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.
Your Home Feed is the inbox of an ActivityPub actor — in particular YOUR ActivityPub actor.
There could be an actor for each hash-tag, too.
You could even do Del.icio.us like things — and have actors for intersections of hash-tags, too.
These hash-tag actors' inboxes would need to be readable by anyone.
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This could be a more ActivityPub like API alternative to Mastodon's "GET /API/v1/tags/{name}" API.
#ActivityPub #FediDev #FediDevs #Fediverse #HashTag #HashTags
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@evanEvan Prodromou "the thread should have its own audience" is the main bit i am advocating for here i guess, as opposed to "every individual post has its own audience". with the latter you always get issues like this. with the former you bind context and audience together.
@trwnhinfinite love ⴳ every object in ActivityPub has an audience defined by its addressing properties.
[$] Development statistics for 6.19
Linus Torvalds released the 6.19 kernel on February 8, as expected. This development cycle brought 14,344 non-merge changesets into the mainline, making it the busiest release sin [...]
以前看到过好几场 fedi drama 有感而发的这篇帖子，现在已经过去了一年多了互联网还是这个样子。
Whatever the output gains promised by LLMs, their initial productivity surge is erased over time, and replaced by heavier workloads—and that leads to workers experiencing “cognitive fatigue, burnout, and weakened decision-making.”
All this from research out of the notoriously pro-worker rag [checks notes] Harvard Business Review: https://hbr.org/2026/02/ai-doesnt-reduce-work-it-intensifies-it
Need to see your routing table? Type "netstat -rn". The entry with the G
flag is your gateway.
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Why Is the Sky Blue?
Link: https://explainers.blog/posts/why-is-the-sky-blue/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46946401
AI-generated ads dropped the ball at this year’s Super Bowl
Not a single one of these commercials made betting on gen AI seem like a good idea.
Some context from that Lays ad.
People are very stupid and don’t realize that potato chips are literally made out of potatoes.
That’s why they were parading around a potato in that ad like it’s the fucking Rosetta Stone.
RE: https://mastodon.social/@emaytch/116036998103007299
Fellow tech workers: The librarians are roasting us on Mastodon and we have no plausible defense
Irish man detained by ICE for 5 months
Link: https://www.rte.ie/news/ireland/2026/0209/1557514-seamus-culleton/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46947501
When the state sponsored threat actor has vibe coded their entire control server, all the login code is client-side, and they’ve infected themselves with their own malware.
On the fediverse, posts rarely go viral. But at times, they will go "fungal", like mycelium quietly working its way through the substrate, popping up again like mushrooms every few months to make another quick round before going dormant again.
All of you who post about the small things, the flowers among the weeds, the tiny snail encountered on a walk, you are remarkable. How do you keep up your optimism in these times? I'm so glad that you do.
so if i were to rent a "server" for "self hosting",
1) what region/country is least likely to introduce draconian anti-privacy laws? eg, not USA, not EU, not Australia, etc
2) and is moderately unlikely to be walled off from the USA? eg I hopefully wont need to convince my friends who are still waffling on whether the discord real ID thing is a bridge too far how to use tor lol
할 수 있는지 모르겠다
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Another point on the Team Cassandra scorecard.
This is abjectly terrifying. Medical devices have life-altering consequences. They *cannot* be permitted to fail like this. Nor can the makers, or the users, be absolved of responsibility by a labeling of so-called "AI".
Art is where I find myself again. We tell young people that art is impractical, that it must be left behind for the 'real world.' But the truth is, art has always been the real world—keeping us alive, keeping us human.
This piece, "Bonehead" is the result of learning to draw with Procreate and incorporate analog watercolor splotches. I'm already excited to see what I can make next.
Everyone's going to keep complaining about discord but no one is going to stop using it because nothing exists that could take it's place, nothing is even close, and to delete discord is to forfeit your online social life. This is why we should have had alternatives to discord like a decade ago.
昨日はお祝いいただきありがとうございました
RE: https://mastodon.social/@verge/116041069446538092
Let's imagine I have like 2 or 3 reasons to be using discord today, and I'm trying to move them to something else in the next few weeks because I don't intend to give discord my ID.
The other comparable monolithic option appears to be Zulip, which is fine, as far as it goes. But are there good federated options? People are going to have to migrate to another platform, meaning they will have to bootstrap their identity and social connections all over again. It would be great if this was the last time they had to do that
(I'm aware of matrix, matrix is a bad option. I want good options)
What I think is *really* important in a discord replacement:
1. low friction invite/join/create flow for private or semi-private groups.
2. single login/identity used for multiple groups
And that's really all I need, personally. But orgs that make heavier use of discord also need:
3. enough control over roles and permissions to be able to moderate communication (within a group, not across groups) among people who often do not know each other
@helge I was trying to lookup some things on funfedi.dev, but it seems to be down. Is that temporary, I hope?
글을써야함… 아직도 어떻게 써야 할지는 잘 모르겠다
Every Body Is a Rope Body is a celebration of consent, embodiment, and the radical truth that kink is not reserved for a narrow aesthetic. This piece honors strength, softness, different body sizes and shapes, different shades, and the quiet power of choosing how and whether to be held.
Available in sizes 6" x 8", 8" x 10", and 11" x 14"
one thing i'll never understand is the idea that someone "started" a "thread" and therefore gets to control everything downstream of that. it feels like an entirely artificial conflict spurred by software that doesn't actually recognize "threads" in the first place.
if there was a thread, and it had its own audience, then that would be a different story. but if neither of those things actually exist, then... eh? "then whence cometh threads?" --epicurus
RE: https://mastodon.social/@bmispelon/116041593220352595
Test your mental model of Python's import system. 🤨
@evanEvan Prodromou Yes, perhaps I could have phrased the original question better.
My thinking was, currently, a follower can reply to a followers-only post, with a followers-only reply.
So their followers can reply back to you, without seeing the original post, potentially deducing and further exposing personal information contained in the original post.
This is a dilemma I myself have sometimes, when I see a followers-only post. Sometimes it just makes sense for me to reply directly, eg. health status updates.
If I replied with a followers-only post saying "good luck with the heart surgery", all my followers will deduce that Alice is having a heart surgery.
@stefanStefan Bohacek I think you're tying yourself in a lot of knots to not accept that what people want, when they get replies to their followers-only posts, is to have those replies visible to their followers.
When you see a followers-only post, the default audience for your reply should be the OP's followers.
I'd like to make it clear that this is possible with ActivityPub, and it's the way other social networks handle this feature.
얘들아 그냥 유교를 받아들이고 관을 압박해서 제대로 돌아가게 만든 뒤에 관을 믿어라...
How Microsoft obliterated safety guardrails on popular AI models - with just one prompt
https://www.zdnet.com/article/microsoft-obliterated-ai-safety-guardrails-with-one-prompt/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
Posted into Technology (UK Edition) 
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Converting a $3.88 analog clock from Walmart into a ESP8266-based Wi-Fi clock
Link: https://github.com/jim11662418/ESP8266_WiFi_Analog_Clock
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46947096
고영과 다시 눕지다... 놀래서 뽕주디 옹졸해짐
급 울 샨티 너무 보고 싶네
Midday in mid-October.
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f8 @ 1/60s
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나도 감기가 나아야 샨티를 데려올텐데 그럼 정말 한달을 꽉 채워서 시댁에서 지내다 오는거... 샨티가 울집 잊어버렸음 어떡해
AI is engaging with people and children more intimately than any technology ever has before. Safety and privacy regulation, NOW!
Spotted:
VIC-20 in the background of a Flight of the Conchords episode, no context or reason, but I like it!
Reacting to news of Israel expanding control over the West Bank, leader of the Parliamentary Green Party, Dr Ellie Chowns MP, said:
The reported decisions by Israel’s security cabinet to make it easier for settlers to buy land in the West Bank and to expand enforcement powers over Palestinians are a profound assault on Palestinian rights, further entrenching occupation and legitimising illegal settlement expansion.
These measures are built on the foundation of decades of dispossession, subjugation, and military control of Palestinians, and stand against the stark backdrop of the catastrophic genocide committed in Gaza, where swathes of the population remain deprived of vital aid, medical care, and adequate nutrition, and Palestinians in Gaza continue to be killed by Israeli forces despite a ceasefire being in place. These are not the actions of a state seeking peace; they are the latest extension of a long-upheld system that denies Palestinians the right to determine their own future.
When the Green Party welcomed the UK’s recognition of the state of Palestine last year as a necessary and long-overdue step, we also warned that recognition alone was not enough – it must be accompanied by meaningful action to uphold Palestinian rights. The UK must take those actions now – ban imports from illegal Israeli settlements in Palestine, halt all arms sales to and military cooperation with the Israeli Government, drive independent investigations into war crimes and support justice mechanisms for victims, and impose sanctions on those Israeli Government officials who are responsible, including Benjamin Netanyahu and other senior figures, given the flagrant disregard for international law displayed through the expansion of illegal settlements.
Thinking about how a white woman recently told me she was specifically trying to get her Instagram algorithm to never show her anything political. And isn’t that just the whole problem summed up right there
the challenge of 2026, for me, is going to be getting my unfinished projects and mandatory administrative paperwork to annoy me as much as people strutting around being confidently wrong about the possibilities of AI
진짜 민폐도 이런 민폐가 없는데
아빠가 한국서 데려온 독감바이러스 시엄마한테도 가서 붙음... 하
Add meaning to your life
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Life tends to feel meaningful when we spend time doing things that matter to us and that offer some sense of reward. This is not necessarily excitement, but a quiet feeling of “that was worth doing.”
Forget grand plans. These small tweaks can add meaning to your life
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