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.

Ben Werdmuller @ben@werd.social
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Shared by Maho 🦝🍻

"Hundreds of children are currently being held with their parents at an immigration detention center in Dilley, Texas. In letters and drawings, eight kids convey the pain of feeling trapped with no end in sight." propublica.org/article/ice-dil

“I Have Been Here Too Long”: Read Letters from the Children Detained at ICE’s Dilley Facility

Hundreds of children are currently being held with their parents at an immigration detention center in Dilley, Texas. In letters and drawings, eight kids convey the pain of feeling trapped with no end in sight.

www.propublica.org · ProPublica

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Janneke @janneke@todon.nl
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Shared by Christine Lemmer-Webber

Still hooked on BLUE. Hacked all day yesterday and today converting Dezyne's (dezyne.org) build system. Opened six issues, and two pull requests, one already merged.

It's not perfect *just* yet, in fact, some issues are show-stoppers for BLUE to replace Autotools for Dezyne, which has a pretty "interesting" build system.

I would very much recommend to anyone who has a soft-spot for build-systems and/or Guile to take a look.

However, the experience of hacking a build system in Guile is amazing! And I'm certain the show-stoppers will be resolved some time soon.

codeberg.org/lapislazuli/blue

cc: @cwebberChristine Lemmer-Webber
@regtur
@civodulLudovic Courtès
@nlnet

Recent Blog Posts — dezyne.org

dezyne.org

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Ben Werdmuller @ben@werd.social
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Shared by Christine Lemmer-Webber

"Hundreds of children are currently being held with their parents at an immigration detention center in Dilley, Texas. In letters and drawings, eight kids convey the pain of feeling trapped with no end in sight." propublica.org/article/ice-dil

“I Have Been Here Too Long”: Read Letters from the Children Detained at ICE’s Dilley Facility

Hundreds of children are currently being held with their parents at an immigration detention center in Dilley, Texas. In letters and drawings, eight kids convey the pain of feeling trapped with no end in sight.

www.propublica.org · ProPublica

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Janneke @janneke@todon.nl
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Still hooked on BLUE. Hacked all day yesterday and today converting Dezyne's (dezyne.org) build system. Opened six issues, and two pull requests, one already merged.

It's not perfect *just* yet, in fact, some issues are show-stoppers for BLUE to replace Autotools for Dezyne, which has a pretty "interesting" build system.

I would very much recommend to anyone who has a soft-spot for build-systems and/or Guile to take a look.

However, the experience of hacking a build system in Guile is amazing! And I'm certain the show-stoppers will be resolved some time soon.

codeberg.org/lapislazuli/blue

cc: @cwebberChristine Lemmer-Webber
@regtur
@civodulLudovic Courtès
@nlnet

Recent Blog Posts — dezyne.org

dezyne.org

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Ben Werdmuller @ben@werd.social
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"Hundreds of children are currently being held with their parents at an immigration detention center in Dilley, Texas. In letters and drawings, eight kids convey the pain of feeling trapped with no end in sight." propublica.org/article/ice-dil

“I Have Been Here Too Long”: Read Letters from the Children Detained at ICE’s Dilley Facility

Hundreds of children are currently being held with their parents at an immigration detention center in Dilley, Texas. In letters and drawings, eight kids convey the pain of feeling trapped with no end in sight.

www.propublica.org · ProPublica

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Neatnik @neatnik@social.lol
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IRC is just one alternative to Discord, focusing more on the live chat side of things. Discourse is another solid alternative, especially for communities that lean more heavily toward threaded messaging and slow-motion discussions. And Discourse’s live chat is super nice, too!

For voice and video, Jitsi is great. I think IRC
+ Jitsi or Discourse + Jitsi could replace Discord in many cases. It wouldn’t be perfect, but at least you don’t have to show your papers.

theverge.com/tech/875309/disco

Discord logo

Discord will require a face scan or ID for full access next month

Age verification for all.

www.theverge.com · The Verge

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Henri Sivonen @hsivonen@mastodon.social
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It feels rude to say: “It’s not a good use of my time to explain what’s wrong with this PR.”

But I also don’t want to put a lot of effort to something nicer if I’m not even talking to a person but to an LLM by proxy.

I don’t like this.

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Josh :everything_bagel: @josh0@babka.social
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Honestly, I’m pretty happy with the Discord news. Maybe we can go back to having proper documentation for things. Even just wikis and forums would be a massive improvement.

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Doug Wade @dougwade@mastodon.xyz
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I’ve heard tell that “favorites” don’t actually do anything on mastodon, but since they’re federated, don’t they increase the speed at which a message is propagated across the fediverse? Or are they local-only?

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Cobic @cobic@f.cz
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Rád bych si embednul na svůj web mastodoní timeline, ale nemůžu nic funkčního najít :/ Třeba tohle:
gitlab.com/idotj/mastodon-embe
Nemáte někdo funkční příklad? @xChaosChao-c'

i.j / Mastodon embed timeline widget · GitLab

Displays a Mastodon timeline with posts embedded in your website. Very easy to setup, no dependencies, no trackers, cross-browser, WCAG compliant and fully responsive.

gitlab.com · GitLab

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Keenan @keenan@social.lol
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I'm just gonna say it: I think the amount of blood I'm supposed to give during routine labs is excessive. I *need* some of that to live! What are you doing with all of those vials, making a smoothie?

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Hacker News 100 @hn100@social.lansky.name
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LispE: Lisp Interpreter with Pattern Programming and Lazy Evaluation

Link: github.com/naver/lispe
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4

An implementation of a full fledged Lisp interpreter with Data Structure, Pattern Programming and High level Functions with Lazy Evaluation à la Haskell. - naver/lispe

GitHub - naver/lispe: An implementation of a full fledged Lisp interpreter with Data Structure, Pattern Programming and High level Functions with Lazy Evaluation à la Haskell.

An implementation of a full fledged Lisp interpreter with Data Structure, Pattern Programming and High level Functions with Lazy Evaluation à la Haskell. - naver/lispe

github.com · GitHub

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hackaday @hackaday@hackaday.social
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Keebin’ with Kristina: the One with the Height-Adjustable Key Caps

hackaday.com/2026/02/09/keebin

Illustrated Kristina with an IBM Model M keyboard floating between her hands.

Keebin’ With Kristina: The One With The Height-Adjustable Key Caps

Now, we can’t call these LEGO key caps for obvious reasons, but also because they don’t actually work with standard LEGO. But that’s just fine and dandy, because they’re hei…

hackaday.com · Hackaday

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@reiver ⊼ (Charles) :batman: @reiver@mastodon.social
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Shared by Inside Fediverse

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.

...

This could be a more ActivityPub like API alternative to Mastodon's "GET /API/v1/tags/{name}" API.

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@reiver ⊼ (Charles) :batman: @reiver@mastodon.social
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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.

...

This could be a more ActivityPub like API alternative to Mastodon's "GET /API/v1/tags/{name}" API.

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Ethan Marcotte @beep@follow.ethanmarcotte.com
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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: hbr.org/2026/02/ai-doesnt-redu

AI Doesn’t Reduce Work—It Intensifies It

One of the promises of AI is that it can reduce workloads so employees can focus more on higher-value and more engaging tasks. But according to new research, AI tools don’t reduce work, they consistently intensify it: In the study, employees worked at a faster pace, took on a broader scope of tasks, and extended work into more hours of the day, often without being asked to do so. That may sound like a win, but it’s not quite so simple. These changes can be unsustainable, leading to workload creep, cognitive fatigue, burnout, and weakened decision-making. The productivity surge enjoyed at the beginning can give way to lower quality work, turnover, and other problems. To correct for this, companies need to adopt an “AI practice,” or a set of norms and standards around AI use that can include intentional pauses, sequencing work, and adding more human grounding.

hbr.org · Harvard Business Review

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