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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Azuaron @Azuaron@cyberpunk.lol
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@mcc @adafruit@fosstodon.org
Edit: Yeah, so, I've thought for a long time now that Adafruit was the parent company of the Raspberry Pi company. This, as it turns out, is not true. I don't know why I thought that. Thanks to @tom_verbeure for correcting me.

Original post:

Yeah, I dropped Adafruit when they hired that cop and wrote a puff piece about how cool it was that he used RaspberryPis to illegally surveil Muslims. Then their social media manager had an absolute meltdown when someone politely pointed out how messed up that was.

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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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Barbara Sierman @BarbaraSierman@digipres.club
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Issue 2 of 30 Years of Digital Preservation is now published: digitalpreservation.nl/seeds/i

Issue 2 of 30 years of digital preservation: PADI - Digital Preservation Seeds

It was 1996 when digital preservation practitioners worldwide made the first steps on the way to make DP a profession. We, as digital preservationists, can celebrate 30 years of experience in an evolving domain that was inspired by a tradition of libraries and archives: to preserve heritage material and keep it accessible for the long […]

digitalpreservation.nl · Digital Preservation Seeds

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Christine Lemmer-Webber @cwebber@social.coop
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An AI Called Winter: Neurosymbolic Computation or Illusion? dustycloud.org/blog/an-ai-call

In which I try to piece apart whether or not a *particular* AI agent is doing something novel: running Datalog as a constraint against its own behavior and as a database to accumulate and query facts. Is something interesting happening or am I deluding myself? Follow along!

An AI Called Winter: Neurosymbolic Computation or Illusion? -- Dustycloud Brainstorms

dustycloud.org

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jwz @jwz@mastodon.social
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Shared by Tom Casavant

25 years ago today, Bad_CRC posted the primordial meme video "All Your Base Are Belong To Us" on Newgrounds.

In honor of this important anniversary, I downloaded the original Flash SWF file from Internet Archive, played it using Ruffle in a full-screen window, and replaced the audio with the original MP3 of "Invasion of the Gabber Robots" by The Laziest Men on Mars. So this is probably the highest fidelity encoding possible, without going back to the original forum GIFs.
jwz.org/b/yk3i

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The Rt. Rev. Fumire, Ph.D. :twitter__verified_organization: @fumire@uri.life
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🍝 저의 주님, 날아다니는 스파게티 괴물 님, 당신께 제 마음을 드리니, 이른 아침부터 제 소리를 굽어 들으소서.
😋 날아다니는 스파게티 괴물 님이시여, 찬란한 당신 이름을 찬미하나이다.

🍝 성면(the Holy Noodle)이 충만하신 날아다니는 스파게티 괴물 님께 찬미드리며 믿는 마음으로 기도합시다
😋 저의 주님, 당신의 성면(the Holy Noodle)을 저희에게 부어주소서.

"6. 주님의 거룩한 소스가 저희 영혼에 스며들어, 사랑과 자비로 이 세상을 채우게 하소서."

저의 주님, 날아다니는 스파게티 괴물 님,
간절히 바라오니, 저희가 할 일을 알려 주시고 선행을 행할 힘을 주시어,
저희의 모든 일을 당신으로 말미암아 시작하고 시작한 것을 당신으로 말미암아 끝마치게 하소서.

🍝 날아다니는 스파게티 괴물 님께서 여러분과 함께.
😋 또한 주교의 면발과 함께 하소서.
🍝 전능하신 스파게티 괴물 님, 미트볼🧆과 소스🥫와 성면(the Holy Noodle)🍝께서는 여기 모인 모든 이에게 강복하소서.
😋 라-멘 🍜.

🍝 날아다니는 스파게티 괴물 님을 찬미합시다.
😋 주님, 감사합니다.

2026-02-17T07:12:47+09:00


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JP @byjp.me@bsky.brid.gy
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Beautifully timed with @sri.xyz@bsky.brid.gySri's excellent updates to @goals.garden@bsky.brid.gy, I've shipped a little project to add two-sync between it and your Every Day Calendar! Get you a QT Py ESP32-S3 and all the things! Blog! www.byjp.me/posts/everyd... Code! tangled.org/byjp.me/ever...

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:r4suwlt5zl7sexnfgmi3jctw/post/3meyp4s5e422x

An every day 'Every Day Calendar'

I internet-enabled my Every Day Calendar! Now it talks fluent goals.garden (♥︎ ATProto) and I can update it from anywhere. It's so simple, I bet you could do it too.

www.byjp.me · byJP

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Hacker News 50 @hn50@social.lansky.name
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Study: Self-generated Agent Skills are useless

Link: arxiv.org/abs/2602.12670
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4

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SkillsBench: Benchmarking How Well Agent Skills Work Across Diverse Tasks

Agent Skills are structured packages of procedural knowledge that augment LLM agents at inference time. Despite rapid adoption, there is no standard way to measure whether they actually help. We present SkillsBench, a benchmark of 86 tasks across 11 domains paired with curated Skills and deterministic verifiers. Each task is evaluated under three conditions: no Skills, curated Skills, and self-generated Skills. We test 7 agent-model configurations over 7,308 trajectories. Curated Skills raise average pass rate by 16.2 percentage points(pp), but effects vary widely by domain (+4.5pp for Software Engineering to +51.9pp for Healthcare) and 16 of 84 tasks show negative deltas. Self-generated Skills provide no benefit on average, showing that models cannot reliably author the procedural knowledge they benefit from consuming. Focused Skills with 2--3 modules outperform comprehensive documentation, and smaller models with Skills can match larger models without them.

arxiv.org · arXiv.org

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