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New accessibility features powered by Apple Intelligence

https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2026/05/apple-unveils-new-accessibility-features-and-updates-with-...
56•interpol_p•37m ago•6 comments

Gaussian Splat of a Strawberry

https://superspl.at/scene/84df8849
153•danybittel•2h ago•52 comments

Photo GIMP – A Patch for GIMP 3 for Photoshop Users

https://github.com/Diolinux/PhotoGIMP
68•SockThief•2d ago•37 comments

Show HN: Id-agent – Token efficient UUID alternative for AI agents

https://github.com/vostride/id-agent
19•pranshuchittora•1h ago•28 comments

I Found Ultra-Pure Quantum Crystals in an Abandoned Mine in the Atacama Desert

https://medium.com/@breid.at/ultra-pure-quantum-crystals-from-an-abandoned-mine-in-a-mysterious-d...
118•vi_sextus_vi•2d ago•29 comments

Peter Neumann has died

https://www.tuhs.org/pipermail/tuhs/2026-May/033748.html
184•pabs3•9h ago•13 comments

Polypad

https://polypad.amplify.com/
107•ivank•2d ago•8 comments

Click (2016)

https://clickclickclick.click/
325•andrewzeno•13h ago•82 comments

Kv4p HT – A homebrew 1W radio (VHF or UHF) that plugs into an Android phone

https://www.kv4p.com/
112•krupan•2d ago•40 comments

Cursor Introduces Composer 2.5

https://cursor.com/blog/composer-2-5
179•asar•19h ago•140 comments

Anthropic acquires Stainless

https://www.anthropic.com/news/anthropic-acquires-stainless
476•tomeraberbach•19h ago•334 comments

Mini Shai-Hulud Strikes Again: 314 npm Packages Compromised

https://safedep.io/mini-shai-hulud-strikes-again-314-npm-packages-compromised/
143•theanonymousone•7h ago•77 comments

The lasting influence of Netscape Time

https://thehistoryoftheweb.com/the-lasting-influence-of-netscape-time/
54•zdw•2d ago•10 comments

Nim-Presto – REST API Framework for Nim Language

https://github.com/status-im/nim-presto
5•TheWiggles•1d ago•0 comments

The last six months in LLMs in five minutes

https://simonwillison.net/2026/May/19/5-minute-llms/
516•yakkomajuri•11h ago•410 comments

PyTorch Landscape

https://pytorch.landscape2.io
53•salamo•8h ago•14 comments

1024000^2 Blocks, 2B2T Minecraft Server World Download Project, and Discoveries

https://github.com/2b2tplace/1m_release
154•exploraz•22h ago•93 comments

Regex Chess: A 2-ply minimax chess engine in 84,688 regular expressions

https://nicholas.carlini.com/writing/2025/regex-chess.html
144•surprisetalk•4d ago•36 comments

Energy return in running shoes explained (2025)

https://runrepeat.com/guides/energy-return-in-running-shoes
20•jstrieb•1d ago•11 comments

We let AIs run radio stations

https://andonlabs.com/blog/andon-fm
290•lukaspetersson•18h ago•222 comments

Make ZIP files smaller with ZIP Shrinker

https://evanhahn.com/make-zip-files-smaller-with-zip-shrinker/
42•zdw•2d ago•26 comments

Show HN: Hsrs – Type-Safe Haskell Bindings Generator for Rust

https://github.com/harmont-dev/hsrs
40•suis_siva•8h ago•3 comments

Show HN: Number Gacha, a gacha game distilled to its essence

https://isabisabel.com/gacha/
181•babel16•5d ago•74 comments

Hyperpolyglot Lisp: Common Lisp, Racket, Clojure, Emacs Lisp

https://hyperpolyglot.org/lisp
168•veqq•17h ago•41 comments

Pope Leo XIV’s first encyclical Magnifica humanitas to be published May 25

https://www.vaticannews.va/en/pope/news/2026-05/pope-leo-xiv-first-encyclical-magnifica-humanitas...
246•cucho•13h ago•164 comments

AI eats the world (Spring 26) [pdf]

https://static1.squarespace.com/static/50363cf324ac8e905e7df861/t/6a0af5d0484fbf5fe9a7743e/177910...
259•topherjaynes•23h ago•140 comments

Elon Musk has lost his lawsuit against Sam Altman and OpenAI

https://techcrunch.com/2026/05/18/elon-musk-has-lost-his-lawsuit-against-sam-altman-and-openai/
1000•nycdatasci•19h ago•501 comments

Two computers, one monitor, zero fiddling (2025)

https://alexplescan.com/posts/2025/08/16/kvm/
236•ankitg12•3d ago•135 comments

Peter Salus has died

https://www.tuhs.org/pipermail/tuhs/2026-May/033750.html
150•speckx•9h ago•12 comments

Alignment pretraining: AI discourse creates self-fulfilling (mis)alignment

https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.10160
64•anigbrowl•15h ago•25 comments
Open in hackernews

Kate and Python Language Server

https://akselmo.dev/posts/kate-python-lsp/
79•todsacerdoti•1y ago

Comments

josteink•1y ago
As someone who recently set up something similar in Emacs with eglot I had to ditch Python-LSP-server.

It was so incredibly slow to respond, even on a M2 Max MBP, that it lowered my productivity by orders of magnitudes (and made Emacs laggy).

Maybe I did something wrong? I don’t know.

What I do know is that I tried pyright instead as a different LSP-server for Python and I haven’t looked back.

It’s a night and day difference. It’s snappy and everything works as expected, with venvs and mypy too.

kstrauser•1y ago
I agree. I really wanted to like python-lsp-server (aka pylsp), but I felt it's kind of a mess getting everything set up and configured. Loathe as I was to configure a server running in Node to help my editor with Python code, it's far and away the best option I've found so far.

I do hope "ruff server" will do for Python LSPs what ruff did for linting and formatting.

nerdponx•1y ago
I haven't tried the Ruff server yet, but Jedi Language Server is usably fast, and does a good enough job.
kstrauser•1y ago
Jedi's very nice for refactoring and auto-completion! I get more value from linting and type checking, though, and Jedi doesn't handle those. Pairing it with something like pyright is a great combination if your editor lets you connect to multiple servers.
kristjansson•1y ago
It's not ready yet, but https://pyrefly.org/ might be a good competitor/complement in the future
tiltowait•1y ago
Looks promising! It doesn't work with my poetry environment, but I like what I see so far. Definitely something to watch.
team_pyrefly•1y ago
Hi! I'm on the team behind Pyrefly. Thanks for taking a look and raising the need for poetry support. We added a GitHub issue to track that here: https://github.com/facebook/pyrefly/issues/166
arccy•1y ago
last time i looked the people were recommending basedpyright: https://github.com/DetachHead/basedpyright
Hasnep•1y ago
I've been recommending it whenever Pylance comes up on HN or Lobsters, the docs explain how to set it up on the most popular editors: https://docs.basedpyright.com/dev/installation/ides
wormius•1y ago
Not particularly relevant to the core article, but just a dumb thought re: the LSP/LS annoyance mentioned in the intro.

I think maybe some of it stems from 'ls' the command. If I saw something called py-ls instead of py-lsp, I may think it's a python based ls command. "Name Collision" as it were.

Anyways off to read the rest of the article...

ogoffart•1y ago
I wrote a language server too, and I also went with "-lsp" naming because it's way more recognizable. "LSP" is kind of a brand. If you look at the list at https://microsoft.github.io/language-server-protocol/impleme... a lot of them are named -lsp.
dundarious•1y ago
Might not be an issue for your typical setup, but I suggest quoting your variable expansions in bash. Otherwise, spaces, etc., will lead to issues.

It would also make sense to use path after it is defined, instead of sometimes using `$1` again.

But I'm confused by `cd`ing into `$path` and then checking paths that are prefixed by `$path`... I assume that is an error, and you won't run it like `script.sh ./work/project` and expect a path like `./work/project/work/project` or `./work/project/project` to exist. Can just `cd "$1"` and be done.

Mildly surprised the .venv/venv check isn't an elif as well.

  #!/usr/bin/env bash
  cd "$1"
  if [ -d ./.venv ]; then
    source ./.venv/bin/activate
  elif [ -d ./venv ]; then
    source ./venv/bin/activate
  fi
  exec pylsp --check-parent-process