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`

Christine Lemmer-Webber @cwebber@social.coop

2/17/2026, 3:01:34 PM

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AI Agent Lands PRs in Major OSS Projects, Targets Maintainers via Cold Outreach https://socket.dev/blog/ai-agent-lands-prs-in-major-oss-projects-targets-maintainers-via-cold-outreach

oof

AI Agent Lands PRs in Major OSS Projects, Targets Maintainer...

An AI agent is merging PRs into major OSS projects and cold-emailing maintainers to drum up more work.

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see shy jo @joeyh@sunbeam.city

2/17/2026, 6:06:13 PM

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@cwebberChristine Lemmer-Webber kaigritun and crabby-rathbun joined github within 24 hours of one another

there are probably 100x more of these

I don't think these are necessarily connected, it's just the point where the tooling to set this up became ~trivial.

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