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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all of those companies are framing mass firings as “AI productivity gains”, when in reality they’re correcting their hyperscale hiring decisions.

all while “AI” fails to realise any improvements, but hey it’s a much better story.

♥️ to those affected.

theguardian.com/technology/202

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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isn't. I'm writing this in English because if I wrote it in Korean, the people I'm addressing would run it through an outdated translator, misread it, and respond to something I never said.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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Ze světa:

6:20 - Dron zaútočil na luxusní čtvrť v Dubaji,
6:23 - Saúdská Arábie s Kuvajtem ničily drony,
6:45 - Izraelský útok na Bejrút zabil sedm lidí,
7:10 - Hizballáh zasáhl izraelskou základnu,
7:34 - Ropa opět atakovala cenu sto dolarů za barel,
8:07 - V ománském přístavu dál hoří ropné nádrže,
8:29 - Bývalý britský premiér po útoku na dívčí školu požaduje zřízení soudu zaměřeného na zločiny na dětech,
8:59 - Italská základna čelila útoku - Italská vojenská základna v Arbílu v iráckém Kurdistánu čelila útoku.,
9:41 - V Bahrajnu zní sirény,
👉 9:50 - Trump: V Íránu jsme vyhráli, už první hodinu bylo hotovo
11:03 - Kuvajtské letiště zasáhly drony

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해당 게시물은 최근 열린 월드베이스볼클래식(WBC) 경기 결과를 언급하며 한국 대표팀이 점수를 ‘조작했다’는 취지의 표현을 사용해 논란이 됐다. 두끼 타이완 측은 이어 "진심을 보여주기 위해 3월 말까지 2인 세트를 540 타이완 달러(약 2만 5,000원)에 판매하겠다"고 밝혔는데, 이 가격은 지난 8일 WBC 조별리그에서 한국이 타이완에 4-5로 패한 점수를 연상시키는 숫자다.

해당 게시물은 최근 열린 월드베이스볼클래식(WBC) 경...

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If the same link appears multiple times on a page, how do you know which one actually gets clicked?

Example:

• Signup in the hero
• Signup in the navbar
• Signup in the footer

All point to the same URL.

In Plausible you can track this with one custom event + custom properties.

Example:

Event: `Signup Click`
Property: `position=hero | navbar | footer`

Now you can:

• see total signup clicks
• filter by position to see which CTA performs best

✅ Small tracking tweet. Big insight.

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해당 게시물은 최근 열린 월드베이스볼클래식(WBC) 경기 결과를 언급하며 한국 대표팀이 점수를 ‘조작했다’는 취지의 표현을 사용해 논란이 됐다. 두끼 타이완 측은 이어 "진심을 보여주기 위해 3월 말까지 2인 세트를 540 타이완 달러(약 2만 5,000원)에 판매하겠다"고 밝혔는데, 이 가격은 지난 8일 WBC 조별리그에서 한국이 타이완에 4-5로 패한 점수를 연상시키는 숫자다.

해당 게시물은 최근 열린 월드베이스볼클래식(WBC) 경...

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I really like Ghost as a CMS, but its over-reliance on Mailgun as the sole conveyor of bulk email is bugging me a lot. MG does not work, and I hope someone must have figured out an alternative by now. Like, I know how to be mindful of not sending too many emails through Gmail, just let me use that!

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라면·식용유·과자 줄줄이 가격 인하…"내달부터 적용" n.news.naver.com/mnews/articl... 李대통령 "위기극복 동참 기업에 감사" 최근 설탕과 밀가루에 이어 전분당 담합 의혹이 불거진 가운데 정부의 가공식품 물가 안정 압박이 이어지면서 식품 업계가 대대적으로 가격 인하에 나선 것이다.

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:a6qvfkbrohedqy3dt6k5mdv6/post/3mgu6ozls522b


라면·식용유·과자 줄줄이 가격 인하…"내달부터 적용"(...

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《100毛》毛公司毛記葵涌早前停牌,並落實賣盤,兩名創辦人兼大股東阿Bu 姚家豪及陳強陸家俊套現逾 1.2 億,買家為 Brave Steed Legacy Limited,該公司由馬黎阳(Ma Liyang)全資擁有,而馬黎阳與中資上市公司「京藍科技股份」的董事長同名。

毛記葵涌由林日曦、陳強、阿 Bu 三人創立,2010 年出版《黑紙》,之後憑《100毛》打響名堂,目前主要經營《毛記電視》等 YouTube 頻道。毛記葵涌在 2018 年上市,公開發售超額認購 6288 倍打破紀錄,但近年聲勢明顯下滑,2021 年 8 月林日曦突然宣佈辭去公司所有職務,並以「友情價」值 800 萬將持股售予阿 Bu 及陳強,但要求兩人在五年內不得減持,禁售期到今年 8 月屆滿。

據根據港交所權益披露顯示,今次毛記葵涌賣盤,作價每股 0.6963 元,阿 Bu 及陳強將持有的全部 65%、1.755 億股毛記葵涌股份,全數賣予 Brave Steed Legacy Limited,交易總作價 1.222 億,...
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