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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Cosmic Meow Background @cmb@cathode.church
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Shared by ✧✦Catherine✦✧

> 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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Cybarbie @nf3xn@mastodon.social
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RE: infosec.exchange/@catsalad/116

To make matters worse derivative markets were created from those shitposts and they in turn were repackaged as top tier shitposts but were in reality even worse than the original sub-prime toots. Many people following the market had no idea that they were not genuine and not backed by actual shitposts. As if this weren't bad enough others retained options to recieve future shitposts.

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Foone🏳️‍⚧️ @foone@digipres.club
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Shared by Glyph

so after being bedridden for 16months due to a hernia, I've finally got my surgery!
now I'm bedridden for recovery, fun!

I'm in a lot of debt from my illness and I've not found a job yet, so if you've got a couple dollars, it'd help me get through this last stretch. Thanks so much!

ko-fi.com/fooneturing

and my patreon is at patreon.com/c/foone , if you'd like to set up a monthly donation. Thanks!

Become a supporter of Foone Turing today!

Support Foone Turing ❤️

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ko-fi-live.azurewebsites.net · Ko-fi

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Brent Toderian @BrentToderian@mastodon.online
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This is it, right here, right now. The whole game.

All his voter suppression, gerrymandering, and other election cheating has led to this.

If Trump takes over elections, it’s game over for democracy in the United States.

If the people aren’t willing to shut down the country over this, it’s over.

Screenshot of headline from the Washington Post, “Trump seeking executive power over elections, is urged to declare emergency”
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Hacker News 100 @hn100@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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Fred Hebert @mononcqc@hachyderm.io
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Shared by Jenniferplusplus

Back in December, we had a large outage at work. The internal investigation took a while and the internal report was roughly 40 pages long. For the public, we managed to try and condense it to a much shorter format that we think can still offer useful insights to other organizations:

honeycomb.io/blog/incident-rep

Incident Report: Exercises, Cleanups, and Evacuations

Every year, Honeycomb runs disaster recovery scenarios in multiple environments, including in production. Although each of our instances runs in a single region, on at least three Availability Zones (AZs), we have multiple plans for partial regional failures, and particularly, zonal failures.

www.honeycomb.io · Honeycomb

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Eniko Fox @eniko@mastodon.gamedev.place
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Shared by Gabriele Svelto

for some reason sales were shockingly bad this month (i blame the fascism) and so we could really use your support to help me and my partner cover our basic cost of living

you can donate via ko-fi here ko-fi.com/sharkhugseniko/goal?

if you're so inclined you can also set up a recurring donation on ko-fi or join my patreon (link in my profile)

Become a supporter of Eniko today!

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ko-fi.com · Ko-fi

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Cassandra Granade 🏳️‍⚧️ @xgranade@wandering.shop
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A practical question that's come up in Arcalibre development: how should we handle AI-vulnerable dependencies?

forums.rereading.space/post/16

What should be done about dependencies that turn AI-vulnerable ? - rereading Forums

Hi. I’m Damien, a contributor to the project currently working on the pydofo library that’s meant to replace Calibre’s PoDoFo binding. Upon interacting with upstream to file a bug report [https://github.com/podofo/podofo/issues/318], I found out that the developer and maintainer of the library is experimenting with using Copilot [https://github.com/search?q=repo%3Apodofo%2Fpodofo+copilot&type=issues] to author PRs [https://github.com/search?q=repo%3Apodofo%2Fpodofo+copilot&type=pullrequests]. Per cgranade’s taxonomy, this means that unless the maintainer changes his(?) mind, the project is on track to become AI-vulnerable. So what am I to do about it ? One one hand, this seems very much contrary to the purpose and the ethos of the rereading project. On the other hand, the landscape looks grim and complete isolation from AI dependencies looks like an increasingly hard problem, the situation may repeat for any dependency at any point in time. What do you think should be the course of action here ? — Update: the exchange on the github issue went a bit further and the maintainer clarified its position and “experiments”. https://github.com/podofo/podofo/issues/318#issuecomment-3967036898 [https://github.com/podofo/podofo/issues/318#issuecomment-3967036898] > In this case it would have been an experiment only. As long as I am the maintainer, I guarantee this library will be free of AI slop. […] I’m not intellectually satisfied by the response, but I guess that exchange can be taken at face value and provides some sort of policy for AI contributions to the library. The issue of having a policy for handling such cases in the rereading Project still persists.

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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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