What is Hackers' Pub?

"Capture it all": ICE urged to explain memo about collecting info on protesters
Sen. Markey: Database of peaceful protesters, if it exists, should be shut down.
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/02/capture-it-all-ice-urged-to-explain-memo-about-collecting-info-on-protesters/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

Fedimap.de – fedimap.de https://rivva.de/336251341

Q: Why did the slave go to college ?

A: To pick up his master's degree.

#dadjokes

Med check!!!

(Also, what's your solution to the question of: Did I take my meds?)

Education Committee meeting today. The genAI madness is in full swing, at least in my neck of the higher-education woods.

Example: MSc dissertations. A three-months project of supervised applied research. Students now are encouraged to use LLM tools to develop and design their project. It used to be the role of the supervisor to help the student develop their project and learn how to do things themselves, in a series of personal meetings, human teacher and human student in creative dialogue, a precious culmination of a Master's degree. Under the new rules, as supervisor I won't even be allowed to insist that the student works with me, without AI.

Since you ask: yes, I did speak up against it. A few other colleagues did so too. Most were pro-AI, feeling hip.

The world we live in! A once noble profession giving up on its own core role, mindlessly. Self-mutilation of the university teacher as a profession.

#StopTheAICorruption #noAI #NoVibeLearning #HigherEducation #AcademicChatter

Show HN: Craftplan – I built my wife a production management tool for her bakery

Link: https://github.com/puemos/craftplan
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46847690

Coding Agent VMs on NixOS with Microvm.nix

Link: https://michael.stapelberg.ch/posts/2026-02-01-coding-agent-microvm-nix/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46844410

Tomorrow I will represent @Mastodon at the EU Tech Stars Summit, organized by the European Greens at the European Parliament.
I will also be part of a panel moderated by MEP @alexandrageese about user choice focused algorithms.

https://www.greens-efa.eu/en/article/event/eu-tech-stars-summit

Education Committee meeting today. The genAI madness is in full swing, at least in my neck of the higher-education woods.

Example: MSc dissertations. A three-months project of supervised applied research. Students now are encouraged to use LLM tools to develop and design their project. It used to be the role of the supervisor to help the student develop their project and learn how to do things themselves, in a series of personal meetings, human teacher and human student in creative dialogue, a precious culmination of a Master's degree. Under the new rules, as supervisor I won't even be allowed to insist that the student works with me, without AI.

Since you ask: yes, I did speak up against it. A few other colleagues did so too. Most were pro-AI, feeling hip.

The world we live in! A once noble profession giving up on its own core role, mindlessly. Self-mutilation of the university teacher as a profession.

#StopTheAICorruption #noAI #NoVibeLearning #HigherEducation #AcademicChatter

#SocialCoop the instance will momentarily go down as we try to bump the character limit to 1k :) Thank you for your patience!

I'm going to be talking at this event next month:

"Online Meeting on Electronic Research Notebooks: Implementation & Adoption Success Stories"

https://researchnotebooks.org/event/online-meeting-on-electronic-research-notebooks-implementation-adoption-success-stories/

#ERN #ELN #notebook #notebooks #ElectronicResearchNotebooks #ElectronicLabNotebooks

In Tehran

Link: https://www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2026/january/in-tehran
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46888498

Ripley’s jumping/climbing days are far from over. #SomeoneToWatchOverMe #CatsOfMastodon #RipleyAndJonesy #JustRipley

Would you use a tool to invite your friends and family to join the Fediverse which would help them automatically follow you from their new account?

#EvanPoll #poll

We use a lot of simple analogies for learning that are subtly misleading. Like reducing all of complex behavior down to simplistic "dopamine loops", it's inaccurate. Good learning is not really about whether things are "always hard" or "always easy," it's about whether we're being strategic overall

So many developers have sent me that Anthropic skills/mastery case study that I realized I should ungate what I *already wrote* about this whole topic back in October: beginning principles to design workflows that work *with* your mind, not against it, & protect your problem-solving

https://www.fightforthehuman.com/cognitive-helmets-for-the-ai-bicycle-part-1/

오렌지 조랭이떡 보여줄게

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...

삼성, ‘전사 영어문서’ 체제로 전환…국내외 법인 간 문서도 영어만 사용 기사입력 2026.02.02 10:35 삼성전자·디스플레이·바이오로직스 내달부터 적용…글로벌 경영 체질 개선·속도전 나서 www.sankyungtoday.com/news/article...

삼성, ‘전사 영어문서’ 체제로 전환…국내외 법인 간 ...

WaPo laid off one of the journalists who won a 2022 Pulitzer Prize for reporting on the January 6th attack on the Capitol.

I think Odin sincerely believes humans can conjure bacon out of thin air if you stare at them cutely enough #dog #dogs #dogsofmastodon

Wife Fugi! 🐰🩷 #RosieDreamsOfArt

Noctiluca라는 macOS 컴퓨터를 원격으로 제어할 수 있는 소프트웨어를 만들고 있습니다! 조만간 테스트 가능한 버전이 나올 것 같은데, 혹시 관심 있으신 분 계신가요 🥺

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:drcseq22apwsrbpufztrntj4/post/3mdt44pblsan2

미피 레고버전 시안이 나왔다고 합니다. 네모네모빔!! 10,000표를 받아야 출시된다고 합니다. 트친비로 버튼 눌러! 선착순 1만명에 들어가!! beta.ideas.lego.com/product-idea...

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

Link: https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.00294
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46886265

RE: https://maho.dev/2026/01/the-anachronistic-internet-when-cat-videos-actually-mattered/

Insomnia posts are my passion.

"러다이트 운동은 21세기 들어 일부에서 신러다이트 운동으로 이어지고 있다. 이들은 맹목적 반기술주의와는 선을 긋지만 무분별한 기술 도입에 반대한다. 러다이트 연구자인 브라이언 머천트는 일자리를 앗아가는 것은 로봇이 아니라 고용주인데도 왜 고용 불안을 인간과 로봇의 문제로 다룰 뿐 노동자와 고용주 간의 문제로 다루지 않느냐고 반문한다."

21세기 아틀라스와 19세기 러다이트 [오철우의 과학풍...

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She wants me to rub her belly. Should I rub her belly? I think I should.....

#cats #CatsOfMastodon #WhiskersWednesday #pets

@reiver@reiver ⊼ (Charles) The culture here can be pretty toxic. Too much gate-keeping, tone policing, scolding people instead of leading by example.

And without reply controls, no tools to protect yourself from this.

What do y'all think about this? I was inspired by stage0 and live-bootstrap. So I decided to take a crack at doing bare metal RISC-V code.

https://github.com/wildwestrom/stage0-riscv64-baremetal

A measly 25% decrease after an increase of…what, 10x? 20x? feels like 100x?

With no timeline? no transparency, no accountability?

And they’ll wear body cameras? eventually? they say? with footage that…who can view, again? Oh, we don’t know??

This all means nothing — •nothing• — except that they’re afraid: afraid of losing funding, afraid of consequences.

•• It’s working. Punch harder. ••

https://apnews.com/article/immigration-enforcement-drawdown-minnesota-homan-963adf341325d7f6eb5673e1c00d3c2a

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i kind of get that maybe "you can move your data but no one will notice" sounds less exciting so idk

ちなみにこの話でてきたのはstrange Fake見始めてなんでもエクスカリバー知って思いついたからっていう

애착몽키 잃어버림 아침일찍 철물점 다녀와야겟다 우리고영 캣타워가 흔들리

I was planning on visiting Ferrara once again - maybe an early spring, maybe a late March or so. But...

1. I need to lose some weight - Ferrara is a place where kilos are gained very, very easily - colazione in Caffe Italiano, pre-lunch desert at Pasticceria Carli, pizza in Mordi e Fuggi, an ice cream, then a dinner and a few beers at the XI Comandamento. So I need to be prepared.

2. it needs to be a home match of S.P.A.L.... ehm, I mean, Ars et Labor Ferrara Calcio.. which is usually played on Sunday so it's not possible for me to just use my days off during the "short week"

3. And I also need to be there during the weekday because I want to visit the coffee roasters Krifi Caffe..

So as you can see, it's not as easy as it seems.. not as easy..