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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Sometimes I get a really good quote in.

“Pointing out that AI is prone to giving ICE bad information is missing the entire point of ICE,” EFF’s Eva Galperin told Rolling Stone. “They don’t care if the information they have is good.”

rollingstone.com/culture/cultu

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RSPB Birds of Britain and Europe: The Definitive Photographic Field Guide by Bob Hume, 2014

The ultimate photographic field guide to the birds of Britain and Europe, RSPB Birds of Britain and Europe is a stunning, illustrated guide to Europe's bird species. It describes and illustrates bird characteristics and beautiful full colour photographs reveal individual species such as finches, martins and swallows with unrivalled clarity.




RSPB Birds of Britain and Europe captures the beauty of birds, showing them in their varying plumage, making identification quick and effortless. 500 regularly seen species are featured with illustrations and up-to-date maps highlighting resident and migratory distributions so you know what species to expect and when. Covering the characteristics of anatomy, life cycle, and behaviour, and providing a survey of the habitats in which birds live.
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:uffuun:​うなぎ人間よぉ〜ん♥くねくねぇ〜ん♥(うなぎだけに)
ね〜ぇ
♥アタシと作らない?♥
か・ば・や・き

うふふ
♥熱くなっちゃって♥(蒲焼だけに)
おカバさん

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and then maybe if some of these get popular across different "browsers" (or really hobbyists who play with new styles of interactions and stuff), they become de facto standards. until someday they get unsupported and stuff breaks but then you can patch it. etc

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maybe someone else then wants it in svelte, or react, or web components, or whatever, so there can be competition between implementations. whoever implements the same component lexicon with best ux. maybe ai could try too

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RE: social.wake.st/@liaizon/115952

I could use a little help getting the word out about this little themed meetup at @offline I am organizing TOMORROW with @hongminhee洪 民憙 (Hong Minhee) :nonbinary:! I know there are many fedi (probably dev oriented) people in who didn't make it all the way to brussels this last week and could use a little dose of stimuli, so if you know anyone who you think would enjoy please pass on the word or tag them here.

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My trip to Japan is almost here - commence Camera selection paralysis.

I want to bring them all, but I don't want to carry them all, but, I don't want to miss a moment, but I also want to experience everything and also capture everything all at the same time...

*sigh*.

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Precedented, but not the same:

If ICE and CBP are basically the reincarnation of the KKK, it’s the KKK with a budget the size of Russia’s entire military.

Literally. In the literal sense of “literally.” The incoming ICE + CBP budget is ~$140 billion.[1] Russia’s military budget is ~$145 billion.[2]

(If I’m misreading these numbers, please correct me.)

[1] appropriations.senate.gov/imo/

[2] reuters.com/world/europe/russi

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> In most cases, there’s a three-to-five-year window after a ruling party or leader or revolutionary brigade comes to power and asserts the right to arbitrarily detain and punish civilians. At some point toward the end of that window, a struggle typically begins over whether to massively expand the quasi-legal sites of detention into a more permanent system.

@inthehandsPaul Cantrell hachyderm.io/@inthehands/11599

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我們生產力最低的時候,就是在寫程式(coding) https://codemanship.wordpress.com/2026/01/30/coding-is-when-were-least-productive/

文章主張,在「AI 時代」又浮現一個老迷思:把生產力等同於程式碼產量。作者以自己早年接案經驗說明「程式碼的價值不等於數量」:他在協助大型零售商升級 POS(Point Of Sale,銷售點系統)時卡在某個需求情境,原因是從未看過既有系統實際怎麼被店員使用。於是他直接走到分店出示識別證,請求旁聽流程;對方甚至帶他到樓上用於教育訓練與測試更新的「模型辦公室(model office)」實機演練。理解一打通,他回到辦公室只改了約三行程式碼,卻避免促銷折扣被套用錯誤,進一步可能替全國 250 家分店省下金錢與形象成本;若用「改了多少行」衡量,那天反而會被當成不夠努力。

這段經驗讓作者早早體會:有些程式碼值上百萬英鎊,有些一大坨卻一文不值;因此「寫程式」與「創造淨價值」不是同一件事。他甚至把 coding 視為一種「中斷」:你埋頭在 IntelliJ(JetBrains 的 IDE,整合式開發環境)敲鍵盤時,看不到現場、問不到人、也學不到問題本質,而且 IDE 並沒有任何快捷鍵能告訴你「正在寫錯的程式碼」。真正的生產力,發生在學習與回饋迴圈:走出座位去觀察、對話、釐清目標,或用快速釋出把使用者回饋拉回來驗證;若寫程式速度快過驗證速度,就會把一層層假設疊上去,越寫越偏。

在 Hacker News 的討論裡,不少人呼應「成果輸出」常只是思考後的落筆:有人形容 coding 是「一小時思考換來五分鐘輸入」,也有人追問「思考算不算 coding 的一部分」,指出很多工程師其實會透過寫出多個版本來探索解法。高票留言用一個腦洞實驗強化作者觀點:如果週末硬碟壞掉、最近寫的程式碼全被擦掉,你需要多久能重寫回來?那才是你一週真正花在「純輸入程式碼」的時間,其餘多半是在把自己「轉換成能寫出那段程式碼的人」;並拿做椅子的工匠對比,實體製造被毀後仍得投入不可避免的工時重做,凸顯軟體工作中「理解與學習」的比重。

同時也有質疑與延伸:有人表示從未見過主管以程式碼量逼產能,認為這是稻草人;也有人引用「用程式碼行數衡量進度,就像用重量衡量造飛機進度」的名言,但被糾正常見誤傳(留言認為較接近 Bill Gates,而非 Dijkstra)。工具派則補充,輸入文字確實只占很小一部分,但像 vim(文字編輯器)的模式設計與快速跳轉能幫你更快「逛」程式碼、維持專注,並不只是炫技。談到 AI 與 LLM(大型語言模型,Large Language Model)時,有人認為大眾把 LLM 的輸出稱作「思考/推理」助長了「AI 會完全取代工程師」的誤解;也有人樂觀覺得 AI 輔助寫程式會讓人更看清多層企業架構的冗贅,甚至可能動搖部分框架(如 Spring、Angular)的必要性,因為像「加上記錄(logging)」這類橫向需求成本被壓到很低,但也有人提醒:人類仍可能繼續發明更複雜、更玄學的架構。另有討論提到 Claude Code(Anthropic 的 AI 程式助理)若加上護欄與回饋,或許能像資深工程師一樣快速定位問題,但也可能在複雜舊系統語意混亂時陷入鬼打牆;而手寫與長期維護所累積的「對系統的直覺」仍是難以被輕易替代的價值。

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46832625
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