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SimCity, but with Permits

https://permit.petercai.com/
566•pcai•7h ago•289 comments

Feds suspect ransom negotiator ran ShinyHunters extortion site

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2026/10/feds-suspect-ransom-negotiator-ran-shinyhunters-extortion-site/
96•Bender•3h ago•32 comments

Voxtral 3

https://mistral.ai/news/voxtral-3/
530•ilreb•9h ago•142 comments

Google open-sources TorchTPU, a native PyTorch back end for TPUs

https://github.com/google-pytorch/torch_tpu
264•ilreb•9h ago•64 comments

The Other Epidemic: Trying to get off benzodiazepines

https://www.thebeliever.net/the-other-epidemic/
59•gaplong•2h ago•41 comments

Academics have a duty to defend open knowledge systems like Wikipedia

https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsocialsciences/2026/10/19/academics-have-a-duty-to-defend-open-kn...
132•jruohonen•6h ago•69 comments

What shall I teach my son?

https://stevekrouse.com/ends
267•Curiositry•8h ago•328 comments

SlopCodeBench 10/2026 – Opus 5.5, Astra wins overall, xhigh considered harmful

https://github.com/humanlayer/advanced-context-engineering-for-coding-agents/blob/main/benchmarki...
168•dhorthy•5d ago•75 comments

Good type against all odds

https://unsung.aresluna.org/good-type-against-all-odds/
5•firloop•5m ago•0 comments

Apple broke an essential presentation feature of iPads

https://teddysvoronos.com/2026-10-19-apple-broke-an-essential-presentation-feature-of-ipads/
496•evanb•13h ago•249 comments

Sixteen Years After Deepwater Horizon, Deep Sea Life Shows Few Signs of Recovery

https://e360.yale.edu/digest/deepwater-horizon-deep-sea-recovery
195•speckx•9h ago•115 comments

EMudhra Intermediate CA Compromise

https://emudhra.we-have-a-problem.com/
644•galadran•11h ago•339 comments

Ofcom concedes defeat in 4chan case

https://prestonbyrne.com/2026/10/20/ofcom-concedes-defeat/
331•iamnothere•11h ago•253 comments

DeepInfer: High-performance inference framework for DeepSeek models

https://github.com/deepseek-ai/DeepInfer
2139•ggcr•16h ago•834 comments

Benchmarking Bot Detection Systems Against Modern AI Agents in 2026

https://research.poh.org/bot-benchmarking-2026/
28•mdahardy•8h ago•0 comments

Tsrs: A Port of TypeScript to Rust

https://blog.cloudflare.com/typescript-rust-port/
344•hnisjafx40•12h ago•169 comments

Making Solar Panels with a Microwave [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zcWkApGjyGM
39•jackdoe•2d ago•5 comments

Google Cloud outage affects almost all banking and other operations in Europe

https://www.neowin.net/news/google-cloud-outage-takes-down-hsbc-revolut-bank-of-scotland-llyods-e...
339•paweladamczuk•15h ago•169 comments

Show HN: Dovepass – can I legally fly a drone along this exact path in SF?

https://dovepass.com
15•nimitmehra•1d ago•2 comments

How I got over 300 Tor exit nodes removed

https://kaba.cx/posts/20261020_Tor/
321•kabakabakaba•12h ago•77 comments

Shipping a LaTeX Compiler Behind an Edge App

https://bhargav.dev/writing/shipping-a-latex-compiler-behind-an-edge-app
8•brgv•1d ago•4 comments

Meta's GB{2,3}00 Cluster

https://engineering.fb.com/2026/10/19/data-center-engineering/inside-prometheus-meta-gigawatt-sca...
62•stokedmartin•1d ago•25 comments

IKEA – 3D Guide

https://sael.net/flatpack/
142•punnerud•10h ago•51 comments

Upcoming Critical PHP Security Release

https://news-web.php.net/php.announce/509
52•xd•5h ago•4 comments

What the heck is /pkg?

https://anderegg.ca/2026/10/18/what-the-heck-is-pkg
59•GavinAnderegg•2d ago•16 comments

Launch HN: Respan (YC W24) – Open-source Rust AI gateway built around plugins

45•Andydy25•10h ago•18 comments

My Friend Bob Cringely

https://tyma.com/my-cringe-story/
171•zinxq•11h ago•47 comments

JAXA is about to perform a Phobos sample return mission

https://www.science.org/content/article/audacious-space-heist-japan-aims-bring-home-bits-martian-...
96•Muhammad523•2d ago•19 comments

2026 is an exciting year for the Rust compiler (and me)

https://yoyo-code.com/2026-is-exciting-year-for-rust-compiler-and-me/
167•panstromek•11h ago•83 comments

'Der Viener Schlinger': The meat cannon that launched 20k hot dogs

https://flatwaterfreepress.org/der-viener-schlinger-the-meat-cannon-that-launched-20000-hot-dogs/
91•NaOH•2d ago•53 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