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`

mxey @mxey@hachyderm.io

1/11/2026, 9:13:33 PM

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I haven’t seen this discussed and it confuses me: companies tend to avoid tricky licenses like (A)GPLv3 for legal reasons. Why is there no hesitation to using LLMs to generate code, when we still don’t know whether that is fine under copyright law?

Training an LLM has been ruled fair use in the US. I am not aware of a ruling whether that applies to using it. And if the output of the model isn’t a copyright infringement of the input, then the output cannot be copyrighted because it was not created by a person. So AI-generated software cannot be copyrighted.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monkey_selfie_copyright_dispute

Monkey selfie copyright dispute - Wikipedia

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