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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UnfinishedProjects @unfinishedprojects@piefed.zip
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Thank you. 1. I’ll definitely check out Anubis and your configuration to see if it will work for my scenario. 2. Ok, good to know - if it’s simply a bug then that that’s fine, mostly I wanted to make sure it wasn’t an indicator that something deeper was broken or getting blocked in the communication. 3. Sorry, I used the term instance when I meant community. But it sounds like the federation is more so to bring traffic into the forum, rather then out. Did I understand that correctly? If that is the case, then I may not opt to use it - as I was originally hoping for a way to push forum content into communities. I’ll explore this further I guess - because I’m unfamiliar with relays and fedibuzz.

Overall, I appreciate the detailed response :)

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うにべる:blobcat_unyanpuppu::aemoji_bell: @unibell4@misskey.io
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OpenAIが基礎研究的に最前線なのはわかるんだけど、
Geminiさんは会話のしやすさ、ClaudeCodeさんやってほしいタスクに一直線という良さが明確にあって、ChatGPTにはそういうのをあんまり感じない
GoogleとAnthropicがトップシェアじゃないから特徴を前面に出すためにわざとやってるのかな

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Hacker News 50 @hn50@social.lansky.name
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Large-scale online deanonymization with LLMs

Link: arxiv.org/abs/2602.16800
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4

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Large-scale online deanonymization with LLMs

We show that large language models can be used to perform at-scale deanonymization. With full Internet access, our agent can re-identify Hacker News users and Anthropic Interviewer participants at high precision, given pseudonymous online profiles and conversations alone, matching what would take hours for a dedicated human investigator. We then design attacks for the closed-world setting. Given two databases of pseudonymous individuals, each containing unstructured text written by or about that individual, we implement a scalable attack pipeline that uses LLMs to: (1) extract identity-relevant features, (2) search for candidate matches via semantic embeddings, and (3) reason over top candidates to verify matches and reduce false positives. Compared to prior deanonymization work (e.g., on the Netflix prize) that required structured data or manual feature engineering, our approach works directly on raw user content across arbitrary platforms. We construct three datasets with known ground-truth data to evaluate our attacks. The first links Hacker News to LinkedIn profiles, using cross-platform references that appear in the profiles. Our second dataset matches users across Reddit movie discussion communities; and the third splits a single user's Reddit history in time to create two pseudonymous profiles to be matched. In each setting, LLM-based methods substantially outperform classical baselines, achieving up to 68% recall at 90% precision compared to near 0% for the best non-LLM method. Our results show that the practical obscurity protecting pseudonymous users online no longer holds and that threat models for online privacy need to be reconsidered.

arxiv.org · arXiv.org

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Hacker News 100 @hn100@social.lansky.name
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New accounts on HN 10x more likely to use em-dashes

Link: marginalia.nu/weird-ai-crap/hn/
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4

New accounts on HN 10x more likely to use EM-dashes

I’ve had this sense that HN has gotten absolutely innundated with bots last few months. First most obvious giveaway is the frequency with which you see accounts posting brilliant insights like 13 60 well and t6ctctfuvuh7hguhuig8h88gd to f6gug7h8j8h6fzbuvubt GB I be cugttc fav uhz cb ibub8vgxgvzdrc to bubuvtxfh tf d xxx h z j gj uxomoxtububonjbk P.l.kvh cb hug tf 6 go k7gtcv8j9j7gimpiiuh7i 8ubg or 1662476506 or Аё Beyond the accounts that are visibly glitching out, the vibe is also seriously off.

www.marginalia.nu

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Horologram @horologram.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy
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근데 지금은 위기 없음 은행 파산 없음 경기침체 없음 실업률은 “역사적으로 낮다” 소리 나옴 그럼 변명거리가 뭐임 이제 계산이 안 맞는 거임 평균 신용카드 연이자율 20%+임 임대료 2019년 이후 30% 상승 식료품 가격 2019년 이후 32% 상승 자동차 보험료 50%+ 상승 임금은 못 따라감 전혀 못 따라감; 미국인들이 늘 하던 대로 카드에 긁어버린 거임 총 신용카드 부채가 1조 2800억 달러 찍었고 역대 최고치임 소비자한테 2008급 스트레스가 걸려 있다는 뜻"

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Horologram @horologram.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy
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이분 글이 사실이라면 미국의 많은 가정은 사실상 파산 상태 아닐까 싶은데... 아마 당장은 아니겠지만 일자리 날라가면 몇달 버티기 힘든 사람들도 많을듯. 아마 당장은 아니여도 조만간 뭔가 일어나긴할듯 "지금 신용카드 부채 중 12.7%가 90일 이상 연체 상태임 이거 역대 2번째로 높은 수치임 더 나빴던 때 언제였냐면 2010년임 지난 80년 중 최악의 금융위기 여파 때였음 그때는 실업률 10% 찍었고 정부가 불 꺼지지 말라고 수조 달러 찍어내던 시기였음 그때 연체가 대략 13.5%에서 정점 찍었음 근데 오늘은 12.7%임 ㅋ"

x.com/NoLimitGains/s...

x.com · X (formerly Twitter)

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Kuba Suder • @mackuba.eu on 🦋 @mackuba@martianbase.net
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@pfrazee.comPaul Frazee writes about how decentralization in / compares to the architecture of ActivityPub & networks like Nostr: pfrazee.com/blog/practical-dec

"There are still challenges in front of atproto. Bluesky is still too large of a player (…) Do I worry about those problems? Of course I do. But am I confident we'll solve them? Absolutely"

"Atproto isn't federation. It isn't p2p. It isn't blockchains. It's a direct attempt at practical decentralization, tradeoffs and all"

Practical Decentralization

The point of decentralization is to guarantee the rights of individuals and communities on the Internet. Pulling that off is a balancing act between practicality and ideology.

pfrazee.com · Paul's Dev Notes

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Kuba Suder • @mackuba.eu on 🦋 @mackuba@martianbase.net
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@pfrazee.comPaul Frazee writes about how decentralization in / compares to the architecture of ActivityPub & networks like Nostr: pfrazee.com/blog/practical-dec

"There are still challenges in front of atproto. Bluesky is still too large of a player (…) Do I worry about those problems? Of course I do. But am I confident we'll solve them? Absolutely"

"Atproto isn't federation. It isn't p2p. It isn't blockchains. It's a direct attempt at practical decentralization, tradeoffs and all"

Practical Decentralization

The point of decentralization is to guarantee the rights of individuals and communities on the Internet. Pulling that off is a balancing act between practicality and ideology.

pfrazee.com · Paul's Dev Notes

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Thomas 🔭🕹️ @thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io
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None of the "code generation" stuff is new by the way.

The tech industry has tried to speed up coding and increase software output for the last 3 to 4 decades, by various means; e.g. Rapid Application Development, Expert Systems, Object-Oriented Programming, thousands of different frameworks all the way to trying to off-shore development and exploit third-world labor.

The problem with this is: there is no software scarcity. Pretending that "we can't make software fast enough" is a red herring to hide the fact that making (good) software is 90% painstaking research, design, planning, marketing and talking to and supporting customers.

And 10% writing the actual code—the C-suite is doing ye olde "trying to find a technical solution to a social problem".

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🧦🍲 natalie 🌧️🧣 @paparatti@phire.place
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Important South Seattle PSA: someone at Rainier Beach High School has been diagnosed with Tuberculosis 😬 (hopefully this isn't like the time that casino lady had it and kept dodging treatment!)

youtube.com/watch?v=fJ4aYlg7ZP0

Person infected with tuberculosis found at Rainier Beach HS

Rainier Beach High School is being evaluated after a person carrying the easily transmissible respiratory infection tuberculosis was discovered there

www.youtube.com · YouTube

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Wagtail @wagtail@fosstodon.org
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Have you voted yet? Don't be a late bird! Vote today!

Vote here: cmscritic.com/vote

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The 14th Annual CMS Critic Awards Nominations

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cmscritic.com · CMS Critic

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Ellie @ellie@ellieayla.net
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The document-wide in-scrollbar thumbnail / minimap has been around for a while. Most people are familiar with it from RockScroll (2008) or Sublime Text (2012) or VSCode (2015).

github.com/coveragepy/coverage has a slick implementation (scroll_markers) contributed by Dmitry Shishov in 2016. Super useful when jumping between several places reviewing coverage misses, and super subtle!

❤️ @nedbatNed Batchelder

The code coverage tool for Python. Contribute to coveragepy/coveragepy development by creating an account on GitHub.

GitHub - coveragepy/coveragepy: The code coverage tool for Python

The code coverage tool for Python. Contribute to coveragepy/coveragepy development by creating an account on GitHub.

github.com · GitHub

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Surf @surf@flipboard.social
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Less than a week till @fediforum's Growing the Social Web unworkshop! Get all the latest from @tchambersTim Chambers's Surf feed:

surf.social/feed/surf%2Fcustom

Fediforum by Tim Chambers on Surf

Surf - Top #fediforum leaders, organizers, featured speakers and developers spotlighted at each all Fediforum events. Including both ATProto and ActivityPub voices there.

surf.social

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julian shared the below article:

Promoting NodeBB/fedi to city-scale organizations

julian @julian@activitypub.space

<p><a href="https://cosocial.ca/@johannab">@<bdi>johannab@cosocial.ca</bdi></a> asks:</p> <blockquote> <p>NodeBB strikes me as the best aligned of the extant platforms for municipal governments. Here's a question for julian: is he prepared for, or interested in, a promotion program to city-scale organizations?</p> </blockquote> <p>To which I answered, simply: "Yes."</p> <p>Now that I have the time to expand on my answer:</p> <p>Yes, absolutely! There is definitely a space for municipal city-scale adoption of the fediverse through properties that they alone control, but federate widely. [...]</p> [...]

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Surf @surf@flipboard.social
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Less than a week till @fediforum's Growing the Social Web unworkshop! Get all the latest from @tchambersTim Chambers's Surf feed:

surf.social/feed/surf%2Fcustom

Fediforum by Tim Chambers on Surf

Surf - Top #fediforum leaders, organizers, featured speakers and developers spotlighted at each all Fediforum events. Including both ATProto and ActivityPub voices there.

surf.social

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Olu @oluOnline@social.gfsc.studio
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indie web people, video essayists who either don't make money OR make it mostly not on YouTube, other interested parties:

do you post your videos somewhere that isn't YouTube or tiktok or Instagram? do you feel like you get the reach you want doing it or you've just taken the L there?

Thanks in advance

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