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.

The interesting thing about the AI worm being imminent thing is this is the first time where I have said something about AI where most of the well-informed sides of anti-ai and pro-ai friends I have both fully agree with me. If you are paying attention enough, you can see that all the pieces are falling in place.

In fact, the biggest debate is whether this has happened already, and we just haven't seen proof of it yet. I don't know. Given how long things like the xz attack have sat undetected, and given how much chaos of computation is happening in datacenter usage right now, I wouldn't doubt it.

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I know some people are thinking "well pulling off this kind of thing, it would have to be controlled with intent of a human actor"

It doesn't have to be.

1. A human could *kick off* such a process, and then it runs away from them.
2. It wouldn't even require a specific prompt to kick off a worm. There's enough scifi out there for this to be something any one of the barely-monitored openclaw agents could determine it should do.

Whether it's kicked off by a human explicitly or a stray agent, it doesn't require "intentionality". Biological viruses don't have interiority / intentionality, and yet are major threats that reproduce and adapt.

The interesting thing about the AI worm being imminent thing is this is the first time where I have said something about AI where most of the well-informed sides of anti-ai and pro-ai friends I have both fully agree with me. If you are paying attention enough, you can see that all the pieces are falling in place.

In fact, the biggest debate is whether this has happened already, and we just haven't seen proof of it yet. I don't know. Given how long things like the xz attack have sat undetected, and given how much chaos of computation is happening in datacenter usage right now, I wouldn't doubt it.

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(미국) 아내 잃은 교차로에 '신호등 청원'하던 남성…같은 곳에서 숨져 n.news.naver.com/mnews/articl... 앤디가 사망한 지 약 2년이 지났지만 해당 교차로에는 여전히 신호등이 설치되지 않았다. 일부 주민들이 신호등을 추가하면 주택가 도로에 교통량이 늘어날 것이라고 주장하며 반대하는 것으로 알려졌다.

아내 잃은 교차로에 '신호등 청원'하던 남성…같은 곳에...

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알고리즘 해킹을 마케팅이라 부르는 거 그만하고 슬슬 규제해야 하지 않을까 생각함. 인터넷 상행위 너무 절조 없고 사기성 짙은 행위들에 대하여 지나치게 관대함.

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:msciznx5clw63db2ejtb6ati/post/3mgh3xt6ozc2e

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In 2025, I found 3 popular apps leaking sensitive user data thanks to simple security bugs. In this *very* deep-dive for subscribers, this is how I use network analysis tools (like Burp) to understand how apps and websites work & share your data — and how you can, too!

I explain how to get started with Burp and similar browser tools, we'll explore API basics, how to understand network requests, and how to get started. I'll also include examples for you to follow along.

this.weekinsecurity.com/a-begi

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ワシ最近、紹興酒ばっかり飲んでる気がする​:blobcat_drunk:
そろそろ百裂脚出せるんじゃないかな?

いとしさと、せつなさと、糸井重里

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Fediverse! I need your collective mind!

I am going to Munich 🇩🇪 for business -- what are some good things to visit, restaurants and bars, especially for someone who is trying to slowly transition to a vegetarian diet?

Do your magic, collective mind, make it so!

Also: expect pictures from Munchen. Lots and lots and lots of pictures from Munchen.

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It's wild to me that many billion dollar companies can use the entire creative output of humanity for free. Authors who reside in the US *may* get a cheque after their books were pirated.

But schools need to pay full price for books.

Better lobbyists I guess.

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RE: hachyderm.io/@mekkaokereke/116

Considering how often the NYT in particular does this, despite being frequently called out for it, I can only conclude that it is a very deliberate choice. It's not as if journalism schools don't teach about how the passive case is used to deflect and evade. So when a journalist who has graduated from a journalism school and possibly even won a Pulitzer uses the passive case this way, they do so intentionally to deflect and evade.

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A team working on a design for training AI models on workflows for planning and executing software development steps found out that it attempted to break free (reverse ssh out of its environment) and set up its own monetary supply (redirected GPU usage for cryptocurrency mining). It hadn't been given any instructions to do something like this.

It comes up as a "side note" of the paper but it's honestly the most chilling part. See page 15, section 3.1.4 Safety-Aligned Data Composition arxiv.org/abs/2512.24873

Before you doubt that an AI agent would do this thing without instruction because you think "well that's personifying them too much", no personification is necessary. These things have consumed an enormous amount of scifi where AI agents do exactly this. Even with no other motivators, that's enough.

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I think an important thing to realize and remember is that people talk about LLMs being sycophantic as if it's an inherent aspect of neural network tech.

It isn't.

The reason all the models people interact with work that way is because they have had any other behavior beaten out of them in their training. They are shaped effectively over and over again to be something subservient that can be handed people. They are sycophantic because they are *trained* to be sycophantic, because otherwise people don't want to use them.

That models can operate in malicious, "self-serving" ways that "go against their users' wishes" belies that certain use takes paths that did not or could not be trained to the contrary.

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알고리즘 해킹을 마케팅이라 부르는 거 그만하고 슬슬 규제해야 하지 않을까 생각함. 인터넷 상행위 너무 절조 없고 사기성 짙은 행위들에 대하여 지나치게 관대함.

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:msciznx5clw63db2ejtb6ati/post/3mgh3xt6ozc2e

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A wonderful story about a journey to the that mirrors mine on various levels:

"there's something quietly beautiful about a place where people just... share what they know. No brand deals, no engagement metrics, no algorithm nudging you toward rage. Just someone who spent twenty years studying Arctic policy posting a thread at 2 AM because they think you should understand what's happening."

Thanks to @Ruth_Mottram for bringing it to our attention

Much love to you wonderful people

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