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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📝 I was adding the most recent app icons for Apple’s Creator Studio which got me looking at all the variations I have in my collection over time. Figured I’d collate them all into a blog post.

blog.jim-nielsen.com/2026/hist

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If you are available on February 24th, and you are interested in how to build digital sovereignty through social media, the stars have aligned just for you. Join the FediMTL conference in person or online to discover alternatives to Big Tech platforms. It's a Canadian led event where you can learn about data ownership, and connect with developers, creators, and advocates building technology that puts people first.

Follow @info for updates.

fedimtl.ca/#about

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Dear FOSS maintainers,

here’s a list of funding programs currently accepting proposals for maintenance work:

Codeberg: codeberg.org/mechko/awesome-ma

GitHub: github.com/mechko/awesome-main

Thanks to everyone who helped crowdsource it! I’ll keep it updated, issues and PRs are very welcome :)

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Can someone explain this import behavior?
I'm in a directory with 3 files:

a.py contains `A = 1; from b import *`
b.py contains `from a import *; A += 1`
c.py contains `from a import A; print(A)`

Can you guess and explain what happens when you run `python c.py`?

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[손솔 수석대변인 서면브리핑] 사법 정의의 파산 선고, '김건희 방탄' 판결을 강력히 규탄한다. jinboparty.com/pages/?p=15&... 김건희 씨에게 1억 4천만 원의 고가 그림을 상납한 김상민 전 검사에게 무죄를 선고했습니다. '김건희 집사' 김예성 씨의 횡령 혐의 역시 무죄와 공소기각으로 면죄부를 줬습니다. 진실을 갈망하는 국민의 가슴에 대못을 박은 사법부의 치욕적인 판결입니다.

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Anyone wants to run a web forum with me?

I'm thinking of somewhere where we could talk about our projects, get inspired by others' work and generally keep eachother sane.

It's probably a bad idea but...

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“However, some users may not have to go through either form of age verification. Discord is also rolling out an age inference model that analyzes metadata like the types of games a user plays, their activity on Discord, and behavioral signals like signs of working hours or the amount of time they spend on Discord.”
theverge.com/tech/875309/disco

Me and some friends have been trying to be ready for when the day comes. Installing our own chat software, our own forum software, our own video conferencing system, and so on. It’s all less polished than Discord but if you’re trying to find a way out of Discord, I feel that this is a way that works. Go slowly, install and use one piece after another, and use a “bridge” to connect the old world (Discord) with the new world (your own).

For concrete suggestions, see
alexschroeder.ch/view/2026-01-

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Evaluating Large Language Models on solved and unsolved problems in graph theory: Implications for computing education. ~ Adithya Kulkarni, Mohna Chakraborty, Jay Bagga. arxiv.org/abs/2602.05059v1

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Evaluating Large Language Models on Solved and Unsolved Problems in Graph Theory: Implications for Computing Education

Large Language Models are increasingly used by students to explore advanced material in computer science, including graph theory. As these tools become integrated into undergraduate and graduate coursework, it is important to understand how reliably they support mathematically rigorous thinking. This study examines the performance of a LLM on two related graph theoretic problems: a solved problem concerning the gracefulness of line graphs and an open problem for which no solution is currently known. We use an eight stage evaluation protocol that reflects authentic mathematical inquiry, including interpretation, exploration, strategy formation, and proof construction. The model performed strongly on the solved problem, producing correct definitions, identifying relevant structures, recalling appropriate results without hallucination, and constructing a valid proof confirmed by a graph theory expert. For the open problem, the model generated coherent interpretations and plausible exploratory strategies but did not advance toward a solution. It did not fabricate results and instead acknowledged uncertainty, which is consistent with the explicit prompting instructions that directed the model to avoid inventing theorems or unsupported claims. These findings indicate that LLMs can support exploration of established material but remain limited in tasks requiring novel mathematical insight or critical structural reasoning. For computing education, this distinction highlights the importance of guiding students to use LLMs for conceptual exploration while relying on independent verification and rigorous argumentation for formal problem solving.

arxiv.org · arXiv.org

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📢 The Call for Papers is open for BSD-NL Conference – Spring 2026 📢

We are looking for talks on any *BSD 🐡😈⛳ topic!

Whether you’re a seasoned speaker or just starting out, we’d love to hear from you.

Share your ideas and join us in Utrecht!
🔗 events.bsdnl.nl/early2026/

📆 2026-05-09 / May 9th 2025
🕐 10:00-23:00 CET
📍 Brouwerij Maximus (Utrecht)
🌐 bsdnl.nl

Tom Hanks as Joe Fox in the movie "You've Got Mail" acting like the godfather.
It has the text: Submit!
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不寫下來會忘記,中午體驗山嵐號,晚上吃池上的法餐Les Potes,是一對夫妻經營的小餐館,太太負責外場、先生是主廚,使用的食材都來自於當地。
餐前麵包吃到據說營養價值很高、正在復育的油芒,冬季正著時的土魠是前一晚才到貨處理好的超級新鮮(也很昂貴讓老闆內心淌血XD ),櫻桃鴨胸揉合了薰衣草香料但不突兀,我最喜歡像是香菇的雞肉可樂餅這道,旁邊的小花小草都是可實用的,女友被土魠搭配的香菜醬驚艷(不喜香菜的人類),最後點了月桃茶來配甜點,有股沉穩安定的感覺,很喜歡這間餐館!

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«For two years, Gaza has been a place of mass death, starvation, disappearances, attempted erasure, genocide. Now, almost without warning, it is being transformed, rhetorically, into a management problem.
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European reservations largely focus on the board’s governance structure, compatibility with EU law, and the apparent attempt to usurp the role of the UN. These concerns matter, but they are not at the heart of Gaza’s predicament, which is that its future is being plotted without the consent of its inhabitants. When it comes to Gaza’s future being treated as a development project, managed by outsiders with dubious or outright hostile intentions, European countries and institutions are apparently unconcerned.
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When the world shifts so quickly into talk of redevelopment, it is not merely changing the subject. It is demonstrating that the cost of Palestinian suffering is politically absorbable. This is why the Board of Peace is not just controversial. It is structurally violent. It is a mechanism that takes catastrophe as given and begins planning around it instead of demanding justice for it. It treats a crime as a starting point for investment.
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thenewhumanitarian.org/opinion

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RE: mastodon.social/@verge/1160410

We’ve moved our internal communications from Discord to Zulip at Mastodon, and I think there are plans to do the same for our Patreon community Discord. The harder part will be untangling my gaming communities from this…

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