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.
Babiš brečí, jak je hrozně nefér, že banky spekulujou s emisníma povolenkama, protože to znečišťovatelé mají kvůli tomu dražší. Bitch, s bydlením se spekuluje mnohem víc, závisí na tom přímo životy tvých vlastních voličů, ale to miliardáře prostě nezajímá.
The Washington Post’s editorial page went off the rails long ago, but it still managed to remain one of a shrinking number of great investigative newsrooms. I hope something picks up the slack.
Thanks for nothing, Bezos.
Google Cloud’s customer chief returns to Microsoft as head of security. Hayete Gallot previously spent nearly 16 years at Microsoft. She's taking over from Charlie Bell, who Satya Nadella has asked to take on a new role. Details 👇 www.theverge.com/news/873930/...
Google Cloud’s customer chief ...
French streamer unbanked by Qonto after criticizing Palantir and Peter Thiel
Link: https://twitter.com/Ced_haurus/status/2018716889191498172
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46888438
GitHub is adding Anthropic's Claude and OpenAI's Codex AI coding agents to GitHub, GitHub Mobile, and Visual Studio Code. Microsoft-owned GitHub continues to embrace OpenAI and Anthropic AI advances. Details 👇 www.theverge.com/news/873665/...
GitHub adds Claude and Codex A...
Mojeek here with our updated #introductions
We're on a mission to build the world's alternative search engine; a search engine that does what's right, that values and respects your privacy, whilst providing results from its own index, ordered with its own ranking algorithm: https://www.mojeek.com/about/
We're here to toot about new functionality, pictures of servers, peertube-hosted explainers, and the spiciest anti-big-tech memes we can come up with. If anyone asks, Mojeekat is our admin 🐱
GitHub is adding Anthropic's Claude and OpenAI's Codex AI coding agents to GitHub, GitHub Mobile, and Visual Studio Code. Microsoft-owned GitHub continues to embrace OpenAI and Anthropic AI advances. Details 👇 www.theverge.com/news/873665/...
GitHub adds Claude and Codex A...
Apparently someone feels like his lunch time treats are over-due...
@steephsteeph 🎆 ٩(˘◡˘)۶ Thanks for the reply, I hadn't thought about all these issues, and even less about running a VPN on my SIM card 🫨
@teleclimberOlivier Forget Yeah, it's a strange world where my cameras SD card runs Linux and my CPU has its own CPU with its own operating system. I would have guessed ultrafast handheld computers for the 21st century. But not more and more layers of processors, all of which with their own software and bugs.
졸려서 이만 자러 갑니다 안녕히 주무시고 좋은 꿈 꾸세요 고양이 사진 투척
Since DuckDuckGo has decided to regionalize all my search results even when no region is selected (why?!? 😩),
Making my work impossible (I don't spend my day writing about Canada DuckDuckGo! 🙄),
I have started to use 
@MojeekMojeek Search Engine and I must say that it is a real joy. I find what I'm looking for much quicker, no patronizing regionalization based on IP, and no AI pollution. It feels like I found back the 2010s web and I'm here for it.
Thank you Mojeek 💚
Dude, everything's fine
We've teamed up with Automattic to fight link rot on the open web. Check out the new Internet Archive Wayback Machine Link Fixer for WordPress. The free plugin preserves pages, redirects broken links to archived versions, and helps ensure the web keeps its memory.
“It’s very important that websites have a memory," said Alexander Rose of Automattic. "When links go dead, in effect, the truth goes dead—especially in the age of AI,”
Learn more ➡️ https://blog.archive.org/2026/02/04/inside-the-new-wayback-machine-plugin-for-wordpress/
Dérégulation de l’IA ? Pas vraiment !
"La politique américaine en matière d’IA n’est pas du laisser-faire. Il s’agit d’un choix stratégique quant à l’endroit où intervenir. Bien qu’opportun politiquement, le mythe de la déréglementation relève davantage de la fiction que de la réalité"
https://danslesalgorithmes.net/stream/deregulation-de-lia-pas-vraiment/
“밀라노·코르티나담페초겨울올림픽은 여자 종목에서 트랜스젠더 선수의 참가 자격과 관련해 기존의 단편적 지침이 적용되는 마 지막 올림픽이 될 것”
“성소수자 최소 44명 출전”…올림픽이 다시 묻는 성별...
英왕자 칭호 잃은 앤드루 왕실거처에서도 퇴거
송고2026-02-04 19:13
막냇동생 에드워드 왕자 "피해자들 기억하는 게 중요"
www.yna.co.kr/view/AKR2026...
英왕자 칭호 잃은 앤드루 왕실거처에서도 퇴거 | 연합뉴...
실업, 은둔, 주거불안 등에 시달리는 취약 청년들의 신체·정신건강이 악화되는 데에 미래에 대한 불안, 타인과의 비교 등 사회구조적 압박의 영향이 크다는 연구 결과가 나왔습니다. 이들은 사회구조적 압박을 버티기 급급해 건강을 챙기기도 어려웠습니다.
[단독] 아파도 ‘유튜브 의사’ 보며 버틴다…병원 문턱...
[사설] 과로사 은폐하려 직원들 검진 기록까지 뒤진 쿠팡
수정 2026-02-04 21:00
www.hani.co.kr/arti/opinion...
[사설] 과로사 은폐하려 직원들 검진 기록까지 뒤진 쿠...
[$] API changes for the futex robust list
The robust futex kernel API is a way for a user-space program to ensure that the locks it holds are properly cleaned up when it exits. But the API suffers from a number of differe [...]
This morning my mother sent me this photo. They took away the old sofa and in a few days the new one will arrive. The cat and the blind little dog are perplexed 😂
Luna (the dog) is probably thinking “why don't I bang my head anymore?”
Fake AFP office found in 70b O'Smach scam center in Cambodia
It's funny that Redmond adopted the Swedish sign. We don't have an official one in America yet.
RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:fxjqjbmvithsqm6m7ds2uylj/post/3mdytwdacps27
just hammered out a new #chatmail relay and it was relatively smooth sailing ⛵
now chatting with two neighbours 🎉 we will test it out and see how it goes...
🚢 Vltavěnka 405 - Ze Štěchovic do Osady Ztracená naděje pěšmo po Naučné stezce Svatojanské proudy na levém břehu Vltavy a po vodě proti jejímu proudu - díl 61.👋V srdci divočiny.👍 (Foto: 27.08.2022)🚢
Claude Is a Space to Think
Link: https://www.anthropic.com/news/claude-is-a-space-to-think
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46884883
The time is probably right.
Back in 2022, when I was still using iOS, I wasn’t completely happy with the Fediverse apps that were available. I was mostly using Akkoma, and the interface I liked the most was actually its web UI, even on mobile. So I started playing with Xcode and put together the foundations of an app tailored to my needs.
A lot has changed since then and today we have great alternatives like IceCubes, Mona, Ivory, etc. Each one has strengths and weaknesses though, so I picked up my old project again and kept pushing it forward.
So I’m happy to announce that my app will finally see the light: I’ve been using it for the past few days and, in my spare time, I’m fixing bugs and adding missing features. I’m building it around my own needs, so it doesn’t have to “appeal to everyone”. I wouldn’t call it opinionated, but it’s definitely targeted.
The app will have one key trait: #snac2 support will be a first-class feature, not an incidental one. Many apps, especially on iOS, support snac as a side effect, but the experience is often not optimal. In this case, the choice is deliberate and it strictly follows the Mastodon API support implemented by snac. So snac will work properly (within the limits of the platform, of course).
Among the features already implemented: the app is minimal and lightweight (under 10 MB, including debug code), easy on RAM, and privacy-first (for example it strips EXIF data from media before posting, so the server will never see it). On snac it also cleans up the "Boosted by Aoderelay" messages that appear when using a relay, removes the character limit, and supports posting in Markdown.
I also added support for Apple Intelligence to generate alt text, both for the media I post and for media posted by others that is missing alt text.
Everything is processed locally through Apple APIs and only on supported devices. The results aren't amazing, Apple Intelligence is extremely limited, but in my opinion it's the only privacy-friendly and ethical way to approach it. And of course, you can disable it.
On Mastodon it supports all the main features: lists, quote posts, granular notifications (you can choose what you want for each category), notification grouping, multi-account support, and it works.
It's still missing a few things (block, etc.) and has some bugs, which I’m spotting as I keep using it.
As soon as it's stable enough, I'll invite a few people to test it. I still haven't fully decided how I'll distribute it: an Apple Developer account has a yearly cost, and I hope to reuse it for other projects too. So this app might be paid, with a trial period, but if possible (I still need to check what’s feasible) I'd like it to be free if you connect to one of the BSD Cafe instances, illumos Cafe, or any snac instance, including your own.
I don't know how long it will take before it's ready... but I can already tell you what it will be called.
It already has a name, and it's... MastoBlaster.
This name was chosen for personal reasons, and also because of its similarity to Master Blaster by Stevie Wonder, which even today feels relevant and fitting for the Fediverse.
Stay tuned!
#MastoBlaster #Fediverse #Mastodon #iOS #FediverseApp #Announcement #Apple #snac #snac2 #BSDCafe #illumosCafe
Does anyone else have connection/Tunnel errors with #i2p currently?
seems that #i2p is under attack right now, 😭
follow it here:
https://github.com/PurpleI2P/i2pd/issues/2312
and here:
https://www.reddit.com/r/i2p/comments/1qvalmq/megathread_ongoing_attack_on_i2p_network_causing/
ちょっと何言ってるかわからないアニメの話
いい感じのアニメないか適当にLLMに投げてみてるけど最初にわたなれとかリコリコを例に出したせいで真島が恋愛テロリストになった…… 
The members of 
@propublicaguild are preparing to strike to win their first contract: https://www.propublicaguild.org/updates/the-propublica-guild-is-ready-to-strike-for-a-fair-contract
Old Insurance Maps – Georeferencing Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps on Modern Maps
Link: https://oldinsurancemaps.net/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46788588
There are two problems in computer science:
1. We could do this better
2. We should not do this at all
Spend two hours on learning how to update the German #php docs #translation and making my first two PRs:
https://github.com/php/doc-de/pull/210
https://github.com/php/doc-de/pull/211
If you ever wanted to learn how to contribute to the translation, but felt it wasn't clear on how to do it:
Feel free to reach out, happy to help you get going.
This study—from Anthropic, no less—is rather damning of the entire generative AI project. In code creation, the realm where it should shine, not only were the time gains marginal, but developers understood their code far, far less. And they didn't even have more fun doing the work!
But to me the most concerning part of this study is the fact that Anthropic could not get the control (non-AI) group to comply. Up to 35% of the "control" in the initial studies used AI tools despite instructions not to. What kind of behavior does that sound like?
UPDATE: See below for important counterpoints as to the validity of the study.
🌟 Check out the rich suite of libraries that Kaushik has been steadily developing; html-parsing, at-proto, and more:
https://notes.kaushikc.org/3mdxmxpjkg22c?utm_source=mastodon
Broken Proofs and Broken Provers
Link: https://lawrencecpaulson.github.io/2026/01/15/Broken_proofs.html
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46883337
inspired by CLAUDE.md, I’ve started putting markdown files named after coworkers into work code repos so I can remind them to stop doing shit to the codebase that annoys me
for some reason they’re all mad at me now, which means ill be adding commands to JEREMY.md for an attitude adjustment
mildly upsetting quote from Agner's optimization manual
-fno-math-errno. Mathematical functions such assqrtandlogare setting a variable namederrnoin case of errors. This way of detecting errors is inefficient and should be avoided. The option-fno-math-errnois necessary for vectorization of loops containing mathematical functions.
This study—from Anthropic, no less—is rather damning of the entire generative AI project. In code creation, the realm where it should shine, not only were the time gains marginal, but developers understood their code far, far less. And they didn't even have more fun doing the work!
But to me the most concerning part of this study is the fact that Anthropic could not get the control (non-AI) group to comply. Up to 35% of the "control" in the initial studies used AI tools despite instructions not to. What kind of behavior does that sound like?
UPDATE: See below for important counterpoints as to the validity of the study.
#저는_어떤사람_인가요 늦은시각이지만 저두 칠라님 따라 해시올릴래
The time is probably right.
Back in 2022, when I was still using iOS, I wasn’t completely happy with the Fediverse apps that were available. I was mostly using Akkoma, and the interface I liked the most was actually its web UI, even on mobile. So I started playing with Xcode and put together the foundations of an app tailored to my needs.
A lot has changed since then and today we have great alternatives like IceCubes, Mona, Ivory, etc. Each one has strengths and weaknesses though, so I picked up my old project again and kept pushing it forward.
So I’m happy to announce that my app will finally see the light: I’ve been using it for the past few days and, in my spare time, I’m fixing bugs and adding missing features. I’m building it around my own needs, so it doesn’t have to “appeal to everyone”. I wouldn’t call it opinionated, but it’s definitely targeted.
The app will have one key trait: #snac2 support will be a first-class feature, not an incidental one. Many apps, especially on iOS, support snac as a side effect, but the experience is often not optimal. In this case, the choice is deliberate and it strictly follows the Mastodon API support implemented by snac. So snac will work properly (within the limits of the platform, of course).
Among the features already implemented: the app is minimal and lightweight (under 10 MB, including debug code), easy on RAM, and privacy-first (for example it strips EXIF data from media before posting, so the server will never see it). On snac it also cleans up the "Boosted by Aoderelay" messages that appear when using a relay, removes the character limit, and supports posting in Markdown.
I also added support for Apple Intelligence to generate alt text, both for the media I post and for media posted by others that is missing alt text.
Everything is processed locally through Apple APIs and only on supported devices. The results aren't amazing, Apple Intelligence is extremely limited, but in my opinion it's the only privacy-friendly and ethical way to approach it. And of course, you can disable it.
On Mastodon it supports all the main features: lists, quote posts, granular notifications (you can choose what you want for each category), notification grouping, multi-account support, and it works.
It's still missing a few things (block, etc.) and has some bugs, which I’m spotting as I keep using it.
As soon as it's stable enough, I'll invite a few people to test it. I still haven't fully decided how I'll distribute it: an Apple Developer account has a yearly cost, and I hope to reuse it for other projects too. So this app might be paid, with a trial period, but if possible (I still need to check what’s feasible) I'd like it to be free if you connect to one of the BSD Cafe instances, illumos Cafe, or any snac instance, including your own.
I don't know how long it will take before it's ready... but I can already tell you what it will be called.
It already has a name, and it's... MastoBlaster.
This name was chosen for personal reasons, and also because of its similarity to Master Blaster by Stevie Wonder, which even today feels relevant and fitting for the Fediverse.
Stay tuned!
#MastoBlaster #Fediverse #Mastodon #iOS #FediverseApp #Announcement #Apple #snac #snac2 #BSDCafe #illumosCafe
🚢 Vltavěnka 405 - Ze Štěchovic do Osady Ztracená naděje pěšmo po Naučné stezce Svatojanské proudy na levém břehu Vltavy a po vodě proti jejímu proudu - díl 61.👋V srdci divočiny.👍 (Foto: 27.08.2022)🚢
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