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.
Thesis:
Bitcoin will not die from technology or regulation, but from the fact that AI consumes the same fuel while promising a higher return.
Or, more polemically:
Bitcoin burns electricity to cosplay as money.
AI burns electricity to generate power.
PSA: Daggerfall released closer to Minecraft than Minecraft's release is to today
These:
Bitcoin stirbt nicht an Technik oder Regulierung, sondern daran, dass KI denselben Brennstoff verbraucht und dafür eine höhere Rendite verspricht.
oder noch polemischer:
Bitcoin verbrennt Strom, um Geld zu simulieren. KI verbrennt Strom, um Macht zu erzeugen.
I'd appreciate someone with more knowledge about certificates checking if this is a good idea and if I did it correctly. It definitely fixes the issue.
https://codeberg.org/tusky/Tusky/pulls/5427
#tuskydev
Hei! 👋🏻 I know a few of my followers are from or have lived in Norway 🇳🇴 - seeking your advice!
Curious if anyone has advice on how to find a new fastlege (primary care doctor). The one I was assigned upon moving here is very much not a fit. 😢 I'm looking at reviews on legelisten.no but curious if there are other things I should be looking at/for!
Thursday. What a concept.
Pelicans for Opus 4.6 and Codex 5.3 - I don't have much interesting to say about these models yet to be honest, they're both incremental improvements on their predecessors and very capable https://simonwillison.net/2026/Feb/5/two-new-models/
Anthropic's Claude Opus 4.6 uncovers 500 zero-day flaws in open-source code
Link: https://www.axios.com/2026/02/05/anthropic-claude-opus-46-software-hunting
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46902909
While reporting this, I had something happen that's never happened. A comms rep for one of the co's disputed my reporting and said what I was telling them was untrue because it was not in Grok, xAI's chatbot.
I was looking directly at the files. And this person was using AI to challenge the truth.
RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:emhyi4kljodgqlusdsopgfgd/post/3me4ox67ek22n
My fosdem talk is up!
I make a case for more platforms to support the ActivityPub client API, and how we should look beyond microblogging for future growth of the ‘verse
https://fosdem.org/2026/schedule/event/QK7XSV-activitypub-c2s/
I'm an electrician.
I dare you to use ChatGPT to wire a plug.
This is why AI is absolute horse shit.
I'd appreciate someone with more knowledge about certificates checking if this is a good idea and if I did it correctly. It definitely fixes the issue.
https://codeberg.org/tusky/Tusky/pulls/5427
#tuskydev
Now I’m not saying all is forgiven, but holy shit, has Tim Cook finally grown some balls?
https://www.macrumors.com/2026/02/05/apple-ceo-tim-cook-on-immigration/
Apple CEO Tim Cook Promises to Lobby U.S. Government on Immigration
In an all-hands meeting with employees today, Apple CEO Tim Cook promised to lobby the U.S. government on immigration, according to Bloomberg's Mark Gurman. Cook said he is "deeply distraught" with the U.S. government's current approach to immigration, and he promised to make his voice heard on the matter, the report said.
www.macrumors.com · MacRumors
Link author: 
Joe Rossignol@rsgnl@mastodon.social
It's a really impressive work of Claude Opus 4.6: A C compiler written in Rust which is capable of compiling a booting Linux kernel and passing their test suites include PostgreSQL and SQLite. 😳
McNuggets topped with caviar. That's it folks. Shut it down. Shut the whole thing down. We're done.
It’s really surprising to me that the #fediverse hasn’t agreed on a standardized way to open cross-instance #activitypub objects and instead relies on links that open in the browser. #urischeme
I found this proposal and what’s thinking… https://codeberg.org/fediverse/fep/src/branch/main/fep/07d7/fep-07d7.md Which one would be your favorite?
(If anyone has updates on the progress, feel free to point me in the right direction)
The two hardest problems in computer science are plugging in the USB-A the right way up the first time, and finding a USB-A mini cable for the last remaining device in your house that still needs one to charge.
Creating a Samba Active Directory Domain Controller on FreeBSD – Sour Coffee Labs
<https://sour.coffee/2026/02/04/creating-a-samba-active-directory-domain-controller-on-freebsd/> 
@blackbirdNeel
– via <https://www.reddit.com/r/freebsd/comments/1qw1tcc/creating_a_samba_active_directory_domain/>
Supplies ready, heart full, cat happy.
#cats #food #loveforcats #CatsOfMastodon
⏳ With less than two weeks remaining, we want to share a reminder that the 
@rustconf 2026 CFP closes on February 16.
As the host of #rustconf, we see the program as a reflection of the community itself — the real challenges, ideas, and experiences people are working through with Rust today.
If you have a clear, well-considered perspective you think should be part of that conversation, we encourage you to submit a proposal! https://bit.ly/3M0bhl5
After a lot of twists and turns, we finally landed in Doha.
I miss FOSDEM already. I can't wait for next year's FOSDEM!
Puffin and Pabu sharing some sunshine
Hey LINUX USERS. There is a LINUX USER who got stranded on Bluesky instead of here somehow and— you'll be shocked to hear this I'm sure— she's having problems with Pipewire. She's tried a couple different configurations, and all have the same problem: Either audio is choppy, or audio works a bit then after a reboot suddenly *becomes* choppy.
Her full setup:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1cbr_W5riTnbyxAzmeiLuKcz8egjTIe5KRGGfVMgSL5g/edit?usp=sharing
Do you want to help? If so reply to her either here:
https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:p7n55evixe363663dmqtfvda/post/3mdy2h3qa6k2v
Or to this post and I'll relay it.
McNuggets topped with caviar. That's it folks. Shut it down. Shut the whole thing down. We're done.
Daily GitHub web ui experience now
Great Quote I saw today: "Cybersecurity doesn’t reward what you know. It rewards how fast you adapt."
Flock CEO calls Deflock a "terrorist organization" [video] (2025)
Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l-kZGrDz7PU
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46903556
We tasked Opus 4.6 using agent teams to build a C Compiler
Link: https://www.anthropic.com/engineering/building-c-compiler
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46903616
Weird, this didn't federate to Bluesky
Show mute end date in badge (#37747) by ChaosExAnima has been merged! https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/commit/7a4945c0d3ed3550e1a22e53c03c6de646d62aec
I am very close to unsubscribing from a podcast that I have listened to for 20 years, because the hosts will not shut the fuck up about “AI”.
I appreciate that LLM-based tech is in the news and they cover it (often with a lot of knowledge, because they both understand it fairly well), but there’s so much rampant speculation about it solving all problems, and I’m tired of it.
I don’t want to. I like(d) this podcast.
Pretty fucking close though.
lieben Gruß an unsere Freunde vom 
@maglabMagrathea Laboratories , 
@flipdotflipdot hackspace kassel , 
@cccffmChaos Computer Club Frankfurt 
@cccdaCCC Darmstadt e.V. 
@cccwi (: Donnerstags findet jetzt unser Family&Friends-Tag statt. ihr seid herzlich eingeladen <3
おっはよ～
KO Seiki Beast Sanjuushi - Gaia Fukkatsu Kanketsu Hen (Matrix/Radical Plan/Pack-In-Video, PC Engine CD, 1994)
지연 때문에 항공사 측에서 경유지 바우처(식권) 지원해 준다길래 푸트코트 왔더니 폭력적인 비주얼의 음식이 있어서 시켜봄 근데 비주얼만큼 가격도 폭력적이라 바우처 뗐는데도 18달러 더 나감 tq;
"trottinette" amüsiert mich gerade sehr ...
Windows 11 Users, be like:
"Look at my modern desktop!"
The two hardest problems in computer science are plugging in the USB-A the right way up the first time, and finding a USB-A mini cable for the last remaining device in your house that still needs one to charge.
한국경제신문 압수수색…기자들이 주식기사 써서 수십억 차익
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관련 기사만 수백건…수십억 부당이득 챙겨
‘112억 차익’ 타사 기자·투자자도 작년 송치 www.seoul.co.kr/news/economy...
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What I listened to today: "BASTL🏰CITADEL｜#4 - Crushed strings ( 🧙♂️FX WIZARD, nRings, uO_C, little nerd )", boop _e_
One of my fav things in modern music tech is Bastl's nano-modular "Kastle"—recently rebooted as the "Kastle 2/Citadel" series, available as either a eurorack module or the Kastle patchwire format & reprogrammable as any of 3 different devices. Here, the FX WIZARD mode glitches the venerable "Rings" Karplus-Strong module. Have I lost you? It's crunchy sounds
What I listened to today: "Secuencia Techno con Syntakt y Microfreak", RM1_music
Super satisfying techno set on two desktop devices. Hard driving thumps, surreal whooshing. At some point I have to face the fact I never actually learned the names of EDM subgenres I just like, listen to everything, and that makes writing these descriptions hard some days. Someone who did the research could probably identify the 3 microgenres here. All I can say is it's highly raveworthy
RE: https://mastodon.gamedev.place/@wildbat/115907473827650157
It appears itch may have now fixed the animated GIF issue!
Stefan Bohacek
Tom Casavant
Chao-c'
leyrer
@reiver ⊼ (Charles) 
いっかく 
