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I paid people to try and follow my README

https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2026/10/i-paid-people-to-try-and-follow-my-readme/
145•edent•2h ago•84 comments

Terence Tao: Math 2.0 [pdf]

https://teorth.github.io/tao-web/slides/math-2-0-caltech-2026.pdf
50•Anon84•1h ago•18 comments

The tilde in your PATH may not be your HOME

https://disconnect3d.pl//2026/10/02/dont-put-tilde-in-your-path/
60•arusekk•2h ago•34 comments

LineageOS 24.0

https://lineageos.org/Changelog-32/
243•timschumi•8h ago•77 comments

Internal files add to evidence of an ExxonMobil climate deception campaign

https://insideclimatenews.org/news/07102026/exxonmobil-climate-deception-new-evidence/
5•gumby•14m ago•1 comments

Nitter: Update Oct 10th seeking funding and legal help

https://nitter.net
235•ForHackernews•4h ago•99 comments

Valen's Memory Safety: A New Kind of Borrow Checking

https://verdagon.dev/blog/valen-group-borrowing
35•verdagon•2h ago•18 comments

2D Vehicles

https://patkerr.co.uk/2d-vehicles/
544•Michelangelo11•4d ago•107 comments

IRCv3

https://ircv3.net/
174•basilikum•4h ago•151 comments

Weave (YC W25) is hiring ML, AI, product, & design engineers

https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/weave-os
1•adchurch•2h ago

Build your own decision model

https://nishtahir.com/build-your-own-decision-model/
393•softwaredoug•15h ago•87 comments

The RAM shortage is bringing back DDR4

https://www.theverge.com/games/1009140/ram-shortage-intel-amd-ddr4-comeback
121•1potato•1d ago•106 comments

A city-building game in which the city would prefer you didn't

https://housing.over.pizza/
428•JumpCrisscross•18h ago•145 comments

Plumbers, chains, and famous painters: The history of the pipe operator in R

http://adolfoalvarez.cl/blog/2021-09-16-plumbers-chains-and-famous-painters-the-history-of-the-pi...
14•sinnsro•2d ago•2 comments

The Lightbulb Computer

https://lightbulbcomputer.com/
502•oskarth•1d ago•77 comments

Rat's Register Allocator

https://hexrat.cc/pages/blog/2026_10_07
31•mpweiher•1d ago•2 comments

How big is a Git commit?

https://ratfactor.com/cards/git-commit-size
60•theanonymousone•2d ago•24 comments

PSPi 6 – Raspberry Pi in a PSP

https://github.com/othermod/PSPi-Version-6
117•therepanic•13h ago•11 comments

Retrofitting language models to operate over bytes

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-026-11111-4
86•theanonymousone•3d ago•16 comments

Nix wrote half of my debugger

https://fzakaria.com/2026/10/07/nix-wrote-half-of-my-debugger
217•ingve•2d ago•52 comments

When Ldaxr Doesn't Work: Exclusive Accesses and Cacheability on AArch64

https://joelsiks.com/posts/aarch64-exclusive-access-cacheability/
15•joelsiks•1d ago•2 comments

Open-Source Microsoft Office Excel, PowerPoint, and Word Replications

https://www.tomshardware.com/software/microsoft-office/creator-of-free-adobe-clones-unveils-open-...
13•mathgenius•1h ago•3 comments

Show HN: BetterWispr – Free, open-source dictation for Mac

https://betterwispr.com/
6•kartik017•2h ago•1 comments

Show HN: Happy Hangul Day! An RNN for Generating Korean Handwriting Strokes

https://hangul.ink/blog/hangul-day
71•jbaudanza•2d ago•14 comments

Five months treating bugs like patients and coding agents like a medical team

https://www.cockroachlabs.com/blog/experiment-running-hospital-code/
170•rafiss•1d ago•72 comments

Talorys – A self-hosted personal AI agent on Cloudflare's free tier

https://github.com/rociiu/talorys
306•rociiu•1d ago•141 comments

Knuth reward check

https://www.thomas-huehn.com/knuth-reward-check/
209•Curiositry•22h ago•76 comments

Mxc: Microsoft Execution Containers version 1.0.0

https://blogs.windows.com/windowsdeveloper/2026/10/07/microsoft-execution-containers-policy-drive...
211•smokel•2d ago•58 comments

3rd Yandex Cloud Data Center Was Hit

https://status.yandex.cloud/en/incidents/2136
340•defly•7h ago•423 comments

Unikernels were hard. key word: were

https://ghuntley.com/unikernels/
177•ghuntley•1d ago•89 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