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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code.europa.eu has a new look!

Our repository for free, open source software developed by the European institutions now highlights the trending projects and makes searching and contributing to projects easier.

code.europa.eu aims to make public-funded open source code more accessible and reusable for public services, citizens and businesses alike.

Read more 🔗 link.europa.eu/NMhTHn

@EC_OSPOOpen Source Programme Office

cartoon of a man unfolding the road with the text: code.europa.eu - rolling out a new look
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I'm writing this in English.

Not because English is my first language—it isn't. I'm writing this in English because if I wrote it in Korean, the people I'm addressing would run it through an outdated translator, misread it, and respond to something I never said. The responsibility for that mistranslation would fall on me. It always does.

This is the thing Eugen Rochko's post misses, despite its good intentions.

@GargronEugen Rochko argues that LLMs are no substitute for human translators, and that people who think otherwise don't actually rely on translation. He's right about some of this. A machine-translated novel is not the same as one rendered by a skilled human translator. But the argument rests on a premise that only makes sense from a certain position: that translation is primarily about quality, about the aesthetic experience of reading literature in another language.

For many of us, translation is first about access.

The professional translation market doesn't scale to cover everything. It never has. What gets translated—and into which languages—follows the logic of cultural hegemony. Works from dominant Western languages flow outward, translated into everything. Works from East Asian languages trickle in, selectively, slowly, on someone else's schedule. The asymmetry isn't incidental; it's structural.

@GargronEugen Rochko notes, fairly, that machine translation existed decades before LLMs. But this is only half the story, and which half matters depends entirely on which languages you're talking about. European language pairs were reasonably serviceable with older tools. Korean–English, Japanese–English, Chinese–English? Genuinely usable translation for these pairs arrived with the LLM era. Treating “machine translation” as a monolithic technology with a uniform history erases the experience of everyone whose language sits far from the Indo-European center.

There's also something uncomfortable in the framing of the button-press thought experiment: “I would erase LLMs even if it took machine translation with it.” For someone whose language has always been peripheral, that button looks very different. It's not an abstract philosophical position; it's a statement about whose access to information is expendable.

I want to be clear: none of this is an argument that LLMs are good, or that the harms @GargronEugen Rochko describes aren't real. They are. But a critique of AI doesn't become more universal by ignoring whose languages have always been on the margins. If anything, a serious critique of AI's political economy should be more attentive to those asymmetries, not less.

The fact that I'm writing this in English, carefully, so it won't be misread—that's not incidental to my argument. That is my argument.

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Es verändert sich was an unseren U-Bahnsteigen: Schritt für Schritt tauschen wir die alten Anzeiger gegen neue, zukunftsfähige Modelle. Wir wissen, für einige nach rund 25 Jahren (so alt sind die bisherigen Anzeiger schon!) kein leichter Abschied 💔 Und doch ist er an der Zeit: Auch, weil mit den neuen Anzeigern in Zukunft auch Infos zu Folgezügen und eine Auslastungsanzeige möglich sein werden!

Was denkt ihr über die neuen Anzeigetafeln?

Foto einer neuen Anzeigetafeln an einem U3-Bahnsteig
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あー、そういえば、プロジェクトマネージャーって役割はいらなくなるかもだねぇ。「技術力も交渉力も組織管理能力もなにもないけど、とりあえずいろんな現場を渡り歩いて経験はあるし年齢は高いし自分でやるって言ってくれてるからPM任せられてる」なんて連中は十把一絡げに不要だわね。全部できるけど単純に手が足りなくて他人に任せざるを得ないからしょうがなくPMやってるような人々ばっかりが今後は必要になってくるのかしらね。わーお、ディストピア。

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一名13歲女童日前在社交平台Threads發文,指本月3日下午在港鐵筲箕灣站內,遇到一名男子以女兒「來月經」為由接近她,並企圖將她帶走,幸女童向同行弟弟及朋友示意求助,最終成功脫身。警方表示,經調查後已拘捕一名48歲本地男子。

警方今日(11日)表示,於昨日(10日)接獲一名13歲本地女童報案,指3月3日下午在港鐵筲箕灣站內被一名男子騷擾。人員調查後鎖定疑犯身份,並於昨晚在柴灣區以涉嫌「遊蕩」拘捕一名48歲本地男子。被捕男子現正被扣留調查,案件交由東區警區刑事調查隊第二隊跟進。

涉事女學生其後在Threads分享事發經過,指當日下午放學後準備在筲箕灣站入閘時,一名男子靠近並低聲說:「妹妹啊,我個女來咗月經啊……」。她起初以為對方想借衛生巾,遂表示自己可以借出,未料男子突然拉住她的書包,企圖將她帶往其他地方。

May be an image of text that says 'KN 普算灣站男子 稱女兒來月經 圖拉走13嵗女童 48 48嵗男涉遊蕩被捕'
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US cardinal slams ‘sickening’ White House war montage video

An American cardinal close to Pope Leo XIV has described a White House video montage mixing Hollywood film clips with real footage of strikes on Iran as “horrifying” and “sickening”.

“A real war with real death and real suffering being treated like it’s a video game – it’s sickening,” Cardinal Blase Cupich said in a statement on the diocese’s website.



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It looks like the ⍼ saga has finally ended!

The unicode character '⍼' was a mystery first noticed in 2022: ionathan.ch/2022/04/09/angzarr. It's in the Unicode standard as a mathematical symbol. But no one could find any examples of it having been used, and no one knew what it represented. It was like the only record of an extinct species, fossilized in the Unicode standard.

But now someone has found the document it originally came from! It represents the angle 'Azimuth', and the symbol probably comes from the path light takes through a sextant. ionathan.ch/2026/02/16/angzarr

(@johncarlosbaez might appreciate this symbol!)

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Linux's KVM Virtualization Preparing For Intel Advanced Performance Extensions (APX)

Intel's Advanced Performance Extensions (APX) debuting with Nova Lake and Diamond Rapids is ready with Linux 6.16+ and recent open-source compilers. One piece of the support puzzle still coming together though that will be especially important for Xeon Diamond Rapids is the KVM virtualization support. New patches there were posted this week...
phoronix.com/news/Linux-KVM-Pr

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US approves sale of more than 20,000 bombs to Israel

The Trump administration has bypassed congressional review to approve the sale of more than 20,000 bombs to Israel worth about $650m, according to US officials.

US officials also said Israel would buy a further $298m worth of munitions through direct commercial sales.



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근데 원피스 드라마에서 브룩이 흑인으로 묘사되었는데 "왜 브룩은 오스트리아가 모티브 국가이고 원작에서 살아있을때 피부색도 흰색으로 묘사되었는데 흑인이냐! WOKE다!"라고 깽판치는 백인멍청이들이 많더라구요 1. 오스트리아에는 흑인 안사는줄 암?? 이미 한국에 정착해서 사는 흑인(조나단 남매라던지)들도 있는 마당에 2. 비비랑 우솝도 피부색 밝은편이었는데 드라마에선 어두운 피부색임 3. 너희들은 아프로헤어+소울킹이라는 별명+브룩이라는 이름인 백인이나오면 오히려 그게 화이트워싱이란 생각은 안들더냐

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