Hackers' Pub is a place for software engineers to share their knowledge and experience with each other. It's also an ActivityPub-enabled social network, so you can follow your favorite hackers in the fediverse and get their latest posts in your feed.
The Gen-X/.com-boom-survivor in me is crying ...
Can my SPARC server host a website?
https://rup12.net/posts/can-my-sparc-server-host-my-website/
Purge custom emojis on domain suspension (#37808) by ClearlyClaire has been merged! https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/commit/63aac77b6174b737e814d9fbbdc48288baa0e922
I started programming when I was 7. I'm 50 now and the thing I loved has changed
Link: https://www.jamesdrandall.com/posts/the_thing_i_loved_has_changed/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46960675
Superintelligence: The Idea That Eats Smart People (2016) https://lobste.rs/s/un6bdj #video #ai #philosophy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kErHiET5YPw
EE folks: what would you use for:
@whitequark✧✦Catherine✦✧ cursed but some Chinese manufacturers use speaker terminals (the press and insert type) for this. I've even seen them used for 120V mains. 
Europe's $24T Breakup with Visa and Mastercard Has Begun
Link: https://europeanbusinessmagazine.com/business/europes-24-trillion-breakup-with-visa-and-mastercard-has-begun/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46958399
Parse, Don't Validate (2019)
Link: https://lexi-lambda.github.io/blog/2019/11/05/parse-don-t-validate/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46960392
Show HN: I built a macOS tool for network engineers – it's called NetViews
Link: https://www.netviews.app
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46955712
Emotional hitbox
EE folks: what would you use for:
let's bring #longform (text) support to the #photoverse
(this is not (mainly) about long texts on #pixelfed or #vernissage (they can both fall back to show the summary), it is about supporting image posts with the object type: `Article`)
* https://github.com/VernissageApp/VernissageServer/pull/442
* https://github.com/pixelfed/pixelfed/pull/6458
https://codeberg.org/fediverse/fep/src/branch/main/fep/b2b8/fep-b2b8.md
The US is flirting with its first-ever population decline
Link: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-01-30/trump-immigration-crackdown-could-shrink-us-population-for-first-time
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46960624
big buck bunny was a cute blender short, sure, but did he really deserve to be in the super bowl?
I am posting in an instance, different from the one you are on now. I am recording the text of my posting voice, and I am going to post it back into the feed again and again, until the resonant frequencies of the instance reinforce themselves, so that any semblance of my post, with perhaps the exception of rhythm, is destroyed. What you will read, then, are the natural resonant frequencies of the instance, articulated by text. I regard this activity not so much as a demonstration of a physical fact, but more as a way to smooth out any irregularities my posting might have.
I made a tool for writing casio calculator games with twine! and I wrote about it on my blog:
RE: https://mastodon.social/@countablenewt/116033103469375924
Not every client for every #ActivityPub service needs to show all content
Take #FediReader, for example
Most of the content on #Mastodon isn't immediately visible in the UI
Posts without links don't show up at all, quote boosts don't show up at all, and any text content shared with the post is hidden in the post detail view
The fun thing about the #SocialWeb is that we can make highly opinionated clients like this for the people who want it
For those that don't, they don't have to use it
one consequence of migrating from GitHub Actions to something like Codeberg CI is that I will be deprecating old versions of software a lot more aggressively
you want to use an out-of-date [edit: end-of-active-updates] version of Python? sorry, unless you provide CI resources to test it I'm just not going to bother any more
Ahh look, those nice adorable folks at #Amazon #Ring led by the totally-not-psychopat Jeff Bezos developed Search Party. An adorable opt-out #AI mass #surveillance program for your local ICE gestapo. And you too are much helped. Any missing dog will be found.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OheUzrXsKrY
https://truthout.org/articles/super-bowl-ad-for-ring-cameras-touted-ai-surveillance-network/
#DitchRing if you own one and value your #freedom
> President and CEO of Amazon Andy Jassy calls it a “compelling” use of #AI. “Millions of dogs go missing in the U.S. every year — and options for finding them are often painfully limited. Our #Ring team saw an opportunity to use our community and technology to help, so they built Search Party,” Jassy writes on X.
> “Nice way to start a mass surveillance product and label it as dog rescue,” writes one person beneath Jassy’s post. “Ring offering to turn your neighborhood into an AI-fueled #surveillance state under the guise of ‘helping you find your lost dog’ is CRAZY,” writes another.
https://petapixel.com/2026/02/09/people-are-freaked-out-by-the-ring-doorbell-camera-super-bowl-ad/
📝 Wishcessibility
What do recycling and accessibility have in common?
A - DNS Record
AA - Battery
AAA - Battery
AAAA - DNS Record
I was thinking about the skyrocketing memory prices and something dawned on me: could it be a way to prop up AI investments by artificially covering the huge loans that have been taken out to fund them? Could it be a way to artificially inflate the value of datacenters these companies have on their balance sheets? I don't want to sound paranoid but bear with me for a second. 🧵 1/6
The Humans of OTel session for KubeCon NA 2025 is officially live 🎥
In this edition, Diana Todea, Sophia Solomon, Trask Stalnaker, and Josh Lee share what OTel means to them.
If you'd like to be featured in the next one, catch us at KubeCon Europe 2026.
🧵🪡 Our latest release of the standard lib includes a new `Threads` ability for structured concurrency.
Why is it an improvement over our existing primitives? Here's a video with some comparisons.
“The problem with capitalism is that you eventually run out of other people's money.”
Chef’s kiss.
Discord Alternatives, Ranked
Link: https://taggart-tech.com/discord-alternatives/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46949564
I started programming when I was 7. I'm 50 now and the thing I loved has changed
Link: https://www.jamesdrandall.com/posts/the_thing_i_loved_has_changed/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46960675
I now spend my days talking AI slop and the end of bug-bounties on podcasts and in media interviews. One day I may end up writing code again.
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Normal server vendors: our model numbers are single words with no interior spaces, because we're sane.
Supermicro: "AS -1115HS-TNR", the space matters, it's even in the product page URL (and DMI information)¹.
¹ https://www.supermicro.com/en/products/system/hyper/1u/as%20-1115hs-tnr
I am so sick of these "it's OK, our servers are located in Europe and the DR is in Irleand although it's a US-based company" GDPR excuses.
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NEW VIDEO - FreeBSD in 2026: Thriving or Dying?
#freebsd #unix #opensource #garyhtech
https://youtu.be/JRJBsb1mtIs?si=jg1ZLUuRM2Ewhajo via @YouTube
Disruption with Some GitHub Services
Link: https://www.githubstatus.com/incidents/wkgqj4546z1c
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46960743
Europe's $24T Breakup with Visa and Mastercard Has Begun
Link: https://europeanbusinessmagazine.com/business/europes-24-trillion-breakup-with-visa-and-mastercard-has-begun/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46958399
i watched a few of the superbowl ads out of morbid curiosity and i'm oddly entertained. it's like a window into executive psychosis. i like that the decisionmakers in these companies clearly suffer; now if only they weren't so wealthy on top
NEW VIDEO - FreeBSD in 2026: Thriving or Dying?
#freebsd #unix #opensource #garyhtech
https://youtu.be/JRJBsb1mtIs?si=jg1ZLUuRM2Ewhajo via @YouTube
Ich hasadiere jetzt mal darauf, dass der RAYE Devotionalienverkauf durch UK und nicht DE Personal gemacht wird und daher Kartenzahlung funktioniert.
Bankomat such ich mir jetzt keinen mehr.
Move theme-related helper methods out of controller (#37807) by mjankowski has been merged! https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/commit/34514bcfe9d6416e73ac918005f9890778f40eab
I wish I could force every legislator
in favor of Age Verification to watch this amazing talk by Carissa Véliz,
So that they understand the dangers
of the surveillance infrastructure they are currently putting in place.
You should watch it too: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xSPRouBvgFE
#Privacy #Democracy #HumanRights #AgeVerification #MassSurveillance #Fascism
trying to use some tool provided by google to create a new nicolium (formerly pl-fe) logo
In case someone was on edge about the Discord age verification blabla and was thinking about doing (getting verified) it because (insert reason), you might want to read this:
RE: https://mas.to/@obsidian/116047048618336013
✨ This is a great addition. I have dozens of Python + frontmatter scripts that I can slowly start migrating.
Update of Use & Modify with the precious help of 
@glvngoulven More update to come soon. Stay tuned!
⟿ https://usemodify.com/
A lot of hate being directed towards Discord for introducing age verification. But when half the governments in jurisdiction you operate in start demanding it, perhaps anger should be directed towards polticans and groups who support it. #discord #privacy #ageverification
Fix `NoMethodError` in `ActivityPub::FetchFeaturedTagsCollectionService` (#37806) by ClearlyClaire has been merged! https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/commit/040555be7f0c301f3b0b372e1de5fe2ed1b1d420
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