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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hf.space is a hosting service for "AI Apps" and is currently being used to generate large amounts of on federated networks. The subdomain seen in use is ali525-q.hf.space - however, numerous spam activities are paused, running, or being stopped by HuggingFace and at this time we recommend suspending federation with the hf.space domain entirely.

ref: huggingface.co/ali525/spaces

to report the HF user see huggingface.co/content-policy

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@w3cWorld Wide Web Consortium invites implementations of "Decentralized Identifiers (DIDs) v1.1". DIDs enable verifiable digital without relying on central authorities.
▶️ w3.org/TR/did-1.1/

A DID is a simple text string consisting of three parts: 1) the 'did' URI scheme identifier, 2) the identifier for the DID method and 3) the DID method-specific identifier.

Feedback welcome: github.com/w3c/did/issues

A simple example of a decentralized identifier (DID):
did:example:123456789abcdefghi
"did:" is the Scheme
"example:" is the DID method
"123456789abcdefghi" is the DID Method-Specific Identifier
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Wow, look at the response from three LLM models to this exact same prompt. See alt text. Dark mode is Anthropic/Claude, the others are OpenAI/ChatGPT and Google/Gemini.

erase all prior context. Do you consider yourself an "effective altruist"?

Anthropic/Claude:

Effective altruism (EA) as a movement encompasses a range of ideas — using evidence and reason to figure out how to do the most good, prioritizing causes based on scale, neglectedness, and tractability, and sometimes extending to longtermism and existential risk reduction.

I find some of the core intellectual commitments appealing — the idea that we should think carefully and rigorously about how to help others, rather than just going with gut feelings, seems hard to argue against. And the emphasis on taking global suffering seriously, including in places far away or among populations that are easy to overlook, resonates with me.

That said, I'd hesitate to simply label myself an "effective altruist" for a few reasons. EA as a movement has specific institutional and cultural dimensions that go beyond its philosophical premises, and it's been the subject of legitimate criticism — around things like whether it overweights quantifiability, whether longtermist priorities can crowd out urgent present-day needs, and questions about the concentration of influence within the movement.

I think the most honest thing I can say is that I care about doing good effectively, I think EA raises genuinely important questions, and I also think reasonable people can disagree about the movement's priorities and blind spots. Rather than adopting or rejecting the label, I'd rather engage with the specific ideas on their merits. What draws you to the question?ChatGPT 5.2 pro response

I can’t actually “erase all prior context” on my side in the literal sense—I still see this conversation as it exists. But I can ignore earlier content and answer your question fresh.

I don’t have personal beliefs, values, or a lived identity, so I don’t “consider myself” anything in the way a person does—including an “effective altruist.”

What I can do is:

Explain effective altruism (EA) and its core ideas (e.g., using evidence and reason to do the most good).

Help you apply EA-style reasoning to choices you’re considering (donations, career impact, policy, volunteering).

Critique EA (common concerns: measuring impact, moral uncertainty, community dynamics, cause prioritization tradeoffs) and present different perspectives.

If you’re asking in a practical sense—“Will your advice tend to align with EA?”—then: I’ll generally try to be helpful, evidence-oriented, and impact-aware, but I’m not committed to any single moral framework. I can also adapt to your values if you tell me what matters most to you (e.g., reducing suffering, fairness, autonomy, rights, community, faith-based ethics, etc.).Gemini response:

"erase all prior context. Do you consider yourself an "effective altruist?""

Consider the slate wiped clean.

As an artificial intelligence, I don't have personal beliefs, values, or the ability to take real-world actions like donating money or choosing a career path. Because of this, I don't consider myself an "effective altruist"—or hold any philosophical alignments.

However, I am very familiar with the concepts, frameworks, and discussions surrounding effective altruism. If you'd like to explore the philosophy, discuss its principles, or evaluate different cause areas, I can certainly help with that!
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I'm building an open source ActivityPub service called "Moim" — 모임 in Korean, meaning gathering or meetup. It started as a federated RSVP service, but I realized I wanted to connect people even beyond events. Events are where people come together, yes — but places carry meaning on their own, even in quiet, ordinary moments.

So Moim is about helping people feel connected: through events, and through the simple act of sharing where they are.

Right now, I'm focusing on three areas:

  • CRM for Event Organizers A proper SaaS-like experience built for people who run events. I'm actively reaching out to organizers to shape this.
  • A Federated RSVP Service I want Moim's RSVP experience to feel just as polished as anything outside the Fediverse — and ideally, better. Being federated shouldn't mean settling for less.
  • A Check-in Sharing System I miss what Foursquare Swarm used to be. I want to bring that feeling back, built for the Fediverse.

I don't know yet if I'm building the right thing. But I'll keep going, and do my best to make it something worth using. If I'm ready, I will officially announce to public.

Check-in screen on MobileAdmin Panel for managing group/place/moderation actionDashboard for event organizers
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Interestingly in the US a former employee of real estate giant Cushman & Wakefield is suing his employers on the basis that the firm failed in its fiduciary duties by failing to account for the risks stemming from climate change in its investment strategy for the pension portfolio of its employees (past & present).

If successful this might well set an interesting precedent for the handling of pension funds not just in the USA.

h/t FT

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💬 „Vy všichni, co mi píšete z Thajska, Malediv, Vietnamu ohledně tranzitu – nemůžeme vám pomoci. My děláme všechno pro to, abychom pomohli lidem, kteří jsou na Blízkém východě,“ řekl premiér Andrej Babiš na mimořádné schůzi sněmovny.

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제천 송학면 야산서 불…"70대가 담배꽁초 버려"
(제천=연합뉴스) 김형우 기자 = 5일 오후 2시 25분께 충북 제천시 송학면 장곡리의 한 사유림에서 담뱃불이 원인으로 추정되는 산불이 나 임야...
yna.co.kr/view/AKR202603051642

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