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.
I concede that I am likely in a simulation where I have to watch almost everyone I know and respect say, "this is certainly the top of the S-curve for AI," every 6 months on a loop and never be right.
What was the point of ever internalizing for a single second that AI could only make hands with six fingers, except to dull your intuition for the future?
From my perspective, many of you are engaged in a masochistic ritual where you want to get sucker punched twice a year. And I, by watching.
going to submit a CrowdSupply application soon, stay tuned :3
Not greedy at all.
It's so cold out, I say, take as many as you can, dear one!
I adore these crows.
In exchange for peanuts they once brought me an unknown animal rib and dropped it on my doorstop.
Implementing a tiny CPU rasterizer (2024)
Link: https://lisyarus.github.io/blog/posts/implementing-a-tiny-cpu-rasterizer-part-1.html
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46759358
RE: https://mastodon.social/@lashman/115984768757696383
AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
ICE, uspol, help wanted
does anyone know of tech groups working against ICE? a friend of mine contacted me asking about resources as someone they know got taken (she's okay but traumatized).
i'm finding it difficult to find orgs that can help beyond the big USA-wide ones, which often don't have boots on the ground. wondering if there's any projects working on this!
Stay strong. We can outlast Trump's stormtroopers. #ice #minnesota #iceout
RE: https://mastodon.social/@webology/115946109811577297
👋 Friends, I'm still recovering from being sick, which was a flu/COVID combo last week.
❤️🩹 I'm recovering and feeling much better, but I don't quite have the energy or time to host office hours yet. I'm hoping to next week.
Just released:
eslint/plugin-kit v0.6.0
https://github.com/eslint/rewrite/releases/tag/plugin-kit-v0.6.0
Don’t need it. Don’t need it. Don’t need it.
Just released:
eslint/core v1.1.0
https://github.com/eslint/rewrite/releases/tag/core-v1.1.0
eslint/compat v2.0.2
https://github.com/eslint/rewrite/releases/tag/compat-v2.0.2
eslint/config-helpers v0.5.2
https://github.com/eslint/rewrite/releases/tag/config-helpers-v0.5.2
eslint/migrate-config v2.0.2
https://github.com/eslint/rewrite/releases/tag/migrate-config-v2.0.2
#Men & #Masculinity accounts to follow:
@maskulinitypodMASKulinity Podcast - Podcast on masculinity, men & masc people in today's world
@DanHakimiDaniel Hakimi (main) & 
@danThe Second Button (blog) - Menswear & men's fashion blogger, also attorney
@tbpcsgMorecambe Bay Prostate Group - Prostate cancer peer support group (UK)
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@menshealthMen’s Health (broadly speakin) - Men's health discussion group
@gayblogbr - Brazilian blog for queer men of all kinds (in Portuguese)
MEN'S LIFESTYLE MAGAZINES
@CassiusLifeCassius - Cassius Life
@esquire - Esquire US
@EsquireUK - Esquire UK
@GearPatrol - Gear Patrol
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This article very nicely puts into words my thoughts about the absolute mess that is today's software industry.
One point I want to add: please finish your software. Please define a finite scope of problems that your product solves, and when that's fulfilled, put your project into maintenance mode where you only fix bugs. Finished software is beautiful.
i tried Dune 3D earlier today.
as an ex-maintainer of SolveSpace, my conclusion is that Dune 3D is the spiritual successor to SolveSpace: same solver, similar (but more powerful) workflow, significantly more powerful geometric kernel
SolveSpace still excels at being minimalist and polished (it will never use OpenCASCADE, for one), and it doesn't use rage-inducing GTK UI patterns, but other than that i can't think of reasons not to use Dune 3D instead
Drinking coffee around Stalingrad kiez Brussels with 
@hongminhee洪 民憙 (Hong Minhee) 
and 
Wow so while I was explaining how I got into the fediverse to @hongminhee洪 民憙 (Hong Minhee) and 
@peertube on #France24
With traditional/domain-specific ML, you can optimise your models to reduce the rate of that inevitable decay (you may also settle into a local optimum if the model allows it). So what happens if the model is not tuned to the problem domain (which an LLM really can't be)?
I'm taking a bunch of mental notes about the utility of LLMs, and one thing I keep coming back to is how they evade any means of measurement of effectiveness. NOW: We know that for any probablistic process, if you compose it repeatedly, the probability of the "right answer" approaches 0.
One awesome thing that I see a lot on #IndieWeb sites is "link dumps". We browse the web, find cool stuff and then publish something linking to all that cool stuff.
https://shellsharks.com/link-dumps
Shoutout to everyone below for having cool indie sites where you do your own link-dumpin’ / link roundups!
@sophie 
@joelJoel 
@axxuy 
@Kaiern 
@felixthehat 
@eclecticpassionsNaty 
@steven 
@thejThejesh GN ⏚ ತೇಜೇಶ್ ಜಿ ಎನ್ 
@jochenJochen Wersdörfer 
@mkj 
@lattea new hope 
@dominikdominik schwind 
@tracyTracy Durnell 
@lmorchardLes Orchard 
@eli_oat 
@geekyaubergineZoe Aubert 🇯🇪🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ 
@abnvAbhinav 🌏 
@lazcorpPaul Watson 
@liztaiElizabeth Tai | 戴秀铃 🇲🇾 
@82mhzAndreas (82MHz) https://indieweb.social/@fyr
More Resting Astonished Face from Mister. Gnocchi, meanwhile, is perfecting her Pose of Judgment.
It's really interesting to see news about the fediverse on the TV!
It was really fun to talk with 
@liaizonwakest ⁂ about so many things like… anarchism and punk in the States, socialism vs. liberalism in Korea, and so on…
By the way, whenever I'm in the West, my confidence in my English speaking really takes a hit. I have a hard time understanding people if they speak even a little bit fast, and I feel like communication is a struggle because my own accent is so strong. 😩
It's really interesting to see news about the fediverse on the TV!
Me, looking through the clutter of USB flash drives on my office desk for a spare one: "I think I can safely reuse this Ubuntu 18.04 install stick".
(At least they're all labeled. Well, all but one mystery one.)
I have more to write about this, but I think the FOSS world urgently needs to come to grips with the fact that "Sovereignty" and "Liability" are the same thing.
Accountability before the state and accountability to the laws of the state are the same thing,
If devs can be held responsible for their code, what difference does it make at the implementation level if the injured party is the individual or the state?
"Free as in no warranty express or implied" might not be a viable option soon.
RE: https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/@stefano/115984116493117731
Luckily, many of my clients are intelligent and well-prepared people. Needless to say, that email, before making me laugh, had already made the client laugh. He immediately thought he was dealing with people who were great at marketing but had little technical skill.
I presented my theory on software engineering, but he immediately tore it apart, declaring himself extremely skeptical. In his opinion, it is more likely to be a technique to lower our defenses and then try to sell us "security products" after a "pentest full of flaws". Or simply sheer incompetence.
Anyway, their connection hasn't any open ports. So they can pentest anything they want to, as long as they want to.
The AI agent once called ClawdBot is enchanting tech elites, but its security vulnerabilities highlight systemic problems with AI.
https://www.404media.co/silicon-valleys-favorite-new-ai-agent-has-serious-security-flaws/
Hackaday Podcast Episode 355: Person Detectors, Walkie Talkies, Open Smartphones, and a WiFi Traffic Light
generator-eslint generator-eslint-v6.0.0 has been released: https://github.com/eslint/generator-eslint/releases/tag/generator-eslint-v6.0.0
@AskPippaAskPippa🇨🇦 yes, exactly
tim cook, i swear to god if i wake up in the morning and that fucking melania movie shows up on my ipod with the U2 album...
A few words on LiquidFetch on our blog:
https://www.apptorium.com/blog/liquidfetch
Just arrived in Brussels for #FOSDEM 😁
Finally got around to learning the song "Breathe" by Pink Floyd on the piano. The chord sequences are just dripping with chill. This song reminds me of Zepplin's "Rain Song," in that I could listen to it and play it for hours on end. Pink Floyd recorded this song with a guitar mostly doing the chords. It sounds amazing with the keyboard filling in, especially with some funky preset like 70s funk.
Breathe:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jcz0YxYl6Ac&list=RDjcz0YxYl6Ac&start_radio=1
Quick and dirty tutorial on the chords (you can mess around within the chord in the right hand for a melody):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=apQRi_B5miE
Birthday today so here’s the cutest mandarin duck I met recently.
This one was hanging out with about three hundred mallards. As far as I could tell they were being nice to each other.
Maybe they thought ”cute!” as well? 🥹
Look at this bug i found
Hewwo Brussels!
Buttered Crumpet, a custom typeface for Wallace and Gromit
Link: https://jamieclarketype.com/case-study/wallace-and-gromit-font/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46825415
When did browsing the web become a game of Whac-A-Mole? I don’t want your app, I don’t give a crap about cookies, I don’t want to chat with your AI.
I wrote about Clawdbot/Moltbot/OpenClaw and Moltbook, the fascinating, weird and sometimes even useful social network for digital assistants to swap tips and gossip with each other https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jan/30/moltbook/
PlayStation 2 Recompilation Project Is Absolutely Incredible
Link: https://redgamingtech.com/playstation-2-recompilation-project-is-absolutely-incredible/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46814743
The Engineer who invented the Mars Rover Suspension in his garage [video]
Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QKSPk_0N4Jc
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46773655
Want to help introduce #FreeSoftware to people in your community? Host a #LibreLocal: https://libreplanet.org/wiki/Meetup-guide
Apple: "Use a single icon to introduce a group of similar items"
Also Apple:
An image from some of Scotland's most remote mountains. It's no small feat to get out here, but it's worth it every time.
Made last year when me and Benjamin Maze took a group of awesome clients hiking and wild camping here; we were treated to all manner of brilliant conditions from hail to blue skies. (Join us in September 2026 for the second iteration of our Northwest Highlands photography adventure!)
#LandscapePhotography #uk #scotland #photography #nature #NaturePhotography
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