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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mcc @mcc@mastodon.social
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What I'm listening to today: "untitled 02 | 06.23.2014.", Kendrick Lamar

Kendrick Lamar thinks *big*— his albums have huge concepts and are stuffed with ideas. Which makes this one album, an unlabeled collection of unused songs, easier to digest for me because tracks stand alone more. This one track's amazing, downtempo dark jazz over a trap beat.

The second half of this song is universally agreed to be a style parody of Drake, but it doesn't seem mean-spirited to me.

youtube.com/watch?v=_GghFQ8ryEU

untitled 02 | 06.23.2014.

Provided to YouTube by Universal Music Groupuntitled 02 | 06.23.2014. · Kendrick Lamaruntitled unmastered.℗ 2016 Aftermath/Interscope (Top Dawg Entertainment...

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mcc @mcc@mastodon.social
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What I'm listening to today: "Black Ice", Goodie Mob ft. Outkast

This is an Atlanta group from the 90s whose name expands to "the Good Die young, Mostly Over Bullshit", and who introduced the world to Cee-Lo Green (not present here). The mood here is absolutely immaculate and gives a good intro to the timbres the Dirty South was introducing the world to at this moment. Also, a video featuring Big Boi walking a dog in an Astros jersey with the *old* design, the good one

youtube.com/watch?v=lIDKZSF6y8k

Big Boi walking a dog while wearing an Astros jersey
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Mike Gifford, CPWA @FOSDEM @mgifford@mastodon.social
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I just released pdf-crawler, a tool to audit PDF accessibility at scale!

This is a direct "remix" of the brilliant work by the Luxembourg government's team & their - it’s a testament to the power of : a tool built for one can be adapted to help everyone.

I relied heavily on to refactoring the original tech into this GitHub-based scanner. It’s a great example of using AI to amplify good.

Thank you @AccessibilityLUAccessibility Luxembourg for sharing your work!

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Hacker News 50 @hn50@social.lansky.name
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Show HN: Open-source browser for AI agents

Link: github.com/theredsix/agent-bro
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4

Web browsing is continuous and async. Agents think in tools and steps. ABP reformats web navigation into the discrete, multimodal chat format agents know and love. - theredsix/agent-browser-protocol

GitHub - theredsix/agent-browser-protocol: Web browsing is continuous and async. Agents think in tools and steps. ABP reformats web navigation into the discrete, multimodal chat format agents know and love.

Web browsing is continuous and async. Agents think in tools and steps. ABP reformats web navigation into the discrete, multimodal chat format agents know and love. - theredsix/agent-browser-protocol

github.com · GitHub

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洪 民憙 (Hong Minhee) :nonbinary: @hongminhee@hollo.social
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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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Christine Lemmer-Webber @cwebber@social.coop
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Thinking about one of the least helpful comments I ever got. In response to someone saying "Well, all this Spritely stuff seems interesting, but will anyone ever really get it? Could any of the things you're working on really take off?"

To which I had said: "When we were working on ActivityPub, it wasn't obvious that it was going to succeed, and a lot of people told me the whole concept of a decentralized social networking spec is ridiculous. And Jessica Tallon and I, who both worked on ActivityPub, are working on Spritely."

To which they said: "Yeah, well lightning doesn't usually strike twice, so is it really likely you'll succeed again?"

Like WTF dude

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한겨레 @hanibsky.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy
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경북 성주군 소성리 주한미군 사드 기지에서 발사대 6기가 빠져나간 뒤 중동으로 이동한 사실이 뒤늦게 알려졌습니다. 소성리 주민 등으로 구성된 사드반대 단체는 ‘대북 방어’라는 사드 배치 명분이 명백히 사라졌다며 사드 기지 철수를 요구하고 나섰습니다.

주한 사드 발사대 6대, 3일 반출 확인…“명분 사라졌...

주한 사드 발사대 6대, 3일 반출 확인…“명분 사라졌으니 기지 철수해야”

경북 성주군 소성리 주한미군 사드(THAAD·고고도미사일방어체계) 기지에서 발사대 6기가 빠져나간 뒤 중동으로 이동한 사실이 뒤늦게 알려졌다. 소성리 주민 등으로 구성된 사드반대 단체는 ‘대북 방어’라는 사드 배치 명분이 명백히 사라졌다며 사드 기지 철수를 요구하고 나

www.hani.co.kr · 한겨레

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Electronic Frontier Foundation @eff@mastodon.social
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Cameras embedded in glasses introduce all sorts of new privacy problems. Here's a framework for thinking about them. eff.org/deeplinks/2026/03/thin

Think Twice Before Buying or Using Meta’s Ray-Bans

Over the last decade or so, the tech industry has tried, and mostly failed, to make “smart glasses”—tech-infused glasses with cameras, AI, maps, displays, and more—a thing. But over the past year, products like Meta’s Ray-Ban Display Glasses and Oakley’s Meta Glasses have gone from a curious niche...

www.eff.org · Electronic Frontier Foundation

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tante @tante@tldr.nettime.org
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Spend the day talking to workers council members about "AI". And it's kinda wild hearing their stories from the wild: Management is 100% in fantasy "AI" can do everything land and makes huge plans for how to use "AI" to cut workers when real projects that supposedly can do 50% of a specific task end up being able to do 8%. And they still go live. It's fucking bonkers. CEO's are really not okay.

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pkg update @pkgupdt@hl.pkgu.net
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제미나이 프로, chatgpt 프로(1달째) 둘 써보니까, 도구로서는 제미나이가 낫고, 가지고 놀기엔 chatgpt가 더 재미는 있고 그렇네. 돈 낼 거면 제미나이. ㅋㅋㅋ;

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zunda @zundan@mastodon.zunda.ninja
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キラウエアからの火山灰の影響で昨日のヒロ空港便がいくつか欠航。ぜんぜん知らんかった←

Hilo flights canceled as Kilauea eruption drops tephra, volcanic ash
https://www.hawaiinewsnow.com/2026/03/11/hilo-flights-cancelled-kilauea-eruption-drops-tep

Hilo flights canceled as Kilauea eruption drops tephra, volcanic ash

Hawaiian Airlines urged travelers to monitor their flight status.

www.hawaiinewsnow.com · https://www.hawaiinewsnow.com

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hackaday @hackaday@hackaday.social
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Are We Finally At The Point Where Phones Can Replace Computers?

hackaday.com/2026/03/11/are-we

Are We Finally At The Point Where Phones Can Replace Computers?

There was an ideal of convergence, a long time ago, when one device would be all you need, digitally speaking. [ETA Prime] on YouTube seems to think we’ve reached that point, and his recent v…

hackaday.com · Hackaday

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Tom Warren @tomwarren.co.uk@bsky.brid.gy
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Microsoft's next-gen Xbox Project Helix details: • next-gen version of AMD’s FSR upscaling • custom AMD chip with “an order of magnitude increase in raytracing performance” • alpha versions of Project Helix to devs in 2027 www.theverge.com/games/893119...

Microsoft’s next Xbox, Project...

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Microsoft’s next Xbox, Project Helix, won’t reach alpha until 2027

We’ll have to wait a while for the new Xbox.

www.theverge.com · The Verge

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Nina Kalinina @nina_kali_nina@tech.lgbt
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TIL BBC used to have an "Ethics" portal where they tried to cover moral issues from different angles. It includes pages that claim, among others, that "Contraception is inherently wrong", and this lovely passage on hunting:

• hunting provides human employment
• hunting preserves Britain's cultural traditions
• hunting provides sport and pleasure to many people

The portal is "archived and no longer being updated", but the pages are still up. I kind of see why one would want to have a list of all sorts of arguments, but... Idk, this "we're being centrist in the debates" might be a bit too much for me.

The "There are people who say that Contraception is inherently wrong" page: bbc.co.uk/ethics/contraception

BBC - Ethics - Contraception: Moral case against contraception

This article sets out the moral arguments against the use of birth control.

www.bbc.co.uk

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