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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Republik Magazin @republik_magazin@republik.ch
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Palantir Technologies is suing Republik Magazine over an investigation into Palantir’s activities in Switzerland, published in December 2025. The lawsuit demands a counterstatement and is currently being heard by the Zurich Commercial Court.
Read the story that made Palantir sue us — now available in English.

republik.ch/2026/02/18/how-ten

Palantir is suing Republik, an independent Swiss media outlet that published an in-depth investigation into its activities.
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Republik Magazin @republik_magazin@republik.ch
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Shared by Em :official_verified:

Palantir Technologies is suing Republik Magazine over an investigation into Palantir’s activities in Switzerland, published in December 2025. The lawsuit demands a counterstatement and is currently being heard by the Zurich Commercial Court.
Read the story that made Palantir sue us — now available in English.

republik.ch/2026/02/18/how-ten

Palantir is suing Republik, an independent Swiss media outlet that published an in-depth investigation into its activities.
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Tom Warren @tomwarren.co.uk@bsky.brid.gy
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Shared by Silverkey | 은열쇠

Microsoft's new Xbox chief says "games are and always will be art, crafted by humans" and that Xbox won't chase AI slop. "As monetization and AI evolve and influence this future, we will not chase short-term efficiency or flood our ecosystem with soulless AI slop." 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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Misty @misty@digipres.club
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I'm open for work again! I'm looking for interesting opportunities; want to work with me?

My experience includes web archiving and digital preservation, devops, and internal developer tooling. I'd love to put that experience to work for you and your team.

Experience includes the Internet Archive, GitHub, Shopify, and others alongside a number of open source projects.

Available in Vancouver, BC or remote.

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Tom Warren @tomwarren.co.uk@bsky.brid.gy
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Microsoft's new Xbox chief says "games are and always will be art, crafted by humans" and that Xbox won't chase AI slop. "As monetization and AI evolve and influence this future, we will not chase short-term efficiency or flood our ecosystem with soulless AI slop." www.theverge.com/games/882326...

Read Microsoft gaming CEO Asha...

1709180475242

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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Democracy Matters :verified: @DemocracyMattersALot@mstdn.social
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Shared by Em :official_verified:

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
newrepublic.com/post/206857/ge

Turns Out There Was Voter Fraud in Georgia—by Elon Musk

The state board of elections found Musk’s PAC sent prefilled ballot applications.

newrepublic.com · The New Republic

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ballotproof vest @starchy@infosec.exchange
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'A note reading “Hahaha get wrecked ya surveilling fucks” was attached to one of the destroyed poles, and somewhat incredibly, broadcast on the local news.'
bloodinthemachine.com/p/across

Across the US, people are dismantling and destroying Flock surveillance cameras

Anger over ICE connections and privacy violations is fueling the sabotage. PLUS: 10,000 drivers call on Uber to repay stolen wages, a man is arrested at a public hearing about a data center and more.

www.bloodinthemachine.com

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Ben Ramsey @ramsey@phpc.social
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Quote du jour: “‘Top-down mandates to use large language models are crazy,’ one employee told Wired. ‘If the tool were good, we’d all just use it.’”

futurism.com/artificial-intell

Jack Dorsey's New Company Falling Apart as It Forces Employees to Use AI

Twitter founder Jack Dorsey is running into some serious issues while overhauling his financial services company, Block.

futurism.com · Futurism

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Hacker News 50 @hn50@social.lansky.name
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Wikipedia deprecates Archive.today, starts removing archive links

Link: arstechnica.com/tech-policy/20
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4

Image of Wikipedia's website with a magnifying glass over the logo.

Wikipedia blacklists Archive.today, starts removing 695,000 archive links

If DDoSing a blog wasn't bad enough, archive site also tampered with web snapshots.

arstechnica.com · Ars Technica

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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy
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The story that Elon Musk committed voter fraud has gotten next to no coverage -- one of those things you can't make come up on a Google search. But I think it's time for Dems to go on offensive abt right wing coddling of this immigrant interfering in our elections. newrepublic.com/post/206857/...

Turns Out There Was Voter Frau...

Turns Out There Was Voter Fraud in Georgia—by Elon Musk

The state board of elections found Musk’s PAC sent prefilled ballot applications.

newrepublic.com · The New Republic

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danmcquillan @danmcquillan@kolektiva.social
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Looks good: 'Cables of Resistance' cableresist.de/ "We are movements and anti-capitalist activists who practise various forms of resistance against big tech. We want to bring together interested people, activists and movements, network and connect local struggles."

Cables of Resistance -- A movement conference

Cables of Resistance is organised by movements and anti-capitalist activists who practise various forms of resistance against big tech. It will be held April 10-12, 2026, in Berlin, Germany.

cableresist.de

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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...

1709180475242

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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