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`

Graham Sutherland / Polynomial @gsuberland@chaos.social

2/9/2026, 12:52:16 AM

Public

digging through my phone for a picture and found this

Two panels. Left side is a news article titled "Chinese woman discovers she's been using a hand grenade as a hammer for the last 20 years". Right side is the shifty eyed puppet, with "c++ engineers" written underneath.

Dan Ports @dan@discuss.systems

2/9/2026, 1:42:12 AM

Public

guns, memory unsafeness

@gsuberlandGraham Sutherland / Polynomial found this on my phone:

One of these things is a dangerous tool that makes it easy to shoot yourself in the foot. The other is a handgun.

a SIG P229 pistol and a copy of K&R's C Programming Language

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