What is Hackers' Pub?

Follow me for hot takes on AI (that there are multiple kinds of things called AI, that things don't necessarily need to work this way, that it is good to try to understand what's happening but not to accept the way it's happening right now, that datacenters are bad, that whether these things are good partly depend on whether or not you retain agency and how can we do that, that in general the fundamental problem is the socioeconomic structure that leads to devaluing the wonderful parts of life in favor of power concentration)

僕が現地参加できたRubyKaigiは2007年と2015年かなあって、とある応募フォームを眺めながら思い出そうとしてたんだけど、2007年はRubyKaigiじゃなくて日本 Ruby 会議が正式な名前みたい #こまかい

@b0rkJulia Evans I blocked it at my DNS server a couple of years ago to break the habit, and it made a huge difference to my mental health

Using go fix to modernize Go code

Link: https://go.dev/blog/gofix
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47049479

에휴 서버 업글부터 해야지 ㅡㅡ

몰라 증명은 없다 invalid 하든가

@b0rkJulia Evans the quality of conversation there has really gone down in recent years. It always contained some level of vitriol but now it just feels like reading reddit comments but without the mirth.

@cwebberChristine Lemmer-Webber AI will allow us to reach such high "velocity" that one single engineer can write as many bugs as previously took the entire industry working together

Companies have forgotten how to write descriptions of things that humans are able to relate to

1 engineer 1 month 1 million lines of bugs

비가 계속 오네 와 정말... 금토일 빼고 계속 온다고?...

Oat, Ultra-lightweight UI library, Semantic, minimal, zero dependencies https://lobste.rs/s/eec8ez #web
https://oat.ink/

I've been reading this "Iain M. Banks" guy for a while and I have come to the conclusion he's really very good at coming up with ideas and then writing down descriptions of them

@b0rkJulia Evans 💜

People should be able to write software for Android, and distribute it outside Google's Play store, without having to:

* pay Google
* give government ID to Google
* agree to Google terms and conditions

People should be able to install the software they want on their phone, from sources other than Google's Play store, without having to jump through Google-imposed hoops.

e.g. via F-Droid.

We've got until September this year to stop Google squeezing the open Android ecosystem.

https://keepandroidopen.org/

@quillmatiqAnuj Ahooja @dansup I don't have a lot of examples of this, honestly.

I can think of a few great ActivityPub implementers who dual-stack, like micro.blog and Friendica, but I don't know of ones that stopped supporting ActivityPub because someone said Bluesky was started by a billionaire.

I think it's *great* when servers and clients support AP, regardless of what other protocols or services they support.

"Aber wir können ja direkt neben jedes KI Rechenzentrum ein kleines Atomkraftwerk bauen was den Stromverbrauch deckt"

Digger, sei doch einfach Still 🤡

Ich hab mit dieser ganzen Scheiße einfach so fundamental viele Probleme ich weiß garnicht wie weit vorne in der Argumentation ich anfangen soll "Nein" zu sagen....

RE: https://troet.cafe/@TierTurnier/116087512051122367

@jugendhackt kommt, da ist unsere Hilfe gefragt

@b0rkJulia Evans Great idea, I'm starting today

@b0rkJulia Evans I stopped reading HN in late 2024, and I think that is the best decision I have made for myself in a very, very long time.

@b0rkJulia Evans 👍 Hacker News is enshittifying with lots of AI-related posts lately. 😒

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?

#Fediverse #Tech

I am ominously going to give a talk titled "The Fediverse: Good News, Bad News, How to Win Big"

#TierTurnier #TierTurnierVote Gruppe H

Jetzt geht's ums Kamel.

Das Trampeltier hat 2 Höcker,
das Dromedar einen Höcker. Hier ist eine kleine Eselsbrücke: Wenn man sich den Buchstaben D liegend vorstellt, dann macht er einen, einzigen großen Bogen. Der Buchstabe D kommt auch im Dromedar vor. Also: ein Bogen = ein Höcker!

Lama und Alpaka, die biologisch zu den Neuweltkamelen gezählt werden, die im Hochland Südamerikas leben, haben keine Höcker.

The #FDroid website has a new banner on top to remind visitors that #Google did not change course and #Android will be locked-down in under 200 days.

If you care about the freedom to control your devices and care about the privacy of you data, please contact your representative and make your voice heard.

https://keepandroidopen.org/ (thanks @marcpruxMarc Prud'hommeaux) has the resources to guide you.

We know users will rarely visit the site so the Client(s) will get a banner soon too.

Thank you for your support!

lol cool cool

thanks to the awesome support of @steveSteve Bate and @mariusormarius the #WordPress #ActivityPub #C2S API support is quite solid now.

It is possible to publish a new post, comment to posts and other comments and to follow others.

https://github.com/Automattic/wordpress-activitypub/pull/2851

Exciting news 🌱

The charity I co-founded (and of which I am CEO) is now on Mastodon at https://mastodon.social/@wordforest

Follow us there for updates on reforestation and community resilience in Kenya.

#Reforestation #ClimateAction

Before I drive myself mad and try to build something I'm incapable of…

Has anyone built an #ActivityPub server for embedded devices?

Not a Raspberry Pi, but like one of those tiny ESP32 devices which can run MicroPython or similar.

I built a *full* AP server in around 64KB of PHP
https://gitlab.com/edent/activity-bot/

Now I'm wondering if a tiny sensor could be a fully-fledged ActivityPub node on the Fediverse.

Billionaire investor Vinod Khosla suggested as many as 125 million people should be exempt from paying income taxes in the coming decades as AI gets closer to eliminating a mass number of jobs, suggesting the government make up the lost revenue by relying on capital gains tax https://www.forbes.com/sites/maryroeloffs/2026/02/17/billionaire-khosla-if-125-million-are-unemployed-by-ai-they-shouldnt-pay-taxes/

Bold to assume that ultra rich will pay capital gains. Lmao.

A large number of taxpayers are salaried & you are destroying those jobs with AI. I don't think these people have thought it through

So you want to build a tunnel

Link: https://practical.engineering/blog/2026/2/17/so-you-want-to-build-a-tunnel
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47049718

Gentoo on Codeberg

Link: https://www.gentoo.org/news/2026/02/16/codeberg.html
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47050067

x.com/matchoking1/... 아씨 이거 보고싶었는데 왓챠 언제 끝나더라

모카 on X: "안녕하세요 여러분 전설의 GL 드라마...

@kevingranade @cwebberChristine Lemmer-Webber and, i think this disguised noise is hazardous to humans in the same way that it is hazardous to training sets. the skill degradation thing is really alarming and it seems to happen a lot faster than simple atrophy, and this is my theory for why. see also https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2r6UJlXCiG0

Open source has a big AI slop problem https://leaddev.com/software-quality/open-source-has-a-big-ai-slop-problem

(based partly on an interview with me)

하 ㅡㅡ

Unter meinen Followies hier ist nicht zufällig jemand, der/die bei einem Ladestationsbackendbetreiber arbeitet oder da wen kennt?

@cwebberChristine Lemmer-Webber i have to say that my personal (skeptical) threat model of AI apocalypse failed to account for how eager people are to put their bank account details in their config files

AI Policies, OSS Maintenance and EU Open Source Academy with Daniel Stenberg https://netstack.fm/#episode-27

Setting Up Cuirass Locally via @federicoschonbornLEGO® Worm™ https://lobste.rs/s/4zmz17 #lisp #nix #testing
https://carlo.zancanaro.id.au/posts/setting-up-cuirass-locally.html

Rizin - Free and Open Source Reverse Engineering Framework via @fs111 https://lobste.rs/s/pqt9sv #reversing
https://rizin.re/

how's the "tech is full of wokescolds" bit looking now that anyone critical of the numerous socialised harms caused by genAI is increasingly framed as an anti-progress killjoy even by their own peers

스크립트 하나 쓰는데 토큰을 다 처먹네

Surveillance glasses recording people without their knowledge and consent, and especially if they collect nonconsensual data using AI or facial recognition, need to be banned and illegal to sell everywhere.

Tell your local representatives they need to outlaw this harmful technology.

Privacy is a human right.
We need to defend it.

#NoAI #MassSurveillance #BanRayBan #Meta #CreepGlasses #Privacy

that is, maybe this "is the left paying attention to this or not" is more about like, what you think "the left" is oh no

"Aber wir können ja direkt neben jedes KI Rechenzentrum ein kleines Atomkraftwerk bauen was den Stromverbrauch deckt"

Digger, sei doch einfach Still 🤡

Ich hab mit dieser ganzen Scheiße einfach so fundamental viele Probleme ich weiß garnicht wie weit vorne in der Argumentation ich anfangen soll "Nein" zu sagen....

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.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=tF7_2VckKNQ