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Google plans to invest up to $40B in Anthropic

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-04-24/google-plans-to-invest-up-to-40-billion-in-ant...
522•elffjs•15h ago•510 comments

New 10 GbE USB adapters are cooler, smaller, cheaper

https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2026/new-10-gbe-usb-adapters-cooler-smaller-cheaper/
27•calcifer•1h ago•4 comments

A 3D Body from Eight Questions – No Photo, No GPU

https://clad.you/blog/posts/questionnaire-mlp/
33•arkadiuss•2d ago•6 comments

Paraloid B-72

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paraloid_B-72
151•Ariarule•3d ago•23 comments

Humpback whales are forming super-groups

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20260416-the-humpback-super-groups-swarming-the-seas
85•andsoitis•3d ago•40 comments

Turbo Vision 2.0 – a modern port

https://github.com/magiblot/tvision
87•andsoitis•3h ago•15 comments

My audio interface has SSH enabled by default

https://hhh.hn/rodecaster-duo-fw/
223•hhh•11h ago•73 comments

Replace IBM Quantum back end with /dev/urandom

https://github.com/yuvadm/quantumslop/blob/25ad2e76ae58baa96f6219742459407db9dd17f5/URANDOM_DEMO.md
123•pigeons•6h ago•16 comments

"Plain text has been around for decades and it's here to stay." – Unsung

https://unsung.aresluna.org/plain-text-has-been-around-for-decades-and-its-here-to-stay/
63•rbanffy•6h ago•9 comments

Sabotaging projects by overthinking, scope creep, and structural diffing

https://kevinlynagh.com/newsletter/2026_04_overthinking/
409•alcazar•16h ago•105 comments

Iliad fragment found in Roman-era mummy

https://www.thehistoryblog.com/archives/75877
159•wise_blood•2d ago•47 comments

(Blender) Cosmology with Geometry Nodes

https://www.blender.org/user-stories/cosmology-with-geometry-nodes/
41•shankysingh•6h ago•1 comments

The Classic American Diner

https://blogs.loc.gov/picturethis/2026/04/the-classic-american-diner/
204•NaOH•12h ago•123 comments

Education must go beyond the mere production of words

https://www.ncregister.com/commentaries/schnell-repairing-the-ruins
51•signor_bosco•7h ago•15 comments

There Will Be a Scientific Theory of Deep Learning

https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.21691
204•jamie-simon•13h ago•80 comments

Firefox Has Integrated Brave's Adblock Engine

https://itsfoss.com/news/firefox-ships-brave-adblock-engine/
168•nreece•5h ago•74 comments

A disabled kea parrot is the alpha male of his circus

https://www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822(26)00259-9
27•zdw•2d ago•8 comments

Work with the garage door up (2024)

https://notes.andymatuschak.org/Work_with_the_garage_door_up
152•jxmorris12•3d ago•112 comments

MacBook Neo and how the iPad should be

https://craigmod.com/essays/ipad_neo/
253•jen729w•2d ago•140 comments

Email could have been X.400 times better

https://buttondown.com/blog/x400-vs-smtp-email
165•maguay•1d ago•148 comments

PCR Is a (Surprisingly) Near-Optimal Technology

https://nikomc.com/2026/04/22/pcr/
4•mailyk•2d ago•0 comments

Show HN: I've built a nice home server OS

https://lightwhale.asklandd.dk/
106•Zta77•9h ago•44 comments

DeepSeek v4

https://api-docs.deepseek.com/news/news260424
1880•impact_sy•1d ago•1465 comments

Reverse-engineering infrared-based electronic shelf labels

https://www.furrtek.org/?a=esl
20•pabs3•3d ago•2 comments

You don't want long-lived keys

https://argemma.com/blog/long-lived-keys/
49•kkl•3d ago•31 comments

ENIAC's Architects Wove Stories Through Computing

https://spectrum.ieee.org/eniac-80th-anniversary-weaving
7•sohkamyung•3d ago•0 comments

Open source memory layer so any AI agent can do what Claude.ai and ChatGPT do

https://alash3al.github.io/stash?_v01
19•alash3al•5h ago•3 comments

The mail sent to a video game publisher

https://www.gamefile.news/p/panic-mail-arco-despelote-time-flies-thank-goodness-teeth
15•colinprince•3d ago•0 comments

Diatec, known for its mechanical keyboard brand FILCO, has ceased operations

https://gigazine.net/gsc_news/en/20260424-filco-diatec/
113•gslin•15h ago•41 comments

Oxford All Souls College General Examination (2025) [pdf]

https://www.asc.ox.ac.uk/sites/default/files/2025-10/General%202025.pdf
42•gregsadetsky•2h ago•28 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