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Sabotaging projects by overthinking, scope creep, and structural diffing

https://kevinlynagh.com/newsletter/2026_04_overthinking/
263•alcazar•4h ago•64 comments

OpenAI releases GPT-5.5 and GPT-5.5 Pro in the API

https://developers.openai.com/api/docs/changelog
44•arabicalories•1h ago•14 comments

SDL Now Supports DOS

https://github.com/libsdl-org/SDL/pull/15377
132•Jayschwa•3h ago•52 comments

SFO Quiet Airport (2025)

https://viewfromthewing.com/san-francisco-airport-removed-90-minutes-of-daily-noise-travelers-say...
32•CaliforniaKarl•54m ago•13 comments

I Cancelled Claude: Token Issues, Declining Quality, and Poor Support

https://nickyreinert.de/en/2026/2026-04-24-claude-critics/
499•y42•3h ago•291 comments

DeepSeek v4

https://api-docs.deepseek.com/
1672•impact_sy•16h ago•1300 comments

CSS as a Query Language

https://evdc.me/blog/css-query
22•evnc•1h ago•7 comments

How to be anti-social – a guide to incoherent and isolating social experiences

https://nate.leaflet.pub/3mk4xkaxobc2p
221•calcifer•8h ago•219 comments

Different Language Models Learn Similar Number Representations

https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.20817
69•Anon84•4h ago•27 comments

I'm done making desktop applications (2009)

https://www.kalzumeus.com/2009/09/05/desktop-aps-versus-web-apps/
101•claxo•3h ago•99 comments

Spinel: Ruby AOT Native Compiler

https://github.com/matz/spinel
264•dluan•10h ago•77 comments

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

https://gigazine.net/gsc_news/en/20260424-filco-diatec/
25•gslin•3h ago•6 comments

Physicists revive 1990s laser concept to propose a next-generation atomic clock

https://phys.org/news/2026-04-physicists-revive-1990s-laser-concept.html
36•wglb•18h ago•5 comments

Show HN: Browser Harness – Gives LLM freedom to complete any browser task

https://github.com/browser-use/browser-harness
43•gregpr07•4h ago•20 comments

CC-Canary: Detect early signs of regressions in Claude Code

https://github.com/delta-hq/cc-canary
8•tejpalv•1h ago•1 comments

Redesigning the Recurse Center application to inspire curious programmers

https://www.recurse.com/blog/192-redesigning-the-recurse-center-application
30•nicholasjbs•2h ago•4 comments

US special forces soldier arrested after allegedly winning $400k on Maduro raid

https://www.cnn.com/2026/04/23/politics/us-special-forces-soldier-arrested-maduro-raid-trade
605•nkrisc•21h ago•645 comments

The operating cost of adult and gambling startups

https://orchidfiles.com/stigma-is-a-tax-on-every-operational-decision/
80•theorchid•6h ago•120 comments

Mounting tar archives as a filesystem in WebAssembly

https://jeroen.github.io/notes/webassembly-tar/
99•datajeroen•9h ago•32 comments

Machine Learning Reveals Unknown Transient Phenomena in Historic Images

https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.18799
40•solarist•5h ago•28 comments

Hear your agent suffer through your code

https://github.com/AndrewVos/endless-toil
155•AndrewVos•8h ago•76 comments

Tariffs Raised Consumers' Prices, but the Refunds Go Only to Businesses

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/24/us/politics/companies-consumers-tariff-refunds.html
42•duxup•2h ago•14 comments

Norway Set to Become Latest Country to Ban Social Media for Under 16s

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-04-24/norway-wants-kids-to-be-kids-with-social-media...
307•1vuio0pswjnm7•4h ago•306 comments

An update on recent Claude Code quality reports

https://www.anthropic.com/engineering/april-23-postmortem
892•mfiguiere•1d ago•669 comments

Bitwarden CLI compromised in ongoing Checkmarx supply chain campaign

https://socket.dev/blog/bitwarden-cli-compromised
841•tosh•1d ago•409 comments

LLM research on Hacker News is drying up

https://dylancastillo.co/til/llm-research-on-hacker-news-is-dying.html
6•dcastm•1h ago•0 comments

Tesla (TSLA) discloses $2B AI hardware company acquisition buried

https://electrek.co/2026/04/23/tesla-tsla-quietly-discloses-2-billion-ai-hardware-acquisition-10q/
51•Bender•2h ago•33 comments

GPT-5.5

https://openai.com/index/introducing-gpt-5-5/
1504•rd•1d ago•1004 comments

Why I Write (1946)

https://www.orwellfoundation.com/the-orwell-foundation/orwell/essays-and-other-works/why-i-write/
251•RyanShook•16h ago•67 comments

Refuse to let your doctor record you

https://buttondown.com/maiht3k/archive/why-you-should-refuse-to-let-your-doctor-record/
108•speckx•3h ago•116 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