Hackers' Pub

Syntax	Description	Examples
`"` keyword `"`	Finds the string within quotes, including spaces. Case-insensitive. (Escape quotes inside with `\"`)	`"Hackers' Pub"`
`from:` handle	Finds content written by the specified user.	`from:hongminhee` `from:hongminhee@hollo.social`
`lang:` ISO 639-1	Finds content written in the specified language.	`lang:en`
`#` tag	Finds content with the specified tag. Case-insensitive.	`#HackersPub`
condition condition	Finds content that satisfies both conditions on either side of the space (logical AND).	`"Hackers' Pub" lang:en`
condition `OR` condition	Finds content that satisfies at least one of the conditions on either side of the OR operator (logical OR).	`#HackersPub OR "Hackers' Pub" lang:en`
`(` condition `)`	Combines the operators within the parentheses first.	`(#HackersPub OR "Hackers' Pub" OR "Hackers Pub") lang:en`

... and and and and ... @andnull@social.nouveau.community

3/4/2026, 12:54:40 PM

Quiet public

Seeing Donald Knuth sing praise of Claude and be swooned by it for seemingly fuzzing a solution to some problem he was working on while:

Having no formal proof it is correct
Claude immediately lost the illusion of cohession as their session continued

I'm growing convenced these things are a siren song to the human brain. It's creepy how fast people will resign themselves to these text generators just cause they can brute force and correctly predict a few solutions.

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