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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