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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Neovim @neovim.io@bsky.brid.gy
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Development News The 0.12 version will add `v:vim_did_init` variable to check if `init.lua` is sourced but plugins are not yet loaded. This allows to improve `vim.pack.add` usability, as it can be properly called in user's 'plugin/' directory. PR (Vim patch): - github.com/neovim/neovi...

vim-patch:9.1.1892: Not possib...

vim-patch:9.1.1892: Not possible to know once Vim is done with sourcing vimrc Problem: A plugin does not know when startup scripts were already triggered. This is useful to determine if a functio...

vim-patch:9.1.1892: Not possible to know once Vim is done with sourcing vimrc by zeertzjq · Pull Request #36429 · neovim/neovim

vim-patch:9.1.1892: Not possible to know once Vim is done with sourcing vimrc Problem: A plugin does not know when startup scripts were already triggered. This is useful to determine if a functio...

github.com · GitHub

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Taggart :donor: @mttaggart@infosec.exchange
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Shared by Stefano Marinelli

Amen, Your Holiness

pcgamer.com/software/ai/pope-l

Pope Leo XIV brings not peace but a sword to AI oligarchs and a slop-mad world in new address, says it's 'Turning people into passive consumers of unthought thoughts'

Never thought I'd die fighting side-by-side with the Pope.

www.pcgamer.com · PC Gamer

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mcc @mcc@mastodon.social
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Note: Before you click through to see this image, you must whisper a promise to the screen: "I will not reply to Andi with spoilers for any of the games mentioned, not even vague ones"

I'm spending the next month in medical recovery, and I'm at severe risk of just writing Rust the whole time and inhibiting the recovery process. So I'm like "what if I just flopped on a couch and spent the entire time playing video games".

2026 game todo Routine Titanium Court Cape Hideous Mouthwashing Misericorde Deus Ex / Deus Ex HR Slay the Princess Deltarune Stray Children
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PCMag @PCMag@mastodon.social
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Mozilla is offering a first look at its AI browser kill switch. But the interface also suggests all Firefox users will be opted into the AI features, rather than opted out by default: pcmag.com/news/mozilla-shows-o

Mozilla Shows Off AI Browser Kill Switch for Firefox

It launches with Firefox version 148 on Feb. 24, and you can keep everything, shut it off entirely, or cherry-pick the AI features you want to use.

www.pcmag.com · PCMAG

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Lukas Kahwe Smith @lsmith@mastodon.green
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I want to replace my aging Synology with an Intel N150 based NUC. I mostly need it for transcoding and to act as an Time-machine NAS for 2 laptops. I tend to larger sized setups so that I can keep them running for 10+ years.

I plan to keep it off the internet. I am planning to go with 16GB ram, 500 GB SSD and then probably attach a 2TB old school hard drive via USB 3.

I am looking for manufacturer recommendations (are there any European options?) as well as OS recommendations.

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ˈdälfən™🐬 💥 🌊 @dalfen@mstdn.social
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The irony of this photo — A border patrol 'agent' hiding behind a face covering & hat while scanning a commuter's face on the road.

I am taking the time to post this entire article to highlight how / uses emerging, -breaching tech to identify & target regular people– potentially undocumented individuals AND citizens exercising their 1st Amendment right to express their grievances about such behavior as they observe & record it.

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Image: A Border Patrol Agent (face and hair totally covered) scanning the face of a driver in Minneapolis this month. Mostafa Bassim/Anadolu, via Getty Images c/o: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/30/technology/tech-ice-facial-recognition-palantir.html Accessed: 2 Feb 2026 at 1226 PST
ˈdälfən™🐬 💥 🌊 @dalfen@mstdn.social
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Shared by Quincy ⁂

"...at least seven American citizens (were) told by agents this month that they were being recorded with facial recognition technology in & around Minneapolis...None had given consent for their faces to be recorded.

"Facial recognition is just one technology tool that ICE has deployed...
The technologies are being used not only to identify undocumented immigrants but also to track citizens who have protested ICE's presence..."

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How ICE Already Knows Who Minneapolis Protesters Are Agents use facial recognition, social media monitoring and other tech tools not only to identify undocumented immigrants but also to track protesters, current and former officials said. https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/30/technology/tech-ice-facial-recognition-palantir.html Accessed: 2 Feb 2026 at 1226 PSTOn the morning of Jan. 10, Nicole Cleland was in her car trailing an Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent through Richfield, Minn., her hometown. Suddenly, the agent turned into a series of one-way streets and stopped, getting out of his white Dodge Ram, said Ms. Cleland, who volunteers with a local watchdog group that observes the activity of immigration officers. The agent then walked over to Ms. Cleland's car and surprised her by addressing her as Nicole. "He said he had facial recognition and that his body camera was on," said Ms. Cleland, 56, who had not met the agent before. https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/30/technology/tech-ice-facial-recognition-palantir.html Accessed: 2 Feb 2026 at 1226 PSTMs. Cleland was one of at least seven American citizens told by ICE agents this month that they were being recorded with facial recognition technology in and around Minneapolis, according to local activists and videos posted to social media, which were verified by The New York Times. None had given consent for their faces to be recorded. Facial recognition is just one technology tool that ICE has deployed in Minneapolis, where thousands of agents are conducting a crackdown. The technologies are being used not only to identify undocumented immigrants but also to track citizens who have protested ICE's presence, said three current and former officials of the Department of Homeland Security who were not authorized to discuss confidential matters. https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/30/technology/tech-ice-facial-recognition-palantir.html Accessed: 2 Feb 2026 at 1226 PSTICE is using two facial recognition programs in Minnesota, they said, including one made by the tech company Clearview AI and a newer program, Mobile Fortify. The agency is also using cellphone and social media tools to monitor people's online activity and potentially hack into phones. And agents are tapping into a database, built by the data analytics company Palantir, that combines government and commercial data to identify realtime locations for individuals they are pursuing, the current and former officials said. "The technologies are being deployed, or appear to be deployed, in a much more aggressive way than we have seen in the past," said Nathan Freed Wessler, a lawyer at the American Civil Liberties Union, which has sued the Homeland Security Department over the immigration operation in Minneapolis. "The conglomeration of all these technologies together is giving the government unprecedented abilities." https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/30/technology/tech-ice-facial-recognition-palantir.html Accessed: 2 Feb 2026 at 1226 PST
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Dan Piponi @dpiponi@mathstodon.xyz
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I'm beginning to think ChatGPT is getting pretty smart.

I was reading up on the "Performer" approach to approximating the core matrix multiplications used in attention/transformers in ML [2].

ChatGPT tells me about this:

exp(a.b) = <coh(a),coh(b)>.

At this point it's obviously on crack! coh(a) is a coherent state of a quantum particle as described in [1]. (And <.,.> is the inner product on quantum states.)

But no, after some thought this makes perfect beautiful sense. There's an underlying story about how the "kernel trick" used in ML is very similar to the way physicists like to use propagators to reason about fields. In this particular case, the kernel trick amounts to embedding features for ML in a Fock space 🤯.

[1] math.ucr.edu/home/baez/photon/
[2] arxiv.org/abs/2009.14794

schmo1.dvi

math.ucr.edu

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Hacker News 100 @hn100@social.lansky.name
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EPA Advances Farmers' Right to Repair

Link: epa.gov/newsreleases/epa-advan
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency News Release

EPA Advances Farmers’ Right to Repair Their Own Equipment, Saving Repair Costs and Productivity | US EPA

Today, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) advanced American farmers and equipment owners’ lawful right to repair their farm and other nonroad diesel equipment.

www.epa.gov · US EPA

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Gabriele Svelto @gabrielesvelto@mas.to
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I may have dodged a bullet with Notepad++. I've been using it for ages, but it's been years since I've used the built-in updater, because I install it and keep it up-to-date with winget.

Winget isn't a proper package manager, but it's the closest you get on Windows, and downloading packages from a public repo with hashes for verification always beats relying on ad-hoc downloads. That's one of the reasons why the Linux distro packaging model is just better.

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