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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Tom Warren @tomwarren.co.uk@bsky.brid.gy
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Microsoft's new Xbox chief is Asha Sharma, formerly president of CoreAI. She's promising to "recommit to our core Xbox fans and players" and "celebrate our roots with a renewed commitment to Xbox starting with console which has shaped who we are." www.theverge.com/games/882326...

Read Microsoft gaming CEO Asha...

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Read Microsoft gaming CEO Asha Sharma’s first memo on the future of Xbox

She’s promising “The return of Xbox.”

www.theverge.com · The Verge

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Lars Wirzenius @liw@toot.liw.fi
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Shared by infinite love ⴳ

Hot take, so controversial it counts as trolling: all notifications should default "off". Anything that can interrupt or distract the person using a computer or other device should be explicitly turned on by that person.

There are exceptions for things that can cause serious harm if ignored. "You've got mail" is not an exception. Neither is "someone liked your social media post".

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Lori Emerson @loriemerson@post.lurk.org
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Shared by wakest ⁂

I had a really nice time talking about how "The Internet Was Never Inevitable" (touching on , media archaeology, and the @mediaarchaeologylab) on the Orthogonal Bet podcast. gawd this picture of me but whatever? theorthogonalbet.com/p/the-int

The Internet Was Never Inevitable

In this episode, Samuel Arbesman speaks with Lori Emerson, a professor of Media Studies at University of Colorado Boulder and the founding director of the Media Archaeology Lab, where Arbesman serves as an advisor.

www.theorthogonalbet.com

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leyrer @leyrer@23.social
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"3D necroprinting" — using the proboscis (feeding tube) from a deceased female mosquito as the nozzle on a 3D printer

drexel.edu/news/archive/2026/J

Mosquitoes' Bloodsucking Tubes Could Enable High-Definition 3D Printing

In a redeeming development for one of nature’s most universally denounced pests, researchers from McGill and Drexel Universities have discovered that mosquito stingers might one day be used for high-definition 3D bioprinting. Reported in the journal Science Advances, the findings demonstrated how the needle-like structure, called a proboscis, that mosquitoes use to extract blood, when repurposed as a tip for a 3D printer, can extrude lines finer than a human hair — surpassing commercially available 3D printing tips.

drexel.edu

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Hacker News 500 @hn500@social.lansky.name
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I found a useful Git one liner buried in leaked CIA developer docs

Link: spencer.wtf/2026/02/20/cleanin
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4

Cleaning up merged git branches: a one-liner from the CIA's leaked dev docs | spencer.wtf

How to delete all merged git branches locally with a single command. This one-liner has been in my zshrc since 2017 — I found it buried in the CIA's Vault7 l...

spencer.wtf · spencer.wtf

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Light Owl ☸️ @sbb@c.im
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@JessTheUnstillJess👾 there's a dimension of psychology here, that can't really be glossed over. The OP would be perhaps stated a little differently, to accommodate this psychological dimension:

"People who aren't good with technology first need to develop humility, and turn down the dial of trust in their own emotionally-based (not all that factually-based) intuitions - to select TechBros dead-end technologies - and turn up the dial of trust in favoring those who are good with technology, and aren't the insidious, untrustworthy TechBros"

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Martin Kostera @martin@libera.site
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Prostě to bude jako s průmyslem. Prostě to bude dělat někdo jiný. A pak si to slavnostně dovezem. 🤷‍♂️🙄🤦‍♂️

#^https://www.novinky.cz/clanek/ekonomika-kvuli-klimatickym-pravidlum-eu-budeme-muset-seskrtat-lety-do-asie-varuji-aerolinky-40562538

#SkanzenEU #EU #GreenDeal

Kvůli klimatickým pravidlům EU budeme muset seškrtat lety do Asie, varují aerolinky - Novinky

Klimatická pravidla Evropské unie obrazně řečeno podrazí evropským aerolinkám nohy, tvrdí letecká společnost Air France-KLM. Podle ní hrozí, že na dlouhých trasách do Asie ztratí konkurenceschopnost a bude muset předat tyto trasy svým mimoevropským konkurentům.

www.novinky.cz

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Jeff Jarvis @jeffjarvis@mastodon.social
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I asked Der Spiegel to share this important interview with Robert Kagan in English. @bredowRafaela von Bredow made it happen. This is how American media should be talking:
"We Are Watching a Country Fall Under Dictatorship Almost Without Resistance"
spiegel.de/international/world

(S+) U.S. Historian Robert Kagan: "We Are Watching a Country Fall Under Dictatorship Almost Without Resistance"

The Cold War? Child's play compared to what lies ahead, according to U.S. historian Robert Kagan. Trump, he says, is leading the world into the most dangerous era since 1945.

www.spiegel.de

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Filippo Valsorda :go: @filippo@abyssdomain.expert
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Shared by Olivier Forget

Dependabot security alerts have terrible signal-to-noise ratio, especially for Go vulnerabilities. That hurts security!

Just turn it off and set up a pair of scheduled GitHub Actions, one running govulncheck, and the other running CI against the latest version of your dependencies.

Less work, less risk, better results!

words.filippo.io/dependabot/?s

Turn Dependabot Off

I recommend turning Dependabot off and replacing it with a pair of scheduled GitHub Actions, one running govulncheck, and the other running CI against the latest version of your dependencies.

words.filippo.io

Link author: Filippo Valsorda :go:@filippo@abyssdomain.expert

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thelocalstack @thelocalstack@mastodon.social
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Shared by Olivier Forget

Hello Mastodon 👋

I'm rogi.
I have a 2014 ThinkPad. I run a blog with €5/month. Zero cloud.

I read privacy policies so you don't have to.

Last month: an AI had a 24KB psychological profile built from my conversations. Last week: my passport went through 17 US companies just to get a LinkedIn badge. Nobody mentioned that.

That's what I write about. Not paranoia, just what's actually in the documents.

thelocalstack.eu

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Chris Siebenmann @cks@mastodon.social
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LLM bullshit

"The Go team debates AI-generated contributions", that's nice but there's probably no real debate. A lot of the Go team work at Google, and Google has very likely mandated that everyone use LLMs to 'help' with programming and made them part of performance reviews.

The same is true for major corporate contributions to any FOSS project. Don't accept LLM stuff? Either people lie or you lose those corporate contributions, take your pick. (I pick the second, but that's a hard sell.)

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Mastodon Engineering @MastodonEngineering@mastodon.social
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Shared by @reiver ⊼ (Charles) :batman:

We're looking for two Backend Ruby on Rails Web Developers to work with us remotely as part of the core team.

Ideally you are:

1. Very experienced with Ruby on Rails
2. Proficient in PostgreSQL, and familiar with Redis and Elasticsearch
3. Experienced in developing maintainable and scalable web backend and API systems

This remote full-time position requires a 4-hour overlap with the CET timezone.

For more info/to apply: jobs.ashbyhq.com/mastodon/ac9d

2 x Remote Backend Ruby on Rails Web Developers

2 x Remote Backend Ruby on Rails Web Developers

jobs.ashbyhq.com

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Mastodon Engineering @MastodonEngineering@mastodon.social
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Shared by Julian Fietkau

We're looking for two Backend Ruby on Rails Web Developers to work with us remotely as part of the core team.

Ideally you are:

1. Very experienced with Ruby on Rails
2. Proficient in PostgreSQL, and familiar with Redis and Elasticsearch
3. Experienced in developing maintainable and scalable web backend and API systems

This remote full-time position requires a 4-hour overlap with the CET timezone.

For more info/to apply: jobs.ashbyhq.com/mastodon/ac9d

2 x Remote Backend Ruby on Rails Web Developers

2 x Remote Backend Ruby on Rails Web Developers

jobs.ashbyhq.com

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Lars Wirzenius @liw@toot.liw.fi
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Shared by Chris Siebenmann

Hot take, so controversial it counts as trolling: all notifications should default "off". Anything that can interrupt or distract the person using a computer or other device should be explicitly turned on by that person.

There are exceptions for things that can cause serious harm if ignored. "You've got mail" is not an exception. Neither is "someone liked your social media post".

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Julian Fietkau @julian@fietkau.social
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RE: ecscw.eusset.eu/2026/2026/02/2

This conference paper template overhaul for @ecscw2026 was a huge (by my standards) LaTeX project.

Love and respect to Saturnino Luz, the author of the 2006 template, which remained untouched up to 2025. A revamp was overdue. The new template uses current-decade LaTeX features to make document metadata more accessible and searchable, add alt text to figures, and integrate services like @ORCID_OrgORCID Organization.

The @ecscw2026 account will probably post about more of these improvements over time.

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