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Brute Force Colors (2022)

https://arnaud-carre.github.io/2022-12-30-amiga-ham/
1•erickhill•2m ago•0 comments

Google Translate apparently vulnerable to prompt injection

https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/tAh2keDNEEHMXvLvz/prompt-injection-in-google-translate-reveals-ba...
1•julkali•2m ago•0 comments

(Bsky thread) "This turns the maintainer into an unwitting vibe coder"

https://bsky.app/profile/fullmoon.id/post/3meadfaulhk2s
1•todsacerdoti•3m ago•0 comments

Software development is undergoing a Renaissance in front of our eyes

https://twitter.com/gdb/status/2019566641491963946
1•tosh•3m ago•0 comments

Can you beat ensloppification? I made a quiz for Wikipedia's Signs of AI Writing

https://tryward.app/aiquiz
1•bennydog224•4m ago•1 comments

Spec-Driven Design with Kiro: Lessons from Seddle

https://medium.com/@dustin_44710/spec-driven-design-with-kiro-lessons-from-seddle-9320ef18a61f
1•nslog•4m ago•0 comments

Agents need good developer experience too

https://modal.com/blog/agents-devex
1•birdculture•6m ago•0 comments

The Dark Factory

https://twitter.com/i/status/2020161285376082326
1•Ozzie_osman•6m ago•0 comments

Free data transfer out to internet when moving out of AWS (2024)

https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/free-data-transfer-out-to-internet-when-moving-out-of-aws/
1•tosh•7m ago•0 comments

Interop 2025: A Year of Convergence

https://webkit.org/blog/17808/interop-2025-review/
1•alwillis•8m ago•0 comments

Prejudice Against Leprosy

https://text.npr.org/g-s1-108321
1•hi41•9m ago•0 comments

Slint: Cross Platform UI Library

https://slint.dev/
1•Palmik•13m ago•0 comments

AI and Education: Generative AI and the Future of Critical Thinking

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k7PvscqGD24
1•nyc111•13m ago•0 comments

Maple Mono: Smooth your coding flow

https://font.subf.dev/en/
1•signa11•14m ago•0 comments

Moltbook isn't real but it can still hurt you

https://12gramsofcarbon.com/p/tech-things-moltbook-isnt-real-but
1•theahura•18m ago•0 comments

Take Back the Em Dash–and Your Voice

https://spin.atomicobject.com/take-back-em-dash/
1•ingve•18m ago•0 comments

Show HN: 289x speedup over MLP using Spectral Graphs

https://zenodo.org/login/?next=%2Fme%2Fuploads%3Fq%3D%26f%3Dshared_with_me%25253Afalse%26l%3Dlist...
1•andrespi•19m ago•0 comments

Teaching Mathematics

https://www.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~spurny/doc/articles/arnold.htm
2•samuel246•22m ago•0 comments

3D Printed Microfluidic Multiplexing [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VZ2ZcOzLnGg
2•downboots•22m ago•0 comments

Abstractions Are in the Eye of the Beholder

https://software.rajivprab.com/2019/08/29/abstractions-are-in-the-eye-of-the-beholder/
2•whack•22m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Routed Attention – 75-99% savings by routing between O(N) and O(N²)

https://zenodo.org/records/18518956
1•MikeBee•22m ago•0 comments

We didn't ask for this internet – Ezra Klein show [video]

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/ve02F0gyfjY
1•softwaredoug•23m ago•0 comments

The Real AI Talent War Is for Plumbers and Electricians

https://www.wired.com/story/why-there-arent-enough-electricians-and-plumbers-to-build-ai-data-cen...
2•geox•26m ago•0 comments

Show HN: MimiClaw, OpenClaw(Clawdbot)on $5 Chips

https://github.com/memovai/mimiclaw
1•ssslvky1•26m ago•0 comments

I Maintain My Blog in the Age of Agents

https://www.jerpint.io/blog/2026-02-07-how-i-maintain-my-blog-in-the-age-of-agents/
3•jerpint•27m ago•0 comments

The Fall of the Nerds

https://www.noahpinion.blog/p/the-fall-of-the-nerds
1•otoolep•28m ago•0 comments

Show HN: I'm 15 and built a free tool for reading ancient texts.

https://the-lexicon-project.netlify.app/
5•breadwithjam•31m ago•2 comments

How close is AI to taking my job?

https://epoch.ai/gradient-updates/how-close-is-ai-to-taking-my-job
1•cjbarber•32m ago•0 comments

You are the reason I am not reviewing this PR

https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/479442
2•midzer•33m ago•1 comments

Show HN: FamilyMemories.video – Turn static old photos into 5s AI videos

https://familymemories.video
1•tareq_•35m ago•0 comments
Open in hackernews

Xkcd: Python Environment (2018)

https://m.xkcd.com/1987/
31•thunderbong•2mo ago

Comments

kgwxd•2mo ago
I tried learning Python recently to move away from .NET. Wish I hadn't spent so much time reading about the language before actually trying to do a real world project. That environment and pip stuff is terrible. Where did they get the idea to do that? No other language I've come across has tooling that ridiculous. I switched to Go instead.
p4ul•2mo ago
If you haven't written off Python completely, I would suggest giving it a second chance using uv [1] for managing environments and Python versions. In my opinion, uv is the best thing to happen to Python in 10 years.

[1] https://docs.astral.sh/uv/

r-johnv•2mo ago
Uv and uvx have been such game changers when we tried to distribute our python packages.
VeejayRampay•2mo ago
ruff is a blessing as well and soon ty will make type checking so much better (or pyrefly which also seems great)
kgwxd•2mo ago
I don't want to manage environments unless I absolutely have to. In 25 years of development with other languages, I've never had a need. I'm sure it's great in places where management has decided that's a requirement, but I don't need it, and I certainly don't want it forced on me at the language level.
zahlman•2mo ago
> That environment and pip stuff is terrible. Where did they get the idea to do that? No other language I've come across has tooling that ridiculous.

What exactly do you think is "ridiculous" about it? And what exactly do you believe it involves? Talk me through something you had to do that you think you shouldn't have had to do, or something you couldn't figure out how to do that you think should have been easy to do.

ktpsns•2mo ago
I think the title deserves a (2018), which I estimated by explainxkcd history https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=1987:_Pytho...

Recently, people report that uv (https://docs.astral.sh/uv/) really makes a difference in Python tooling and puts poetry and of course anaconda unnessecary.

zahlman•2mo ago
Uv has nothing to do with anaconda becoming unnecessary. That's something that's naturally happened ecosystem-wide, over a period of years, due to build systems improving and developers publishing a broader range of pre-built wheels. There are still gaps in the system, because the standards-defined system of metadata can't capture all of everyone's needs (see https://pypackaging-native.github.io/ for an overview).

Poetry was arguably "necessary" in 2018, but pip's dependency resolver fundamentally changed in 2020.

The "vanilla" Python packaging toolchain has been gradually improving the whole time and people haven't given it much credit for that (largely because pip is still bad, and partly because they still resent that Setuptools is no longer interested in trying to be an all-in-one solution). Uv is largely possible (rather, as good as it is) because of that work (and because of the cooperation of uv project leadership with PyPA).

gnabgib•2mo ago
(2018) At the time (307 points, 181 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16958818
netfortius•2mo ago
Creating and using tons of python scripts under Homebrew, I had to learn by heart:

$ python3 -m venv .venv # Create a virtual environment

$ source .venv/bin/activate # Activate the virtual environment

(.venv) pip install <whatever you need> # Install stuff within the virtual environment

...

(.venv) deactivate

$ [sudo] rm -fR .venv

zahlman•2mo ago
> I had to learn by heart

Can you not write shell scripts on Darwin?

> source .venv/bin/activate # Activate the virtual environment

This is a convenience, not a necessary step. All it does is manipulate a few environment variables. You can just specify the paths to the venv's pip and Python explicitly.

(Of course, you can script around the expectation of those environment variables, if you prefer that workflow.)

Also, pip 22.3 added the ability to install cross-environment, which allows for creating virtual environments much faster `--without-pip` (see e.g. https://zahlman.github.io/posts/2025/01/07/python-packaging-...).

> [sudo] rm -fR .venv

I can't fathom a reason you'd ever need sudo for this cleanup.

grim_io•2mo ago
Ah, the joys of

  sudo pip install
If you are unexperienced, I recommend you stick with uv and set the env var: UV_MANAGED_PYTHON=true

This will make uv not consider system python, only the uv-managed python versions. No more f-ing up the system python and juggling with multiple apt-installed python versions.

zahlman•2mo ago
I legitimately can't understand why people believe they have a use case for `sudo pip install`, or ever did. I've seen so much cargo-culting (thankfully, generally it's all old material) suggesting the use of sudo to fix issues with pip and it's basically always at least wrong and generally dangerous. In cases I've seen where it "worked" and a user install wouldn't, it's ultimately because the root user has different environment variables.

(Also, apt-installing multiple Python versions can already mess things up, from the reports I've seen. Building from source and installing it at a custom location that won't mess things up is easy, however.)

meatjuice•2mo ago
Homebrew is the real annoyance here.