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`

Steve Troughton-Smith @stroughtonsmith@mastodon.social

2/24/2026, 7:21:31 PM

Public

If humanity, a type 0 civilization, can create a human-level artificial intelligence well within a hundred years of inventing the first computer (and we're not quite there yet but in programming we're pretty darn close), that must mean intelligent life in the universe must increase exponentially with time. Mathematically there must be trillions and trillions of intelligences out there, or we are beating unfathomable odds to be the very first

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