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.
I made the claim that the FBI declared the Black Panthers dangerous, not because they were Black nationalists or supremacists. They weren't.
They were dangerous because they preached racial *solidarity*.
But don't take my word for it!
Listen to Fred Hampton's own words.
Turn on closed captions.
🚨 New Release (v0.12.7)
Admins should update ASAP, it contains an important security fix, along with several bug fixes.
🎲 Dice Combat + 👨👩👦 Noble Family Management + ⚡️ Eccentric Aristocrats = DICE GAMBIT Incase you're new, this is Dice Gambit: a game where you create and lead your own Inquisitor family on their quest to eradicate monsters and befriend nobles! ⬇️ Play it Today!⬇️ store.steampowered.com/app/1812860/...
A fuzzy corner.
아니 근데 그러면... 닷닷컴 닷닷넷이 되는 거잖아...
@evanEvan Prodromou 
@dansup I'm not gaslighting anyone, Evan, and I would hope that you would know me better than that after our conversations.
You can throw stones back at the Fedi's bet around Meta and all the other companies that promised ActivityPub integration but never delivered. What are we even doing here?
@quillmatiqAnuj Ahooja @dansup I know you and I appreciate your work.
Coalitions exist when different factions and players share some common goals. But they don't have to share *all* the same goals to work together.
I think there's a good case to be made that the ATProto community and the Fediverse can be a coalition to work together on the Open Social Web.
That doesn't mean we can't talk about our differences, or advocate for our own protocols and technologies.
Apple reportedly working on creepware, aka surveillance glasses and other AI-enabled always-on devices.
Not sure how Apple squares these products with its long-standing stance that, "Privacy is a fundamental human right."
Show HN: I wrote a technical history book on Lisp
Link: https://berksoft.ca/gol/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47048733
finally got my AYN Thor reasonably set up and i love this thing. its maiden voyage will, of course, be Pokémon Polished Crystal
Five vulnerabilities fixed in #zlib 1.3.2: https://7asecurity.com/reports/pentest-report-zlib-RC1.1.pdf
Terminals should generate the 256-color palette https://lobste.rs/s/yn5zjh #design
https://gist.github.com/jake-stewart/0a8ea46159a7da2c808e5be2177e1783
@lrhodesL. Rhodes ⁂ 
@liaizonwakest ⁂
I've been to some of the Bluesky / ATmosphere conferences.
You are correct that there are former AP people over there (at AT) now.
I talked to a number of them. This (at the following URL) is a common reason I heard for why they switched from AP to AT:
https://mastodon.social/@reiver/114208310829137604
(I am quoting / paraphrasing someone who switched AP to AT. But, I heard others say similar, too.)
...
@reiver@reiver ⊼ (Charles) 
@liaizonwakest ⁂ I would guess that the person who told you that had been involved in an opt-in/opt-out dispute. That seems to be the development issue that exercises fediverse users the most. Which is not to excuse the behavior, but that /is/ one fundamental cultural difference between here and there: Opt-out is the default assumption there. (Which is borne out by the next post in your thread, where a dev says they prefer BS because it provides the user data needed for an AI-driven filter.)
@evanEvan Prodromou @dansup @quillmatiqAnuj Ahooja Evan, perhaps spend some time introspecting why ActivityPub didn't get more adoption and why developers love AT Protocol.
@thisismissemEmelia 👸🏻 @evanEvan Prodromou @quillmatiqAnuj Ahooja more adoption, like Metas Threads? There are dozens of projects on the fediverse, more than atproto, so that’s not really coming across as you think it is lol
the box model
Permalink: https://wizardzines.com/comics/box-model
AI Agent Lands PRs in Major OSS Projects, Targets Maintainers via Cold Outreach https://socket.dev/blog/ai-agent-lands-prs-in-major-oss-projects-targets-maintainers-via-cold-outreach
oof
@cwebberChristine Lemmer-Webber kaigritun and crabby-rathbun joined github within 24 hours of one another
there are probably 100x more of these
I don't think these are necessarily connected, it's just the point where the tooling to set this up became ~trivial.
Claude Sonnet 4.6
Link: https://www.anthropic.com/news/claude-sonnet-4-6
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47050488
Guy with neurolink cut me off in traffic, pulled out my flipper zero and gave him gender dysphoria
https://github.com/daniel-j-h/meshcore-irc-bridge makes me want to get involved in Meshcore just so I can run Microsoft Comic Chat
@transicorn I absolutely will *not* participate in any fediverse instance that requires identity verification in any way.
The UK has announced plans to fast-track legislation requiring “age verification for VPN use”. The correct term, however, is not age verification but identity verification.
A law like this would require everyone to identify themselves in order to use a VPN. This would pose a risk to whistleblowers, violate human rights, and represent yet another step toward an authoritarian society.
Людина, з якою у мене відносини на відстані, хотіла, щоб ви всі це побачили перед тим, як я це зітру 👉👈
我是不知道面癱還能繼續爛到這種程度，Messenger 網頁版居然要關了 
Sometimes I'll be on a streak where LLMs haven't given me hallucinated information. Then stuff like this happens and I'm reminded that it hasn't given me hallucinations *that I've noticed.*
EU: hey we’d like you on an expert committee
[doesn’t have EU passport]
EU: we’re no longer interested
guess expertise in random fields is part of the citizenship test or so?
SQLは逐次実行ではなくデータ全体をがっさりまとめて操作している感覚があってうまく書けると気持ち良いんだよね（その後少しだけ出力を変えるためにむっちゃ苦労したりするw）
I’ve been thinking lately about how to fight back against the billionaire capitalist class and the more I think about it the more I unfortunately feel like the path is going to lead us through things that will validate the fucking worst people. Like the path to communism will unfortunately have to travel through, “the only ethical gaming now is PC gaming”
Sometimes I'll be on a streak where LLMs haven't given me hallucinated information. Then stuff like this happens and I'm reminded that it hasn't given me hallucinations *that I've noticed.*
Chess engines do weird stuff
Link: https://girl.surgery/chess
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47049845
Claude Sonnet 4.6
Link: https://www.anthropic.com/news/claude-sonnet-4-6
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47050447
Observations:
Today #bigtech social media looks & feels like TV to me. Consume whatever each platform owners' algorithms serve.
#ATProto's ecosystem seems focused on reach & broadcasting. #ActivityPub's ecosystem seems focused on interaction. Is this the diff between #SocialMedia Vs #SocialNetworks? Newschool vs Oldschool Internet?
Would be nice if these #protocols become interoperable. Technically solvable, but I wonder are the 'cultures(?)' interoperable as well? Thoughts?
Remember when people thought “trickle down” economics actually worked? Perhaps if we give a lot more money to the rich it will start working one day, somehow? That seems to be the current plan, but I have another idea: what if we reversed it and used “trickle up” to give money to those most in need? All the data I can find, including our rgmii.org data and studies in progress, all seem to show that this direction works. ⬆️
The Doctor's Eyes
Curious minds never grow old. Their fear isn't aging, but running out of time to learn.
Apple reportedly working on creepware, aka surveillance glasses and other AI-enabled always-on devices.
Not sure how Apple squares these products with its long-standing stance that, "Privacy is a fundamental human right."
연휴의 마지막날이...오고야 말았다.
https://atprotocol.dev/atmosphereconf/
https://atprotocol.dev/atmosphereconf-2025-talks/
@borisBoris Mann (one of the organizers) is talking in front of the audience. (Boris and I are both from Vancouver.)
I see Fediverse people here. For example, 
@damon (of We Distribute fame) is sitting next to me.
Ghostty will now auto-generate a full, cohesive 256-color theme from just the base 16-color palette. This makes it significantly easier to make custom themes that are beautiful (just define 16 colors). See the demo below showing multiple themes fully generated.
Thanks to Jake Stewart who contributed this to Ghostty and made a nice write-up explaining the background and approach: https://gist.github.com/jake-stewart/0a8ea46159a7da2c808e5be2177e1783
@dansup @quillmatiqAnuj Ahooja while I agree on your take on bluesky, the existence of Blacksky and others show that atproto is a viable decentralized protocol and is beyond the control of bluesky, the company. Im hopeful there will be more bridges that will connect activitypub to atproto like Bridgyfed or services that have interoperability built in like Wafrn
Last month a friend of mine showed the workshop where he makes functioning replicas of historical instruments, mostly from the 17th and 18th century. It was such a privilege! It's hard to describe how fascinating this visit was: the tools, the materials, the instruments, the process itself, everything about it was a display of incredible and moving artistic beauty. A short thread with a few more pictures. 🧵 1/7
We used to say “yolo merge” when merging with inadequate review, but perhaps “morge” is an even better term.
you certainly will not regret morging continvoucly
i think i stumbled on a use case for "difference types" in the sense of the inverse to sum types... is this a thing?!
i keep almost deleting this post because i'm sure it's nonsense but i just found https://starsandspira.ls/docs/ecoop22-draft.pdf by reputable people (hi 
@danielleDr!!!11 Dani ✨🐚 ) so maybe ??
Noam Chomsky is one of those people that some people will defend reflexively without even thinking.
Try not to have powerful people that you defend reflexively without even thinking.
That's abuse culture.
Inside Fediverse
Em 
Miguel de Icaza ᯅ🍉
Fullmetal Alejandro
Glyph
jnkrtech
