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.

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Facts didn’t build this collective delusion, and facts won’t puncture it.

So yeah, I’m trying to stay diligent about facts where facts matter. I’m trying to stay clear in my own head about what we •know• with high confidence as distinct from what merely seems •likely•.

And I’m also studying — with careful attention, as a serious matter — what popular imagination is doing to the “100% vibes” foundation of Trumpism. Popular imagination. Not the facts. The vibes.

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@inthehandsPaul Cantrell It didn't matter that Marie Antoinette didn't ever say "Let them eat cake!"*, her general attitude and the feelings were against her by the point she got into the carriage to flee. Or, as somebody else said: "People can forget what you did, but never how you made them feel."

*The quote originally wasn't even attributed to her, and it was not cake, but brioche, which is a kind of bread, but that's historical sentiment for you.

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Reading scholarship on to — I just want younger people to know, this is different. In my memory, theorists and practitioners didn't feel bound to organize a *resistance* to word processors or gps or email.

Now, maybe we all turned technophobe all of a sudden. But maybe, just maybe, this is not the technological future we should be embracing or even accepting.

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if i ran firefox, this is what i would say wrt AI in firefox in 2026.

1. ai is exciting!

2. it's also in its infancy.

3. we don't know yet how or if it connects to the web.

4. the web is 100% our #1 priority.

5. so we're going to wait.

6. for now firefox is a no-ai browser.

7. we won't include ai until we know why.

8. and then it will be opt-in.

9. and we will continue to make firefox the best web browser.

sincerely,

the developers of firefox

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me being bitter about genai

We have reached a new era of civil engineering; now we can build bridges by simply dumping truckloads of shit into the river until the shit mountains are tall enough that some people and maybe cars can cross the river. Truly, it is a revolutionary technology that democraticizes access to bridges; now everyone can dump a truckload of shit over small rivers here and there and cross the rivers instead of asking an engineer to build the bridge for them. This approach completely removes all the bottlenecks in engineering, too: no need to navigate difficult legal frameworks or ethical concerns. The biggest players on the market are staring to replace their bridges with shit mountains, you'd better be catching up and learning how to use this new groundbreaking technology. Some of you have ethical concerns, but this is beyond of the scope of my post. I also recognise that some might notice fish in the rivers dying, or simply slip on the shit; just you wait, I bet it'll be fixed in ~6 months

re: me being bitter about genai

Look, there are lots of skeptics out there, but the shit mountains are becoming really useful these days. With just a shit mountain or two you could reach places that previously required a ladder or a bridge or a vehicle. The vehicle part is still out of reach, but in the future we can make shit mountains placed in such a way that, when we pour some shit between them, would allow us to reach the destination almost as fast as cars and boats. And it runs on shit, and as you know, shit is virtually free, you can literally go to a number of websites and get the shit for free. You can even get open-sourced shit these days, and pour it locally. Open source shit mountains are not as good as the commercial ones yet, but we're getting there.

Anyway, the bottom line, shit mountains are here to stay. Learn how to live with them.

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me being bitter about genai

We have reached a new era of civil engineering; now we can build bridges by simply dumping truckloads of shit into the river until the shit mountains are tall enough that some people and maybe cars can cross the river. Truly, it is a revolutionary technology that democraticizes access to bridges; now everyone can dump a truckload of shit over small rivers here and there and cross the rivers instead of asking an engineer to build the bridge for them. This approach completely removes all the bottlenecks in engineering, too: no need to navigate difficult legal frameworks or ethical concerns. The biggest players on the market are staring to replace their bridges with shit mountains, you'd better be catching up and learning how to use this new groundbreaking technology. Some of you have ethical concerns, but this is beyond of the scope of my post. I also recognise that some might notice fish in the rivers dying, or simply slip on the shit; just you wait, I bet it'll be fixed in ~6 months

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NEW: In a protest against the University of Minnesota’s accommodation of DHS and ICE, six students chained themselves to Morrill Hall, which houses the campus’s administration and has been the site of large scale protests over the decades, demanding university President Rebecca Cunningham declare the university a sanctuary campus. Three of the chained students left after being threatened with academic retaliation and police arrested the remaining three. [Full story coming soon.]

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BREAKING: The Epstein survivors are releasing this ad on Super Bowl Sunday to send the message that they WON'T “move on” from the largest sex trafficking scandal in the world.

They're asking people to "Stand With Us and Tell Attorney General It's Time for the Truth"

They direct people to the site worldwithoutexploitation.org

Edited update to add subtitles.
Edited to use the https link if you don't want to retype
worldwithoutexploitation.org/

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I didn't watch Caprica when it first appeared (well, I managed to get half way through the first episode) but it's a new landscape now and in some ways that makes it more interesting. It's basically about the risks of training an AI on a broad corpus and then hoping that with a bit of prompting you can specialize it for specific tasks without the inherited biases leaking through.

Creepy thing is I've never seen Waymo ads before but I keep getting them in this show (streaming on Peacock) and they start "The robots, they're coming..." I'm just hoping it's a coincidence and you're all seeing the same ad.

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BREAKING: The Epstein survivors are releasing this ad on Super Bowl Sunday to send the message that they WON'T “move on” from the largest sex trafficking scandal in the world.

They're asking people to "Stand With Us and Tell Attorney General It's Time for the Truth"

They direct people to the site worldwithoutexploitation.org

Edited update to add subtitles.
Edited to use the https link if you don't want to retype
worldwithoutexploitation.org/

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My wife - who has never shown any interest In American football - has organised a party for her friends: a bunch of weirdo, arty folks who have also never been interested. She's got owl stuffies and party favours. I've been voluntold to figure out how to get the game 🏴‍☠️ and make sliders. I have even less interest in the game. Go Owls! :tomo_MimimiLaugh:

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코딩 에이전트를 풀로 활용해서 나보단 코딩 에이전트가 만들고 있는 TypeScript와 Rust를 위한 스프레드시트 라이브러리. 타입스크립트에서 xlsx 파일을 다루는 라이브러리들 쓰다가 너무 괴로워서 만들게 되었다. (GitHub Actions 배포 이슈는 내일 마저 잡는걸로…)

https://github.com/Nebu1eto/sheetkit

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