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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Guys, I realized I was doing development stone-age style.

You _need_ to try this, these new tools are absolute game-changers, unlocking 2x to 10x productivity.

I know this is not a popular opinion, but look, we need to keep pace with the changes of times. It might feel hard at first, or at least feel alien, but, we need to part from our old, sluggish, slow ways.

So, enable the DuplicateRecordFields and OverloadedRecordDot extensions, now!

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Heute die Reise nach Hof. Ihr hattet mich gewarnt. Hab gestern alles gecheckt, hundertmal geschaut und zwei gute Optionen ab Nürnberg gefunden: über Bayreuth und über Weiden. Beide ohne Warnmeldungen und mit genug Puffer. Dachte also: wenn der Sprinter nach Nürnberg fährt, dann Zug. Wenn er ausfällt: CarSharing.
Sprinter fährt (wohl). Aber heute Früh: Bayreuth Hauptbahnhof nach Zugzusammenstoss kaputt (nur Leichtverletzte zum Glück). Und die andere Strecke plötzlich:

Screenshot DB Navigator 
Aufgrund einer Reparatur auf dem
Streckenabschnitt Windischeschenbach -
Neustadt(Waldnaab) kommt es zu
erheblichen Beeintrachtigungen. Es kommt wegen einem eingleisigen Zugbetrieb und verminderter Geschwindigkeit zu
Fahrplandanderungen, Verspatungen und
kurzfristigen Zugausfallen sowie zu
Umleitungen mit Haltausfallen.
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chinapol

"Relatively cautious voices within the establishment are no longer defending the present pension level; they are arguing only over the pace, the target group, and the financing mechanism. That alone says something important. The centre of gravity has shifted. The question is no longer whether rural pensions are too low. It is whether the state is willing to admit how low is too low"

https://www.pekingnology.com/p/investing-in-people-in-rmb20-instalments

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chinapol

"Relatively cautious voices within the establishment are no longer defending the present pension level; they are arguing only over the pace, the target group, and the financing mechanism. That alone says something important. The centre of gravity has shifted. The question is no longer whether rural pensions are too low. It is whether the state is willing to admit how low is too low"

https://www.pekingnology.com/p/investing-in-people-in-rmb20-instalments

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종이에 그리는 장점: 종이의 재질감, 연필이나 펜의 마찰소리, 각종 색칠시의 감촉과 도구의 냄새, 실물을 만지며 만들어내는 만족감...

디지털 그림의 장점: 그외 모든 것.

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이란혁명수비대가 구글,MS,엔비디아,오라클,팔란티어,IBM,아마존 등 군사적으로 이용되는 기술을 이스라엘에 제공하는 미국 빅테크 기업을 타겟으로 선언. 중동 지역의 사무실이나 데이터센터를 공격할 거라고. www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/3/...

Iran declares US-Israeli econo...

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솔직히 모두가알잖아 그림그리는맛은 사실 종이미만잡인거 레이턴시며 손떨림보정이며(놀랍게도, 진짜임) 하지만 종이의치명적인단점 undo와 레이어의 부재라는 그 둘때문에 (때로는 픽셀유동화나 올가미이동변형도) 모두가 종이가 훨씬 그림그리는 선맛쥑여준다는거 알면서도 디지털로그리게되는거잖아 아무튼뭔말이냐 몰라요 나도

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솔직히 모두가알잖아 그림그리는맛은 사실 종이미만잡인거 레이턴시며 손떨림보정이며(놀랍게도, 진짜임) 하지만 종이의치명적인단점 undo와 레이어의 부재라는 그 둘때문에 (때로는 픽셀유동화나 올가미이동변형도) 모두가 종이가 훨씬 그림그리는 선맛쥑여준다는거 알면서도 디지털로그리게되는거잖아 아무튼뭔말이냐 몰라요 나도

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It might look like some zany structure out of Sim City 2000, but the Falkirk Wheel is very much a marvel of real modern engineering.

Al Williams explores how this magnificent machine keeps the link alive between two inconveniently-elevated canals.

hackaday.com/2026/02/13/the-en

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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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uspol, trans genocide

> The Administration has moved from identifying transgender people as a threat to the family and to the nation’s military prowess to claiming that transgender people constitute a cosmic threat to the spiritual health of the nation and the greatest direct threat to U.S. national security in the world. Given these ideological developments, especially coupled with the increasingly hostile and draconian legislation against trans identities, the Lemkin Institute believes that the United States is squarely within the early to middle stages of a genocidal process against trans people, the goal of which is to completely erase transgender people not only from public life but also from existence in the U.S. and globally.

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uspol, trans genocide

The Daily Wire has a piece out scaremongering about DIY HRT for adults. I'm not going to link to it, you can find it if you choose. They're trying to push for the FDA to go after people doing DIY HRT.

But much worse is this:

4th Circuit Rules That States Can Compel Trans Adults To "Appreciate Their Sex" Via Care Bans erininthemorning.com/p/4th-cir

The really scary bit:

> The court also took a significant step toward ruling that laws targeting transgender adult care would be constitutional. In a footnote, the court states, "While Skrmetti involved sex-change treatments for minors, disagreement among experts about the efficacy and necessity of transgender surgeries extends to treatment of gender dysphoria in adults."

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