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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Our house is destroyed, our lives are difficult, my parents are elderly, my older brother is injured, and my younger brother, Muhammad, is imprisoned. My heart is heavy with sorrow. 💔 Everything I knew is gone, but I refuse to stand idly by while my family suffers.

Please help me survive and buy food for my family. I need $100 to buy food. Every bit of support makes a difference. 🙏

chuffed.org/project/152432-sav

@aralAral Balkan

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If I've learned anything from trying to share useful information on here, it's that eventually, you're going to get sloprolled. Accounting for that and having a plan for dealing with it is now a required part of good faith participation in the network.

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Should be obvious but seems it’s not: don’t spam OSS maintainers or coworkers with AI code you’ve not reviewed yourself.

For coworkers only, sometimes fine explaining your testing and why reviewed isn’t necessary e.g. a one-time script.

simonwillison.net/guides/agent

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i’m working on the option to restore timeline position in Nicolium home timeline, it mostly works but I’m not sure about the UX, I don’t know how to make the two buttons self-explanatory enough. Also, thinking if I should use the Mastodon marker API or just store those locally
Timeline in Nicolium, which starts with two buttons, ‘Load recent posts’ and ‘Load posts above’
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I wrote about the House hearing today, how Congress is trying to strip anonymity from the Internet, and the devastating effects that has for journalists, whistleblowers, LGBTQ ppl, immigrants, civil rights activists, abortion providers and anyone challenging power for @theintercept theintercept.com/2026/03/05/ko

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If you want to, Mastodon lets you block DMs from people you don't follow:

1. Log in on your Mastodon server's website
2. Click "🔔 Notifications" (on mobile it's just a 🔔 icon at the bottom of the screen)
3. Click "show settings" double arrow icon in top right corner
4. Set "Unsolicited private mentions" to "Ignore"

Bear in mind that no one will know you've done this, so some people mention they've done this on their profile to avoid any confusion (but this is optional).

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If you want to, Mastodon lets you block DMs from people you don't follow:

1. Log in on your Mastodon server's website
2. Click "🔔 Notifications" (on mobile it's just a 🔔 icon at the bottom of the screen)
3. Click "show settings" double arrow icon in top right corner
4. Set "Unsolicited private mentions" to "Ignore"

Bear in mind that no one will know you've done this, so some people mention they've done this on their profile to avoid any confusion (but this is optional).

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politics of LLMs

ice cold take: making use of LLMs in your projects is a political statement (the statement is as follows: "i am perfectly content with what is happening right now, daddy altman step on me uwu", as a friend of mine has put it)
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이스라엘이 (가자 폭격과 마찬가지로) 테헤란 폭격도 AI가 공격 대상을 정하고 있는 걸로 보인다고. 테헤란에서 이란 정부와 관련이 없는 Police Park 라는 공원을 폭격했다고 한다. ;;; 이미 AI 리터러시나 윤리가 사람의 생명이 오가는 문제가 되고 있음. 진짜 우울하다. x.com/tparsi/statu...

Trita Parsi on X: "Similaritie...

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Submit for the 2026 Call for Papers by June 20th, come to Brussels September 9-13 and mingle with people!

2026.eurobsdcon.org/cfp/

We also offer pre-submission guidance/mentoring, see within.

Wonder what BSD and the conferences are about? See nxdomain.no/~peter/what_is_bsd

@EuroBSDCon

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I've been spreading the word about the Fediverse among fellow authors. I was asked which server is dedicated to indie authors, fiction. The one recommended to me before is writing.exchange, so I'll recommend that one. Are there any other servers I should recommend?
If an author wants to publish their short stories in full, which server is better? Would it be Venera.social, Write.as, or Fediverse.blog? I haven't tried any of those myself, I don't want to recommend something blindly.

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RE: typo.social/@behdad/1161728385

I'll spare you my rambling thoughts. If someone wants to fork HarfBuzz 12.3.2, go ahead, that's before AI "slop". I let @khaledKhaled Hosny, the HarfBuzz maintainer, decide whether AI-assisted code is allowed in the upstream HarfBuzz or not.

As for code quality, I'm ultimately the only one responsible for code that I push out.

Finally, if this technology is good for Linus, Guido, and Knuth, among others, I'm not gonna ignore it and let my projects and skills become irrelevant and obsolete.

I respectfully ask that you refrain from your urge to leave a 🤮 or equivalent in the comments. Thanks.

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Dieses Wochenende bin Ich auf dem Bundeskongress der Jugendorganisation (Jonk Lénk) der Partei Die Linke in Luxemburg (Déi Lénk) und dem Feministischen Kampftag dort!

Vor nur wenigen Tagen ist es Déi Lénk dort gelungen das Recht auf Abtreibung, also das Recht auf körperliche Selbstbestimmung, zu erkämpfen. Es gibt einen Erfolg zu feiern! 🕊️

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RE: typo.social/@behdad/1161728385

I'll spare you my rambling thoughts. If someone wants to fork HarfBuzz 12.3.2, go ahead, that's before AI "slop". I let @khaledKhaled Hosny, the HarfBuzz maintainer, decide whether AI-assisted code is allowed in the upstream HarfBuzz or not.

As for code quality, I'm ultimately the only one responsible for code that I push out.

Finally, if this technology is good for Linus, Guido, and Knuth, among others, I'm not gonna ignore it and let my projects and skills become irrelevant and obsolete.

I respectfully ask that you refrain from your urge to leave a 🤮 or equivalent in the comments. Thanks.

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