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.

Hacker News 50 @hn50@social.lansky.name
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OpenAI resets spending expectations, from $1.4T to $600B

Link: cnbc.com/2026/02/20/openai-res
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4

OpenAI resets spending expectations, tells investors compute target is around $600 billion by 2030

OpenAI told investors it's targeting roughly $600 billion in total compute spend by 2030, trying to clarify its plans after touting a $1.4 trillion figure.

www.cnbc.com · CNBC

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잇창명 EatChangmyeong💕🦋 @eatch.dev@bsky.brid.gy
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일본에서 응원봉 들고 집회를 나가면 '우리 애들한테 정치 묻히지 마라' (paraphrased)나 공작원, 좌익, 비국민 ← 이런 표적 공격의 대상이 된다고... 씁쓸하다 (2:52) youtu.be/n4jNwCVIB74

[시선집중] 도쿄서 1천 여 명 '응원봉' 개헌 반대 ...

[시선집중] 도쿄서 1천 여 명 '응원봉' 개헌 반대 집회...韓 노벨평화상 추천 소식에 힘 받기도 - 유승민 작가[6분집중], MBC 260223 방송

※ 〈김종배의 시선집중〉 방송 화면 인용 시, 출처를 잘 보이는 크기의 자막으로 다음과 같이 명시해주시기 바랍니다. - MBC 라디오 〈김종배의 시선집중〉 2026년 2월 23일 방송지금 우리가 주목해야 할 뉴스그 뉴스 속으로 한 걸음 더 들어갑니다| 출연 : 유승민 작가#일본 #...

www.youtube.com · YouTube

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Gabriele Svelto @gabrielesvelto@mas.to
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This morning a friend asked for help updating his BIOS. I helped him disable BitLocker because the fTPM would be cleared, then we run the update and also updated the chipset drivers. So far so good. Later my friend calls me up because apparently Windows detected a hardware change and isn't activated anymore. Trying to reactivate it doesn't work, and claims that he's using a Home license when the installation is a Pro one (it was). Sounds stupid enough? Hold on 1/2

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𒁹𒀭𒌍𒋾𒀀𒅆 @unninni@daepi.so
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​:youtube:​이 또 나에게 이상한 걸 추천해줬어

ピアノ弾き ぴあやの　二羽のにわとりと喜界島で暮らす

自然の中でピアノを弾きたい！ 鹿児島県喜界島に移住したピアノ弾き "ぴあやの"です。 グランドピアノを横浜から クラウドファンディングで運び 卵から孵した2羽のニワトリと 島暮らしをしています。 自然のパワーとピアノを融合させて 世界中に音楽を発信していきます😆 【配信アプリ17ライブ 】 認証ライバー　🔍ぴあやの　 でほぼ毎日配信してます。

www.youtube.com · YouTube

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Steve Troughton-Smith @stroughtonsmith@mastodon.social
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If humanity, a type 0 civilization, can create a human-level artificial intelligence well within a hundred years of inventing the first computer (and we're not quite there yet but in programming we're pretty darn close), that must mean intelligent life in the universe must increase exponentially with time. Mathematically there must be trillions and trillions of intelligences out there, or we are beating unfathomable odds to be the very first

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Hacker News 50 @hn50@social.lansky.name
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Tesla registrations crash 17% in Europe as BEV market surges 14%

Link: electrek.co/2026/02/24/tesla-e
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4

Tesla registrations crash 17% in Europe as BEV market surges 14%

Tesla's EU+EFTA+UK registrations fell 17% in January 2026 — down from already weak 2025 numbers. Without Tesla, BEV registrations would be up 16%.

electrek.co · Electrek

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Em :official_verified: @Em0nM4stodon@infosec.exchange
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I'm not using any LLM or "AI" for anything that I write or draw. Never had, and never will.

I'm making this choice because:

• This technology was built by unethically stealing the hard work of millions without any consent or compensation.

• This technology has and is still constantly scraping data, including personal data, from people without their knowledge or consent, in complete disregard of the privacy laws we have to protect us.

• This technology unnecessarily uses vast amounts of energy in a world where using more energy sadly usually means more pollution.

• This technology is working on devaluating labor in order to enrich even more the already rich, aggravating poverty everywhere.

• This technology is misleadingly being sold as a solution to problems it cannot solve.

• This technology is supercharging disinformation and manipulation online, centralizing an incredible power of influence in the hands of a few controlling billionaires.

• This technology is increasingly being used by authoritarian governments in order to surveil and control the people.

• This technology atrophies our creativity and capability to think, as well as harming our social relationships.

• This technology makes my writing voice feel flat and boring. I'd rather learn to live with my human tipos.

• This technology...

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Em :official_verified: @Em0nM4stodon@infosec.exchange
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I'm not using any LLM or "AI" for anything that I write or draw. Never had, and never will.

I'm making this choice because:

• This technology was built by unethically stealing the hard work of millions without any consent or compensation.

• This technology has and is still constantly scraping data, including personal data, from people without their knowledge or consent, in complete disregard of the privacy laws we have to protect us.

• This technology unnecessarily uses vast amounts of energy in a world where using more energy sadly usually means more pollution.

• This technology is working on devaluating labor in order to enrich even more the already rich, aggravating poverty everywhere.

• This technology is misleadingly being sold as a solution to problems it cannot solve.

• This technology is supercharging disinformation and manipulation online, centralizing an incredible power of influence in the hands of a few controlling billionaires.

• This technology is increasingly being used by authoritarian governments in order to surveil and control the people.

• This technology atrophies our creativity and capability to think, as well as harming our social relationships.

• This technology makes my writing voice feel flat and boring. I'd rather learn to live with my human tipos.

• This technology...

Journeys In Film @JourneysInFilm@hcommons.social
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Shared by Em :official_verified:

@Em0nM4stodonEm :official_verified: We are right there beside you.

hcommons.social/@JourneysInFil

Journeys In Film (@JourneysInFilm@hcommons.social)

It seems like a good time to say this for the record: Our lessons are not generated by AI. At all. Ever. Our teaching resources are 100% created by humans. We work with professional educators, subject-matter experts, cultural consultants and sensitivity readers who are all experienced, talented, dedicated people. Because we care about creating high quality teaching resources to support educators and students. We're proud to be the real deal. We are a non-profit and we make our resources available for free. Thank you for recommending us to the teachers, schools and community educators who are looking for alternatives to AI slop. Teachers and learners deserve better. Please take a look around our resource library and help yourself to anything you'd like. https://journeysinfilm.org/resource-library/?utm_source=Masotodon&utm_medium=Social+Media&utm_campaign=NoAi&utm_content=link #Education #Edutooters #EdTech #NoAI #Homeschooling #TeachingResources

hcommons.social · hcommons.social

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tenjuu99(天重誠二) @tenjuu99@hollo.tenjuu.net
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また君が代は大切な人の長寿を願う歌というやつが例のSNSでたくさんリプついてて、たぶんAI投稿なんだけど、ついてるリプも「高校の頃にラブソングと習った」「天皇のことじゃない」「現代文で読むほうが理解できる」みたいな、たぶんこれもAIによる存在しない過去が捏造されている。与作が木を切っていたほうが、まだいくらかマシだったかもしれん。

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Electronic Frontier Foundation @eff@mastodon.social
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Shared by zunda

What creepy nonsense are companies up to when they try to guess your age or take your ID for age verification? eff.org/deeplinks/2026/01/so-y

So, You’ve Hit an Age Gate. What Now?

EFF is against age gating and age verification mandates, and we hope we’ll win in getting existing ones overturned and new ones prevented. But mandates are already in effect, and every day many people are asked to verify their age across the web, despite prominent cases of sensitive data getting leaked in the process.

www.eff.org · Electronic Frontier Foundation

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🫧 socialcoding.. @smallcircles@social.coop
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I recreated an old diagram in Excalidraw that I spread about a couple years ago, and made it a bit more informative. Explanation can be found in the

See also and for discussion: discuss.coding.social/t/diagra

Or join the Social experience design chatroom at: matrix.to/#/#socialcoding-foun

Also posted to at: socialhub.activitypub.rocks/t/

@benBen Werdmuller

Diagram. Interoperability in practice. A chart with a horizontal axis that goes in 2 directions. On the left it moves towards chaotic grassroots growth, and on the right side towards open standards adoption. The Y-axis indicates level of complexity. The center indicates a low level of complexity. On the left side of the axis we first find the ActivityPub open standard, with a relatively low complexity level. However the prevailing method to evolving the ecosystem is driven by post facto interoperability, where tech debt and protocol decay is introduced and accepted, which must be refactored and evolve alongside the open standard. Since this doesn’t happen, the fediverse grassroots environment is shifting more to the left into non-lineary increasing accidental complexity. Deviating more and more from the ActivityPub standard and the promise that it holds to offer the Future of Social networking. On the right side, to contrast against fediverse, we find the Solid Project led by Sir Tim Berners-Lee, which is based on a whole range of W3C Linked Data related open standards and draft documents. There is no grassroots movement that drives progress, but a steering committee. Progress is restrained by open standards adoption and support. Higher levels of interoperability require more rigour and formal standardization, and this also leads to non-linear growth of, in this case, engineered complexity. Solution developers have to wait for many standards to mature, leading to inertia.
🫧 socialcoding.. @smallcircles@social.coop
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Shared by 🫧 socialcoding..

social.coop/@smallcircles/1161

To get back to 'shared ownership' and @benBen Werdmuller article that triggered my blog post.

The is certainly not all cheerleaders, but the question is whether critical notes can be properly heard and addressed in any meaningful way. After all who are the ones who should hear them and act on them? It is "the herd", the crowd, the commons that happens to receive toots via their social graph, and to the extent these manage to penetrate bubbles and echo chambers. To make a strong argument, to reach people, the only strategy is social media influence marketing of sorts. You have to dare to rock the boat enough to be heard. And that's a very bad way to grow a healthy ecosystem I think.

It relates to the oft-heared criticism that on the app-centric fediverse, it is the app devs who are de-facto in charge and decide what goes and what goes not.

The social dynamics are tricky but fascinating. I hope to be able to spend more time at coding.social

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陈晃 @anniethegreenhair@alive.bar
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干了几天体力活之后愈加确切地体会到成瘾的确是一个阶级问题。我的工友们人均烟酒麻至少沾俩，在长时间的体力劳动和巨大的生活压力下，成瘾根本不是一个所谓自律就能解决的问题。要知道比起寻求刺激，减轻痛苦才是真正容易令人上瘾的。而且大家都很“不文明”地在车上抽烟，因为我们连午餐都只能在车上匆匆解决，更不可能有时间特地抽烟了。我们当然知道这不“文明”，但背后更大的问题显然是劳动者缺乏闲暇。从这个角度来看，说句大逆不道的，国内互联网女权对抽烟喝酒作为一种“男性不良行为”的抨击也kind of是一种中产道德批判。（没有说二手烟正确的意思）

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Electronic Frontier Foundation @eff@mastodon.social
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What creepy nonsense are companies up to when they try to guess your age or take your ID for age verification? eff.org/deeplinks/2026/01/so-y

So, You’ve Hit an Age Gate. What Now?

EFF is against age gating and age verification mandates, and we hope we’ll win in getting existing ones overturned and new ones prevented. But mandates are already in effect, and every day many people are asked to verify their age across the web, despite prominent cases of sensitive data getting leaked in the process.

www.eff.org · Electronic Frontier Foundation

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zunda @zundan@mastodon.zunda.ninja
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よっぽいしょ :saba:

919b1e69b8 (upstream/main) Add collection report modal (#37961)
72406a1cd1 Refactor: Introduce admin base action class (#37960)
1e87bd178d Bump version to v4.5.7 (#37965)
43ef9f66b6 Add `PATCH /api/v1/profile` (#37934)
3ed16489d0 Profile editing: Add singular to translated string (#37958)
49bcaba628 Update dependency postcss-preset-env to v11.2.0 (#37945)
c5b6881c1d New Crowdin Translations (automated) (#37956)
96bff0e4cd Update dependency omniauth-saml to v2.2.5 (#37944)

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Dan Piponi @dpiponi@mathstodon.xyz
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There are many Britains but one is the setting for folk horror with its wild landscape, isolated villages, stone circles, ruined abbeys and, of course, ancient rituals. And no book did more to cement that image in my mind than the AA Illustrated Guide to Britain, published back in 1974, that I used to pore over as a kid.

So I got a kick out of seeing it sitting prominently on display on the bookshelf in the final scenes of Bone Temple.

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Hacker News 100 @hn100@social.lansky.name
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OpenAI, the US government and Persona built an identity surveillance machine

Link: vmfunc.re/blog/persona/
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4

the watchers: how openai, the US government, and persona built an identity surveillance machine that files reports on you to the feds

53MB of source code leaked from a government endpoint. 269 verification checks. biometric face databases. SAR filings to FinCEN. and the same company that verifies your ChatGPT account.

vmfunc.re · vmfunc.re

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