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Creepy Crawlies

https://people.kernel.org/monsieuricon/creepy-crawlies
751•zdw•1d ago•353 comments

Cores in space: The core memory module from a 1980 Spacelab computer

https://www.righto.com/2026/08/spacelab-core-memory.html
38•pwg•2h ago•7 comments

Haiku R1/beta6 has been released

https://www.haiku-os.org/news/2026-08-26_haiku_r1_beta6
207•metrofun•6h ago•58 comments

NFC Energy-Harvesting PCB Business Card with an MCU

https://wilsonharper.net/projects/businesscard/
48•WilsonHarper•2d ago•3 comments

Continuous Diffusion Language Models (CDLM's)

https://sander.ai/2026/08/24/continuous-dlms.html
16•peter_d_sherman•1h ago•2 comments

Why open source rocks – a new SM750 (Silicon Motion GPU) HDMI Driver

https://github.com/KodeMunkie/sm750hdmifb
48•SillyUsername•3h ago•23 comments

Sort branches by last commit date

https://ryangreenberg.com/til/git-branches-by-commit-date/
44•speckx•5d ago•12 comments

Coordination Headwind: How Organizations Are Like Slime Molds

https://komoroske.com/slime-mold/
107•rzk•6h ago•38 comments

Hacking IKEA Furniture

https://greenlightning.eu/diy/hacking-ikea-furniture/
237•greenlightning•10h ago•146 comments

METR and Redwood Offer Holy %^ Postmortem of the HuggingFace Hack

https://thezvi.wordpress.com/2026/08/29/metr-and-redwood-offer-holy-postmortem-of-the-huggingface...
182•catbird•7h ago•118 comments

Zig: Pointer Stability for ArrayLists

https://ziglang.org/devlog/2026/#2026-08-27
69•tosh•7h ago•29 comments

Dad’s Custom Atari Peripherals

https://www.goto10retro.com/p/dads-custom-atari-peripherals
75•rbanffy•3d ago•9 comments

Arbitrary code execution in QubesOS via copy-to-VM error reporting backchannel

https://www.qubes-os.org/news/2026/08/29/qsb-118/
189•vntok•13h ago•77 comments

Storm Summoner, a MIDI controller for effects pedals

https://kabaragoya.com/products/storm-summoner
21•peteforde•3d ago•8 comments

European Commission Revives Push for Encryption Backdoors in ProtectEU Strategy

https://reclaimthenet.org/eu-protecteu-strategy-encryption-backdoor-law-enforcement
298•nickslaughter02•6h ago•120 comments

Artie (YC S23) Is Hiring Technical AES

https://www.artie.com/careers?ashby_jid=e87b84d2-78b3-41a3-937a-47e83643cdf1
1•j-cheong•5h ago

Omarchy: Any User Process Can Escalate to Root

https://0xcc.io/posts/omarchy-root-creds/
324•trap0xcc•6h ago•317 comments

Electric rain can eat through metal

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/electric-rain-can-eat-through-metal/
77•sohkamyung•3d ago•15 comments

Longest Straight Line Paths on Water or Land on the Earth (2018)

https://arxiv.org/abs/1804.07389
182•joebig•13h ago•55 comments

Synchronisation and SMPTE timecode (time code)

https://www.philrees.co.uk/articles/timecode.htm
23•sublinear•2d ago•5 comments

Casey Muratori – The Root of the Root of All Evil – BSC 2026 [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hpj6r6CjJf8
277•surprisetalk•3d ago•144 comments

Startup Anti-Patterns

https://www.itamarnovick.com/intro-to-startup-anti-pattern-series/
24•rzk•6h ago•6 comments

Quest for the Eternal Dock – Lambdock

https://jointhefreeworld.org/blog/articles/gnu-linux/quest-for-eternal-dock/index.html
4•signa11•1d ago•0 comments

Europe's summer drought is so extreme that desertification is a growing threat

https://fortune.com/2026/08/29/europe-summer-drought-desertification-threat-rivers-fish/
215•Brajeshwar•7h ago•243 comments

What my dad taught me about AI coding in the 90s

https://askmike.org/articles/ai-coding-lessons-in-the-90s-from-my-dad/
118•askmike•6d ago•62 comments

Automating Immersive Reading

https://smoores.dev/post/automating_immersive_reading/
80•smoores•10h ago•29 comments

An implementation of Conway's Game of Life for Windows 3.1x and later

https://www.muppetlabs.com/~breadbox/software/windows.html
47•Bluestein•10h ago•11 comments

Hy4 preview

https://www.tencent.com/tencent-releases-and-open-sources-tencent-hy4-preview/
377•shenli3514•1d ago•238 comments

Building my own network stack

https://blog.lyc8503.net/en/post/dn42-2-dnet/
90•uneven9434•12h ago•72 comments

When fruit is scarce, these monkeys hunt animals

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/when-fruit-is-scarce-these-monkeys-hunt-animals-the-beh...
53•cisc•1d ago•31 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