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Alberta startup sells no-tech tractors for half price

https://wheelfront.com/this-alberta-startup-sells-no-tech-tractors-for-half-price/
1068•Kaibeezy•6h ago•371 comments

Apple fixes bug that cops used to extract deleted chat messages from iPhones

https://techcrunch.com/2026/04/22/apple-fixes-bug-that-cops-used-to-extract-deleted-chat-messages...
184•cdrnsf•2h ago•59 comments

We found a stable Firefox identifier linking all your private Tor identities

https://fingerprint.com/blog/firefox-tor-indexeddb-privacy-vulnerability/
287•danpinto•5h ago•77 comments

Over-editing refers to a model modifying code beyond what is necessary

https://nrehiew.github.io/blog/minimal_editing/
253•pella•4h ago•135 comments

Qwen3.6-27B: Flagship-Level Coding in a 27B Dense Model

https://qwen.ai/blog?id=qwen3.6-27b
582•mfiguiere•9h ago•289 comments

5x5 Pixel font for tiny screens

https://maurycyz.com/projects/mcufont/
334•zdw•3d ago•88 comments

Windows 9x Subsystem for Linux

https://social.hails.org/@hailey/116446826733136456
843•sohkamyung•12h ago•198 comments

The Illuminated Man: an unconventional portrait of JG Ballard

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2026/apr/20/the-illuminated-man-by-christopher-priest-and-nina-...
35•agronaut•2h ago•11 comments

Website streamed live directly from a model

https://flipbook.page/
79•sethbannon•4h ago•36 comments

Technical, cognitive, and intent debt

https://martinfowler.com/fragments/2026-04-02.html
159•theorchid•6h ago•30 comments

The Neon King of New Orleans

https://gardenandgun.com/new-orleans-neon-king
15•renameme•1h ago•1 comments

Scoring Show HN submissions for AI design patterns

https://www.adriankrebs.ch/blog/design-slop/
253•hubraumhugo•7h ago•190 comments

Our eighth generation TPUs: two chips for the agentic era

https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/infrastructure-and-cloud/google-cloud/eighth-generation-tpu...
366•xnx•10h ago•178 comments

3.4M Solar Panels

https://tech.marksblogg.com/american-solar-farms-v2.html
267•marklit•10h ago•206 comments

Parallel agents in Zed

https://zed.dev/blog/parallel-agents
123•ajeetdsouza•5h ago•71 comments

Books are not too expensive

https://www.millersbookreview.com/p/no-books-are-not-remotely-too-expensive
11•herbertl•2d ago•4 comments

The great Scouse pasty war

https://www.livpost.co.uk/the-great-scouse-pasty-war/
29•DamonHD•2d ago•6 comments

Workspace Agents in ChatGPT

https://openai.com/index/introducing-workspace-agents-in-chatgpt/
76•mfiguiere•4h ago•27 comments

Surveillance Pricing: Exploiting Information Asymmetries

https://lpeproject.org/blog/surveillance-pricing-exploiting-information-asymmetries/
81•cainxinth•5h ago•33 comments

Ultraviolet corona discharges on treetops during storms

https://www.psu.edu/news/earth-and-mineral-sciences/story/treetops-glowing-during-storms-captured...
179•t-3•9h ago•52 comments

Bodega cats of New York

https://bodegacatsofnewyork.com
132•zdw•4d ago•52 comments

What killed the Florida orange?

https://slate.com/business/2026/04/florida-state-orange-food-houses-real-estate.html
85•danso•2d ago•79 comments

GitHub CLI now collects pseudoanonymous telemetry

https://cli.github.com/telemetry
374•ingve•10h ago•284 comments

Another Day Has Come

https://daringfireball.net/2026/04/another_day_has_come
167•ndr42•1d ago•135 comments

You don't need advice from editors on rejected manuscripts

https://twitter.com/orsonscottcard/status/2046702294406680751
80•MrBuddyCasino•14h ago•52 comments

Show HN: Broccoli, one shot coding agent on the cloud

https://github.com/besimple-oss/broccoli
42•yzhong94•6h ago•33 comments

Anonymous credentials: an illustrated primer (Part 2)

https://blog.cryptographyengineering.com/2026/04/17/anonymous-credentials-an-illustrated-primer-p...
21•kkl•2d ago•0 comments

A Vompeccc Case Study: Spotify as Pure ICR in Emacs

https://www.chiply.dev/post-vompeccc-spot
8•chiply•1d ago•3 comments

Columnar Storage Is Normalization

https://buttondown.com/jaffray/archive/columnar-storage-is-normalization/
92•ibobev•10h ago•35 comments

How does GPS work?

https://perthirtysix.com/how-the-heck-does-gps-work
211•alfanick•13h ago•48 comments
Open in hackernews

Kate and Python Language Server

https://akselmo.dev/posts/kate-python-lsp/
79•todsacerdoti•11mo ago

Comments

josteink•11mo 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•11mo 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•11mo ago
I haven't tried the Ruff server yet, but Jedi Language Server is usably fast, and does a good enough job.
kstrauser•11mo 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•11mo ago
It's not ready yet, but https://pyrefly.org/ might be a good competitor/complement in the future
tiltowait•11mo 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•11mo 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•11mo ago
last time i looked the people were recommending basedpyright: https://github.com/DetachHead/basedpyright
Hasnep•11mo 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•11mo 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•11mo 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•11mo 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