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.
They lied to you. Building software is hard
Link: https://blog.nordcraft.com/they-lied-to-you-building-software-is-really-hard
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46823725
Geologists may have solved mystery of Green River's 'uphill' route
Link: https://phys.org/news/2026-01-geologists-mystery-green-river-uphill.html
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46855803
BREAKING: Judge blocks Noem's second attempt to keep members of Congress out of immigration facilities.
U.S. District Judge Jia Cobb issued a temporary restraining order on Monday morning.
New, at Law Dork: https://www.lawdork.com/p/breaking-judge-blocks-noems-second
RE: https://fem.elbarri.online/@raconet/116002150682069942
Just discovered there is a fediverse party [called 2a FEDIFESTA] happening in #Alicante #Spain on the 28th of this month!
I added it to this list of fedi events going on I started recently https://hackers.pub/@wakest/2026/upcoming-fediverse-events
in the future when you hear a little bird singing in a tree, you'll be able to hold your phone up in the air and it'll identify the bird based on its song. and a big red flashing message will appear on your phone like "CRIMINAL BIRD DETECTED. THANK YOU FOR IDENTIFYING THIS BIRD" and you'll hear a distant buzzing as three police quadcopters converge on your location to arrest the bird
다음주 치과 예약함…,
einstimmig ist das neue bi-weekly
EPA Advances Farmers' Right to Repair
Link: https://www.epa.gov/newsreleases/epa-advances-farmers-right-repair-their-own-equipment-saving-repair-costs-and
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46859118
"Long before Israel’s genocide in Gaza, successive U.S. administrations, Democratic and Republican alike, abandoned any pretense of restraining the increasingly unhinged Jewish supremacist state. Instead of enforcing international law, Washington built a parallel system of economic and diplomatic power to shield Israel from accountability."
#USpol #Zionism #IsraelWarCrimes
#WesternComplicity #Gaza #Palestine
#BDS #Genocide
https://www.counterpunch.org/2026/02/02/weaponizing-americas-economy-in-service-of-israel/
寝なくては
Woah. Render graphs are gone in Bevy. Just using systems now. Good change! #bevyengine #gamedev #rustlang
Hacking Moltbook: The AI Social Network Any Human Can Control
Link: https://www.wiz.io/blog/exposed-moltbook-database-reveals-millions-of-api-keys
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46857615
#Punk & #PunkMusic accounts to follow:
!
@punkPunk Group - Punk discussion group
@evansee/saw - Punk & rock’n’roll music news, podcast, radio show
@historyofpunkrockPunkrock History - History of punk rock incl. photos, facts, flyers etc
@HawaiiPunkMuseum - Hawaii Punk Museum
@hearsepileup - Punk/stoner/grunge rock band
@punkirratia - Basque punk internet radio station
@showsMONTREAL Ask A Punk - Montreal punk music events community calendar
@AltPressAlternative Press - Alternative Press Magazine
更新はこうしん 
ceb4a878fb (upstream/main) Add `Select` component (#37702)
6188de3efc Add ActivityPub serializer specs (#37706)
9de54635ed Add coverage for "too many IDs" scenario in `api/v1/statuses` (#37699)
d0cd436ac9 Update dependency pg to v8.18.0 (#37686)
c6f5315aa9 Add text-autospace to status content (#37694)
29e5532870 Add components `RadioButton` and `Fieldset` (#37685)
69351b3b74 Update dependency aws-sdk-s3 to v1.213.0 (#37656)
b3086ffbf3 Update dependency annotaterb to v4.21.0 (#37672)
89be2030d4 Update dependency brakeman to v8 (#37673)
1100035af4 Profile redesign: Additional badges (#37683)
65ccf89bfc Update dependency pg-connection-string to v2.11.0 (#37687)
6bf2b27b5b New Crowdin Translations (automated) (#37688)
skeb
3c 
@ayu3c３ｃ@こいし合同参加 
さんのところのミメーさんを描きました
デフォルメ寄せということで頭身低めに…あんまりなってないかも…
リクエストありがとうございました！！
https://skeb.jp/@miiyon/works/14
People complain, but then when organisations actually listen they don't share *that* story.
https://techcrunch.com/2026/02/02/firefox-will-soon-let-you-block-all-of-its-generative-ai-features/
Ghostty nightly now supports the `click_events` extension introduced by Kitty and supported by Fish. If you're using Fish 4.1+, you can click (no modifiers!) anywhere at a prompt to move the mouse. I believe Ghostty is the first to support this extension outside of Kitty.
As far as as I can find, the only shell to support this is Fish (4.1+) and the only terminal to support this previously is Kitty. It'd be great for more of both ecosystems to support this.
Other terminals do support moving the cursor with the mouse to some extent (Ghostty included since 1.0), but do so by another, more fragile mechanism: when you click, it just best-effort calculates a number of synthetic left arrow key inputs to pretend to move your cursor. This is super fragile because it can't take into account shell behaviors particularly around indention, multi-line, and if you're not at a prompt at all...
The `click_events` extension allows Ghostty to know when you're at a prompt line, and works by encoding a mouse click event while at a prompt line to the shell. The shell then takes over and handles all the logic of moving the cursor, which makes the most sense!
You don't use open source software because it's better (it usually isn't).
You don't use open source software because it's freer (it only sometimes is).
You don't use open source software because it's got better politics (it isn't always).
You use open source software because *it is the only option*. In the long run, if it isn't open source, it doesn't exist.
image source: keithstack.com
Maximum Toronto?
North-facing Union Station on the left is lit by sunlight reflected from RBC Plaza across the street and behind the camera (not visible in pic).
The Royal York Hotel is on the right. I stayed there when I was a kid. I was the annoying kid on the train yelling "I see the CN Tower! Mom! Dad! Random stranger! Look!" (Any other Gen Xers remember the paper fold-together trains they handed out to us kids?)
The CN Tower rises above.
A TTC logo completes the Torontoness.
이런짤을봤고어디까지맞는진모르겠지만
초록색국가관련컨텐츠를접하게된다면언제나긴장을해야겠구나
불량식품을 먹을 수 없는 몸이 되었어…
Hypergrowth isn’t always easy
Link: https://tailscale.com/blog/hypergrowth-isnt-always-easy
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46830026
These fascists do love to see idealised depictions of themselves.
Likeness of restored angel to Giorgia Meloni triggers investigations in Rome
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/feb/01/likeness-of-restored-angel-to-giorgia-meloni-triggers-investigations-in-rome?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other
Chutney naps unselfconsciously in the sunlight.
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You are my only hope; this link is my source of livelihood.
Please donate or share with others.
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Python, Is It Being Killed by Incremental Improvements? via 
@lesleyLesley Lai https://lobste.rs/s/dvjxgr #video #plt #python
https://youtu.be/03DswsNUBdQ
The Codex App
Link: https://openai.com/index/introducing-the-codex-app/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46859054
Enrollment is open for the next run of my App Performance and Instruments Virtuoso course, beginning February 23.
It's a perfect time to level up your skills and dive deep into what makes your apps tick.
The full-length, in-depth, online course is fully updated for Instruments 26 and is currently 33% off its regular price!
I only run the course a few times each year. I hope you can join me!
Details and registration at https://swift-virtuoso.com.
(And please boost to help spread the word!)
My honey pot arrived
Other joke 
@bsdcan ideas:
By 
@mwlMichael Lucas 
:
if you're doing fake tutorials: "porting netbsd to the blockchain."
Possible locations:
local Wastewater treatment plant.
tired: moltbook is making claude into a redditor
inspired: google is making Gemini into a gamer + twitch streamer blog.google/innovation-a...
Advancing AI benchmarking with...
I'm excited to announce that my abstract for BSDCan 2026 is accepted. In June, I will talk about HMP scheduling on FreeBSD and little bit of relevant scheduler stuff at Ottawa. The work is still ongoing and it needs many preliminary works done on FreeBSD schedulers, so it’s hard to guarantee that the HMP changes would land before BSDCan. Still, I will put maximum effort on this during my internship at the FreeBSD Foundation.
Fun fact: BSDCan is a week before my midterm exams (aka reading week)
I'm surprised haveibeenepsteined.com isn't a thing that exists.
I just went there and did a quick triage in pending 
@badgefedThe BadgeFed Project items while I still have the #fosdem energy flowing
Ah, OpenBSD.
@bsdBSD Security Advisories posts that there's an httpd(8) errata.
$ doas syspatch
$ doas rcctl restart httpd
Total effort? about 40 seconds of my life total across three machines. I might not have even had to restart httpd, but it cost nigh-nothing to do so.
I wish all updates were that boring/straightforward.
I've made a collection of the podman quadlets I use in my minimal setup at home: Immich, Nextcloud and Vaultwarden.
All containers have proper health checks.
I hope you find it useful.
Game of Trees Hub's web interface is live. And we need more subscribers https://lobste.rs/s/halc0a #openbsd #vcs
https://opencollective.com/gothub/updates/web-interface-is-now-enabled-and-we-need-more-subscribers
Linux From Scratch Ends SysVinit Support
Link: https://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/sympa/arc/lfs-announce/2026-02/msg00000.html
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46858829
My trip finally begins : Tonight, the 
453 will bring me in a comfortable wagon-lits to Berlin, the first stop of my #FOSSRail trip from 🇧🇪 Brussels to 🇹🇭 Bangkok connecting the FOSDEM with the FOSSASIA by train.
I will spend the next two weeks on trains across 12 countries and 11.000 km on rails.
May the games begin ✊🏽.
#FOSSRail #FOSDEM #FOSSASIA #CrossBorderRail #TeamNightTrain
Glyph
Quincy ⁂
nulta
Chris Siebenmann
一般 Kyungmi Ahn ꉂꉂ(ᴖᗜᴖ*) 
+ 
Stefano Marinelli
🇦🇺🇸🇬
- solidarity with 