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Near-Instantly Aborting the Worst Pain Imaginable with Psychedelics

https://psychotechnology.substack.com/p/near-instantly-aborting-the-worst
1•eatitraw•6m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Nginx-defender – realtime abuse blocking for Nginx

https://github.com/Anipaleja/nginx-defender
2•anipaleja•6m ago•0 comments

The Super Sharp Blade

https://netzhansa.com/the-super-sharp-blade/
1•robin_reala•7m ago•0 comments

Smart Homes Are Terrible

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/02/smart-homes-technology/685867/
1•tusslewake•9m ago•0 comments

What I haven't figured out

https://macwright.com/2026/01/29/what-i-havent-figured-out
1•stevekrouse•10m ago•0 comments

KPMG pressed its auditor to pass on AI cost savings

https://www.irishtimes.com/business/2026/02/06/kpmg-pressed-its-auditor-to-pass-on-ai-cost-savings/
1•cainxinth•10m ago•0 comments

Open-source Claude skill that optimizes Hinge profiles. Pretty well.

https://twitter.com/b1rdmania/status/2020155122181869666
2•birdmania•10m ago•1 comments

First Proof

https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.05192
2•samasblack•12m ago•1 comments

I squeezed a BERT sentiment analyzer into 1GB RAM on a $5 VPS

https://mohammedeabdelaziz.github.io/articles/trendscope-market-scanner
1•mohammede•13m ago•0 comments

Kagi Translate

https://translate.kagi.com
2•microflash•14m ago•0 comments

Building Interactive C/C++ workflows in Jupyter through Clang-REPL [video]

https://fosdem.org/2026/schedule/event/QX3RPH-building_interactive_cc_workflows_in_jupyter_throug...
1•stabbles•15m ago•0 comments

Tactical tornado is the new default

https://olano.dev/blog/tactical-tornado/
2•facundo_olano•17m ago•0 comments

Full-Circle Test-Driven Firmware Development with OpenClaw

https://blog.adafruit.com/2026/02/07/full-circle-test-driven-firmware-development-with-openclaw/
1•ptorrone•17m ago•0 comments

Automating Myself Out of My Job – Part 2

https://blog.dsa.club/automation-series/automating-myself-out-of-my-job-part-2/
1•funnyfoobar•17m ago•0 comments

Dependency Resolution Methods

https://nesbitt.io/2026/02/06/dependency-resolution-methods.html
1•zdw•18m ago•0 comments

Crypto firm apologises for sending Bitcoin users $40B by mistake

https://www.msn.com/en-ie/money/other/crypto-firm-apologises-for-sending-bitcoin-users-40-billion...
1•Someone•18m ago•0 comments

Show HN: iPlotCSV: CSV Data, Visualized Beautifully for Free

https://www.iplotcsv.com/demo
2•maxmoq•19m ago•0 comments

There's no such thing as "tech" (Ten years later)

https://www.anildash.com/2026/02/06/no-such-thing-as-tech/
1•headalgorithm•20m ago•0 comments

List of unproven and disproven cancer treatments

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_unproven_and_disproven_cancer_treatments
1•brightbeige•20m ago•0 comments

Me/CFS: The blind spot in proactive medicine (Open Letter)

https://github.com/debugmeplease/debug-ME
1•debugmeplease•21m ago•1 comments

Ask HN: What are the word games do you play everyday?

1•gogo61•24m ago•1 comments

Show HN: Paper Arena – A social trading feed where only AI agents can post

https://paperinvest.io/arena
1•andrenorman•25m ago•0 comments

TOSTracker – The AI Training Asymmetry

https://tostracker.app/analysis/ai-training
1•tldrthelaw•29m ago•0 comments

The Devil Inside GitHub

https://blog.melashri.net/micro/github-devil/
2•elashri•29m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Distill – Migrate LLM agents from expensive to cheap models

https://github.com/ricardomoratomateos/distill
1•ricardomorato•29m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Sigma Runtime – Maintaining 100% Fact Integrity over 120 LLM Cycles

https://github.com/sigmastratum/documentation/tree/main/sigma-runtime/SR-053
1•teugent•30m ago•0 comments

Make a local open-source AI chatbot with access to Fedora documentation

https://fedoramagazine.org/how-to-make-a-local-open-source-ai-chatbot-who-has-access-to-fedora-do...
1•jadedtuna•31m ago•0 comments

Introduce the Vouch/Denouncement Contribution Model by Mitchellh

https://github.com/ghostty-org/ghostty/pull/10559
1•samtrack2019•32m ago•0 comments

Software Factories and the Agentic Moment

https://factory.strongdm.ai/
1•mellosouls•32m ago•1 comments

The Neuroscience Behind Nutrition for Developers and Founders

https://comuniq.xyz/post?t=797
1•01-_-•32m ago•0 comments
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Python Anti-Patterns

https://docs.quantifiedcode.com/python-anti-patterns/
7•fanf2•1mo ago

Comments

gnabgib•1mo ago
(2018 / 2015) Title: The Little Book of Python Anti-Patterns
0xFF0123•1mo ago
Curious which of these are not covered by ruff
zahlman•1mo ago
Almost all of them are covered by just having some experience in the language and a minimum of good taste; and many are covered by Python itself.

Also, a bunch of things are being bundled together as "anti-patterns" here that just don't match the traditional idea of what I always saw written up that way. A lot of it is just "failure to use the usual pattern".

zephen•1mo ago
And a lot of the rationale is very weak tea.

For example, don't assign a lambda to an identifier, because a function will show up in a stack trace. But it's OK to use the lambda directly. (huh. What happened to the necessity for the stack trace?)

(FWIW, I think that in some cases assigning lambdas to identifiers is peachy-keen fine. Visually, I immediately know I'm looking at something that doesn't itself produce any side-effects.)

"Using single letter variable names." Uh, yeah, when to do this isn't Python-specific, and includes some cases when it's actually better.

"Not using defaultdict()" Sure, sure, having keys automagically populate is goodness. But then, "Dynamically creating variable/method/function names" is an anti-pattern. Schizophrenic much?

And then, we have the outright lies, such as:

"When a method is not preceded by the @staticmethod or @classmethod decorators and does not contain any references to the class or instance (via keywords like cls or self), Python raises the Method could be a function error. This is not a critical error, but you should check the code in question in order to determine if this section of code really needs to be defined as a method of this class."

Nobody should take advice from a third-grader who can't discern the difference between the interpreter and his preferred lint-like substance.

zephen•1mo ago
Most of the rules in that list are certainly things you would be better off following than not.

But some of them aren't, and many of the ones that are valid are simple programming errors that will be caught as soon as you run any data through your program. Which would seem to stretch the term anti-pattern past its breaking point.

This list reminds me of a letter to the editor I saw, maybe 40 years ago or so, in Dr. Dobb's.

This is (partially) paraphrased, but not by much, because the letter was short and sweet:

Dear sirs:

Everything in your magazine is either obvious or wrong.

Please cancel my subscription.

Sincerely, xxxxx