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Breaking Up with Google Play: Why Conversations Is Now Free

https://gultsch.de/posts/breaking-up-with-google-play/
411•ezst•5h ago•158 comments

Fifteen years later, the Apple Cards origin story

https://lexontech.org/fifteen-years-later-the-apple-cards-origin-story
198•ksec•7h ago•29 comments

Plunging test scores are a slow-moving catastrophe

https://www.economist.com/leaders/2026/09/10/plunging-test-scores-are-a-slow-moving-catastrophe
51•vinni2•57m ago•60 comments

PipePipe: NewPipe hard fork implementing SponsorBlock

https://github.com/InfinityLoop1308/PipePipe
26•Qision•1d ago•22 comments

Show HN: A Claude Code skill to analyze your chess games

https://github.com/brumar/chess-postmortem-skills
12•brumar•46m ago•2 comments

Modern Object Pascal Introduction for Programmers – Castle Game Engine

https://castle-engine.io/modern_pascal
59•birdculture•2d ago•21 comments

Revealing the details of how OpenAI agents hacked Hugging Face

https://swarmtraces.org/
609•specked-citrus•19h ago•390 comments

Reflections on 1,000 Days of Math

https://gmays.com/reflections-on-1000-days-of-math/
21•gmays•3d ago•3 comments

Analyzing Frontier Model Progress with My Favourite Game: Prince of Persia

https://blog.priyan.in/2026/09/analyzing-frontier-model-progress-with.html
18•msephton•19h ago•13 comments

We're gonna need a lot more mathematicians

https://terrytao.wordpress.com/2026/09/24/were-gonna-need-a-lot-more-mathematicians/
253•srcreigh•13h ago•353 comments

Plan mode is dead

https://www.aymannadeem.com/artificial/intelligence,/developer/tools/2026/09/24/plan-mode-is-dead...
461•jmvldz•1d ago•408 comments

Floci: Locally emulating any cloud service

https://floci.io
100•theanonymousone•7h ago•19 comments

Ollaya – Ollama for open-source, Jev-style decision models

https://ollaya.dev/
534•Ardakilic•21h ago•131 comments

New Satellite Engine Could Use Earth's Atmosphere to Stay in Orbit Indefinitely

https://scitechdaily.com/new-satellite-engine-could-use-earths-atmosphere-as-fuel-to-stay-in-orbi...
14•GordonS•1h ago•1 comments

Automattic has a new board after failed attempt to put CEO on leave

https://techcrunch.com/2026/09/25/automattic-has-a-new-board-after-failed-attempt-to-put-ceo-on-l...
13•ilamont•40m ago•10 comments

16GB iPod Nano 3G Upgrade

https://tuckerosman.com/projects/16gb-ipod-nano
93•Ivoah•2d ago•10 comments

Is your Postgres migration safe or not safe?

https://safenotsafe.dev/
92•vira28•8h ago•29 comments

Parsing Expression Grammar vs. Regexes: Building Org Parser in Lisp, Export HTML

https://jointhefreeworld.org/blog/articles/lisps/parsing-expression-grammar-lisp-org-convert-to-h...
63•jjba23•2d ago•13 comments

A single function Jev-like wrapper for LLMs, including vision models

http://allanrbo.blogspot.com/2026/09/a-jev-like-wrapper-for-llms-including.html
114•allanrbo•12h ago•33 comments

Show HN: Jev Plays Pokémon Red

https://jev-pokemon.vercel.app/
231•pancomplex•1d ago•94 comments

What even is an OS now?

https://sockpuppet.org/blog/2026/09/25/what-even-is-an-os-now/
250•fratellobigio•18h ago•370 comments

Calculating atmospheric drag on satellites for a Cubesat [pdf]

https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1124870
23•walrus01•2d ago•7 comments

Ask HN: Who's still keeping a DOS machine up because the business depends on it?

191•mlaux•20h ago•195 comments

Gravity seems holographic. What does that mean for reality?

https://www.quantamagazine.org/gravity-seems-holographic-what-does-that-mean-for-reality-20260925/
252•ibobev•1d ago•194 comments

The Murky History of Soviet-Born Tetris

https://thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/the-bizarre-murky-history-of-soviet-born-tetris/
76•EA-3167•1d ago•18 comments

Jury finds Facebook liable for deceiving users in Cambridge Analytica case

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/facebook-liable-deceiving-users-cambridge-analytica/
334•pseudolus•14h ago•90 comments

Scientists build most accurate atomic clock

https://phys.org/news/2026-09-scientists-world-accurate-atomic-clock.html
40•wglb•2d ago•20 comments

ASML currently sells no chipmaking machines in Europe, executive says

https://nltimes.nl/2026/09/22/asml-currently-sells-chipmaking-machines-europe-executive-says
104•doener•2d ago•113 comments

The Copilot+ PC brand is dead

https://www.windowscentral.com/microsoft/windows-11/the-copilot-pc-brand-is-dead-microsoft-and-pc...
76•bj-rn•6h ago•39 comments

From Thin Air to Bootable Images: The Tine Build System

https://amutable.com/blog/tine-build-system
29•Levitating•2d ago•12 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