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Huawei and Qualcomm Announce Broad Patent License Agreement

https://www.huawei.com/en/news/2026/10/qualcomm-broad-patent-agreement
17•0xedb•54m ago•12 comments

Run Qwen 3.8 Flash Next (125B) on consumer hardware (RTX 4090) at 100T/s

https://github.com/Niko1221/Strata
785•snehesht•19h ago•352 comments

In the wake of Tippett Studios’ closure, a digital archive appears online

https://filmstories.co.uk/news/tippett-studios-in-the-wake-of-its-closure-a-digital-archive-of-an...
127•rdmuser•11h ago•13 comments

Sales of sub-€25,000 electric car models set to rise sevenfold

https://www.transportenvironment.org/articles/wave-of-affordable-electric-cars-is-boosting-consum...
16•geox•49m ago•4 comments

Gods in the Classroom: Religion and Education in First Millennium BCE Babylonia

https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/iraq/article/gods-in-the-classroom-religion-and-education...
30•pseudolus•3d ago•1 comments

A browser-native classic Visual Basic VB6 IDE

https://wieslawsoltes.github.io/VB6/
206•wiso•13h ago•70 comments

The Tao of Backup

http://www.taobackup.com/index.html
125•vntok•2d ago•40 comments

Replacement of petroleum based products with plant-based materials (2025)

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/eng2.70108
54•thelastgallon•3h ago•22 comments

Infidel goes wild

https://blog.zarfhome.com/2026/10/infidel-goes-wild
129•tobr•1d ago•20 comments

We ported the original Doom to SQL

https://cedardb.com/blog/sqldoom/
86•Vaslo•1d ago•10 comments

Turn off Apple Intelligence on macOS 27 and get its disk space back

https://github.com/omlahore/RemoveMacAI
553•privacyisntdead•12h ago•371 comments

Powerless F1 drivers frustrated by Bahrain F1 software glitch

https://www.motorsport.com/f1/news/horrible-totally-unacceptable-powerless-f1-drivers-frustrated-...
188•llm_nerd•6h ago•156 comments

Tell HN: Bob Cringely has died

866•paveworld•1d ago•186 comments

Decision models like Jev don't beat LLM-as-a-judge or traditional classifiers

https://developers.redhat.com/articles/2026/10/02/benchmarking-ai-decision-models-against-traditi...
51•tomncooper•2d ago•12 comments

Demystifying Tufte's data-ink ratio

https://tuftesrazor.scienceux.org/
41•s4074433•2d ago•10 comments

Improper redaction reveals Google Data Center water and electricity usage

https://www.1011now.com/2026/09/30/more-questions-than-answers-about-lincolns-google-data-center-...
378•sensanaty•13h ago•487 comments

Automating my 35mm film scanning pipeline

https://shannadige.com/blog/darkroom/
74•shannadige•1d ago•52 comments

Lace and Labor: Lessons from the actual Luddites

https://articlesofinterest.substack.com/p/lace-and-labor
13•surprisetalk•4d ago•1 comments

A 40ms Go garbage collector pause caused by swap

https://frn.sh/go-gc/
89•shellpipe•7h ago•69 comments

Self-hosted HTTP tunnels with SSH and Nginx

https://vincent.bernat.ch/en/blog/2026-http-over-ssh
133•renehsz•10h ago•31 comments

'Neanderthals Among Us' review

https://www.historytoday.com/archive/review/neanderthals-among-us-peter-sahlins-review
71•pepys•1d ago•67 comments

Show HN: Glashütte Trash Clock – A 30-minute pendulum clock made from trash

https://niklasroy.com/gtc/
195•r0r0•3d ago•27 comments

Watson Jr. memo about CDC 6600 (1963)

https://www.computerhistory.org/revolution/supercomputers/10/33/62
41•mooreds•1d ago•22 comments

What is going on with ceiling fans

https://mcmansionhell.com/post/829127919552151552/what-is-going-on-with-ceiling-fans
295•colinprince•4d ago•260 comments

How to scale intent, quality, and artistry with AI [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GLvFTMtw4Jk
82•simonjgreen•23h ago•29 comments

Interview with Chicken Scheme Maintainer Sjamaan/Peter Bex

https://alexalejandre.com/interviews/peter-bex/
37•veqq•2d ago•11 comments

Bill Draper has died

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/30/technology/william-draper-dead.html
119•bookofjoe•20h ago•38 comments

Xray-core concealed a certificate verification bypass vulnerability

https://github.com/net4people/bbs/issues/672
80•timbill•15h ago•10 comments

Safe Optimistic Lock Coupling

http://databasearchitects.blogspot.com/2026/04/safe-optimistic-lock-coupling.html
11•greghn•3d ago•0 comments

Why don't more developers “use the platform”?

https://nolanlawson.com/2026/10/03/why-dont-more-developers-use-the-platform/
296•vinhnx•1d ago•312 comments
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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