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.
ARTE.tv featured our project in a recent documentary on European digital dependencies:
https://openwebsearch.eu/wo-bleibt-das-europaische-google-oder-facebook-arte-tv/
🥳 A big shoutout goes to @djoerd from our team at 
@Radboud_uniRadboud University whom you can see in the interview!
University Passau, @Radboud_uniRadboud University, CERN, German Aerospace Center, Leipzig University, Technische Universität Graz, IT4Innovations National Supercomputing Center, CSC-IT Center for Science, A1 Slovenija d.d., Bauhaus-Universität Weimar, 
@osfOpen Search Foundation, 
@LRZ_DELeibniz Supercomputing Centre , SUMA-EV, 
@nlnet
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彼（あ）がいい（？？）
@stuxstux⚡ I guess putting MAGA on a blue cap would be much more subtle - yet delivering the same message 😉
Today 
@kopperkopper 
shared a post on the fediverse titled how to not regret c2s, and I found it genuinely interesting to read, even if I'm not sure its proposed architecture actually solves what it sets out to solve.
The author's frustration with naïve #C2S implementations is well-founded. Slapping an #ActivityPub facade onto an existing Mastodon-like server and calling it C2S doesn't buy you much—you end up with the rigidity of a bespoke API without any of the interoperability C2S is supposed to offer. The “JSON-LD flavored Mastodon API” framing is apt.
The proposed solution is to split responsibility more aggressively: the C2S server should be nearly stateless and dumb, storing ActivityPub objects without interpreting them, while a separate “client” layer handles indexing, timelines, moderation, and exposes its own API to the frontend running on the user's device. It's a clean separation of concerns on paper.
But here's what bothers me. When you map this architecture onto familiar terms, it looks roughly like this:
That's not a new architecture. That's just the current architecture with the labels shifted. The interesting question is which interface gets standardized, and the author's answer is the one between the C2S server and the “client” layer—the bottom boundary.
The problem is that what people actually want from C2S is to connect any frontend to any server. The portability they're after lives at the top boundary, between the frontend and whatever is behind it. But the author explicitly argues against standardizing that layer: “we don't really need a standardized api,” they write, leaving each client free to expose whatever API it likes.
Which means frontends remain locked to specific clients, just as Mastodon apps are locked to the Mastodon API today. The interoperability promise of C2S—log in to any server with any app—isn't actually delivered. It's been pushed one layer down, out of reach of the end user.
There's real value in the post's thinking about data hosting vs. interpretation, and about the security implications of servers that understand too much. But as an answer to the question C2S is supposed to answer, I'm not convinced.
There. Eight family members to save. Apparently Mr. and Mrs. MacGuffin never heard of birth control, 'cause they got five goddamned kids.
FreeBSD 14.4-Release Announcement
Link: https://www.freebsd.org/releases/14.4R/announce/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47321499
The hidden compile-time cost of C++26 reflection
Link: https://vittorioromeo.com/index/blog/refl_compiletime.html
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47277865
Mündizität
後から自分の英語を読むと文法エラーがボロボロと光って見えるのやめてほしい。ｴｰｱｲには出力できない温かみのあるbroken Englishでござい
Langsam erreicht die deutsche Politik trumpische Dimensionen: jeden Tag wird eine neue Sau durchs Dorf getrieben, manchmal auch gleich zwei. Das ist übelst anstrengend.
Langsam erreicht die deutsche Politik trumpische Dimensionen: jeden Tag wird eine neue Sau durchs Dorf getrieben, manchmal auch gleich zwei. Das ist übelst anstrengend.
CLIPPY.md
望月衣塑子、百田尚樹のyoutubeに出てあんなのを褒めまくっててグロいな、もう随分前からキッツイなと思ってたけどもうかなりの段階に来てるのではないか
CLIPPY.md
레오파드게코가 물그릇의 물을 마신다는 매우매우 매우 희귀한 광경을 우주에 송출해봅니다.
틴케이스 좋아하시나요?
https://smartstore.naver.com/dami2
작은 스티커나 간단한 마스킹 테이프등을 넣어서 보관하기 좋은 사이즈로 제작한 백합 틴케이스에요.🥰
정말 정말 간만에 틴케이스를 제작해 봤는데, 색도 선명하고 사이즈도 딱 마음에 들게 나와서 무척 기뻤답니다.
1월 오프라인에서는 실물도 보여드렸는데, 예쁘다는 칭찬을 정말 많이 받아서 어깨가 으쓱해졌었어요. 😘❤️
RE: https://mastodon.social/@arstechnica/116205075329513597
...in which Amazon tell us that outages were caused by unreviewed AI code...
oh yeah somebody said something about there being no doubt about productivity gains because 'they see them everyday'?
Well ok I'll accept your still anecdotal evidence but I would like to debit hours from those x1 engineers productivity gains and raise a credit for hours lost by every person affected by these outages. #AI
しまった飯タイムに乗り遅れた
Story time: Before AWS CloudFormation had stack protection flags, a former coworker (who was not performing well to begin with, unfortunately) accidentally deleted a production database stack, taking out all automated backups (and thus all backups) with it. The rest of the day was spent on the phone with AWS support, who agreed to backdate our not-yet-started enterprise support contract and later found a not-yet-purged backup on a disk somewhere that was fresh enough to be usable without too much customer data loss. Probably the worst day of my tech career.
🇪🇺 Paying without Google: New consortium wants to remove custom ROM hurdles
“With UnifiedAttestation, we are creating a transparent and trustworthy procedure for security checks that developers and app publishers can rely on equally. This removes the last hurdle for the use of alternative mobile operating systems,”
can't microslop just permanently brick itself with a vibecoded update to its core infrastructure please?
삼성전자, 16조 규모 자사주 소각…주주 가치 제고
사업보고서 통해 소각 계획 발표
등록 2026-03-10 17:01
삼성전자, 16조 규모 자사주 소각…주주 가치 제고
5/7 US-based Thorn 🇺🇸, vendor of scanning technology, pays FGS Global €600-700k for Brussels #ChatControl lobbying 💸
6/7 ✅ Let's focus on what works. Security by design. Clean the web. Mandatory takedowns. Flooding systems won't work. Back the EU Parliament's balanced 2023 proposal—it fights grooming/abuse without mass scanning. https://www.patrick-breyer.de/en/posts/chat-control/#epmandate 🔒
Amazon holds engineering meeting about GenAI based outages https://lobste.rs/s/t5dvs5 #vibecoding
https://www.ft.com/content/7cab4ec7-4712-4137-b602-119a44f771de
How NOT to Get Your Conference Submission Binned
Heather Flanagan explores why conference submissions succeed and why many proposals get rejected during call for proposals review. As a content chair, she shares what reviewers look for in an abstract, including clear outcomes, audience fit, and authentic voice over generic buzzwords. Get actionable guidance on using generative AI to polish—not replace—your ideas, plus tips for sharper titles and stronger structure. She…
https://sphericalcowconsulting.com/2026/03/10/how-not-to-get-your-conference-submission-binned/
Online age-verification tools for child safety are surveilling adults
Link: https://www.cnbc.com/2026/03/08/social-media-child-safety-internet-ai-surveillance.html
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47322635
Intel Demos Chip to Compute with Encrypted Data
Link: https://spectrum.ieee.org/fhe-intel
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47322815
I made a thing: here's the upcoming Python releases.
https://hugovk.github.io/next-release/
Oh, look, there's one today! I hope that's out soon...
#Python #dashboard #next #release
ここでFiddle::MemoryViewに便利メソッドが色々追加されたみたいで、2026年の今、すごく助かっている。
ruby-trunk-changes 2021-07-13 - ruby trunk changes
https://ruby-trunk-changes.hatenablog.com/entry/ruby_trunk_changes_20210713
Oooo, this #Activitypub #python library looks like exactly what I've been praying for for ages!
Nach 8 Jahren G20-Repressionswahn gibt die Staatsanwaltschaft auf.
Alle Beschuldigten im Rondenbarg-Verfahren haben Einstellungsangebote erhalten.
Ein Angriff auf die Versammlungsfreiheit ist gescheitert - dank kollektiver Solidarität.
https://rote-hilfe.de/meldungen/g20-gipfel-hamburg-2017-nach-acht-jahren-verfolgungseifer-gibt-die-staatsanwaltschaft
I had the strangest dream
Flayon streaming with Fuwamoco?
What a terrible idea.
はっきりと「代名詞間違えているよ」と指摘してくれる人がいるのはまだ幸運な方で、機械翻訳の出力を見て「こいつmisgenderingするようなやつなんだな」と思ったまま黙って去られるのが想定されうる最悪の事態なのだよな
ねりだしますね
I made a thing: here's the upcoming Python releases.
https://hugovk.github.io/next-release/
Oh, look, there's one today! I hope that's out soon...
#Python #dashboard #next #release
For the first time in so many years, I'm doing commissions again! To dip my toes in, I am doing SKEB style chibi artwork. More details can be found at my ko-fi.
hmm, I installed some updates and now this is happening
日子有它自己的想法
只要能睡著、不做惡夢，都是好日子。
晚安
大米津粉室友今天要幫米津玄師慶生。
因為被邀請一起吃蛋糕很開心所以做了室友君喜歡的
「HACHI - DONUT HOLE 2024 」MV
內的小怪獸別針給他
＊合照一張小怪獸包包超級可愛
＊特寫⭐️
＊背面是雕刻的奶油花紋
＊正面的奶油花是用立體的做法
如果你身邊也有喜歡米津玄師的朋友，歡迎分享給他們看✌️
3/7 • Then Brussels-based Eurochild—largely 🇪🇺EU Commission-funded (yep, the #ChatControl proposers) plus Oak Foundation funding from 🇨🇭Switzerland (foundation led by ex-US diplomat 🇺🇸). 💰
Wouter Tebbens ⁂
Quincy ⁂
wakest
🇨🇦 
2.5D作曲Vtuber 
leyrer
Jeff Triplett
Gabriele Svelto
MJ+
