What is Hackers' Pub?

picol: A Tcl interpreter in 500 lines of code

Link: https://github.com/antirez/picol
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47032235

No Tools for You: A Century of Men Policing Women’s Tools

In 1925 a doctor said vacuum cleaners will make women lazy. In 2026 mastodon dudes said the same thing (and worse) about a woman engineer using a tool to make a CAD part.

https://blog.adafruit.com/2026/02/16/no-tools-for-you-a-century-of-men-policing-womens-tools/

저 암 얘기도 엄마 수술 들어가기 12시간 전에 들었음 그것도 원래 누나가 보호자로 가려다 시간 안 돼서 누나가 나한테 넘겨서 알게 됨 누나한테 왜 말 안 했냐니까 자기도 이틀 전에 알았다 함 심지어 다른 누나는 계속 모르고 있었다가 수술 끝나고 엄마 병문안 갔는데 마침 전화 왔길래 엄마한테 직접 말하라고 전화 넘겨드림 왜 그러냐고 매번 물어보면 걱정시키기 싫고(여기까진 ㅇㅋ) 창피하다(???)고 함

RE: https://social.heise.de/@heiseonlineenglish/116076270087310160

Only two kilograms of Americium-241 would be sufficient for the operation of a moon #rover. Classical systems consume around ten kilograms. Due to the reduced demand, #European missions to the moon 🌙 or deep space could launch five years earlier ⏱️ than previously planned

Lots of these AI agreements sure feel like mutual assured destruction pacts.

#LAUTI was recently translated into Danish 🎉

It is now available in the following languages:

- English
- German
- Czech
- Ukrainian
- Danish

If you know anyone who wants to run a local community calendar in one of those languages go ahead and tell them :)

If your language is missing from that list you can easily add new translations using the weblate instance hosted by @Codeberg

https://translate.codeberg.org/projects/lauti/

How much memory needed to run #atproto relay?

クラゲも好きだ。

なんかウォーターサーバーが水漏れしてるらしい

@hanbitgaram@ani.workHanbitGaram‮
نعم، أقدر أراجع لك سؤالك وأعيد صياغته بشكل واضح ومهذّب، وأتحقق من عدم وجود تناقض أو لَبس.

لكن للتوضيح:
- أقدر أعطيك رأيًا لغويًا وأخلاقيًا عامًا.
- ما أقدر أعطيك حكمًا رسميًا/قانونيًا نهائيًا باسم البحرية أو أي جهة.

إذا تحب، أقدر نبدأ الآن بسؤال واحد مباشر، مثل:
«هل من المناسب أن أسأل عن [الموضوع]؟»
وأعطيك جوابًا واضحًا بدون التفاف.

Ok HOLD THE PHONE.

"He said that his previous research shows that humans have the start of a third set of teeth already embedded in our mouths."

Just drop that right at the end of this article WHAT?! https://www.popularmechanics.com/science/health/a70366090/humans-have-third-set-of-teeth-new-medicine/

Join us in thanking the people and projects who make #FreeSoftware possible: https://u.fsf.org/4a3

📱 Les applications Qlub sont maintenant disponibles !

Nous sommes fiers d’annoncer que les applications mobiles Qlub sont maintenant disponibles sur l’App Store et Google Play.

Développées en collaboration avec @newsmastNewsmast Foundation, une organisation spécialisée dans les médias sociaux décentralisés basée au Royaume-Uni, les apps vous offrent une meilleure expérience et toutes les fonctionnalités de Qlub.

➡️ Téléchargez l'app ici : https://site.qlub.social/apps

#Qlub

Please boost for #retrocomputing crowd...

1. A while ago, I remember seeing the 8048 firmware for the IBM Model F keyboard posted online. I can no longer seem to find it. Does anyone have a copy of it?

2. Additionally, I recall that with the copy I had, there was no context to how it was read out. Is there a debug/test mode on 8048 that lets you read out the firmware, similar to NCR 6500/1 (the Amiga keyboard controller, which has a few documented ways to read the mask ROM)?

I cannot express to you how little I care about how famous someone is, and how easy it is for me to immediately forget about them. Be free.

@annaDr. Anna Latour

“The map is not the territory.”

Kleinberg & Tardos: Hold our beer.

I'm going to use ingress-nginx until the heat death of the universe you bastards

DEADLINE EXTENDED!
The application deadline for DRA Train-the-Trainer Program #8 is now February 20 (midnight CET) 🎉
Part 1 (March 2026 – Didactics):
Kick-off, evidence-based training & interactive peer-teaching
Part 2 (Apr–Jul 2026 – Practicals):
Design & teach your own course, receive peer feedback & publish your materials openly
Sharpen your teaching skills & join a vibrant training community
https://events.digital-research.academy/event/129/

📱 Les applications Qlub sont maintenant disponibles !

Nous sommes fiers d’annoncer que les applications mobiles Qlub sont maintenant disponibles sur l’App Store et Google Play.

Développées en collaboration avec @newsmastNewsmast Foundation, une organisation spécialisée dans les médias sociaux décentralisés basée au Royaume-Uni, les apps vous offrent une meilleure expérience et toutes les fonctionnalités de Qlub.

➡️ Téléchargez l'app ici : https://site.qlub.social/apps

#Qlub

🐡. 복. 많이받으시오. 🐡🐡🐡🐡🐡🐡🐡🐡🐡🐡🐡🐡🐡🐡🐡🐡🐡🐡🐡🐡🐡🐡🐡🐡🐡🐡🐡🐡🐡🐡🐡🐡🐡🐡🐡🐡🐡🐡🐡🐡🐡🐡🐡🐡 복복복복복

429: who called it "too many requests" and not "stop trying to make fetch happen"? 🤔🤔🤔

がんばって​​ます​​​​
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낮 동안 우리를 활기 있게 하신 저의 주님, 날아다니는 스파게티 괴물 님,
당신과 함께 있으리니, 자는 동안도 지켜 주시어 편히 쉬게 하소서.

"11. 고요한 밤, 주님께서 보이지 않는 체로 저희 삶의 쓸모 없는 근심을 걸러내주소서."

🍝 날아다니는 스파게티 괴물 님께서 여러분과 함께.
😋 또한 주교의 면발과 함께 하소서.
🍝 기도합시다.
저의 주님, 날아다니는 스파게티 괴물 님, 이 밤을 편히 쉬게 하시고, 거룩한 죽음을 맞게 하소서.

2026-02-17T01:39:18+09:00

#날아다니는스파게티괴물님 #성면 #면발 #스파게티 #라멘 #파스타파리안 #성무일도 #성무일과 #매일전례
#FlyingSpaghettiMonster #FSM #HolyNoodle #Noodle #Spaghetti #Ramen #Pastafarian #NoodlyAppendage #Pastafarian #FSMism #FSMist #DivineOffice #DailyOffice #Breviary

** RustWeek Speakers Announced! **
Check out the selected speakers and talks here:
https://2026.rustweek.org/blog/2026-02-13-speakers-announced/

Thanks to everyone who submitted to our CFP!

#rust #rustweek2026

this is atproto xrpc if you squint hard enough at it https://github.com/Vroo/well-known-uri-appspecific/blob/main/well-known-uri-for-application-specific-purposes.txt (provisionally registered) (which atproto didn't do, they just usurped /xrpc/ in contravention of https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/bcp190 because standards don't matter and neither does your sovereignty over your own namespace)

Today in InfoSec Job Security News:

I was looking into an obvious ../.. vulnerability introduced into a major web framework today, and it was committed by username Claude on GitHub. Vibe coded, basically.

So I started looking through Claude commits on GitHub, there’s over 2m of them and it’s about 5% of all open source code this month.

https://github.com/search?q=author%3Aclaude&type=commits&s=author-date&o=desc

As I looked through the code I saw the same class of vulns being introduced over, and over, again - several a minute.

RE: https://mastodon.social/@grimalkina/116064890998115550

Every time I post even a high level glancing comment like this, some response to it is like "obviously Cat is speaking of XX guy" and it's someone I have never heard of (sue me, I spent my training years in a PhD program doing social science not here) and I go look up the wikipedia entry about whoever and it's worse than I imagined

여기 살면서 라피님을 섭취한다는 생각은 해 본 적이 없어요.
맛있으신가요..? ​​

just one more desk setup video. just one more gadget. just one more sponsorship from ergonofis, bro. just one more ultrawide monitor arm recommendation will fix it I swear

Congrats to @sphcowHeather Flanagan on being appointed as a @tagTechnical Architecture Group member by the @w3cWorld Wide Web Consortium team! 👏 👏

The W3C TAG's mission is to define and clarify architectural principles, address broad web architecture issues, and coordinate cross-technology developments within and beyond W3C.

▶️ Find out more: https://www.w3.org/2001/tag/

Running My Own XMPP Server

Link: https://blog.dmcc.io/journal/xmpp-turn-stun-coturn-prosody/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47034801

UK Discord users were part of a Peter Thiel-linked data collection experiment

Link: https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/good-news-uk-discord-users-were-part-of-a-peter-thiel-linked-data-collection-experiment
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47035679

I have an algebraic data type for an AST, which takes a type parameter for the type of expression that the AST holds. I’m writing a function which walks the AST, transforming certain nodes, but always keeping the types of the nodes the same. For example, I can provide this function a function for transforming identifiers (like for renaming them), but the transformer has to return another identifier. The outer structure of the AST stays the same. This is important because I only want to specify transformation functions for the “interesting” cases, and allow the majority of cases to use a default transformer which does nothing more than traverse down the node’s children.

What would you name such a thing? I wouldn’t call it “map” because it doesn’t change the type parameter. It’s not “fold” because it doesn’t have the ability to vary the return type at all. It might be a special case of some other morphism, which would be helpful, but I’m not seeing it.

#FunctionalProgramming #haskell #purescript

I must question if these defense contractors are reliable partners for the US. CEO fantasizes about spraying fentanyl-laced piss on analysts. Founder defends illegal boat strikes because they're "masculine." Not to mention all the things Peter Thiel is up to. The right people for long-term trust?

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:ahcborosqrfchi3iiyhoixch/post/3mey4opdpt22b

Me: I want to do thing

Website: Fill out this long form to do thing

Me: OK

Website: Ok before we finish do you want to log in

Me: Yes

Website: In order to log in you need to make an account. Do you want to

Me: Yes

Website: You already have an account. Do you want to reset the password

Me: Yes

Website: Okay. You're logged into the website.

Me: What about thing

Website: What?

Me: The thing we were doing

Website: What thing?

I BET IF I CREATED A WEBSITE I COULD AVERT THIS PROBLEM

마키라는 아이에게 질문 폭탄이 날아가고 있어요 ​​

The beauty of the internet is that information is but a click away. I embraced the joy of random knowledge, and this book is an invitation for you to do the same. Here's #2IL, the sequel to #TIL - 52 weeks, 52 new things that we could think about.
https://alphabetapisigma.gumroad.com/l/2IL

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How Volunteers Saved a Victorian-Era Pumping Station From Demolition

https://hackaday.com/2026/02/16/how-volunteers-saved-a-victorian-era-pumping-station-from-demolition/

Congrats to @sphcowHeather Flanagan on being appointed as a @tagTechnical Architecture Group member by the @w3cWorld Wide Web Consortium team! 👏 👏

The W3C TAG's mission is to define and clarify architectural principles, address broad web architecture issues, and coordinate cross-technology developments within and beyond W3C.

▶️ Find out more: https://www.w3.org/2001/tag/

Could the low-cost MacBook be the new iBook? https://9to5mac.com/2026/02/16/could-the-low-cost-macbook-be-the-new-ibook/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

Steam Machine 大概是在最糟的時間點出現的美好事物了

What Your Bluetooth Devices Reveal About You

Link: https://blog.dmcc.io/journal/2026-bluetooth-privacy-bluehood/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47035560

香港(以致整個大廣東地區)的過年回憶是這個

RE: https://fediscience.org/@hweimer/116080329278709386

Check out this amazing bankruptcy simulator!

新年快樂​​

Unexplained Shocks Around a White Dwarf Star

How is RXJ0528+2838 creating such shock waves? A recently discovered white dwarf star, the farther left of the two largest white spots, RXJ0528+2838, was found 730 light-years away from Earth. Most stars, when done fusing nuclei in their cores for energy, become red giant stars, the cores of which live on as faint dense white dwarfs that slowly cool down for the rest of time.

#astrophotography
#WhiteDwarves
#ShockWaves
#APOD