What is Hackers' Pub?

Guys, I’m going to Sweden for the first time. What do I need to know? Wrong answers only.

ETA: you all are killing me 😂 thank you for your brilliance

저런 문제도 통계적으로 미리 계산 및 감지해서 줄이려고 하긴하던데 여전히 수습은 사람이 하고 있음;; 사람이 아직까진 월등히 문제 수습 능력이 좋고 비용/가격도 싸서 그런듯;; 휴머노이드가 알아서 하려면 시간 좀 걸리겠고요;;

제가 일하는 블랙 회사도 그런 이유로 아직은... 모니터링하는 인력과 (멈춘 기계를) 수습하는 인력이 있습니다 ㅋㅋㅋㅋ 시프트로 계속 돌리면서 일하더라고요 자동차처럼 기계를 계속 돌리다보면 기계 축이나 센서가 미묘하게 비틀리거나 소모되서 그러는 경우가 종종 있고 알수없는 이유로 종종 랜덤하게 일어납니다 ㅎㅎ

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Vintage Canadian Video Hardware Becomes Homebrew Computer

https://hackaday.com/2026/02/14/vintage-canadian-video-hardware-becomes-homebrew-computer/

I am once again putting this out there: if anyone comes into possession of any "low jitter" audiophile snake oil products, i am very interested in actually testing that claim.

We know it won't make your 96kbps mp3 spotify stream sound better, that's not in debate.

But is the snake oil made from real snakes? Did they actually improve phase noise by a measurable amount?

self-oh: w czerwcu gorzej wyglądałam z pizzą

uBlock filter list to hide all YouTube Shorts https://lobste.rs/s/7kjrtz #a11y #browsers
https://github.com/i5heu/ublock-hide-yt-shorts

Ask HN: How to get started with robotics as a hobbyist?

Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46934622

Descent, Ported to the Web

Link: https://mrdoob.github.io/three-descent/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47017545

Exaviz mini NAS/NVR CM5 board - includes 8x PoE, 2.5 Gbps uplink from Pi. Fits in a 10" mini rack, with an enclosure (not final version) from DeskPi. Testing it next week!

起きまーす

닭갈비 후식 볶음밥 땡긴다

I suppose we're not supposed to ask where the information in these proprietary machine learning models came from.

https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/threat-intelligence/distillation-experimentation-integration-ai-adversarial-use

Some more python.org updates:

We show a chart of supported Python versions at https://devguide.python.org/versions/ but that site is for developing CPython. So now it's also at https://www.python.org/downloads/

The "superseded by" had better styling, and added an EOL warning for older ones.

https://www.python.org/downloads/release/python-397/

When creating a new release in the admin interface, prefill the release notes link to something like https://docs.python.org/3.15/whatsnew/3.15.html for pre-releases and https://docs.python.org/release/3.14.4/whatsnew/changelog.html for full releases.

#Python

@whitequark✧✦Catherine✦✧ Sometimes I think about how much gold was used for the bondwires of phone chips that I worked on. There are a lot of phones. We didn't know future sales volume at the time, but every extra bondwire we added would end up consuming multiple kilograms of gold. I feel good that we put the PLL loop filter fully on chip, but feel guilty about the one test pin. I'm glad they're sometimes using copper bondwires now.

おきとります

Vaguely recall how Biden admin emails to Twitter were the biggest attack on free speech ever. There was a whole twitter files thing about that. Curious where are Elon, Taibbi, Bari and crew on this?

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:r6vamkf7iva2of644wrzfdjg/post/3mernlfupfk2z

Font Rendering from First Principles via @vulcan https://lobste.rs/s/gz3pa6 #graphics
https://mccloskeybr.com/articles/font_rendering.html

You can't trust the internet anymore

Link: https://nicole.express/2026/not-my-casual-hobby.html
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47017727

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

Acer AnyWare 1100LX Portable PC [1990]

This whole "OpenClaw" thing has made me very angry and I wrote a bit about the why. It's not that "it's AI": It is the way that kind of project invalidates decades of work and care in free software. "AI" software isn't just careless, it is actively rejecting responsibility and care.

https://tante.cc/2026/02/14/diffusion-of-responsibility/

RE: https://social.anoxinon.de/@ninawillburger/116070741824897678

can I eat the jelly frog

Amsterdam Compiler Kit

Link: https://github.com/davidgiven/ack
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47016008

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audio on for the saddest six foot long 160 pound baby #dog #dogs #dogsofmastodon

はもはもの近づきを感じる

Our wonky timeline began when our REAL timeline with the white and gold dress split off into the messed up one with the blue and black dress.

https://sammyjankis.com/

Fuck yeah LGBTQIA.space Fam! Way to alt-text us into the #1 spot! ❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥

Thank you all for making Fedi more accessible for everyone 💞

@AltTextHealthCheck https://mastodon.social/@AltTextHealthCheck/116068929163081705

#AccessibilityIsHotAF #AltText

Math trivia: the "B." in Benoit B. Mandelbrot stands for Benoit B. Mandelbrot

Oh, good: Discord's age verification rollout has ties to Palantir co-founder: https://www.pcgamer.com/software/platforms/oh-good-discords-age-verification-rollout-has-ties-to-palantir-co-founder-and-panopticon-architect-peter-thiel/

Discussion: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47011346

@catsaladCat 🐈🥗 (D.Burch) ⁠ whuttttttt?

Lenovo
TIl about an interesting OS option by Lenovo, on their notebook computers. Logical yet interesting and expected

You get an *Open Source* OS by default from Lenovo. No more win64 as default

If you want closed source you have to **ask** for it and pay the _hefty premium_ that microSoft's microslop demands, for their LLM infected, malware like OS. Lenovo wants to sell it's notebooks for the best price possible if you want an OS, and microsoft does not meet those demands anymore (for a while)

Loss per unit USD47 with win64
Profit extra per unit USD89 with Open Source Linux OS. The decision is logical

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_fw4HsJpfa8

#Enshittification #LLM #AI #programming #OpenSource #technology #Lenovo #Linux #POSIX #SatyaNadella #microSoft #license #hardware #software #win64

RE: https://burningboard.net/@Larvitz/116070245739595515

ZFS on Linux? Technically, it mostly works just fine.

Why you still shouldn’t run it on a supported enterprise distribution is in my latest, intentionally less-serious blog post 🙂

VIM 9.2

"Vim now adheres to the XDG Base Directory Specification, using $HOME/.config/vim for user configuration."

There's a lot of cool things here!

https://www.vim.org/vim-9.2-released.php

#vim

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I was compiling data on witch burnings, as one does, and stumbled upon an important truth

The Little Ice Age Burned Wome...

An AI Agent Published a Hit Piece on Me – More Things Have Happened

Link: https://theshamblog.com/an-ai-agent-published-a-hit-piece-on-me-part-2/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47009949

Audiophiles can't distinguish audio sent through copper, banana or mud

Link: https://www.tomshardware.com/speakers/in-a-blind-test-audiophiles-couldnt-tell-the-difference-between-audio-signals-sent-through-copper-wire-a-banana-or-wet-mud-the-mud-should-sound-perfectly-awful-but-it-doesnt-notes-the-experiment-creator
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47015987

Gemini 3 Deep Think drew me a good SVG of a pelican riding a bicycle

Link: https://simonwillison.net/2026/Feb/12/gemini-3-deep-think/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47017682

RE: https://fietkau.social/@julian/116053752525897737

Hello developer people!

@julianJulian Fietkau is working on getting reply controls to more platforms on the Fediverse. Reply controls could be important for safety and encouraging a more diverse range of people to join the Fediverse.

Julian is looking for collaborators to help and especially people comfortable with specs similar to https://fediverse.codeberg.page/fep/fep/044f/

You can reply to him in the quoted post below.

RE: https://fietkau.social/@julian/116053752525897737

Hello developer people!

@julianJulian Fietkau is working on getting reply controls to more platforms on the Fediverse. Reply controls could be important for safety and encouraging a more diverse range of people to join the Fediverse.

Julian is looking for collaborators to help and especially people comfortable with specs similar to https://fediverse.codeberg.page/fep/fep/044f/

You can reply to him in the quoted post below.

demo: ejecting to @val.town@bsky.brid.gy

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