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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Webvan did not make any money.
Kozmo.com cratered.

This did not mean that universal networking of computers was a bad idea, nor did it mean that grocery delivery was a bad idea. Both concepts survived the initial stupidities and implosion.

The wastes of money that were the first versions of these companies were irrelevant to the eventual successful variations, and the successful *important concept* that could not be controlled.

The *universally networked computers* concept was the big one. The yeah woo we can deliver groceries concept was a nice little capitalistic by-product.

I am going to predict right now, in a way that will make people hate me, that the neural-net-like-analogue of brain behavior that is LLMs is a concept that is worthwhile, important, revolution-creating, and going to survive the popping of the economic bubble created by VC stupidity and the destruction of whatever stupid companies get created by the likes of stupid people like saltman.

This is what will last; this is what will be worth while. Hold onto this concept, because it's going to be what is still here in five years, even if you hate it today.

IMO Anthropic is running away with this race right now; Google might pull out a mediocre second place. I’m not sure it's worth discussing third place.

I also don't have any idea what's going to happen in two months, so I am at peace with being wrong. Anyway…

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Irish Data Protection Commission was asked today in Committee: have you ever taken a GDPR decision on Google?
Answer... No.

Ireland is responsible for supervising Google's data use across the whole EU. It has produced Zero decisions.

Hundreds of "amicable resolutions" but no actual Article 60 final decisions at all.

The European Commission should be examining Ireland not just on tax but on data and child safety online.

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[Pledged: $270 of $600/month. $330 to go. Patrons: 6]

Let’s try something different: Looking for pledges to become patrons for one of our volunteers at Gaza Verified*, @aseelfromgzA S E E L, so we can move her and her family out of living in a damp, unsafe tent and into an apartment.

Aseel’s family needs to pay $600/month rent if they’re to afford the apartment they’ve found. And I’d like them to not have to worry if they’re going to be homeless again next month if they can’t raise enough from the kindness of strangers every month.

So let’s try something new: If you’re willing and able to become a patron and pledge to donate a set amount so they can afford this apartment, please reply to this thread.

I’ll start us off: I pledge to become a regular patron and donate $50/month to help cover Aseel’s rent.

If 11 of you match my pledge, we can move Aseel and her family out of a tent and into the safety of a real home.

What do you say? :)

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* gaza-verified.org/team

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LLM nonsense

"There is no question that AI tools like Claude Code and OpenAI's Codex have forever changed the way software will be constructed."

Fuck all the way off with this bullshit. There are *lots* of questions, and this is in no way a settled question *at all* and you are showing your entire arse when you write absolute piffle like this.

LLM nonsense

@daedalusJP I guess the magic of this quote is that they have not specified whether it's going to change it forever for better or worse.

Even after the bubble bursts and the wave subsides, we're going to be stuck with the aftermath and implications for a long long time.

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‘기갑의 전투력’으로 차별 깨던 변희수 하사 5주기···“변희수 재단이 지지망 되길” www.khan.co.kr/article/2026... "성소수자지원센터 띵동에서 청소년 시절 변 하사를 지원했던 송지은 변호사는 “희수가 하고 싶은 걸 충분히 탐색하고, 시도하는 것만으로 응원받고 안전하게 실패할 수 있는 공간과 자원이 더 있었다면 어땠을까”라며 “스무살이 되자마자 성별 확정을 위해 법원 문턱부터 넘는 이들에게는 더 많은 시간과 기회가 필요하다”고 말했다."

‘기갑의 전투력’으로 차별 깨던 변희수 하사 5주기··...

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[단독]모닝글로리, 가구시장 진출…오피스 의자 첫 선 - 아시아경제

view.asiae.co.kr/article/20260

의자시장이 이미 꽤나 레드오션 아닌가?
시디즈가 40%점유 상태이고, 나머지 십여개 브랜드가 한자리수 점유율로 싸우는 중이라던데

왠지 손해보고 망할거 같다.

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"conventions > codification" is a thing that fell out of me thinking about what exactly it is i hate about markdown, and i guess the followup to that is perhaps "standardization" is itself a red herring because it assumes the lie we can all agree when we cannot. standard protocols are essentially the "french academy" approach to linguistics, whereas real language evolves much more chaotically.

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“적자가 약탈 탓?” 경제학자가 비웃는 트럼프의 ‘관세 방정식’ 경제학 원론의 기본 공식인 GDP = C(소비) + I(투자) + G(정부지출) + X(순수출)에 따르면, 총지출(C+I+G)이 GDP를 초과할 때 무역 적자가 발생한다. 실제로 2025년 미국의 총지출은 31조 7000억 달러였고 GDP는 30조 7790억 달러였다. 그 차액인 9210억 달러가 정확히 지난해 무역 적자액과 일치한다. 즉, 무역 적자는 외국인의 약탈 때문이 아니라 미국인이 생산보다 더 많이 썼기 때문에 발생한 내부적 문제다.

“적자가 약탈 탓?” 경제학자가 비웃는 트럼프의 ‘관세...

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“적자가 약탈 탓?” 경제학자가 비웃는 트럼프의 ‘관세 방정식’

경제학 원론의 기본 공식인 GDP = C(소비) + I(투자) + G(정부지출) + X(순수출)에 따르면, 총지출(C+I+G)이 GDP를 초과할 때 무역 적자가 발생한다. 실제로 2025년 미국의 총지출은 31조 7000억 달러였고 GDP는 30조 7790억 달러였다. 그 차액인 9210억 달러가 정확히 지난해 무역 적자액과 일치한다. 즉, 무역 적자는 외국인의 약탈 때문이 아니라 미국인이 생산보다 더 많이 썼기 때문에 발생한 내부적 문제다. fortunekorea.co.kr/news/articl

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With macOS 26.4 beta, Apple silently introduced a "protection" for internal keyboards, breaking ALL keyboard-related applications making use of IOHID: Karabiner-Elements, Katana, and my own SokIM.

Karabiner Elements stops worki...

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3月4日(水)から11日(水)まで東京に滞在します。この機会に日本のフェディバースの皆さんとお会いしたいです。ランチでもディナーでも、お茶やコーヒーでも構いません。私と会ってくださる方はいらっしゃいますか?食事やお茶は私がおごります。私はこの期間中、特に予定がないので、皆さんのご都合に合わせることができます。(ただし、最終日を除きます)

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