs from the start. This means for Loops to become a meaningful TikTok competitor, someone needs to commit serious money to operate a video platform at scale.

Twitter’s ownership transfer has become an integral part of the story for both the fediverse and the atmosphere. It established the concept that growth for these networks happens as a result of people ‘leaving’ Big Tech platforms, and that decentralised open protocols are a recognisable alternative. TikTok’s ownership transfer is unlikely to produce the same dynamic. The structural differences, namely the lower visibility of what your ‘network is’, the lower presence of political signals and the much higher cost of video infrastructure all suggest that the dynamics will be different. This does not mean that platform migrations won’t happen, but does mean that it will be driven by different forces, and produce different kinds of communities as well. Skylight’s sustained growth indicates that people are aware of the issue and looking for alternatives. TikTok will likely not produce another Twitter effect for the open social networks for structural reasons, and video on open social networks might have to grow without one.

#nlnet

https://connectedplaces.online/reports/fr151-tiktok-wont-be-another-twitter/

Making niche solutions is the point

Link: https://ntietz.com/blog/making-niche-solutions-is-the-point/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46772132

#Skiing accounts to follow:

@index@goldskis.comGold Skis - Skiing blog for people over age of 50
@index@thefiftyplus.proFIFTY+ - In-depth skiing blog by Cody Townsend
@index@powderhighwaybackcountry.comPowder Highway Backcountry Conditions by Arctos Guides - Skiing conditions in the Power Highway in British Columbia
@index@snow.zenithguides.caZenith Guides Snow Info - Skiing conditions on south coast of British Columbia
@PowderMagPowder Magazine - Skiiing magazine, where to ski, equipment, weather etc
@index@where-is-jared.comWhere is Jared? - Outdoors blog based in the US, skiing & hiking

reversed modular design: a t-shirt designed to be cut down into desired dimensions/shape by the user after production, from the recent norda/gnuhr collection.

It's meme time

#meme #StarTrek #StarWars #Spaceballs

Waymo robotaxi hits a child near an elementary school in Santa Monica

Link: https://techcrunch.com/2026/01/29/waymo-robotaxi-hits-a-child-near-an-elementary-school-in-santa-monica/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46810401

Olivetti Prodest PC1 -
Good news: cleaned up and refurbished the 'A' drive and it's now working (the head screw was gummed up and sticking)
Bad news: 'B' drive is also faulty, I've tried to get it going but it's not having it.

✨ Commissions Open! ✨ Taking 5 more slots for color sketch/sketch pages only. Feel free to DM me if you'd like a slot or have any questions! Commission info linked in bio for pricing & Tos. SFW only. You must be 18+ and read my Tos before contacting me. Thank you🍪 #art #furryart

슈퍼맨 고양이 #고양이보여줄게

Need to find the location of a program? Use "locate program_name".
-- Dru <genesis@istar.ca>

Datastar Unison SDK

Continuing my experiments with streaming HTTP in @unisonUnison Programming Language , I released a new SDK for Datastar SSE events on top of my recent http-streaming-server library

https://notes.kaushikc.org/3mcmuuinprk2m

#unisonlang #sse #datastar

Did We Overestimate the Potential Harm from Microplastics?

https://hackaday.com/2026/01/29/did-we-overestimate-the-potential-harm-from-microplastics/

Went exploring old backups of old webroots and found this picture I took at work like, 20+ years ago

I thought it had been lost to time, but here it is, highlighting how JetDirect wasn't exactly a safe and secure protocol, and reminding me that the other admin got upset with me until I removed it

Fun times

The Abbot of the Temple of Cat, receiving visitors.

@littlefoxpikku lohikäärmekettu @volpeonVolpeon
*sigh*
OK, you wanted it:

AMI MegaRAC (the BMC web UI for servers) has this feature where they allow you to select a .iso image for a CD-ROM in the web console (next to the KVM/VNC viewer).

How did they implement the CD-ROM emulation?
They open a WebSockets connection to the BMC, emulate a SCSI CD-ROM drive in JavaScript (!) and send raw SCSI packets back&forth via WebSockets, which the BMC then forwards via internal USB to the host system.

I swear I read about some tooling that does what `ps` and `ss` can do but with a query language and iirc claimed it can scan the process table without requiring /proc ? Did I hallucinate? It had examples like `toolname "process.name == firefox"`

Run Clawdbot/Moltbot on Cloudflare with Moltworker

Link: https://blog.cloudflare.com/moltworker-self-hosted-ai-agent/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46810828

AtomVM 2025 Year in Review https://lobste.rs/s/c0xw18 #elixir #erlang
https://substack.com/home/post/p-186191026

정말이네! 이빨이 하나도 없어!

저 털뭉치는 누구~?

Made a wolp for me too #peldraws

다른 바다.

RE: https://piaille.fr/@CatEveryHour/115979688764723681

@catsaladCat 🐈🥗 (D.Burch) ⁠ 's new accounts when they emerge

청소가 끝난 빵집은…
따끈따끈(닦은닦은) 베이커리…
같은게 생각나서 눈 감은 채로 잠이 안와요​​