What is Hackers' Pub?

RE: https://mastodon.social/@alatiera/116121840547051962

AI psychosis is such a huge problem already and it will only get worse

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you stop talking about programming because you are content to not program anymore and let your ai agent do it

I stop talking about programming because I am buried in paperwork and desperate to program again and want nothing more than to do it

we are not the same

Portable monitors are good

https://xeiaso.net/blog/2026/portable-monitors-are-good/?utm_campaign=mi_irl&utm_medium=social&utm_source=mastodon

gpg --quiet --decrypt --no-tty --for-your-eyes-only

7. 양자리
何事も勢いに乗ることが大事な日。迷ったら直感を信じましょう。作業は下準備を念入りにすることが成功への近道。
ラッキーカラー：ネイビー
幸運のカギ：ハウツー本

어떤 일이라도 기세를 타고 나아가는 것이 중요한 날입니다. 고민될 때는 직관을 믿으세요. 작업은 사전 준비를 철저히 하는 것이 성공으로 가는 지름길입니다.

행운의 색: 네이비
행운의 열쇠: 실용서

I occasionally help an elderly neighbor get stuff done with their computer. And every single time, I walk away in incandescent rage at how hard we have made this stuff for people who have not spent their entire waking lives marinating in it

You, consulting a magic eight ball: signs point to no. Definitely yes. Reply hazy.

Me, consulting sixteen magic eight balls simultaneously and validating their answers against tested, non-magic right balls: 8.

Some cities are dumping Flock thanks in part to pressure from communities and Flock's own shady practices.

"many city officials have realized after the fact that they were sharing their data more broadly than they had known, and that federal agencies, including U.S. Border Patrol, had searched their data." #flock #alpr #police #surveillance

https://www.npr.org/2026/02/17/nx-s1-5612825/flock-contracts-canceled-immigration-survillance-concerns

Some more lichen detail from the wooden seat outside the local shop. I think there are examples here of crustose (grey crusty one at the very bottom with raised plateaux), foliose (blue-grey lobed one on the lower right that looks like waves in a storm), leprose (powdery yellow one in the bottom right corner that's growing on something else), and fruticose (grey-green branched one top left) species, all in one shot.

These are growing between two of the slats forming the back of the seat, a shadier and more protected spot than the previous post which was of part of the sitting surface of the seat.

#LichenSubscribe #MacroPhotography #Photography #Nature #Lichen #NaturePhotography

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Why am I unable to part with any freaking kind of cable whatsoever?!??? Arg!

@cwebberChristine Lemmer-Webber i miss the good old days, when people stopped writing code because they burned out and never wanted to go near a computer again

You, consulting a magic eight ball: signs point to no. Definitely yes. Reply hazy.

Me, consulting sixteen magic eight balls simultaneously and validating their answers against tested, non-magic right balls: 8.

Fediverse上的实例就像Macross系列的巨大移民船，通过超时空技术在联邦宇宙进行通讯，但是，并不是所有的移民船都能保持融洽的交融氛围。因此跨界冲突往往也是常有的事情。

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Girl on the train with a denim jacket with a sewed on panel of Judith slaying holofernes (artemisia version): please be my friend

18 maart kun je kiezen voor een gemeente waarin iedereen gelijk behandeld wordt. Ongeacht wie je bent, van wie je houdt of waar je vandaan komt ❤️

Kan dat? Natuurlijk. Moet je alleen even op ons stemmen 18 maart! ✏️

Sagt mal um diese tolle halbe Milliarde Microsoft beim Bund Debatte; hat irgendwer mal rausgefunden was da eigentlich genau gekauft wird? Was die wirklichen Kosten für einen Arbeitsplatz sind? Wieviel davon vermutlich wirklich völlig nutzlose MS-SQL Lizenzen sind? Wieviel davon sind Azure Kosten? Wieviel irgendwelche Anpassungen? Wie hoch ist der souveräne-Cloud Zuschlag?

今夜も頑張った…そろそろ寝ちゃいますね…！​​​​
いいこともあったし、明日もまた頑張れる…！​​​​
それでは​​​​​​​​

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Show HN: AI Timeline – 171 LLMs from Transformer (2017) to GPT-5.3 (2026)

Link: https://llm-timeline.com/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47119871

一人ひとりの思いを集め、日本共産党をひろげる新たな試み【ストリート対話＠横浜】
毎月第３金曜日を中心に開催します。ビラ配布やシールアンケート、SNSのミニレッスンも実施！
フライヤーなど各種資料やしんぶん赤旗見本紙が欲しい方もぜひ。

場所　横浜駅西口　バスロータリーの交番・タクシー乗り場付近
https://jcp-kanagawa.jp/2026/02/post-88166/

共産党のリアル応援の入り口が定期的に開かれるのいいと思う！ハードルの低い入り口がもっと増えることが必要！
衆院選ボランティアアンケート書きたいのに全然書けてない…アンケート締め切りすぎてもメールで送るからええわ…（とか言っとったら送らんやつになるやん）

ネコちゃんなローザ…いい感じにできたかも！​​​​
色塗りはまだ先になりそうだけど…​​​​
眠くなっちゃったので投稿は夜くらいにしようかな…​​​​

@funkylabMarcus Müller wah look at all the pretty! Definitely very luxuriant and flowy! Thanks for sharing! 😍

You feel an evil presence watching you...

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The Great Unconformity — a gap in Earth’s geological record — has puzzled scientists for 150 years. New research suggests it was created by shifting continents, rather than “snowball Earths” or Cambrian life.

https://www.404media.co/great-unconformity-gap-geological-record-study-columbia/

300 Days of RuboCop https://lobste.rs/s/cyuyhm #practices #ruby
https://lovro-bikic.github.io/300-days-of-rubocop/

'Viking' was a job description, not a matter of heredity: Ancient DNA study

Link: https://www.science.org/content/article/viking-was-job-description-not-matter-heredity-massive-ancient-dna-study-shows
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47100612

🧭 Newly Available: Navigation API

The modern successor to the History API, designed specifically for SPAs. It provides centralized control over browser navigation with detailed event information and promise-based lifecycle management.

Perfect for single-page applications needing better back/forward control.

Dive in! 👇
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Navigation_API

"Car Wash" test with 53 models

Link: https://opper.ai/blog/car-wash-test
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47128138

UNIX99, a UNIX-like OS for the TI-99/4A

Link: https://forums.atariage.com/topic/380883-unix99-a-unix-like-os-for-the-ti-994a/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47127986

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@cwebberChristine Lemmer-Webber What's telling, I think, is that all these people go on about how much they're doing and how great AI is to help them build more *but there's no actual demonstrable stuff being done.* I mean, if AI was some kind of Nx multiplier you'd think we'd be getting N times more actual functionality out of software but mostly it seems like the N multiplier only applies to blog posts about how AI multiplies their programming.

おはにょ

Feeling FOMO about AI? Well here's my advice!

Stay on top of what's happening. Which doesn't really require *using* the tools. Just see what people are doing.

Whether or not you do use it, stay a practitioner. And don't fall for the FOMO.

Your career won't end because you're not making the choice to use AI. (If your employer makes you use it, that's another thing.)

If you use AI, use it for "summarize and explore" tasks. DO NOT use it for *generate* tasks. That's a different thing.

If you want to differentiate yourself, *learning skills* is the differentiation space right now.

These things are easy to pick up. You can do it whenever. But keep learning.

If you see generated examples, don't paste or accept them. Type them in by hand! The hands on imperative: actually trying things congeals core ideas.

And if it doesn't help your career... well, your consolation prize is: you'll stay interesting.

eslint/eslintrc eslintrc-v3.3.4 has been released: https://github.com/eslint/eslintrc/releases/tag/eslintrc-v3.3.4

EU hits pause on US trade deal as it seeks clarity over latest Trump maneuver
https://apnews.com/article/trump-europe-tariffs-trade-deal-b2d8f76f143cf06e222477d13d42bc67?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

Posted into Business and Finance @business-and-finance-AssociatedPressBusiness and Finance

France's Foreign Ministry has announced that it is revoking the government access of US Ambassador Charles Kushner, father of President Trump's son-in-law, after he failed to appear when summoned regarding comments made by the Trump administration concerning the killing of a far-right activist.

https://www.lemonde.fr/en/international/article/2026/02/23/france-to-revoke-us-envoy-kushner-s-government-access-after-no-show_6750803_4.html

"A former ICE teacher at a Georgia training center will tell a forum called by Congressional Democrats on Monday, Feb. 23, that new agents are trained to run roughshod over constitutional rights, including the right against a home invasion, and that the federal agency is 'broken.'" https://www.startribune.com/ice-fourth-amendment-whistleblower-congressional-democrats-forum-testimony-blumenthal/601587162

RE: https://mastodon.social/@theleftistlawyer/116121674553036154

Truly an underrated advice. Watch this lecture for some of the ways things can go wrong, even if you're completely innocent.

Case in point, the cop that comes in later confirms:

"Everything [the law professor] said was true."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d-7o9xYp7eE

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Today I learned there's something unironically called "Meta Superintelligence Labs," and I'm going to have to sit with this one for a while.

I hate asking like this, but I'm testing out sounds, right now it's for notifications, and you can help me by liking and boosting this toot. Thanks!