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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Abhinav 🌏 @abnv@fantastic.earth
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Saw someone's toot about trying to learn how to a geared car (or drive stick, as they say in USA). And here I am driving a geared car, and hating it, being anxious all the time about missing gear changes and driving in wrong gear. I'd love to not drive stick, but I can't buy a new car right now.

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✨ Emma 🐍 🎸 🐹‏ @EmmaDelescolle@mastodon.social
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Shared by adamghill

For years, companies have been turning developers into assembly line workers, stripping away required skills, breaking work into small, context-free tickets anyone can pick up.

AI is just the next step on that path. Developers are replaceable, there is nothing that says they all have to be humans, is there?

The landscape of 2026 gives multiple paths forward. Same starting point, different choices, different outcomes.

emma.has-a.blog/articles/devel

Developers, Factory Workers, and the AI Replacement Myth

For years, companies have been turning developers into assembly line workers, stripping away required skills, breaking work into small, context-free tickets anyone can pick up. AI is just the next step on that path. Developers are replaceable, there is nothing that says they all have to be humans, is there? The landscape of 2026 gives multiple paths forward. Same starting point, different choices, different outcomes.

emma.has-a.blog · Emma has a blog

Link author: ✨ Emma 🐍 🎸 🐹‏@EmmaDelescolle@mastodon.social

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Xmeadow @xmeadow@fosstodon.org
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The real hacking will only begin as they move toward shipping, but I have complete confidence in Shoaib and his outstanding team. Meeting them was a blast. Every single person radiates passion and deep technical understanding. You can’t fake that kind of energy, and it shows in the product.

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matsuu @matsuu@fedibird.com
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pure goなGPUコンピューティングのフレームワーク。2026年はGoでGPUエコスシステムな年だ、というのを見かけました。
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GitHub - gogpu/gogpu: Pure Go Graphics Framework — GPU power, Go simplicity
github.com/gogpu/gogpu

Pure Go Graphics Framework — GPU power, Go simplicity - gogpu/gogpu

GitHub - gogpu/gogpu: Pure Go Graphics Framework — GPU power, Go simplicity

Pure Go Graphics Framework — GPU power, Go simplicity - gogpu/gogpu

github.com · GitHub

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Foxfire @Foxfire@pawb.fun
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Happy I love free software day! It snuck up on me while I was doing other projects, but here's a silly drawing I made today in Krita!

There are so many incredible projects out there which help countless people be empowered in their computing. Many thanks to all of the developers and web hosts, which allow folks like myself to stay away from proprietary and predatory corporations.

I don't have nearly enough characters, but here's several projects I've been using often. Thanks to everyone on the Fediverse (particularly Lemmy, Mastodon, and Peertube for me, as well as apps such as Voyager and Fedilab), KDE (especially Krita and Kdenlive), the mountain of people responsible for several GNU/Linux distros, GrapheneOS, F-Droid, Freesound, Matrix, LibreOffice, instruments using the SFZ standard (especially VCSL keys), and DAWs (LMMS, and Zrythm).

Foxfire, an anthro fox, looks at you with a big open mouth smile. He's holding a banner with text saying "live, laugh, libre." Small hearts appear on either side of him. This is a pun based on free software and the phrase "live, laugh, love."
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✨ Emma 🐍 🎸 🐹‏ @EmmaDelescolle@mastodon.social
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For years, companies have been turning developers into assembly line workers, stripping away required skills, breaking work into small, context-free tickets anyone can pick up.

AI is just the next step on that path. Developers are replaceable, there is nothing that says they all have to be humans, is there?

The landscape of 2026 gives multiple paths forward. Same starting point, different choices, different outcomes.

emma.has-a.blog/articles/devel

Developers, Factory Workers, and the AI Replacement Myth

For years, companies have been turning developers into assembly line workers, stripping away required skills, breaking work into small, context-free tickets anyone can pick up. AI is just the next step on that path. Developers are replaceable, there is nothing that says they all have to be humans, is there? The landscape of 2026 gives multiple paths forward. Same starting point, different choices, different outcomes.

emma.has-a.blog · Emma has a blog

Link author: ✨ Emma 🐍 🎸 🐹‏@EmmaDelescolle@mastodon.social

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Hacker News 50 @hn50@social.lansky.name
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Interference Pattern Formed in a Finger Gap Is Not Single Slit Diffraction

Link: note.com/hydraenids/n/nbe89030
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4

Interference Pattern Formed in a Finger Gap is NOT Single Slit Diffraction｜hydraenids

Simple way of making an interference pattern with fingers The phenomenon of forming an interference pattern by using light that passed through a double slit is a basic item learnt in a high school physics course. It is a good example that light possesses a property of waves. The double slit exp

note.com · note（ノート）

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Kit Yates @kityates@mas.to
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“Measles is a nasty illness for any child, but for some it can lead to long term complications and tragically death, but is so easily preventable with two doses of the MMRV”
Protect your loved ones and those around you. Get vaccinated.
bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cev7ed

A child's torso covered in the red spots of a measles rash

North London measles outbreak hits several schools with at least 34 children infected

A number of children have been hospitalised as officials urge families to check they are up to date with their vaccines.

www.bbc.co.uk · BBC News

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knead_i_say_more @knead_i_say_more@skatspelunke.eu
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Hello everyone! 👋

I’m excited to join this community and share a little corner of my world with you all. I’m passionate about baking (mostly bread), gardening (letting plants grow as they please), and exploring nature through hiking and photography.

I’m not much of a writer, so I’ll mostly share photos of my adventures — the good, the messy, and the funny. 🌿🍞📸

Thanks for stopping by and thanks to @brudibrauBrudi Bräu for hosting me ❤️
I’m looking forward to new friendships along the way!

todays bread sitting on a wooden cutting board
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R. P. Scott @i47i@hachyderm.io
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The fediverse now has a TikTok alternative called Loops by @dansup. Open source, federated via ActivityPub, funded by NLnet and community donations instead of venture capital. You own your content and can self host. Beta is live and the iOS app just hit the App Store.

joinloops.org

Loops - Short videos. Your community. Your rules.

All the fun of short-form video, none of the corporate control. Loops is federated, open-source, and designed to give power back to creators and communities.

joinloops.org

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Stefan Bohacek @stefan@stefanbohacek.online
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Here's a "totally normal captcha game", in case you can't get enough of filling these out.

youtube.com/watch?v=JKtI3t-yhxs

Play/download: paperhatprojects.itch.io/captc

CaptchaWare OFFICIAL TRAILER

DOWNLOAD:https://paperhatprojects.itch.io/captchawareCaptchaWare is a game where you complete captchas in quick succession!A game I made originally as a joke...

www.youtube.com · YouTube

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R. P. Scott @i47i@hachyderm.io
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The fediverse now has a TikTok alternative called Loops by @dansup. Open source, federated via ActivityPub, funded by NLnet and community donations instead of venture capital. You own your content and can self host. Beta is live and the iOS app just hit the App Store.

joinloops.org

Loops - Short videos. Your community. Your rules.

All the fun of short-form video, none of the corporate control. Loops is federated, open-source, and designed to give power back to creators and communities.

joinloops.org

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Michael Simons @rotnroll666@mastodon.social
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Let that sink in. Even one of the load and vocal AI proponents such as @simonSimon Willison admits

“I no longer have a firm mental model of what they can do and how they work, which means each additional feature becomes harder to reason about, eventually leading me to lose the ability to make confident decisions about where to go next.”

simonwillison.net/2026/Feb/15/

Not afraid of many things AI can inflect on my life, but I’m personally very much afraid of acquired helplessness such as this.

How Generative and Agentic AI Shift Concern from Technical Debt to Cognitive Debt

This piece by Margaret-Anne Storey is the best explanation of the term cognitive debt I've seen so far. Cognitive debt, a term gaining traction recently, instead communicates the notion that …

simonwillison.net · Simon Willison’s Weblog

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洪 民憙 (Hong Minhee) :nonbinary: @hongminhee@hollo.social
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Adding to this: much of my LLM usage actually goes into writing documentation and communicating in English—a language that isn't mine but that open source essentially demands. For non-native English speakers, LLMs are a genuine equalizer. They let me write docs that don't get ignored for sounding awkward, and participate in discussions without spending twice the effort a native speaker would. But when English-native developers dismiss LLM-assisted writing wholesale, they're not even aware of the privilege baked into that judgment. It's like someone who's never had to do housework scoffing at a washing machine for making people “lazy”—easy to say when the burden was never yours to begin with.

洪 民憙 (Hong Minhee) :nonbinary: @hongminhee@hollo.social
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Shared by 김강훈 | 金江訓 Kim Kanghun

And a note for fellow non-native English speakers from European language backgrounds: I hear you, and we're on the same side of this, but the gap isn't the same for everyone. Korean and English have a linguistic distance of 89.2 out of 100—essentially no detectable relationship at all. No shared roots, no cognates to lean on, completely different writing system. The distance between, say, French or German and English is a different universe. So when I say LLMs are an equalizer for writing English, I mean it quite literally—without one, even expressing a simple idea in natural-sounding English can take me disproportionately longer than the idea itself deserves.

Comparative linguistics for English and Korean

www.elinguistics.net

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adamghill @adamghill@indieweb.social
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RE: tldr.nettime.org/@tante/116074

Some of this resonates, but maybe code wizard is not the correct lens?

For ~50 years, programmer meant “writes code”. But, maybe it should have meant "solves problems".

In other words: companies don't pay programmers high salaries to write code, they pay them to solve business problems. Sometimes that means you don't write any code at all and fix a process problem. Other times, code is the solution.

The code is not the valuable artifact, though.

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사해문서 @dsscrolls.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy
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같은 이름을 한 블친이 둘 있는데. 한 쪽과는 최근에도 교류가 좀 있는 편이고, 다른 쪽과는 요즘 그리 많은 편은 아닌데. 머릿속에서 블친의 이미지를 주로 이름으로 기억하다보니 자꾸 두 사람의 이미지가 겹쳐져서 포스트 쓰기 전에 멈칫하고 기억을 재정리 해야 하는 경우가 자꾸 생긴다. 이런 게 해시 충돌인가.

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