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`

rk: it’s hyphen-minus actually @rk@mastodon.well.com

3/3/2026, 5:52:52 PM

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@shriramkShriram Krishnamurthi

I did some experiments a couple of months ago.

ChatGPT/Codex would produce code that compiled and worked, but absolutely ignored glaring issues.

Claude was insistant that by doing this ornate graph-coloring thing we could get better bounds on computation, ignoring that it had to redo the graph-coloring on every iteration and so the whole thing was accidentally quadratic.

Also lots of just subtle issues, or outright technically-correct-but-truly bizarre decisions.

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