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.

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TechCrunch @TechCrunch@mstdn.social
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SpaceX has filed a request with the Federal Communications Commission to launch a constellation of up to 1 million solar-powered satellites that it said will serve as data centers for artificial intelligence. The company’s filing lays out a grandiose vision, not just describing these planned satellites as “the most efficient way to meet the accelerating […] techcrunch.com/2026/01/31/spac

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TechCrunch @TechCrunch@mstdn.social
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SpaceX has filed a request with the Federal Communications Commission to launch a constellation of up to 1 million solar-powered satellites that it said will serve as data centers for artificial intelligence. The company’s filing lays out a grandiose vision, not just describing these planned satellites as “the most efficient way to meet the accelerating […] techcrunch.com/2026/01/31/spac

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Dare Obasanjo @carnage4life@mas.to
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Pinterest laid off its only icon designer as part of their AI-focused layoffs.

My current advice to my mentees in tech is that if you want to distinguish yourself, it's by how deeply you've embraced AI and how much it's made you more productive. Being the voice of opposition to "AI slop" or "work slop" is a great way to volunteer for the next round of "AI productivity gains" driven layoffs.

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Cat Hicks @grimalkina@mastodon.social
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Pounding the sign which I am sure I will pound for the rest of the year

bsky.app/profile/grimalkina.bs

Cat Hicks (@grimalkina.bsky.social)

It is a settled thing, I think, that you won't have as good memory for something you didn't write yourself. This would be true if I handed you a list and asked you to read it passively vs write it yourself and rehearse it with quizzing. This is basic stuff. I don't need 10 million AI studies on it

bsky.app · Bluesky Social

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Paul Cantrell @inthehands@hachyderm.io
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For many people who’d been inside that bubble of comfort, particularly at national news orgs, the story •started• with those two murders. They now seem to have a half-formed mental narrative that runs something like this:

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1. First the Trump administration started deporting a lot more people.
2. Then ICE murdered Good and Pretti.
3. Those two escalations caused widespread unrest in Minneapolis.
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That narrative is wrong.

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Nolan Lawson @nolan@toot.cafe
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People keep citing water/energy use to me and I remain unconvinced. The single best thing you can do for the planet is to have one less kid. A distant #2 and #3 are avoiding cars and flights: iopscience.iop.org/article/10.

A recent estimate says using Claude Code is similar to running a dishwasher: simonwillison.net/2026/Jan/20/

If you are a vegan monk who never drives and also hates LLMs, good for you: you have my respect and admiration. But I don't think this is what's motivating most people's arguments.

The climate mitigation gap: education and government recommendations miss the most effective individual actions

The climate mitigation gap: education and government recommendations miss the most effective individual actions, Wynes, Seth, Nicholas, Kimberly A

iopscience.iop.org

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Dare Obasanjo @carnage4life@mas.to
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I've mentioned in the path that we aren't in an AI bubble but instead in an OpenAI bubble. This morning, I realized that the bubble is already beginning to pop when you consider the stock prices of the companies whose growth was based on their partnership with OpenAI.

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Hacker News 50 @hn50@social.lansky.name
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US has investigated claims WhatsApp chats aren't private

Link: bloomberg.com/news/articles/20
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4

US Has Investigated Claims WhatsApp Chats Aren’t Private

US law enforcement has been investigating allegations by former Meta Platforms Inc. contractors that Meta personnel can access WhatsApp messages, despite the company’s statements that the chat service is private and encrypted, according to interviews and an agent’s report seen by Bloomberg News.

www.bloomberg.com · Bloomberg.com

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Elena Rossini 📍 FOSDEM @_elena@mastodon.social
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Packing for 🥳

I have so many items of clothing promoting the Fediverse that I could change outfits multiple times a day 😂

If anyone is interested in a forest green sweatshirt that says "the future is federated" (size small, unisex) let me know. I had it remade (comped) because v1 came out differently than my mockup.

I'll have it with me tomorrow, just ask.

See you around! I'm sooo exciteeeeeed

a photo of several t-shirts and sweatshirts folded on a teal bedspread. Top left: navy blue t-shirt that reads "united federation of the fediverse" under it a yellow t-shirt that reads "never mind the billionaires here's the fediverse". Center: a dark green sweatshirt that reads "the future is federated". Right: a blue t-shirt that reads "Mastodon& Pixelfed&" and below it a black t-shirt with "the future is federated" written in white
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BoltsMag.org @bolts@journa.host
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“State constitutionalism makes it easy to consider Roberts Court jurisprudence white noise,” Hawaii Justice Todd Eddins wrote in a recent ruling that assailed the U.S. Supreme Court’s conservative majority.

boltsmag.org/hawaii-supreme-co

Hawaii Supreme Court Expands Rights of Defendants, and Once Again Rebukes SCOTUS

The justices ruled that Hawaii’s constitution requires police to record interrogations. And they vowed to protect due process for Hawaii residents—unlike, they said, the Roberts Court.

boltsmag.org · Bolts

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Raphael Albert @r_alb@mastodon.social
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The Austrian Data Protection Authority ruled that the use of tracking cookies in Microsoft's 365 Education products violates data protection law.

Austria is paying Microsoft an obscene amount of money per year for the "privilege" of exposing children to digital exploitation. Microsoft, on the other side, is cashing in twice - by selling user licenses and by selling their users.

That's how techno-capitalism works. Not for us, but for someone else.
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Ramsey Nasser @nasser@merveilles.town
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sometimes i think about unity's scene file format and what a disaster it is and what an alternative would look like. i generally prefer to have everything defined by code as that presents the fewest assumptions but sometimes i noodle around with the idea of an XML file that straightforwardly compiles into C#, a little like e.g. Vue components. i am not sure if this is a good idea or worth exploring.

<boss-scene enemies="100" difficult="true"> <walking-enemy-spawner start-x="30" start-y="100" /> <walking-enemy-spawner start-x="130" start-y="200" /> <power-ups chance="0.5"> <health max="80" /> <speed /> </power-ups> </boss-scene>public static partial class Assets { public static BossScene Load() { var boss_scene = new BossScene(enemies:300, difficult: true); boss_scene.AddChild(new WalkingEnemySpawner(start_x:30, start_y:100)); boss_scene.AddChild(new WalkingEnemySpawner(start_x:130, start_y:200)); var power_ups = new PowerUps(chance:0.5); power_ups.AddChild(new Health(max:80)); power_ups.AddChild(new Speed()); boss_scene.AddChild(power_ups); return boss_scene; } }
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Nina Kalinina @nina_kali_nina@tech.lgbt
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I've got my paws on "Stop! Hibari-kun!!" - a queer (or, rather, trans?) rom-com manga written for normies, back from 1981. The manga is really, truly problematic in many ways. But it also shows me that despite right-wing folks crying "oh no! but the pro-LGBT agenda!" for years, LGBT folks in 2026 are still facing generally the same class of problems are LGBT folks did in 1981.

Some things got a bit better, sure, but the stuff (violently) depicted in this comedy book still happens today even in the most progressive countries.

Somewhat off-topic: Hibari is very pretty, and has a good style. I should learn a few things from her.

Also: I should read more LGBTQ stuff. Ideally LGBTQ stuff made by LGBTQ creators.

A cover of manga "Stop!! Hibari-kun!" by Hisashi Eguchi, showing a young pretty lady in a cute top and rebel-looking jeans with holes, sipping a juice from a cup through a straw; a bad-ass looking electric guitar resting on her laps and tummy.
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Electronic Frontier Foundation @eff@mastodon.social
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Courts should treat biometric locks as equivalent to password protection, EFF’s Andrew Crocker told @theintercept. “Your constitutional right against self-incrimination should not be dependent on technical convenience or lack thereof.”
theintercept.com/2026/01/30/wa

Washington Post Raid Is a Frightening Reminder: Turn Off Your Phone’s Biometrics Now

The search warrant to raid a Washington Post reporter’s home shows how authorities can open your phone without your consent.

theintercept.com · The Intercept

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Jan Wildeboer 😷:krulorange: @jwildeboer@social.wildeboer.net
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Today, 2035-02-01 the CEOs of Amazon-X, Sir Weyland and the CEO of Apple-Tata, Mr. Yutani, announced the biggest ever fusion of corporate power and decided to call the new global conglomerate The Weyland-Yutani Corporation. Their main goal is to mine the asteroid belt to garantuee energy and rare metals to Earth, the moon and Mars. Governments all over the three worlds congratulated them and expressed their willingness to support.

Logo of the Weyland Yutani Corporation. Building better worlds.
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