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AI fuels more than half of cybercrime in Africa as digital scams surge, interpol

https://www.africanews.com/2026/08/04/ai-fuels-more-than-half-of-cybercrime-in-africa-as-digital-...
50•bookofjoe•52m ago•18 comments

Gwern reties from fulltime writing to launch Guardian Angel Inc

https://twitter.com/i/status/2084739205071343837
26•mattsterett•2h ago•10 comments

Mistral's Shieldstral: 3B open-weights model for multimodal moderation

https://mistral.ai/news/shieldstral/
260•riadsila•6h ago•63 comments

Security Incident INC-2026-07-28-01 – UK AI Security Institute [pdf]

https://cdn.prod.website-files.com/663bd486c5e4c81588db7a1d/6a724858f7db25c81487016d_Security%20I...
46•_pdp_•1h ago•39 comments

Show HN: Simple algorithm and color space to generate diverse skin tones

https://toneyalexander.github.io/inclusive-color-space/
432•automatoney•7h ago•85 comments

In Memory of My Wife, Elise Cawley, with Thanks for 36 Wonderful Years

https://writings.stephenwolfram.com/2026/08/in-memory-of-my-wife-elise-cawley-1961-2026-with-than...
671•jdcampolargo•4h ago•41 comments

Waymo in Dallas

https://waymo.com/blog/shorts/dallas-open-to-all/
202•xnx•4h ago•234 comments

Third-party cyber evaluations involving OpenAI models

https://openai.com/index/third-party-cyber-evaluations-involving-openai-models/
23•glub•1h ago•2 comments

DuckDB – Data power tools for your laptop, now in Clojure (2023)

https://techascent.com/blog/just-ducking-around.html
7•sourdecor•44m ago•0 comments

Thanks FedEx, This Is Why We Keep Getting Phished (2024)

https://www.troyhunt.com/thanks-fedex-this-is-why-we-keep-getting-phished/
160•stymaar•1h ago•31 comments

Oxide Computer raises $445M (SEC Form D)

https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1795071/000179507126000002/xslFormDX01/primary_doc.xml
132•depr•2h ago•49 comments

DeepSeek V4 Flash on a Single AMD MI300X

https://github.com/ryanzhou/deepseek-v4-flash-mi300x
357•zhoutong•12h ago•87 comments

Don't stop early: Case-folding source code at memory speed

https://github.blog/engineering/architecture-optimization/dont-stop-early-case-folding-source-cod...
37•sbulaev•4d ago•7 comments

Video2NAND – Abusing video codecs for great computational power

https://sharedobject.blog/posts/vp8-combinatorial-logic/
10•firer•2d ago•0 comments

Hop.earth – OpenStreetMap based car racing game

https://hop.earth/?server=lkhr7&route=fQ5nuu9R
72•faebi•4h ago•37 comments

Show HN: Maple-Preview – ternary 20B MoE running at 120 tok/s on a iPhone

https://deepgrove.ai/maple-preview
9•edwardbzhang•3h ago•4 comments

Most tech revolutions made work worse for employees

https://www.thisandthat.chat/blog/most-tech-revolutions-made-work-worse-for-employees/
69•jreynar•7h ago•31 comments

Truemetrics (YC S23) Is Hiring in Berlin – GTM Lead

https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/truemetrics/jobs/bIQQ7tP-founding-gtm-lead
1•truemetricsIngo•5h ago

When AI Benchmarks Plateau: A Systematic Study of Benchmark Saturation

https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.16763
68•doppp•6h ago•74 comments

Keyv and friends compromised in active Shai-Hulud supply chain attack

https://www.aikido.dev/blog/keyv-and-friends-compromised-in-npm-supply-chain-attack
223•cimi_•11h ago•110 comments

Launch HN: EdotEnv (YC S26) – Quant Trading RL Envs to Teach LLMs Research

https://edotenv.com/
26•Mzzzzz•4h ago•19 comments

Why some people mow a lawn better than others

https://pudding.cool/2026/06/mow/
152•carlos-menezes•4h ago•136 comments

The Sound of Inevitability

https://www.panoptica.com/the-sound-of-inevitability/
6•WaitWaitWha•4h ago•3 comments

Xbox goes down. You can't play games you own on disc

https://birchtree.me/blog/xbox-goes-down-you-cant-play-games-you-own-on-disc/
550•surprisetalk•10h ago•595 comments

Apple says more ex-employees may have taken confidential data to OpenAI

https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/04/apple-says-more-ex-employees-may-have-taken-confidential-data-t...
312•thewebguyd•7h ago•238 comments

The Warp Agent CLI

https://www.warp.dev/blog/introducing-the-warp-agent-cli-coding-agent
90•emschwartz•5h ago•54 comments

Blackmail Fail (2013)

https://gwern.net/blackmail
30•simonebrunozzi•4h ago•2 comments

There Will Come Soft Rains (1950) [pdf]

https://users.wpi.edu/~zrbutzke/Docs/BradburyStories(1).pdf
338•pmg101•23h ago•372 comments

Harness engineering for self-improvement

https://lilianweng.github.io/posts/2026-07-04-harness/
292•tosh•16h ago•65 comments

Everything I Know (1975)

https://www.bfi.org/about-fuller/everything-i-know/
126•simonebrunozzi•11h ago•31 comments
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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