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`

Jon Sterling @jonmsterling@mathstodon.xyz

12/9/2025, 3:06:07 PM

Public

I think there's at least a few kinds of research that involve old ideas. The one I try to do is, go back in time to back when people knew certain things people don't know anymore, and combine those things with stuff they didn't know back then to do things that are interesting right now.

Another kind is where you just take 1980s stuff verbatim and (perhaps innocently) pretend you invented it. I am seeing several PL groups literally speed-running the 1980s right now and it is so weird...

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