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Space Cadet Pinball on Linux

https://brennan.io/2026/05/09/pinball-and-escrow/
83•jandeboevrie•1h ago•22 comments

I returned to AWS, and was reminded why I left

http://fourlightyears.blogspot.com/2026/05/i-returned-to-aws-and-was-reminded-hard.html
86•andrewstuart•1d ago•39 comments

Idempotency Is Easy Until the Second Request Is Different

https://blog.dochia.dev/blog/idempotency/
139•ludovicianul•3d ago•63 comments

Bun's experimental Rust rewrite hits 99.8% test compatibility on Linux x64 glibc

https://twitter.com/jarredsumner/status/2053047748191232310
616•heldrida•1d ago•588 comments

The One Dollar Counterfeiter

https://www.amusingplanet.com/2026/05/emerich-juettner-one-dollar.html
197•cainxinth•3d ago•72 comments

Show HN: Building a web server in assembly to give my life (a lack of) meaning

https://github.com/imtomt/ymawky
324•imtomt•10h ago•153 comments

Casio S100X Japanese Lacquer Edition (JP Page Only)

https://www.casio.com/jp/basic-calculators/premium/en-s100x-jc1-u/
183•dr_kiszonka•3d ago•80 comments

9 Mothers (YC P26) Is Hiring

https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/9-mothers?utm_source=x8pZ4B3P3Q
1•ukd1•1h ago

We see something that works, and then we understand it

https://lemire.me/blog/2025/12/04/we-see-something-that-works-and-then-we-understand-it/
134•surprisetalk•3d ago•48 comments

Internet Archive Switzerland

https://blog.archive.org/2026/05/06/internet-archive-switzerland-expanding-a-global-mission-to-pr...
639•hggh•1d ago•105 comments

Gemini API File Search is now multimodal

https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/technology/developers-tools/expanded-gemini-api-file-search...
121•gmays•9h ago•21 comments

Task Paralysis and AI

https://g5t.de/articles/20260510-task-paralysis-and-ai/index.html
56•MrGilbert•6h ago•42 comments

What's a Mathematician to Do?

https://mathoverflow.net/questions/43690/whats-a-mathematician-to-do
6•ipnon•1h ago•0 comments

Think Linear Algebra (2023)

https://allendowney.github.io/ThinkLinearAlgebra/index.html
17•tamnd•3h ago•0 comments

I’ve banned query strings

https://chrismorgan.info/no-query-strings
457•susam•20h ago•238 comments

Replacing a 3 GB SQLite db with a 10 MB FST (finite state transducer) binary

https://til.andrew-quinn.me/posts/replacing-a-3-gb-sqlite-database-with-a-7-mb-fst-finite-state-t...
55•hiAndrewQuinn•2h ago•7 comments

Debian must ship reproducible packages

https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2026/05/msg00001.html
230•robalni•7h ago•83 comments

Distributing Mac software is increasing my cortisol levels

https://blog.kronis.dev/blog/apple-is-increasing-my-cortisol-levels
330•LorenDB•22h ago•230 comments

A recent experience with ChatGPT 5.5 Pro

https://gowers.wordpress.com/2026/05/08/a-recent-experience-with-chatgpt-5-5-pro/
653•_alternator_•1d ago•476 comments

Local privilege escalation via execve()

https://www.freebsd.org/security/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-26:13.exec.asc
174•Deeg9rie9usi•16h ago•82 comments

The River Otter's Remarkable Comeback

https://www.rewildingmag.com/the-river-otters-remarkable-comeback/
4•surprisetalk•2d ago•0 comments

Zed Editor Theme-Builder

https://zed.dev/theme-builder
245•cuechan•19h ago•72 comments

LLMs corrupt your documents when you delegate

https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.15597
433•rbanffy•1d ago•171 comments

Show HN: I made a Clojure-like language in Go, boots in 7ms

https://github.com/nooga/let-go
197•marcingas•19h ago•55 comments

From Buffon's Needle to Buffon's Noodle

https://mbmccoy.dev/posts/buffons-noodle/
11•_alternator_•2d ago•2 comments

I'm writing a history of Visual Basic, Chapter 1 is up

https://evilgeniuslabs.ca/blog/visual-basic-history-chapter-1-launch
123•speckx•3d ago•45 comments

Making your own programming language is easier than you think (but also harder)

https://lisyarus.github.io/blog/posts/making-your-own-programming-language.html
115•ibobev•3d ago•58 comments

LLMorphism: When humans come to see themselves as language models

https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.05419
33•okey•4h ago•14 comments

Show HN: Rust but Lisp

https://github.com/ThatXliner/rust-but-lisp
152•thatxliner•15h ago•68 comments

The hypocrisy of cyberlibertarianism

https://matduggan.com/the-intolerable-hypocrisy-of-cyberlibertarianism/
360•ColinWright•23h ago•319 comments
Open in hackernews

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