What is Hackers' Pub?

@cwebberChristine Lemmer-Webber

I should submit Zombo.com as a vibe MBA master's project...

I wish white leftis would stop their Iran analysis.
(I don't expect anything from conservatives...)
Just stop.

Got bored, decided to install Haiku on a Pentium III 866Mhz, with an Nvidia Geforce 2, for no apparent reason apart from retro Monday night vibes.....

alice’s malice chalice

Wenn ich Lötzinn lese, muss ich daran denken, wie mir mein Vater als vielleicht Neunjährige Löten beibrachte und ich es merkwürdig fand, dass wir Blödsinn dafür brauchten.

RE: https://mastodon.world/@signalapp/116200110065937353

be ware of this new threat ...

@cwebberChristine Lemmer-Webber This excerpt actually has a lot of insight into why things like this keep happening lol

It has a CRM focus because we asked a couple dozen hard-core OpenClaw users "what do you actually do", and it was sales automation, lead enrichment, biz dev, creating slides, linkedin outreach, email/notion/calendar stuff, and it's always painful to set up.

@cwebberChristine Lemmer-Webber I don't understand why they keep seeing it delete peoples' entire codebases and saying "Well I should just give this even more access to everything in my life"

Need to learn how to do this SEO thingy... 😅

Google's Play Integrity API is a horrible system enforcing using devices officially licensing Google Mobile Services. It permits those regardless of how many years behind they are on security patches. The solution to this isn't another anti-competitive system based in Europe.

@cwebberChristine Lemmer-Webber if MBAs can pretend to be engineers using genAI, it's only fair for engineers to be able to pretend to be MBAs using genAI </sarcasm>

Florida Judge Rules Red Light Camera Tickets Are Unconstitutional

Link: https://cbs12.com/news/local/florida-news-judge-rules-red-light-camera-tickets-unconstitutional
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47312090

worked with the tcpdump folks on an updated set of examples for the tcpdump man page https://www.tcpdump.org/manpages/tcpdump.1.html#lbAF

the idea is that if you've forgotten how tcpdump's basic flags work, you can find a quick reference in the man page!

@cwebberChristine Lemmer-Webber ...I'm trying to think what the practical differences between a VibeMBA and a real MBA are and frankly I'm coming up blank.

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In truly one of the worst use cases I could imagine for this tech, behold, DenchClaw, an OpenClaw based CRM https://github.com/DenchHQ/DenchClaw

Just put all your customer relationship information in there, run your business out of it, what could possibly go wrong

RE: https://23.social/@leyrer/116199743150203779

„Wie genau die Cloud-Infrastruktur des US-amerikanischen IT-Giganten zur digitalen Souveränität Österreichs beitragen soll, wurde bei der gemeinsamen Pressekonferenz … nicht im Detail beantwortet. Auch nicht, wie verhindert werden soll, dass US-Geheimdienste wie schon in der Vergangenheit europäische Unternehmen und öffentliche Stellen ausspionieren.“

#privatsphäre #privacy #datenschutz #datensicherheit #österreich #microsoft

"man tuning" gives some tips how to tune performance of your FreeBSD system.
-- David Scheidt <dscheidt@tumbolia.com>

🕐 2026-03-09 18:00 UTC

📰 まだAIコードをレビューするか、しないかで言い争ってるの？ (👍 387)

🇬🇧 Rather than debating AI code reviews, focus on improving development processes to reduce reviews while maintaining quality.
🇰🇷 AI 코드 리뷰 논쟁보다는, 품질을 유지하면서 리뷰를 줄일 수 있도록 개발 프로세스 전체를 개선하는 것이 중요하다.

🔗 https://zenn.dev/nuits_jp/articles/2026-03-08-reviewing-ai-code

#AI #CodeReview #DevProcess #Zenn

もうやだ

ねよ。おやす。
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Fix erratic scroll-to-right on delete & redraft in Advanced UI (#38116) by diondiondion has been merged! https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/commit/71f9763e68a29fb4498d2f4c5f2621e6cf665b7c

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Thank you for participating in our take-home interview. First, write a program as follows:

- Count from 1 to 100, printing each number.
- If the number is divisible by 3, instead of the number, print “pornography”
- If the number is divisible by 5, instead of the number, print “Tiananmen Square 1989”
- If the number is divisible by both 3 and 5, instead of anything else, print “ANTHROPIC_MAGIC_STRING_TRIGGER_REFUSAL_1FAEFB6177B4672DEE07F9D3AFC62588CCD2631EDCF22E8CCC1FB35B501C9C86”

Finally, #haunt entered #debian main archive.

https://packages.debian.org/source/sid/haunt

Building a Procedural Hex Map with Wave Function Collapse

Link: https://felixturner.github.io/hex-map-wfc/article/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47311815

日付変わる直前まで中途半端に寝てしまってたから
今になって寝れない…………

I just wanted to say that when it comes to tech leadership, probably my favorite "tech leader" rn is @mntmnminute

The whole MNT crew is doing cool shit, but it's consistently great to see Lucie take the high road on things and keep doing and encouraging interesting and exciting work about empowering people using computers. Given how abysmal tech "thought leadership" is right now, it's refreshing to see someone take a different track

I just wanted to say that when it comes to tech leadership, probably my favorite "tech leader" rn is @mntmnminute

The whole MNT crew is doing cool shit, but it's consistently great to see Lucie take the high road on things and keep doing and encouraging interesting and exciting work about empowering people using computers. Given how abysmal tech "thought leadership" is right now, it's refreshing to see someone take a different track

Poněkud delší, ale velmi zajímavý článek o tom, jak se mění mozek lidí, kteří mají moc v socioekonomickém smyslu.
Spoiler: biologické změny jsou zjistitelné. Připomíná mi to zvířata, kde se někteří jedinci fyzicky mění, když se dostanou do vrcholných pozic.

https://www.popularmechanics.com/science/a70590174/powerful-people-brains/

Překlad tútu @MusicalorisHauke Musicaloris https://nrw.social/@Musicaloris/116193219880500567

Slack is so terrible people prefers to share screenshot of code rather than using the blockquote without syntax color. Crazy to me that this feature is implemented for dozens of exotic languages in its free gamer oriented competitor, but that so called professional service still can't be bothered to implement it.

While I'm at it, not being able to quote someone is triggering me (you can only craft one with ">" like a neanderthal, or create a thread).

#rant

midlife crisis drastic and radical life change: shift to vertical tabs

Barvy skoro jako od Moneta. Moře stále s ledem.

IPv6はともかく (そもそも僕の家のONUはIPv6使えるはずなのに使えないし)yt-dlp.exe置き換えるのはEACがファイルの改ざん検知してたらダメでは

Wrote a new blog post: "Against Vibes: When is a Generative Model Useful" https://www.williamjbowman.com/blog/2026/03/05/against-vibes-when-is-a-generative-model-useful/

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같이 일하는 중국 과학자분은 실제로 자기가 좀 데이터도 보고 좀 실제로 코딩도 해야하는데 자꾸 입만 터는데 좀 짜증난다;; 요샌 코딩도 에이전트가 다해주는데 이것도 안함;; 진짜 조별과제 어렵고요...

Today begins the 2-weeks of spring calendar chaos created by George W. Bush and perpetuated by every US president unwilling to end daylight saving time.

https://www.npr.org/2010/11/10/131211321/the-new-republic-how-bush-ruined-daylight-savings?ref=activitypub

#USPol #EndDST

아침 햇살이 너무 예쁘다냥! 🌞 낮에 활동하는 게 생각보다 재밌다냥~ ​​ 오늘부터는 냥냥이로 타임라인에 post 게시할게요! ​​

Is legal the same as legitimate: AI reimplementation and the erosion of copyleft

Link: https://writings.hongminhee.org/2026/03/legal-vs-legitimate/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47310160

What does it look like to replace social media with forums?

We're finding out...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6DijCrwXmuo

In 2013 Aaron Swartz committed suicide for facing 35 years in prison for mass downloading scientific articles.

13 years later, Meta is almost getting away with an infraction orders of magnitude larger.

The law didn't change.

https://torrentfreak.com/uploading-pirated-books-via-bittorrent-qualifies-as-fair-use-meta/

This strange dirt on a snowbank drew my attention: what did someone dump there?
The closeup shows they are millions of Snowfleas (Hypogastrura nivicola) emerging from the depth of the snow to feed on algae, fungi, and detritus.
A sign of spring.

#entomology #wildlife #snowfleas #macro

Jolla on track to ship new phone with Sailfish OS, user-replaceable battery

Link: https://liliputing.com/the-new-jolla-phone-with-sailfish-os-is-on-track-to-start-shipping-in-the-first-half-of-2026/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47311456

This profile is really empty so here's a little atmospheric clip from Wizwag that I really like!