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The Free Universal Construction Kit

https://fffff.at/free-universal-construction-kit/
170•robinhouston•3d ago•32 comments

1-Bit Hokusai's "The Great Wave" (2023)

https://www.hypertalking.com/2023/05/08/1-bit-pixel-art-of-hokusais-the-great-wave-off-kanagawa/
456•stephen-hill•3d ago•82 comments

Using coding assistance tools to revive projects you never were going to finish

https://blog.matthewbrunelle.com/its-ok-to-use-coding-assistance-tools-to-revive-the-projects-you...
77•speckx•5h ago•45 comments

New 10 GbE USB adapters are cooler, smaller, cheaper

https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2026/new-10-gbe-usb-adapters-cooler-smaller-cheaper/
501•calcifer•15h ago•293 comments

The AI Industry Is Discovering That the Public Hates It

https://newrepublic.com/article/209163/ai-industry-discovering-public-backlash
20•chirau•13m ago•2 comments

Simulacrum of Knowledge Work

https://blog.happyfellow.dev/simulacrum-of-knowledge-work/
34•thehappyfellow•4h ago•8 comments

Desmond Morris has died

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c51y797v200o
70•martey•4d ago•11 comments

Martin Galway's music source files from 1980's Commodore 64 games

https://github.com/MartinGalway/C64_music
141•ingve•10h ago•18 comments

Mine, an IDE for Coalton and Common Lisp

https://coalton-lang.github.io/mine/
24•varjag•3h ago•1 comments

Discret 11, the French TV encryption of the 80s

https://fabiensanglard.net/discret11/
125•adunk•10h ago•20 comments

Show HN: Kloak, A secret manager that keeps K8s workload away from secrets

https://getkloak.io/
21•neo2006•2h ago•14 comments

GPT‑5.5 Bio Bug Bounty

https://openai.com/index/gpt-5-5-bio-bug-bounty/
105•Murfalo•7h ago•87 comments

Which one is more important: more parameters or more computation? (2021)

https://parl.ai/projects/params_vs_compute/
36•jxmorris12•1d ago•3 comments

Can you stop beans from making you gassy?

https://www.seriouseats.com/how-to-reduce-bean-gas-tested-11883862
6•jstrieb•1h ago•0 comments

Hokusai and Tesselations

https://dl.ndl.go.jp/pid/1899550/1/11/
74•srean•4h ago•13 comments

What async promised and what it delivered

https://causality.blog/essays/what-async-promised/
96•zdw•3d ago•92 comments

America's Geothermal Breakthrough Could Unlock a 150-Gigawatt Energy Revolution

https://oilprice.com/Alternative-Energy/Geothermal-Energy/Americas-Geothermal-Breakthrough-Could-...
25•sleepyguy•1h ago•11 comments

Insights into firewood use by early Middle Pleistocene hominins

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0277379126001824
42•wslh•3d ago•14 comments

A web-based RDP client built with Go WebAssembly and grdp

https://github.com/nakagami/grdpwasm
95•mariuz•10h ago•38 comments

Only one side will be the true successor to MS-DOS – Windows 2.x

https://blisscast.wordpress.com/2026/04/21/windows-2-gui-wonderland-12a/
61•keepamovin•10h ago•47 comments

Lute: A Standalone Runtime for Luau

https://lute.luau.org/
25•vrn-sn•2d ago•5 comments

North American Millets Alliance(2023)

https://milletsalliance.org/
6•num42•3h ago•2 comments

How Hard Is It to Open a File?

https://blog.sebastianwick.net/posts/how-hard-is-it-to-open-a-file/
11•ffin•1d ago•0 comments

Plain text has been around for decades and it’s here to stay

https://unsung.aresluna.org/plain-text-has-been-around-for-decades-and-its-here-to-stay/
247•rbanffy•20h ago•126 comments

Lambda Calculus Benchmark for AI

https://victortaelin.github.io/lambench/
116•marvinborner•10h ago•36 comments

Replace IBM Quantum back end with /dev/urandom

https://github.com/yuvadm/quantumslop/blob/25ad2e76ae58baa96f6219742459407db9dd17f5/URANDOM_DEMO.md
309•pigeons•20h ago•43 comments

HEALPix

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HEALPix
42•hyperific•8h ago•5 comments

Sabotaging projects by overthinking, scope creep, and structural diffing

https://kevinlynagh.com/newsletter/2026_04_overthinking/
505•alcazar•1d ago•127 comments

Commenting and approving pull requests

https://www.jakeworth.com/posts/on-commenting-and-approving-pull-requests/
70•jwworth•2d ago•57 comments

Panipat: The rise of the Mughals

https://www.historytoday.com/archive/feature/panipat-rise-mughals
48•Thevet•3d ago•57 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