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`

Michi @instenauer@swiss.social

2/10/2026, 3:35:35 PM

Public

LLMs do not think. They are an interactive, static snapshot of the statistical distribution of words (or tokens) in a large body of text.

If you catch yourself again and again being amazed by the latest magic trick from silicon valley and wondering if there might not yet be some kind of ghost in that machine, inoculate yourself with the following wisdom:

https://softwarecrisis.dev/letters/ai-bird-brains-silicon-valley/

Artificial General Intelligence and the bird brains of Silicon V…

The biggest risk of generative AI is believing in the myth of AGI.

softwarecrisis.dev · Out of the Software Crisis

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