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LittleSnitch for Linux

https://obdev.at/products/littlesnitch-linux/index.html
1187•pluc•17h ago•398 comments

Meta removes ads for social media addiction litigation

https://www.axios.com/2026/04/09/meta-social-media-addiction-ads
369•giuliomagnifico•4h ago•149 comments

Doing Impressions: Monet's Early Caricatures (ca. late 1850s)

https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/claude-monet-caricatures/
18•prismatic•3d ago•1 comments

FreeBSD Laptop Compatibility: Top Laptops to Use with FreeBSD

https://freebsdfoundation.github.io/freebsd-laptop-testing/
132•fork-bomber•8h ago•79 comments

A WebGPU Implementation of Augmented Vertex Block Descent

https://github.com/jure/webphysics
82•juretriglav•5h ago•7 comments

Introduction to Nintendo DS Programming

https://www.patater.com/files/projects/manual/manual.html
136•medbar•1d ago•21 comments

Reallocating $100/Month Claude Code Spend to Zed and OpenRouter

https://braw.dev/blog/2026-04-06-reallocating-100-month-claude-spend/
156•kisamoto•8h ago•134 comments

Show HN: CSS Studio. Design by hand, code by agent

https://cssstudio.ai
95•SirHound•6h ago•72 comments

Wit, unker, Git: The lost medieval pronouns of English intimacy

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20260408-the-extinct-english-words-for-just-the-two-of-us
123•eigenspace•7h ago•66 comments

The Vercel plugin on Claude Code wants to read your prompts

https://akshaychugh.xyz/writings/png/vercel-plugin-telemetry
188•akshay2603•2h ago•53 comments

More likely than not you're using bubble wrap wrong

https://bookofjoe2.blogspot.com/2026/03/imore-likely-than-not-youre-using.html
14•surprisetalk•2d ago•8 comments

EFF is leaving X

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/04/eff-leaving-x
96•gregsadetsky•37m ago•65 comments

One Brain to Query: Wiring a 60-Person Company into a Single Slack Bot

https://merylldindin.com/thoughts/company-brain/
25•meryll_dindin•1d ago•31 comments

How Pizza Tycoon simulated traffic on a 25 MHz CPU

https://pizzalegacy.nl/blog/traffic-system.html
203•FinnKuhn•4h ago•41 comments

Launch HN: Relvy (YC F24) – On-call runbooks, automated

https://www.relvy.ai
29•behat•5h ago•16 comments

Lichess and Take Take Take Sign Cooperation Agreement

https://lichess.org/@/Lichess/blog/lichess-and-take-take-take-sign-cooperation-agreement/DZS0S0Dy
128•stevage•5h ago•29 comments

Open Source Security at Astral

https://astral.sh/blog/open-source-security-at-astral
311•vinhnx•13h ago•74 comments

Research-Driven Agents: What Happens When Your Agent Reads Before It Codes

https://blog.skypilot.co/research-driven-agents/
8•hopechong•46m ago•1 comments

Help Keep Thunderbird Alive

https://updates.thunderbird.net/en-US/thunderbird/140.0/apr26-1e/donate/
380•playfultones•10h ago•274 comments

Building a framework-agnostic Ruby gem (and making sure it doesn't break)

https://newsletter.masilotti.com/p/on-building-a-framework-agnostic
25•joemasilotti•1d ago•2 comments

Haunted Paper Toys

http://ravensblight.com/papertoys.html
199•exvi•3d ago•24 comments

Small Engines

https://scottlocklin.wordpress.com/2026/03/25/very-small-engines/
52•surprisetalk•3d ago•10 comments

Creating the Futurescape for the Fifth Element (2019)

https://theasc.com/articles/fantastic-voyage-creating-the-futurescape-for-the-fifth-element
94•nixass•8h ago•66 comments

Tree Calculus

https://treecalcul.us/
85•tosh•6d ago•19 comments

Emperor penguin and Antarctic fur seal now endangered

https://iucn.org/press-release/202604/emperor-penguin-and-antarctic-fur-seal-now-endangered-due-c...
118•darth_avocado•1h ago•29 comments

Claude mixes up who said what

https://dwyer.co.za/static/claude-mixes-up-who-said-what-and-thats-not-ok.html
342•sixhobbits•8h ago•290 comments

Session is shutting down in 90 days

https://getsession.org/donate
102•balamatom•4h ago•118 comments

The Importance of Being Idle

https://theamericanscholar.org/the-importance-of-being-idle/
281•Caiero•2d ago•173 comments

USB for Software Developers: An introduction to writing userspace USB drivers

https://werwolv.net/posts/usb_for_sw_devs/
383•WerWolv•22h ago•46 comments

C# in Unity 2026: Writing more modern code

https://darkounity.com/blog/c-in-unity-2026-features-most-developers-still-dont-use
65•hacker_13•3d ago•73 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