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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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Hacker News 100 @hn100@social.lansky.name
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BuildKit: Docker's Hidden Gem That Can Build Almost Anything

Link: tuananh.net/2026/02/25/buildki
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4

BuildKit: Docker's Hidden Gem That Can Build Almost Anything

Most people know BuildKit as the thing that makes docker build fast. But BuildKit is a general-purpose build framework with a programmable architecture that can produce any artifact, not just container images. Here's how it works and how I used it to build Alpine APK packages.

tuananh.net · Tuan-Anh Tran

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Hacker News 50 @hn50@social.lansky.name
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He saw an abandoned trailer. Then, uncovered a surveillance network

Link: calmatters.org/justice/2026/02
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4

The hidden surveillance network sending Californians' license plates to Border Patrol

California residents are noticing new license plate readers that appear to be operated by the Border Patrol. Some have had confusing encounters with agents.

calmatters.org · CalMatters

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The Psychotic Network Ferret @nuintari@mastodon.bsd.cafe
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Shared by Cat 🐈🥗 (D.Burch) :paw:⁠:paw:

@catsaladCat 🐈🥗 (D.Burch) :paw:⁠:paw: There is a local Chinese place in Perrysburg, Ohio called Yum Yummy, and the woman who owns it is quite capable of murdering your taste buds.

My sister's stepson tried to order his food, 'as spicy as you can make it."

The owner was very hesitant. I tried to warn him, my wife tried to warn him. But in the end I said, "Ping? Let him have it!"

I think he sweat off a gallon of water in the next hour or so. He was hurting bad.

Every time we go in there now, we have a good laugh with the owner. She is so awesome.

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the roamer @the_roamer@mastodonapp.uk
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Shared by David Beazley

Higher Education's march toward our eventual genAI suicide continues.

N is an enthusiastic young colleague who's been promoting genAI all along. This week he shares a new paper he's written. In it we find a lengthy list of the dangers of genAI and why we shouldn't be using it. Wait, what? Is this the same guy?

Let's read on. What is N's solution to the recognised genAI failure? "Agentic AI." Ah, that's where we're heading!

A long list of agentic AI's presumed powers follows, along with presumed supporting pedagogical theory. No reference to actual practice: like Sam Altman we trade on future promises.

The soulless, person-less future we are promised, without any hint of irony: "AI as a collaborative partner"; "from AI as a servant to AI as a learning companion".

Heaven help us.

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mcc @mcc@mastodon.social
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What I'm listening to today: "海​に​憎​し​み​を​叫​ぶ", Oblique Occasions

This is another track from the same album I posted yesterday, but it's what I'm posting anyway, because who's going to stop me? This is one of a few tracks from this album that sound like lost music from a PS1 JRPG— and might actually be, since one of the other tracks is literally a Castlevania cover.

I like how this mimics that sound from tracker music where each violin sample starts as if in isolation.

obliqueoccasions.bandcamp.com/

海に憎しみを叫ぶ, by Oblique Occasions

from the album 原点

obliqueoccasions.bandcamp.com · Oblique Occasions

mcc @mcc@mastodon.social
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Shared by mcc

What I'm listening to today: "Hoss featuring the PERKONS HD-01", Generative Jane

This one is a wild ride, starting with a blast of strange FM noises and then immediately dropping hard into a gradually-mutating industrial dance beat. This is the kind of music you'd show opening credits to, probably over establishing shots of a futuristic city, or possibly people riding futuristic motorcycles at great speed to no particular obvious destination.

youtube.com/watch?v=xCMWWiEjWuw

Hoss featuring the PERKONS HD-01 by Erica Synths

Hoss featuring the PERKONS HD-01 by Erica Synths

www.youtube.com · YouTube

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the roamer @the_roamer@mastodonapp.uk
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Higher Education's march toward our eventual genAI suicide continues.

N is an enthusiastic young colleague who's been promoting genAI all along. This week he shares a new paper he's written. In it we find a lengthy list of the dangers of genAI and why we shouldn't be using it. Wait, what? Is this the same guy?

Let's read on. What is N's solution to the recognised genAI failure? "Agentic AI." Ah, that's where we're heading!

A long list of agentic AI's presumed powers follows, along with presumed supporting pedagogical theory. No reference to actual practice: like Sam Altman we trade on future promises.

The soulless, person-less future we are promised, without any hint of irony: "AI as a collaborative partner"; "from AI as a servant to AI as a learning companion".

Heaven help us.

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David Beazley @dabeaz@mastodon.social
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So, I wonder which is harder to understand?

In one corner: A million lines of code from a CMM Level 4 organization generated by Rational Rose.

In the other corner: A million lines of code vibe-generated by four levels of agents.

LET'S GET READY TO RUMBLE!!! .... Ding!

David Beazley @dabeaz@mastodon.social
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Shared by jnkrtech

Hearing about developers becoming exhausted by reading the output of LLMs has me wondering if it's exposed the fallacy of that whole "programmers spend more time reading code than writing it" trope.

No, they don't. And they never have.

Oh, sure, developers spend a lot more time "seeing" code than writing it. I'll give you that. Kind of in the same way that someone looking out the window while riding on a train is going to see far more gardens than they'll personally ever plant.

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Cosmic Meow Background @cmb@cathode.church
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> This design probably hits the record of simultaneous use of TI parts in a single device.
*looks inside*
> Figure 2-1. 100-kV Reference Voltage
It said high-voltage reference on the tin. I expected high-voltage, just not 100kV.

For those reading along from a safe distance: ti.com/lit/an/sbaa203b/sbaa203

Stacking the REF50xx for High-Voltage References (Rev. B)

Texas Instruments, Incorporated [SBAA203,B ] · Application Note

www.ti.com

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Hacker News 50 @hn50@social.lansky.name
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iPhone and iPad approved to handle classified NATO information

Link: apple.com/newsroom/2026/02/iph
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4

iPhone and iPad approved to handle classified NATO information

Today, Apple announced iPhone and iPad are the first and only consumer devices in compliance with information assurance requirements of NATO nations.

www.apple.com · Apple Newsroom

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Cassandrich @dalias@hachyderm.io
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Shared by jnkrtech

PSA: The Amazon wishlist doxing threat is much greater and more immediate than folks might realize. Attack works like this:

Stalker who wants your address opens an Amazon seller account and lists themselves as a third party seller for any item on your public wishlist. Then, they order the item from themselves as a gift for you. Bam, they have your address.

In particular, attack does not depend on an existing third party seller having poor PII handling hygiene, like the articles have implied.

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kat @zkat@toot.cat
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do people still care about package manager install speeds in YOL 2026?

If your entire, 1000+ dependency project installed from scratch in less than a second, would that make a meaningful difference to you?

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Rufus @rufustheduck@mastodon.social
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Shared by Cat 🐈🥗 (D.Burch) :paw:⁠:paw:

So I wrote a book called The Complete History (and Fistory) of Underspace, about a girl who finds the doorway to another world on the roof of her school

You could buy it - but who the hell am I?

Fortunately, we’re also releasing it as a podcast (with no ads!) so you can listen for free (search your podcast app for FISTORY)

Here’s a pic of my cats listening. Norbert's excited to see what happens next, but Max is so bored he's falling asleep

Two black kittens are on a cat tree. One is wide awake and leaning forward, as though interested in something. The other is lying down with his head lolling over the side, his eyes half closed.
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@reiver ⊼ (Charles) :batman: @reiver@mastodon.social
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@cstef

Regarding your blog post:
blog.cstef.dev/posts/llms/

From the perspective of someone older —

I started programming in the 1980s. Although I didn't start getting heavily into it until the 1990s. Just to give you a hint at where my perspective is coming from.

I noticed something similar to what you are noticing with programmers using LLMs to help them code. But, I saw it with programmers using Stack Overflow to help them code.

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LLMs killed my will to do stuff

blog.cstef.dev

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Rufus @rufustheduck@mastodon.social
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So I wrote a book called The Complete History (and Fistory) of Underspace, about a girl who finds the doorway to another world on the roof of her school

You could buy it - but who the hell am I?

Fortunately, we’re also releasing it as a podcast (with no ads!) so you can listen for free (search your podcast app for FISTORY)

Here’s a pic of my cats listening. Norbert's excited to see what happens next, but Max is so bored he's falling asleep

Two black kittens are on a cat tree. One is wide awake and leaning forward, as though interested in something. The other is lying down with his head lolling over the side, his eyes half closed.
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Neovim @neovim.io@bsky.brid.gy
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Development News The 0.12 version will improve built-in support for LSP diagnostics: - Add `workspace/diagnostic/refresh` method support - Support dynamic registration for `textDocument/diagnostic` PRs: - github.com/neovim/neovi... - github.com/neovim/neovi...

feat(lsp): support diagnostic ...

Problem: If the server wants to ask client to pull diagnostics, e.g. the server detects configuration has been changed so it needs to re-calculate diagnostics with new configuration, there's no...

feat(lsp): support diagnostic refresh request by g-plane · Pull Request #36695 · neovim/neovim

Problem: If the server wants to ask client to pull diagnostics, e.g. the server detects configuration has been changed so it needs to re-calculate diagnostics with new configuration, there's no...

github.com · GitHub

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Hacker News 50 @hn50@social.lansky.name
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I baked a pie every day for a year and it changed my life

Link: theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4

A new start after 60: I baked a pie every day for a year – and it changed my life

Vickie Hardin Woods was worried she would lose her identity when she retired. Instead, she came up with a plan that made her feel more creative, connected and valued than ever

www.theguardian.com · the Guardian

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