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.

Hacker News 50 @hn50@social.lansky.name
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A plastic made from milk that vanishes in 13 weeks

Link: sciencedaily.com/releases/2026
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4

This plastic is made from milk and it vanishes in 13 weeks

Scientists racing to tackle plastic pollution have created a surprising new contender: a biodegradable packaging film made partly from milk protein. Researchers at Flinders University blended calcium caseinate with starch and natural nanoclay to form a thin, durable material designed to mimic everyday plastic. In soil tests, the film fully broke down in about 13 weeks, pointing to a realistic alternative for single-use food packaging.

www.sciencedaily.com · ScienceDaily

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AI6YR Ben @ai6yr@m.ai6yr.org
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Stabbed myself in the foot at work, haven't had breakfast or coffee yet (nearly 10am)..

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Kim Scheinberg @kims@mas.to
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This is a kitchen in a real estate listing for a house in Las Vegas

I can't decide if that paint (wallpaper?) is decorative or if there was a fire and they haven't repainted yet to cover the damage

a smallish kichen with strip wood floors (probably engineered wood), lower cabinets painted in white, upper cabinets a deep maroon brown, a (proportionally) much-too-large white refrigerator, granite countertops the walls above the upper cabinets look like they've been licked by fire with streaks of muddied brown
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ミンミ @rommeminmi@misskey.io
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明るくない話

連日のニュース諸々、考えないようにするのが中々に難しく、ゴリゴリ削られている…
(自分は同じ辛苦を味わっていないし全てに関して無力であるにもかかわらず、なぜ私はのうのうと暮らせているのかとか、現実に生きている人のあまりの救われなさに勝手に罪悪感を抱いている)
上手く文章にまとめられないがとにかく虚無感と無力感がすごいぜ…。朝になったら消すぜ…。

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Itamar Turner-Trauring @itamarst@hachyderm.io
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"I believe the question of how AI systems learn to understand themselves and others is one of the most consequential technical problems of our time. If we get it right, the agents we build today will become our friends and collaborators tomorrow."

Men will spend their life searching for theory of mind in Eliza bots instead of going to therapy.

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Privacy Guides @privacyguides@neat.computer
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Shared by Em :official_verified:

Congrats to Motorola and GrapheneOS! They just confirmed a partnership on future Motorola devices. More info at Privacy Guides: discuss.privacyguides.net/t/mo

Motorola confirms GrapheneOS support for a future phone, bringing over features

Previously: Leak confirms GrapheneOS & Motorola partnership for non-Pixel hardware

discuss.privacyguides.net · Privacy Guides Community

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Dan Sugalski @wordshaper@weatherishappening.network
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Shared by jnkrtech

Been thinking about someone's observation that one of the reasons so many people do so much in Excel is that it's actually a *phenomenally* observable programming system and lets people do things they otherwise couldn't.

I think, on much reflection, that this is 100% true. A lot of the bad things that people do in Excel are due to its lack of support for doing things better, but the observability? Top tier, with the next few tiers underneath it completely empty.

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Violet Madder @violetmadder@kolektiva.social
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Holy fucking hell we are in deep shit, Will Robinson.

"Age verification" is a Trojan horse for the END of digital freedom.

@cwebberChristine Lemmer-Webber social.coop/@cwebber/116159638

Christine Lemmer-Webber (@cwebber@social.coop)

A must read thread from @sleepyowl@chaos.social, particularly for anyone laughing off the "oh they're trying to enforce age verification at an OS level, well I'll just change my open source operating system settings" Y'all, this is the game where we get LOCKED OUT of having ANY real FOSS operating system we control AT ALL The steps have been being put in place for this for over a decade now. And who controls the supply chain? We have to fight this stuff tooth and nail.

social.coop · social.coop

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julian @julian@activitypub.space
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I've been so busy preparing for FediMTL the past two weeks that I totally forgot to actually register for the FediForum unworkshop!

Oops! :sweat_smile: I look forward to reading the discussions that ensue from it though.

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nemo™ 🇺🇦 @nemo@mas.to
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Don't blame ! because wants to ruin ; be at the right# people

youtu.be/eCtWeNwOb9w

Don't blame System76 because California wants to ruin Linux; be mad at the right people

https://leg.colorado.gov/bills/SB26-051https://youtu.be/wZonPM4aXFYhttps://www.reddit.com/r/pop_os/comments/1rgeclg/response_to_system76s_stance_on_bills_req...

www.youtube.com · YouTube

nemo™ 🇺🇦 @nemo@mas.to
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Shared by Em :official_verified:

I will never use a system that forces me to provide ID or age verification or compromises my privacy. I would rather starve in the forest and mountains. I mean, soon one will need ID verification or something similar to be allowed to breathe. What kind of folly is this? #1984

youtu.be/T1Y6QvIdCBY

"Without liberty city – man is a syncope…" isn't software safe due to the First Amendment or somethin…

courtroom scene good will hunting

YouTube에서 마음에 드는 동영상과 음악을 감상하고, 직접 만든 콘텐츠를 업로드하여 친구, 가족뿐 아니라 전 세계 사람들과 콘텐츠를 공유할 수 있습니다.

www.youtube.com · YouTube

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lenazun @lzg@mastodon.social
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Shared by jnkrtech

during the most terrible times we played games, fell in love, watered plants, pet cats, danced at weddings and loved each other furiously, with the burning fire of the sun. the more they hated us, the more we insisted on joy.

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Jeff Sikes @box464@mastodon.social
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Shared by @reiver ⊼ (Charles) :batman:

I'm officially opening the job hunt. As y'all know, I love technology. Finding ways to make the most of resources on hand is my specialty. Non-Profit world for the past decade.

I love building teams that feel valued, with a clear vision of how their work makes a difference.

Looking for orgs with a drive to make the world better & offer my skills to help that happen.

Boost, Like, Reply, have at it. 🙂

Now, back to your regularly scheduled program.

jeffsikes.com

Jeff Sikes - Technology Leadership for Non-Profits

Jeff Sikes - Technology Leadership for Non-Profits

Providing tech leadership and hands-on assistance to mission-driven non-profit associations.

jeffsikes.com

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tante @tante@tldr.nettime.org
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Shared by mcc

"we need to open our eyes to the fact that the current industry many of us work in, not only doesn’t care about their workers, it actively resents them. In their eyes, we have gone from being the people who made things possible, to an unnecessary burden on the bottom line.

They hate that we charge money for our labor, and see that money as something we are stealing from their pockets."

(Original title: How to grow strawberries)

buttondown.com/monteiro/archiv

How to grow strawberries

Feels so good to have a studio again. This week’s question comes to us from Anthea Tawia: I came to San Francisco to visit the company I work for—sadly I was...

buttondown.com

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Taylor Lorenz @taylorlorenz@mastodon.social
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Shared by Em :official_verified:

I have a piece out in The Guardian today on how the internet is becoming a fully surveilled digital panopticon and why we need to fight back
theguardian.com/commentisfree/

The world wants to ban children from social media, but there will be grave consequences for us all | Taylor Lorenz

Age-verification systems require collecting sensitive data to support the biometric information. In no time, the internet will become a fully surveilled digital panopticon, says technology journalist Taylor Lorenz

www.theguardian.com · the Guardian

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ProPublica @ProPublica@newsie.social
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Shared by Em :official_verified:

RE: newsie.social/@ProPublica/1161

Are you a current or former Education Dept. employee?

Have information about civil rights investigations or discrimination in schools?

Reach out to reporter Jennifer Smith Richards on Signal at jsmithrichards.93 or Jodi S. Cohen at jodireporter.88.

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Guillaume Tronix :python: :emacs: :nix: :linux: @gtronix@infosec.exchange
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Shared by Em :official_verified:

"National Book Tour for Cindy Cohn’s Memoir, ‘Privacy’s Defender’"

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eff.org/press/releases/nationa

National Book Tour for Cindy Cohn’s Memoir, ‘Privacy’s Defender’

SAN FRANCISCO – Electronic Frontier Foundation Executive Director Cindy Cohn will launch her memoir, Privacy’s Defender: My Thirty-Year Fight Against Digital Surveillance (MIT Press, March 10), with events in San Francisco and Berkeley before embarking on a national book tour. In Privacy’s Defender...

www.eff.org · Electronic Frontier Foundation

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Fastly Devs @fastlydevs@mastodon.social
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For 10+ years, Fastly has supported the @ThePSFPython Software Foundation in securing and scaling the Python Package Index (PyPI).

~100K req/sec.
500K+ projects.
98–99% cache hit rate.
Real-time purging in milliseconds.
Adaptive WAF protection against bots + account takeovers.

Proud to help keep one of the world’s most critical open source ecosystems fast, fresh, and secure.

Read more: fastly.com/customers/psf

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Willow @salixlucida@mastodon.sdf.org
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Shared by Em :official_verified:

The world wants to ban children from social media, but there will be grave consequences for us all
theguardian.com/commentisfree/

The world wants to ban children from social media, but there will be grave consequences for us all | Taylor Lorenz

Age-verification systems require collecting sensitive data to support the biometric information. In no time, the internet will become a fully surveilled digital panopticon, says technology journalist Taylor Lorenz

www.theguardian.com · the Guardian

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Alex Russell @slightlyoff@toot.cafe
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@chriscoyier "can" seems to be mentally transposed with "will" by executives, and it elides the fact that code generation getting cheaper means that the new most important skill is knowing to ask for *good* code (for whatever version of "good" matters in your domain). These tools spit out crap by default, and that won't change because the corpuses they're trained on are pretty average.

A sense of taste and occasion, combined with understanding what's possible, is the new (old) differentiator.

Ben Delarre @bendelarre@mastodon.social
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Shared by Olivier Forget

@slightlyoffAlex Russell @chriscoyier yup 100% this. The biggest danger to engineering careers right now isn't AI, it's business leaders who think AI can eliminate engineering.

The difference between unguided random production and the output from an experienced engineer with an LLM is stark. But what we're going to see in the short to mid term is many exec leaderships pushing to eliminate engineering orgs and that'll work kinda if average or below average output is sufficient which for many it might be?

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