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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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Migrating from Published to Observable isn't a simple swap. Discover the four traps that catch most developers off guard when adopting the new observation framework.

🔗: captainswiftui.substack.com/p/ by Danny Bolella

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The AI hype-cyclone is bad, but so is the anti-AI witch hunt. Commits co-authored by Claude do not mean that a project has "abandoned engineering as a serious endeavor"

Would we say that accepting contributions from new developers means we've "abandoned engineering as a serious endeavor"? No.

Claude can write wrong code. New contributors can write wrong code. What matters is what you do with that code after it's been written.

@nedbatNed Batchelder Strictly speaking, that's true; and, I think the fact of Claude being attributed as the developer of some code speaks poorly of the effort of the developers involved.

Take the attrs library's AI policy, for instance:

Every contribution has to be backed by a human who unequivocally owns the copyright for all changes. No LLM bots in Co-authored-by:s.

That seems wise! If you're not so confident in the code that you'd type it with your own fingers, you're not confident enough to commit it.

I wish CPython would adopt that, too.

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Fedi, a good friend needs to find a place to live in Padua (Padova), Italy. He has citizenship, but doesn't speak the language well. He's not wealthy but he's able to afford a small place. He's currently in the UK.

Can anyone help me find him a letting agent or any other source where he can view and apply to rent an apartment? He's tried calling a couple of places to no avail.

:boost_ok:

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Hier, j'ai supprimé ma chaine YouTube. Je veux partager mes vidéos de piano ; les likes, je m'en contrefiche. Et puis, Google, quoi... J'ai voulu créer un compte peertube à la place dans la foulée. Et puis, je me suis rappelé que j'avais les compétences pour optimiser et héberger moi-même tout ça 😅 . Du coup, j'en ai profité pour clôturer mon compte Musescore et proposer moi-même les partitions en PDF.

24 heures plus tard :

kitami.awebsome.fr/pages/an-im

Yeah!

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Why AI writing is so generic, boring, and dangerous: Semantic ablation

theregister.com/2026/02/16/sem

Just as the community adopted the term "hallucination" to describe additive errors, we must now codify its far more insidious counterpart: semantic ablation.

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When an author uses AI for "polishing" a draft, they are not seeing improvement; they are witnessing semantic ablation.

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The result is a "JPEG of thought".

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During the period we have just covered, winter for Viking 2, the lander took its first pictures of frost on the surface. We don't see many pictures like this because most landers have been at lower latitudes. Phoenix is the obvious exception, but Viking 2 did it first. These links show 2 images - but from later in the mission, the second winter.

planetary.org/space-images/vik

nasa.gov/image-article/viking-

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서울 강남3구(서초·강남·송파구)와 용산구의 아파트 매맷값이 1~2년 만에 하락 전환했습니다. 부동산에 쏠렸던 돈이 때마침 역대급 상승 랠리를 보이는 주식시장으로 이동할 최적의 여건이어서, 최근 2년간 가파르게 상승했던 강남과 한강벨트 지역 아파트값이 하향 안정세로 돌아설 계기가 마련됐다는 분석이 나옵니다.

‘다주택 양도세 중과’에 강남 아파트값 2년 만에 하락...

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3월 3일 정월대보름 붉은달 뜬다…날씨 좋으면 개기월식 전과정 관측 www.dongascience.com/news/76533 "달이 지구 본그림자에 일부분 가려지는 부분식이 3일 18시 49분 48초에 시작된다. 달이 지구 그림자에 완전히 들어가는 개기식은 20시 4분에 시작되며 20시 33분 42초에 최대가 된다. 21시 3분 24초에 개기식이 종료되고 부분식은 22시 17분 36초에 끝이 난다."

3월 3일 정월대보름 붉은달 뜬다…날씨 좋으면 개기월식...

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数行の要約ではなく本文を読もうね arxiv.org/abs/2602.14740

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AI Arms and Influence: Frontier Models Exhibit Sophisticated Reasoning in Simulated Nuclear Crises

Today's leading AI models engage in sophisticated behaviour when placed in strategic competition. They spontaneously attempt deception, signaling intentions they do not intend to follow; they demonstrate rich theory of mind, reasoning about adversary beliefs and anticipating their actions; and they exhibit credible metacognitive self-awareness, assessing their own strategic abilities before deciding how to act. Here we present findings from a crisis simulation in which three frontier large language models (GPT-5.2, Claude Sonnet 4, Gemini 3 Flash) play opposing leaders in a nuclear crisis. Our simulation has direct application for national security professionals, but also, via its insights into AI reasoning under uncertainty, has applications far beyond international crisis decision-making. Our findings both validate and challenge central tenets of strategic theory. We find support for Schelling's ideas about commitment, Kahn's escalation framework, and Jervis's work on misperception, inter alia. Yet we also find that the nuclear taboo is no impediment to nuclear escalation by our models; that strategic nuclear attack, while rare, does occur; that threats more often provoke counter-escalation than compliance; that high mutual credibility accelerated rather than deterred conflict; and that no model ever chose accommodation or withdrawal even when under acute pressure, only reduced levels of violence. We argue that AI simulation represents a powerful tool for strategic analysis, but only if properly calibrated against known patterns of human reasoning. Understanding how frontier models do and do not imitate human strategic logic is essential preparation for a world in which AI increasingly shapes strategic outcomes.

arxiv.org · arXiv.org

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LCD 재료 화학물질, 멸종위기 돌고래 뇌까지 침투···“인간도 위험할 수도” www.khan.co.kr/article/2026... "뇌는 혈액뇌장벽(Blood-brain barrier·BBB)이라고 불리는 강력한 장벽을 통해 보호받고 있는데, 이 물질이 이 장벽마저 뚫고 뇌에서 검출된 것에 대해 연구진은 큰 위험 신호라고 경고했다. 허 연구원은 가디언에 “이 화학물질이 돌고래의 혈액뇌장벽을 넘을 수 있다면 이 물질에 오염된 해산물이나 식수에 노출된 인간에게도 유사한 영향을 미칠 가능성에 대해 우려해야 한다”고 설명했다."

LCD 재료 화학물질, 멸종위기 돌고래 뇌까지 침투··...

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3월 3일 정월대보름 붉은달 뜬다…날씨 좋으면 개기월식 전과정 관측 www.dongascience.com/news/76533 "달이 지구 본그림자에 일부분 가려지는 부분식이 3일 18시 49분 48초에 시작된다. 달이 지구 그림자에 완전히 들어가는 개기식은 20시 4분에 시작되며 20시 33분 42초에 최대가 된다. 21시 3분 24초에 개기식이 종료되고 부분식은 22시 17분 36초에 끝이 난다."

3월 3일 정월대보름 붉은달 뜬다…날씨 좋으면 개기월식...

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3월 3일 정월대보름 붉은달 뜬다…날씨 좋으면 개기월식 전과정 관측 www.dongascience.com/news/76533 "달이 지구 본그림자에 일부분 가려지는 부분식이 3일 18시 49분 48초에 시작된다. 달이 지구 그림자에 완전히 들어가는 개기식은 20시 4분에 시작되며 20시 33분 42초에 최대가 된다. 21시 3분 24초에 개기식이 종료되고 부분식은 22시 17분 36초에 끝이 난다."

3월 3일 정월대보름 붉은달 뜬다…날씨 좋으면 개기월식...

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I'm in a resurrecting mood. After bringing back the two blogs I host on NearlyFreeSpeech.net, I went into my domain host and connected a bunch of sites on the Caddy web server I run on an AlmaLinux 9 VPS. It's mostly sites that I'm already hosting on https://tilde.club, except with my domains:

https://passthejoe.net
https://zola.passthejoe.net
https://stevenrosenberg.net
https://wruby.passthejoe.net

Caddy makes everything so easy.

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지금 챗GPT 웹인터페이스 답변은 아주 기계적이고 강박적으로 '논쟁적' 테마에 대한 언급을 기피함. 모든 이야기에 단서를 달거나 직접적 예시로써 현실을 끌고오기를 회피하는데, 이게 무슨 공식 딥씩이 중국 공산당 주제로 대화를 기피하는거랑 질적으로 다른 게 없어보임. (다행히 API쪽은 이런 인스트럭션 오염에서 상대적으로 자유로운 듯. **아직은**) 거 참 투명할세그려. 동일한 민감성을 가진 토픽에 대해서 제미나이나 클로드가 내놓는 답변에 비해서 회피성이 대단히 뚜렷함...

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나중엔 아마 이럴겁니다 손자/녀가 혹시라도 있으면... "우리가 중소/대기업에 다닐때 사람 직원이 막 100명 넘고 그랬어!! 내 위에 윗사람이 막 6-9단계나 있었다고!! 보고서도 매번 하나씩 다 타이핑하고 파워포인트로 하나씩 다 도형을 그려서 일일이 슬라이드를 동화책처럼 만들었다고...! 매번 다 임직원 앞에서 직접 발표했다고...! 그 작업만 막 몇주씩 걸렸어!! " 손자/녀: (안믿음)

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