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`

Pollenated Dan @thedansimonson@lingo.lol

3/1/2026, 11:25:05 PM

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RE: https://mastodon.social/@mcc/116155634003044785

this something I don't think anyone's really talked about -- not specifically that AI systems are stochastic, but that when juxtaposed with traditional software, where data is static and object-permanent, it's something fundamentally different.

A lot of the marketing falls apart when you realize they're doing a rhetorical slight of hand where they act like the probabilistic text generator is just "more software."

If you have a fediverse account, you can quote this note from your own instance. Search https://lingo.lol/users/thedansimonson/statuses/116156498254821672 on your instance and quote it. (Note that quoting is not supported in Mastodon.)

jcoglan @jcoglan@mastodon.social

3/1/2026, 11:45:21 PM

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RE: https://lingo.lol/@thedansimonson/116156498254821672

this is also why LLMs are not "another layer of abstraction". do you need to read the asm output of your compiler every time it runs? no, and having to do so would substantially reduce the value of said compiler