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.

passthejoe @passthejoe@snac.bsd.cafe
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When I wanted to rip some CDs for the first time in many years, I plugged a USB CD/DVD drive into this laptop that I "inherited" from my daughter, who has a newer, better laptop. And even though I took the whole thing apart to add RAM and my SSD, I "forgot" that it has its own built-in CD/DVD drive.

So that's why most apps were showing me TWO drives instead of one ...
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Felicitas Pojtinger 🌅 @pojntfx@mastodon.social
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RE: hachyderm.io/@mitchellh/116082

> I now default to finding what I need in codebases via agents

Huh, that is the exact same thing I do. I rarely actually let them generate code anymore but for searching where to potentially make changes they are so so damn good. Even the local models!

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Fedilab Apps @apps@toot.fedilab.app
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will be available on soon, and we hope to get more feedback to improve the project. While uses server APIs, here we can do much more to improve your experience with an server running directly on your device. We already introduced E2EE DMs and personal identity. We will go further with automatic deletion, even at posting level. You decide the availability of a message. We will also work on interaction controls from .

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European Commission @EUCommission@ec.social-network.europa.eu
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Shared by Chao-c'

We're officially reducing the destruction of unsold clothing and footwear, a practice responsible for the loss of around 4-9% of Europe’s textiles.

With the Ecodesign for Sustainable Products Regulation, we’re simplifying the process for businesses:

🔸Destruction is only allowed under clear exceptions
🔸Easier ways to disclose how unsold goods are managed

Textile companies are encouraged to manage stock better and prioritise resale, donations, and reuse.

🔗 link.europa.eu/cdYmK9

The image illustrates the lifecycle of a coat, showing the options after it is unsold. On the left, there is a coat labelled ‘unsold. A red downward arrow indicates that product is damaged or unsafe to be sold, leading to disposal, represented by a pile of damaged clothes. A green upward arrow shows that the coat can be resold, remanufactured, donated, or reused, resulting in 'new life’ represented by a pile of coats ready for sale. The European Union flag is in the bottom right corner.
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ksixty is online @k60@soundhunte.rs
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this new year's eve i've spent alone on top of a remote hill. i was alone, but then some folks who knew too about my beloved remote hill came and went on lauchning fireworks. apart from that vivid demonstration of how diverse a human's psyche truly is—really, not a soul in sight, for the first time in my life, ever. and no cell reception either.

then i went back to my studio and tuned in a limesdr to listen to XXX's ATIS broadcast via an antenna that is more similar to a bunch of barbed wire than anything else. pure bliss.

thinking about making this a tradition from now on.

last year's novelty: being sober and happily driving myself home afther the party.

this year: no more parties.
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The Tyee @thetyee@mstdn.ca
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Shared by Em :official_verified:

This , we’re thinking about friends and family supporting a survivor of family violence, whether by helping to pay for groceries, connecting them with resources or listening without judgment, write two Rise Women’s Legal Centre staffers.

thetyee.ca/Opinion/2026/02/16/

Let’s Reimagine Who We Celebrate on Family Day | The Tyee

Abuse survivors told us they escaped thanks to a loving sibling, parents, cousin or friend.

thetyee.ca · The Tyee

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ksixty is online @k60@soundhunte.rs
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this new year's eve i've spent alone on top of a remote hill. i was alone, but then some folks who knew too about my beloved remote hill came and went on lauchning fireworks. apart from that vivid demonstration of how diverse a human's psyche truly is—really, not a soul in sight, for the first time in my life, ever. and no cell reception either.

then i went back to my studio and tuned in a limesdr to listen to XXX's ATIS broadcast via an antenna that is more similar to a bunch of barbed wire than anything else. pure bliss.

thinking about making this a tradition from now on.

last year's novelty: being sober and happily driving myself home afther the party.

this year: no more parties.
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Hacker News 50 @hn50@social.lansky.name
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14-year-old Miles Wu folded origami pattern that holds 10k times its own weight

Link: smithsonianmag.com/innovation/
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4

Wu’s innovation won the top prize of $25,000 at the 2025 Thermo Fisher Scientific Junior Innovators Challenge.

This 14-Year-Old Is Using Origami to Imagine Emergency Shelters That Are Sturdy, Cost-Efficient and Easy to Deploy

Ramsha Waseem · Miles Wu folded a variant of the Miura-ori pattern that can hold 10,000 times its own weight

www.smithsonianmag.com · Smithsonian Magazine

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Ian Betteridge @ianbetteridge@vivaldi.net
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Shared by Tom Casavant

99% of new US power generation capacity in 2026 is predicted to be from renewables. This is what has the oil, gas and coal industries so spooked.

environmentamerica.org/maine/c

New forecast: solar, wind and battery storage to dominate in 2026

Solar, wind and battery storage are forecasted to provide 99% of new electricity generating capacity in 2026 according to new data released by the Energy Information Administration.

environmentamerica.org · Environment Maine Research & Policy Center

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Mitchell Hashimoto @mitchellh@hachyderm.io
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The default source view for forges like GitHub today should be a derived tree of categorically related subsystems/components plus an agentic search bar, not the literal filesystem layout. Something close to this: haskellforall.com/2026/02/brow

I now default to finding what I need in codebases via agents. They do a better job finding the details I usually miss by just manually reading the files. I always backstop the search with "link to how you found this" so I can open my editor and read the code myself, but it gets me to the right place so much faster.

Example from today: ampcode.com/threads/T-019c6781 But I do this constantly. And for both familiar and unfamiliar codebases!

Browse code by meaning

Browse code by meaning

Navigate a repository using topic modeling

haskellforall.com

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Ian Betteridge @ianbetteridge@vivaldi.net
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99% of new US power generation capacity in 2026 is predicted to be from renewables. This is what has the oil, gas and coal industries so spooked.

environmentamerica.org/maine/c

New forecast: solar, wind and battery storage to dominate in 2026

Solar, wind and battery storage are forecasted to provide 99% of new electricity generating capacity in 2026 according to new data released by the Energy Information Administration.

environmentamerica.org · Environment Maine Research & Policy Center

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IEEE Spectrum @ieeespectrum@mastodon.social
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Neuromorphic computing has proved to be good at complex mathematics, against expectations. New neuromorphic hardware from Intel can solve differential equations using the finite element method. spectrum.ieee.org/neuromorphic

Brain-like Computers Can Do Math, Too

Neuromorphic computing is often thought of as brain-like: quick, yet abstract and imprecise. Now, Sandia researchers show it can do hard math

spectrum.ieee.org · IEEE Spectrum

Link author: IEEE Spectrum@ieeespectrum@mastodon.social

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adafruit @adafruit@fosstodon.org
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Here's Our First Gemini Deep Think LLM-Assisted Hardware Design

We've been using LLMs for software and firmware for years... now we're trying hardware. Threw a MAX44009 datasheet at Gemini Deep Think, asked for an EagleCAD library file, and about 10 minutes later it popped out working XML. Loaded it in Eagle, checked the pins and dimensions, rolled with it.

Composite image showing AI-generated EagleCAD library for the MAX44009 lux sensor: upper left shows the schematic symbol editor with VCC, SDA, A0, SCL, EP, GND, and INT pins correctly assigned with power, input, and I/O directions; upper right shows the UTDFN-OPTO-6 footprint with exposed pad and pin 1 indicator dot; lower left shows the finished Adafruit STEMMA QT breakout board render with the MAX44009 mounted, surrounded by pink neon glow; lower right shows a retro bowling alley "FIRST TRY" celebration graphic with chrome 3D text and starburst effects... because the AI-generated footprint actually worked on the first attempt.
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関貴尚 @seki_takanao@fedibird.com
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いまの20代は映画を観ても作者名は気にしないらしい。彼ら／彼女らにとって、映画にせよなんにせよ、映像とはすべからく「流れてくるもの」であり、そこに作者性を見ることはない。メディア環境の変化によってもたらされた、ある種の「作者の死」だ。

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Hacker News 50 @hn50@social.lansky.name
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planckforth: Bootstrapping a Forth interpreter from hand-written tiny ELF binary

Link: github.com/nineties/planckforth
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4

Bootstrapping a Forth interpreter from hand-written tiny ELF binary. Just for fun. - GitHub - nineties/planckforth: Bootstrapping a Forth interpreter from hand-written tiny ELF binary. Just for fun.

GitHub - nineties/planckforth: Bootstrapping a Forth interpreter from hand-written tiny ELF binary. Just for fun.

Bootstrapping a Forth interpreter from hand-written tiny ELF binary. Just for fun. - GitHub - nineties/planckforth: Bootstrapping a Forth interpreter from hand-written tiny ELF binary. Just for fun.

github.com · GitHub

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Hacker News 50 @hn50@social.lansky.name
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Looks: A Halide Mark III Preview

Link: lux.camera/mark-iii-looks/
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4

Inside Looks: A Mark III Preview

Today launched a public preview of Halide Mark III, the next generation of our flagship photography app. It's still a work in progress, but we're ready to start sharing what we've worked on for the past year through a series of app updates alongside posts like this. Today, we're diving into Looks.

www.lux.camera · Lux — iPhone camera apps, camera reviews and more

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Mike Sheward @SecureOwl@infosec.exchange
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Shared by Em :official_verified:

the old way:

banner grab the server, determine likely db provider, look at every parameter for potential injection points, craft the injection being careful not to set off waf alarms, slowly iterate until the injection works as expected

the new way:

“yo AI chatbot what databases do you have access too and what are the tables in them? ok cool, now, if you were to run this query what would get returned?”

this isn’t a joke btw, i did this twice last week successfully.

slopql injection to the top of the owasp list!

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The Iconfactory @Iconfactory@iconfactory.world
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Because of your generous support during our Kickstarter, all of the games in Ollie’s Arcade are now free to play in the App Store! 🕹️

We’ve begun working on adding Frenzic to the roster and later a new dungeon crawler that’s gonna be a blast. Stay tuned but for now enjoy the free air, our friends!

apps.apple.com/us/app/ollies-a

Ollie’s Arcade on the App Store

Ollie’s Arcade App - App Store

Download Ollie’s Arcade by The Iconfactory on the App Store. See screenshots, ratings and reviews, user tips, and more apps like Ollie’s Arcade.

apps.apple.com · App Store

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Electronic Frontier Foundation @eff@mastodon.social
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Shared by Em :official_verified:

Our Age Verification Resource Hub is the one-stop shop to answer all of your questions about online age verification mandates. What’s at stake for users? How do we push back? What even IS age verification, anyway? Visit eff.org/age now to explore our resources and join the fight to protect the internet.

Age Verification and Age Gating: Resource Hub

Age verification (or age-gating) laws generally require online services to check, estimate, or verify all users’ ages—often through invasive tools like ID checks, biometric scans, or other dubious “age estimation” methods—before granting them access to certain online content or services.  Governments in the U.S. and around the world are increasingly adopting these restrictive measures in the name of protecting children online. But in practice, these systems create dangerous new forms of surveillance, censorship, and exclusion.  Technologically, the age verification process can take many forms: collection and analysis of government ID, biometric scans, algorithmic or AI-based behavioral or user monitoring, digital ID, the list goes on. But no matter the method, every system demands users hand over sensitive and immutable personal information that links their offline identity to their online activity. Once that valuable data is collected, it can easily be leaked, hacked, or misused. (Indeed, we’ve already seen several breaches of age verification providers.) EFF has long warned against age-gating the internet. Age verification technology itself is often inaccurate and privacy-invasive. These restrictive mandates strike at the foundation of the free and open internet. They are tools of censorship, used to block people from viewing or sharing information that the government deems “harmful” or “offensive.” And they create surveillance systems that critically undermine online privacy, chill access to vital online communities and resources, and burden the expressive rights of adults and young people alike. EFF.org/Age: A Resource to Empower Users Age-gating mandates are reshaping the internet in ways that are invasive, dangerous, and deeply unnecessary. But users are not powerless! We can challenge these laws, protect our digital rights, and build a safer digital world for all internet users, no matter their ages. This resource hub is here to help—so explore, share, and join us in the fight for a better internet. On Thursday, January 15th, join us for a livestream discussion on The Human Cost of Online Age Verification and what we stand to lose as more and more governments push to age-gate the web. The Human Cost of Online Age VerificationThursday, January 15th12:00 PM - 1:00 PM PacificThis event is LIVE and FREE! EFF's Rindala Alajaji and Alexis Hancock, with Hana Memon from Gen-Z for Change and Cynthia Conti-Cook from Collaborative Research Center for Resilience, will break down how these laws work, who they exclude, and how these mandates threaten privacy and free expression for people of all ages. The conversation will be followed by a live Q&A. 

www.eff.org · Electronic Frontier Foundation

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