What is Hackers' Pub?

Maple Taffy: A Sweet Snowy Tradition

During maple syrup season, Canadians pour hot syrup onto fresh snow to create maple taffy! 🍁❄️ Rolled onto a stick, it's a beloved winter treat at sugar shacks and festivals, celebrating Canada's maple heritage! 🇨🇦 #Canada #MapleSyrup #Tradition #SweetTreat

https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/maple-sugar-industry

RE: https://ohai.social/@dbread/115937557039175791

Social Networks Are Crap 2.0

For #SuperbOwlSunday here's the beautiful Great Horned Owl (Bubo virginianus) that visited our backyard a while ago and kindly posed for a photo! 🦉

https://photos.alex-kunz.com/media/019b6c22-6adc-7971-b640-2556a567bf74

#Birds #Wildlife #Owl #BirdPhotography #WildlifePhotography #NaturePhotography

Apparently Claude's C "compiler" is actually Python compiler since it allows returning a string from a function with a return type int. They should add this in the new C standard /s https://godbolt.org/z/of4nxj79c

#compiler #vibecoding #agenticcoding

Oh it is #superbowl across the pond today? Haven’t taken any recent owl 🦉 photos but here is the owl cafe in Kyoto

The First Sodium-Ion Battery EV Is a Winter Range Monster

Link: https://insideevs.com/news/786509/catl-changan-worlds-first-sodium-ion-battery-ev/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46936315

지금까지 덕질을 해본 경험이 없어서 잘은 모르겠는데 일단 크리코리가 귀엽네요

@quixoticgeek You know of @owlsintowels, of course? (Note to all #SuperbOwl fanciers: The Owls in Towels account had to set up anew a while ago; the earthstream account is no more.)

지금까지 햄부기를 세트로 많이 먹었는데 내일은 단품 2개로 먹어봐야지 잇힝~~

Beautiful nerds of the fediverse. It's the #SuperbOwl this evening, I fully expect y'all to step up and provide lots of photos of superb owls! Please do your magic.

See a picture of a superb owl? Don't forget to boost it so others might see it too.

Get snac'd up (not just) for #fosdem !

You can now purchase #snac propaganda stickers and apparel to show your allegiance or to wage war with.

https://www.redbubble.com/people/analognowhere/shop?artistUserName=analognowhere&asc=u&collections=4443355&iaCode=all-departments&sortOrder=top%20selling

Blessed be the hacker @grunfinkThe Real Grunfink for they can C.

#snac2 #runbsd #linux #unix_surrealism #fediverse

Locking down your phone, being mindful of what you're wearing, and coming up with plans to communicate with others are all key steps to take before attending a protest. https://ssd.eff.org/module/attending-protest

Today is Superb Owl Sunday!
Here are some photos of owls I've taken.
Enjoy!

#SuperbOwl #Superb_Owl #MyPhoto

Billionaires are worried about the Greta Thunberg type of protesting, which, on the ground, is a modest movement. But it's subversive, it tries to cause crisis. it's a type of protest that topples power structures.

Notice how billionaires never seem to worry about branded activism like #NoKings. It's because those types of protests don't apply pressure to those who wield power.

It's shows up and it leaves quietly.

https://fortune.com/2026/02/04/peter-thiel-antichrist-greta-thunberg-end-of-modernity-billionaires/

今回の選挙はやっぱりいろいろ考えるな

I put a real-time 3D shader on the Game Boy Color

Link: https://blog.otterstack.com/posts/202512-gbshader/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46935791

Vouch

Link: https://github.com/mitchellh/vouch
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46930961

Apparently Claude's C "compiler" is actually Python compiler since it allows returning a string from a function with a return type int. They should add this in the new C standard /s https://godbolt.org/z/of4nxj79c

#compiler #vibecoding #agenticcoding

“Know your parasites.”
Ticks. Worms. Billionaires.
Different problems, different treatments.
New in London UK!

Millie presents a good argument for dinner time.

https://social.coop/@fraggle/115946143804074849 this has been true since the dawn of the "consumer technology product" but it has undoubtedly intensified with 21st century complexity: the figurative and literal external surface of the product are the sales pitch, the thing it *claims* to do, encasing and obscuring the reality of what the product *actually* does, and how it does it, like a sort of gnostic veil.
trillions of dollars are now hanging on this thread, and the people who did that have names and addresses.

웨젠도 (자아가 없어서)미친놈인데 알넵이랑 조합이 궁금햐이

Are there examples of developers previously working on Twitter/Reddit etc. clients that switched to developing Mastodon/Lemmy/Piefed… apps after the API changes, other than Ivory?

I think we're entering a new stage in the war between billionaires and the rest of us.

It is a war of attrition and every chance we have to degrade their ability to use their power we should take.

Work with your neighbours. Fight and win every court case. Small and big labour strikes. Boycotts. Crash the market. Jam up everything for them. Win the elections. All of it to press them back.

And while we're fighting in all those ways, we need to dream up the world we want beyond their systems of greed and exploitation.

Locking down your phone, being mindful of what you're wearing, and coming up with plans to communicate with others are all key steps to take before attending a protest. https://ssd.eff.org/module/attending-protest

“Know your parasites.”
Ticks. Worms. Billionaires.
Different problems, different treatments.
New in London UK!

Millie gets fed at 5, but starts petitioning for dinner at 3 now.

Rebuilding my home network with VLANs and 10Gbps https://lobste.rs/s/bic9qr #networking
https://clintonboys.com/projects/homelab/03-network/

Omega-3 is inversely related to risk of early-onset dementia

Link: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/41506004/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46935991

Anyone in my followers list on a server that has secure fetch enabled? I want to use it to test my proxyUrl implementation for client to server #ActivityPub. :D

I'm not going to waste my precious human time reading something that you didn't spend your precious human time writing.

I really don't care about the well-aligned randomly stolen words of a text-generating machine you are using for cheap marketing.

#NoAI

Everyone now knows that LLMs can’t make good decisions about complex software design at scale. None moreso than everyone working at and invested in frontier labs. So far, no conventional wisdom about what LLMs can’t do has survived impact. We will likely find out within 8 months whether we are entering a new AI winter or we passed the event horizon where capital will fully replace labor.

Personally, I don’t see how it can be done. But I can’t trust my judgement. It has never survived impact.

차별금지법은 형사 처벌 조항이 없더라도, 차별 행위가 법률 위반(불법 행위)임을 분명히 하는 기준이 됩니다. 민사, 행정 영역에서 해석상, 관행상 지금까지 잘 인정되지 않던 부분을 개선하는 효과가 있습니다. 명확하고 실질적인 진전이 될 겁니다.

“The Pensacola Graffiti Bridge never disappoints.” - Constitutional Crisis Alert
#USpol

RE: https://cosocial.ca/@evan/115994966562674116

so it seems like the "federated events" W3C Community Working Group is gonna be a thing, psyched to see it finally taking shape. I guess the next step is to choose who is actually gonna be organizing it?!

I'm not going to waste my precious human time reading something that you didn't spend your precious human time writing.

I really don't care about the well-aligned randomly stolen words of a text-generating machine you are using for cheap marketing.

#NoAI

"Palantir says that 99% of Austrian voyagers to the US use the e-mail address g.sheissn@orschlo.ch"
"Fascinating."

Anyone in my followers list on a server that has secure fetch enabled? I want to use it to test my proxyUrl implementation for client to server #ActivityPub. :D

와 맨시티, 진짜 진짜 어려운 경기를 역전승으로 잡아냈다! 막판 셰르키 골이 취소된게 아쉬운데, 어쨌든 이겼으니까 됐다. 끝까지 포기하지 말자. 경기도 리그도 시즌도.

프로그래머로 살다 보니까 256이 만만한 숫자지만 이런 맥락으로 보면 또 새삼스럽게 엄청 큰 수구나라는 생각이 든다

I have deeply mixed feelings about #ActivityPub's adoption of JSON-LD, as someone who's spent way too long dealing with it while building #Fedify.

Part of me wishes it had never happened. A lot of developers jump into ActivityPub development without really understanding JSON-LD, and honestly, can you blame them? The result is a growing number of implementations producing technically invalid JSON-LD. It works, sort of, because everyone's just pattern-matching against what Mastodon does, but it's not correct. And even developers who do take the time to understand JSON-LD often end up hardcoding their documents anyway, because proper JSON-LD processor libraries simply don't exist for many languages. No safety net, no validation, just vibes and hoping you got the @context right. Naturally, mistakes creep in.

But then the other part of me thinks: well, we're stuck with JSON-LD now. There's no going back. So wouldn't it be nice if people actually used it properly? Process the documents, normalize them, do the compaction and expansion dance the way the spec intended. That's what Fedify does.

Here's the part that really gets to me, though. Because Fedify actually processes JSON-LD correctly, it's more likely to break when talking to implementations that produce malformed documents. From the end user's perspective, Fedify looks like the fragile one. “Why can't I follow this person?” Well, because their server is emitting garbage JSON-LD that happens to work with implementations that just treat it as a regular JSON blob. Every time I get one of these bug reports, I feel a certain injustice. Like being the only person in the group project who actually read the assignment.

To be fair, there are real practical reasons why most people don't bother with proper JSON-LD processing. Implementing a full processor is genuinely a lot of work. It leans on the entire Linked Data stack, which is bigger than most people expect going in. And the performance cost isn't trivial either. Fedify uses some tricks to keep things fast, and I'll be honest, that code isn't my proudest work.

Anyway, none of this is going anywhere. Just me grumbling into the void. If you're building an ActivityPub implementation, maybe consider using a JSON-LD processor if one's available for your language. And if you're not going to, at least test your output against implementations that do.

#JSONLD #fedidev

용소필 하면서 새삼스럽게 놀란 점... 주인공 빼고 캐릭터가 16명 있고 인형도 16종류 있고 아무 캐릭터한테 아무 인형을 줄 수 있으면 256가지 대사를 전부 직접 입력했다는 거겠지

I suspect a long term consequence of AI adoption in workplaces is that document reviews become worthless. An initial problem some have begun to encounter is where the author didn’t even read the document AI produced.

Some AI-forward companies have an even more pernicious problem of people not reading the document but instead asking AI what questions to raise to make it look like they did.

Over time this will become a waste of time with only the AI companies benefiting.

90s TV made 2020s America: Married with children, Roseanne, Jackass etc

idle thought: a feed that shows you only one random post at a time, you have to pull-down refresh like a slot machine lever to get a new one

RE: https://skyjake.fi/@lagrange/116035029279643901

This has been a long time coming.

I wouldn't say the app is perfect by any means, but by now it's certainly time-tested. I use it daily for browsing Gemini and managing bbs.geminispace.org on both the iPhone and iPad.

The TestFlight continues for beta builds.

#GeminiProtocol #GeminiProject

Rabbit Ear "Origami": programmable origami in the browser

Link: https://rabbitear.org/book/origami.html
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46886569