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.
NEW: DHS left embedded comments in a PDF outlining its plans to warehouse immigrants, identifying the architects and laying bare the gross extent of its regulatory capture. Great scoop by @regret.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy: www.wired.com/story/metada...
ME: oh huh, we forgot to update `rspec-rails` from v6 back when we upgraded to Rails 8.0. i should fix that.
[ONE HOUR LATER]
ME: `git commit -am "Update rails to 8.1 lol"`
A sunset walk to try to regain a bit of mental balance after a heavy week and a truly demanding day.
My relationship with the weekend has always been complicated. And this weekend I hope will be calm, with the same atmosphere as this photo.
A budget is a moral document.
If we all chose to treat deadlines as an act of love, we could transform the world.
No, really.
http://blog.jbrains.ca/permalink/deadlines-as-an-act-of-love
The new form of email spam that somehow bypasses the filters: "UGC influencers"
Canadian Politics 🇨🇦 : Satire / Politique canadienne 🇨🇦: Satire
Pierre Poilievre crosses floor to Liberals
https://www.thebeaverton.com/2026/02/pierre-poilievre-crosses-floor-to-liberals/
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Pierre Poilievre traverse chez les Libéraux
// Publication en anglais //
Founder drops AWS for Euro stack in bid for sovereignty • The Register
https://www.theregister.com/2026/02/20/ditching_aws_euro_stack/
It's super exciting to see so many libghostty-based projects popping up (two were on HN yesterday alone). This was always the REAL goal of Ghostty that I've been transparent about since the first public talk I gave.
Ghostty the app has always really been a glorified tech demo for libghostty which I planned/hoped would really take over the world eventually with a diverse set of terminal-adjacent things focused on specific goals/ideals. And that's exactly what's happening.
Awesome.
While writing my article, it became clear to me how much responsibility — and especially experience — is required to touch areas like UVM or NPF inside NetBSD.
I’ve learned a lot over the past weeks. But I’m also honest enough to say: I don’t yet have the depth of experience needed to modify those subsystems responsibly.
So I made a conscious decision.
I’ve created a new experimental branch for secmodel_jail / jailctl / jailmgr that is strictly additive:
- No changes to existing kernel code paths
- No UVM hooks
- No NPF integration
- No hidden coupling between subsystems
It adds new code only.
The reason is simple: even without deep UVM or NPF integration, the security model already delivers significant practical value for me. And in this reduced, explicit form, the attack surface is clear and the audit scope sharply defined.
This feels like the right first alpha candidate: understandable, bounded, and reversible.
https://github.com/MatthiasPetermann/netbsd-src/tree/feature/jails-v1-ga
Handy bash(1) prompt: PS1="\u@\h \w \!$ "
-- David Scheidt <dscheidt@tumbolia.com>
Wikipedia bans Archive.today after site executed DDoS and altered web captures
If DDoSing a blog wasn't bad enough, archive site also tampered with web snapshots.
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/02/wikipedia-bans-archive-today-after-site-executed-ddos-and-altered-web-captures/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social
also every time I post about man pages people tell me that they like to use https://tldr.sh/ to quickly look up examples of how to use a tool. I don't use it personally but it seems popular and I think it's an interesting tool
The state board of elections found Musk’s PAC sent prefilled ballot applications. Well, well, well.
Turns Out There Was Voter Fraud in Georgia—by Elon Musk
https://newrepublic.com/post/206857/georgia-voter-fraud-elon-musk
#BankruptTesla #TeslaTakedown #CancelStarlink #BoycottSpaceX #ElonMusk #DOGE #Swastikars #USPol
Canadian Politics 🇨🇦 : Satire / Politique canadienne 🇨🇦: Satire
Pierre Poilievre crosses floor to Liberals
https://www.thebeaverton.com/2026/02/pierre-poilievre-crosses-floor-to-liberals/
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Pierre Poilievre traverse chez les Libéraux
// Publication en anglais //
This year I was asked to join the Program Committee for #PyConUS and I put together some thoughts on the process and advice for people proposing talks. If that's you, I hope this helps.
Are you stressed? Watch this:
China’s first corgi police dog makes public debut https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jcr8vvFONTY
Right now extensibility of #ActivityPub shapes up as custom app-by-app app-centric development where individual devs just pragmatically throw new stuff on the wire, and when their app gains any popularity or other apps to integrate in a similarish application, things are bolted onto that in random ways. That whole story really constitutes a Big Ball of Mud anti-pattern that only introduces protocol decay, tech debt, and whack-a-mole programming, that is very hard to get rid of once there exists an installed base.
The reason that we do things that way is very understandable. It works in a grassroots environment where indivualist devs find it very hard and not valuable to collaborate at scale in what amounts to a kind of design-by-consensus process. But it comes at a high cost, where interoperability is basically out the door and any app has to be shaped as a pretzel and adopt all the quirks introduced by predecessors in a particular app domain to fit itself on the wire.
It does not need to be that way. I am quite happy after all (after being initially frustrated) by how #ATProto has disrupted things, and opened the eyes of devs in the #ActivityPub ecosystem that we must act or lose out (stay niche, which may be fine too) to the Atmoshpere and how it enables devs to focus on service and product delivery instead of low-level wire plumbing and continuous breakages.
ATProto also shows the way that we can now follow on the #fediverse to catch up again: cocreate a similar robust basis for people to build on. #Bluesky had the advantage of a greenfield start and dedicated team unburdened by past decisions. And they build this whole Lexicon system and ways to introspect functionality.
We can do that too, solve the #LinkedData conundrum, and create an extensibility mechanism that allows devs to focus on service modeling. The more introspection this mechanism allows for, the less design-by-consensus is required, easing expansion to new domains.
I started planning a new app for Pixelfed/Loops/Sup admins.
It's really complex to try and add admin support to the main apps, due to oauth scopes (users don't need to be more confused), and the fact they aren't designed for that.
Having a separate admin app would allow them to manage multiple instances, get push notifications and keep the main apps lighter.
Likely won't be ready until Q4, I have a few other things to finish first 🤠
I've uploaded a new scrolling ASCII art piece, "Bund FC" inspired by the architecture of the Bund Finance Center in Shanghai. https://scrollart.org/bund-fc/
Dive into the Galapagos with jaw-dropping 2021 footage of hammerhead sharks! Epic schools, close encounters, and raw ocean beauty — a must-watch for marine and wildlife fans. Submerge yourself and feel the thrill! #Hammerhead #Galapagos #Sharks #Underwater #Wildlife #Ocean #Conservation #Nature #English
https://bengo.tube/videos/watch/5f4cf451-1188-4ec0-a56a-9b7c8ab771d1
Plasma 6.6! Get your @kde Plasma 6.6 here on Fedora KDE!
Read all about it!
Getting Gorsich to break with the supreme-executive faction on the court is a big deal. The new 6-3 is going to be interesting
おいしい
- ライス
- ライスの上に乗っけた目玉焼き
- さらに乗っけた納豆
味噌ラーメン山岡家が阿見にオープンすると、つくば周辺にラーメン／煮干しラーメン／味噌ラーメンの山岡家3形態が揃って山岡家活動がよりいっそう捗ることになる
Scheindungspapa-Wochenende ist von außen betrachtet, ziemlich traurig. Aus meiner Innenansicht habe ich die damals immer sehr genossen. #fensterplatz #Fensterfreitag
Raspberry Pi Pico 2 at 873.5MHz with 3.05V Core Abuse
Link: https://learn.pimoroni.com/article/overclocking-the-pico-2
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47085387
F-Droid: "Keep Android Open"
Link: https://f-droid.org/2026/02/20/twif.html
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47091419
한국이나 동북부에 계신분들이 들으면 황당하겠지만... 흐 오늘 이동네 왜 이렇게 추운가 ㅠㅠ 앞으로 다시 따뜻해진다고 하긴하는데 털짐승이 히팅패드 밖으로 안/못나오는걸 보면 추운것이 맞긴함...
“I’m ashamed of certain members of the Court for not doing what is right,” says President Trump of the 6-3 SCOTUS ruling against him on tariffs, adding they’ve been "swayed by foreign interests."
Addressing the company with a “Good Morging”
having full end-to-end control of two of the biggest fediverse platforms is a rare thing.
it means real progress: comment controls, unified messenger, ephemeral stories.
it also helps legitimize smaller projects doing incredible work — emissary, gotosocial and beyond.
we're living the fairytale 🫶
I am an allegedly functional adult so I can have (more) coffee any time I want it. Will it help this yawning and this day? Stay tuned, but don't hold your breath, coffee is sort of decorative to me.
(I once quit coffee cold turkey for a week with no observable side effects, when you're usually supposed to notice symptoms from caffeine withdrawal and so on.)
"Incredibly clearly unconstitutional" gets you a 6-3 vote, with the three dissents producing dozens of pages arguing that unconstitutional isn't really so bad.
But 6-3 is better than the other way around.
A budget is a moral document.
Addressing the company with a “Good Morging”
"Incredibly clearly unconstitutional" gets you a 6-3 vote, with the three dissents producing dozens of pages arguing that unconstitutional isn't really so bad.
But 6-3 is better than the other way around.
"Incredibly clearly unconstitutional" gets you a 6-3 vote, with the three dissents producing dozens of pages arguing that unconstitutional isn't really so bad.
But 6-3 is better than the other way around.
A COMPUTER CAN NEVER BE HELD ACCOUNTABLE
THEREFORE BLAMING AN AGENT WILL NEVER BE FOUND ACCEPTABLE
I’m calling it the No Digital Scapegoats Axiom.
I am the developer of 
@supappsup, an open source, modular instant messenger for the fediverse.
Coming soon!
@dansup @supappsup 
@HolosSocial is also working on encrypted messages on #activitypub will they be compatible?
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