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.

Podman_io @Podman_io@fosstodon.org
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The Podman team is cobbling together a policy for handling AI-generated development work. We'd love to hear your thoughts in the document that we're using to create the policy! docs.google.com/document/d/1Vx

Podman LLM (AI) Development Policies

Podman LLM (AI) Development Policies This document is based on Jellyfin LLM Policy and licensed under CC-BY-ND-4.0. The rise of LLMs as a useful development tool has been significant. The power and flexibility of tools like Claude Code and ChatGPT have given a lot of functionality both to experi...

docs.google.com · Google Docs

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LaraK @Lara@metalhead.club
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Shared by Jan Lehnardt :couchdb:

well well well!
A new systematic review has found that trans women on HRT have the same level of fitness as cis women and don't retain any advantage in sports.

independent.co.uk/news/science

Trans athletes may not have fitness advantage in women’s sport, landmark study finds

Findings suggest physical performance in trans women converges toward that of cis women over time

www.independent.co.uk · The Independent

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Hacker News 50 @hn50@social.lansky.name
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Guinea worm on track to be 2nd eradicated human disease; only 10 cases in 2025

Link: arstechnica.com/health/2026/02
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4

Guinea worm on track to be 2nd eradicated human disease; only 10 cases in 2025

When the eradication program began in 1986, there were a 3.5 million cases.

arstechnica.com · Ars Technica

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Alistair @accudio@front-end.social
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Small self-promo!

I'm not big on the web awards industry but a site I built has been nominated for the Awwwards January e-commerce honors! If you go the Awwwards thing and want to help me out then a vote for Lab46 would be amazing! ❤️

awwwards.com/honors/ecommerce

The client is Lab46, which is a German health and wellness brand for gay men.

It was a *really* fun Shopify build with a lovely design, and some nice motion pieces which I haven't done in quite a while.

lab46.de/en

E-commerce Honors - Awwwards

A recognition of the efforts of web creators who expertly balance visual brilliance and functionality in projects spanning e-commerce, typography, product design, portfolios, no-code, and business & services.

www.awwwards.com

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Hacker News 50 @hn50@social.lansky.name
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Attention at Constant Cost per Token via Symmetry-Aware Taylor Approximation

Link: arxiv.org/abs/2602.00294
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4

arXiv logo

Self-Attention at Constant Cost per Token via Symmetry-Aware Taylor Approximation

The most widely used artificial intelligence (AI) models today are Transformers employing self-attention. In its standard form, self-attention incurs costs that increase with context length, driving demand for storage, compute, and energy that is now outstripping society's ability to provide them. To help address this issue, we show that self-attention is efficiently computable to arbitrary precision with constant cost per token, achieving orders-of-magnitude reductions in memory use and computation. We derive our formulation by decomposing the conventional formulation's Taylor expansion into expressions over symmetric chains of tensor products. We exploit their symmetry to obtain feed-forward transformations that efficiently map queries and keys to coordinates in a minimal polynomial-kernel feature basis. Notably, cost is fixed inversely in proportion to head size, enabling application over a greater number of heads per token than otherwise feasible. We implement our formulation and empirically validate its correctness. Our work enables unbounded token generation at modest fixed cost, substantially reducing the infrastructure and energy demands of large-scale Transformer models. The mathematical techniques we introduce are of independent interest.

arxiv.org · arXiv.org

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leyrer @leyrer@23.social
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2014: Kärtner Hotel zum vierten Mal von Hackern lahmgelegt
kaernten.orf.at/m/v2/news/stor

2026: Italien vereitelt russische Hackerangriffe auf Hotels in Cortina
diepresse.com/20548951/olympia

Hotel zum vierten Mal von Hackern lahmgelegt

Das Seehotel Jägerwirt auf der Turracher Höhe ist bereits zum vierten Mal von Hackern heimgesucht und erpresst worden. Die elektronischen Zimmerschlüssel wurden lahmgelegt. Daher will man jetzt zu normalen Schlüsseln zurückkehren.

kaernten.orf.at

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kottke.org @kottke@mastodon.social
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Only 7 gasoline cars were sold in Norway last month. Seven! 98 diesel cars & 29 hybrids were also sold, but the rest were EVs. And this comes after Norway cut EV incentives. electrek.co/2026/02/03/even-af

Even after cutting EV incentives, Norway only sold 98 diesel cars in January

Norway cut EV incentives, resulting in a rush and record sales. That would usually cause a hangover, but EVs still took 94% share in January.

electrek.co · Electrek

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Squirrel News @squirrelnews_de@mastodon.social
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Shared by Quincy ⁂

Erstmals sinkt in und die Stromproduktion aus fossilen Quellen ⚡️
die Guineawurm-Krankheit könnte nach den Pocken die zweite vom Menschen ausgerottete werden 🇺🇳
und eine Initiative in Sachsen-Anhalt schenkt hunderttausenden ein zweites Leben 🐔

Unsere neue Ausgabe ist da 👇

squirrel-news.net/de/news/stro

Kohlekraftwerk in Indien

Strom-Wendepunkt in Indien und China, Guineawurm-Krankheit fast ausgerottet, zweites Leben für Legehennen - Squirrel News

Erstmals sinkt in Indien und China die Stromproduktion aus fossilen Quellen; die Guineawurm-Krankheit könnte nach den Pocken die zweite vom Menschen ausgerottete Krankheit werden; und eine Initiative in Sachsen-Anhalt schenkt hunderttausenden Legehennen ein zweites Leben: Unsere neue Ausgabe ist da

squirrel-news.net · Squirrel News

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Squirrel News @squirrelnews_de@mastodon.social
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Erstmals sinkt in und die Stromproduktion aus fossilen Quellen ⚡️
die Guineawurm-Krankheit könnte nach den Pocken die zweite vom Menschen ausgerottete werden 🇺🇳
und eine Initiative in Sachsen-Anhalt schenkt hunderttausenden ein zweites Leben 🐔

Unsere neue Ausgabe ist da 👇

squirrel-news.net/de/news/stro

Kohlekraftwerk in Indien

Strom-Wendepunkt in Indien und China, Guineawurm-Krankheit fast ausgerottet, zweites Leben für Legehennen - Squirrel News

Erstmals sinkt in Indien und China die Stromproduktion aus fossilen Quellen; die Guineawurm-Krankheit könnte nach den Pocken die zweite vom Menschen ausgerottete Krankheit werden; und eine Initiative in Sachsen-Anhalt schenkt hunderttausenden Legehennen ein zweites Leben: Unsere neue Ausgabe ist da

squirrel-news.net · Squirrel News

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Alt Text Hall of Fame @alttexthalloffame@mastodon.social
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Shared by Stefan Bohacek

Reminder for all of us to lead by example.

stefanbohacek.online/@stefan/1

See an image with missing alt text? Maybe the person is dealing with a disability themselves! Be more helpful and suggest a good alt text for them to copy and use!

Stefan Bohacek (@stefan@stefanbohacek.online)

What convinced you to start adding alt text to images you post online? #AltText #accessibility #ImageDescription [ ] General knowledge about accessibility [ ] Seeing others do it [ ] Seeing others talk about it [ ] Seeing someone get nagged about it [ ] Someone I know explaining this to me [ ] Someone I know nagging me [ ] A stranger explaining this to me [ ] A stranger nagging me [ ] Something else [ ] I don't use alt text [ ] I can't use alt text

stefanbohacek.online · Stefan's Personal Mastodon Server

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NS-Verherrlichung stoppen @ns_verherrlichung_stoppen@systemli.social
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Shared by Quincy ⁂

Wir wollen uns kurz vorstellen 👋
Wir sind der Account der Kampagne "NS-Verherrlichung Stoppen"
Wir informieren und mobilisieren gemeinsam mit internationalen Genoss*innen gegen europaweite Naziaufmärsche:
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Aktuell sind wir solidarisch aktiv mit activists in , wo Orban ein Verbot "der" verhängt hat.

afaeurope.noblogs.org/




Alerta - Call for Action von unseren ungarischen Genoss*innen! Für grenzenlose Solidarität. Für einen internationalen Antifaschismus.
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Simulationsbeobachter @alice@c3d2.social
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Shared by Quincy ⁂

Noch mal zur Erinnerung: Maja wurde in einer miesen Aktion von sächsischen Bullen entführt und nach ausgeflogen, obwohl ein Gericht die Auslieferung für NICHT rechtens erklärte. sind wieder Erfüllungsgehilfen für europäische Faschisten. In findet ein Schauprozess gegen die deutsche Antifaschistin statt, der ein Exempel statuieren soll.

Die deutsche Bürgerschaft mag von Gewalt gegen Nazis halten was sie will, aber mindestens gegen die illegale Auslieferung und Haft hätte man sich mal grade machen können.

Na liebe und , was habt ihr getan?

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Jess Rose @jessie@mastodon.social
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I use a really weird spreadsheet system to semi-automate the research for my not-evil tech job threads and make the process a quick weekly chore.

Would me writing up a tutorial on my weird system be useful for anyone jobhunting right now?

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Kris Jenkins @krisajenkins@mastodon.social
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How do you connect the dots between a game engine, a database, an event-streaming system and an OS? Tyler C. joins me this week to explain how they're all connected, and to share some of the tough lessons learned from trying to launch a Database (SpacetimeDB) and an MMO (BitCraft) at the same time. 😅

youtu.be/A9A8pptfz0Q

SpacetimeDB: What launching an MMO can teach us about Databases (with Tyler Cloutier)

Eighteen months ago, Tyler Cloutier appeared on the show with what sounded like an ambitious (some might say crazy) plan: build a new distributed database fr...

www.youtube.com · YouTube

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Quincy ⁂ @quincy@chaos.social
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Jetzt wird so getan, als wäre ein Ausschalter für zweifelhafte & unerwünschte "KI"-Features nicht absolut *selbstverständlich*, das Allermindeste.

"Danke" fürs eifrige Mitmachen bei der Big-Tech-Diskursverschiebung gegen die selbstbestimmte und bewusste Computernutzung, .

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Podman_io @Podman_io@fosstodon.org
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We talked about the upcoming Podman releases, AI-generated PRs, PQC, and podlet updates at yesterday's Community Meeting. If you missed it, we missed you! But you can catch up with the video! youtube.com/watch?v=xeYq4PkkgXI

Podman Community Meeting, February 2, 2026

Podman Community Meeting Topics00:00 - Intro 01:12 - Podman v5.8/6.0 Update12:43 - AI Policy for GItHub18:37 - PQC Update24:06 - Podlet Update30:55 - Wra...

www.youtube.com · YouTube

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404 Media @404mediaco@mastodon.social
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Shared by Em :official_verified:

This Epstein dump is probably the worst yet. Then we talk all about security issues in Moltbot and Moltbook. Then, even more security issues with some popular apps.

404media.co/podcast-the-latest

Podcast: The Latest Epstein Dump is a Disaster

This Epstein dump is probably the worst yet. Then we talk all about security issues in Moltbot and Moltbook. Then, even more security issues with some popular apps.

www.404media.co · 404 Media

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404 Media @404mediaco@mastodon.social
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This Epstein dump is probably the worst yet. Then we talk all about security issues in Moltbot and Moltbook. Then, even more security issues with some popular apps.

404media.co/podcast-the-latest

Podcast: The Latest Epstein Dump is a Disaster

This Epstein dump is probably the worst yet. Then we talk all about security issues in Moltbot and Moltbook. Then, even more security issues with some popular apps.

www.404media.co · 404 Media

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Freedom of the Press @freedomofpress@freedom.press
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Shared by Em :official_verified:

ICE wants to buy data from online ads to spy on people.

They say they don’t need a warrant. Congress could say they do. Time to pass the Fourth Amendment is Not for Sale Act.

theregister.com/2026/01/27/ice

ICE takes aim at data held by advertising and tech firms

: Agency looks to understand the extent of identifying information available to its masked agents

www.theregister.com

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LaraK @Lara@metalhead.club
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well well well!
A new systematic review has found that trans women on HRT have the same level of fitness as cis women and don't retain any advantage in sports.

independent.co.uk/news/science

Trans athletes may not have fitness advantage in women’s sport, landmark study finds

Findings suggest physical performance in trans women converges toward that of cis women over time

www.independent.co.uk · The Independent

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