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When did Google get so weird?

https://sancho.bearblog.dev/google-weird/
729•sancho-panza•4h ago•388 comments

Ember-1

https://fireworks.ai/blog/ember-1
344•gmays•7h ago•179 comments

Lunar Terminator Paradox

https://notes.secretsauce.net/notes/2026/09/27_lunar-terminator-paradox.html
42•dima55•4h ago•27 comments

Alan Kay's answer to “Did the ENIAC have a BIOS”?

https://www.quora.com/Did-the-ENIAC-have-a-BIOS/answer/Alan-Kay-11
66•midnightfish•5h ago•27 comments

Show HN: Lofi Cities – Pixel-art city nights with browser-generated lofi

https://loficities.com/
155•safaelmali•6h ago•73 comments

There is more to code review than (automatable) detection

https://www.adaptivecapacitylabs.com/2026/08/24/there-is-more-to-code-review-than-automatable-det...
56•utiiiD•1d ago•20 comments

The state of SIMD in Rust in 2026

https://shnatsel.github.io/state-of-simd-rust-2026/
92•verdagon•2d ago•19 comments

Don't couple your Go code to GitHub

https://iain.rocks/blog/dont-couple-your-go-code-to-github
138•birdculture•8h ago•72 comments

What I did at Recurse Center

https://thill.me/2026/09/11/what-i-did-at-rc.html
63•bingden•6h ago•16 comments

Imp is a full port of DSPy to the BEAM

https://github.com/deepfates/imp
44•mpweiher•5h ago•5 comments

Self-Hosting on the Dark Web

https://david.alvarezrosa.com/posts/self-hosting-on-the-dark-web/
42•mooreds•5h ago•18 comments

Oral history of John Chowning, inventor of FM synthesis [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e1Xn3030IvM
48•Rochus•7h ago•9 comments

In an $80 motel room, a discovery to shed light on the origins of life

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/26/science/motel-science-discovery.html
201•danso•10h ago•81 comments

Replacing the old battery on rechargeable bike lights

https://jvns.ca/blog/2026/09/27/replacing-the-old-battery-on-rechargeable-bike-lights/
137•surprisetalk•11h ago•72 comments

Previously unheard recordings of John Coltrane, captured by Frank Tiberi

https://www.jazzwise.com/content/news/john-coltrane-centenary-celebrations-see-impulse-records-re...
58•gregsadetsky•2d ago•18 comments

Coltrane's Shadow

https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/arts-letters/articles/coltranes-shadow-tiberi-tapes
5•tintinnabula•1d ago•1 comments

My Recent Woodworking Projects

https://notoriousbfg.com/recent-woodworking-projects/
25•trwhite•4h ago•10 comments

A New Experiment Meta-Strategy

https://chillphysicsenjoyer.substack.com/p/a-new-experiment-meta-strategy
8•surprisetalk•2d ago•0 comments

Have an LLC

https://zachholman.com/posts/you-should-have-an-llc
24•mlex•5h ago•11 comments

Writing Efficient C++ Code (2013)

https://asawicki.info/articles/writing_efficient_cpp_code.php
133•ibobev•2d ago•81 comments

Fragment of oldest known peace treaty found in Turkey

https://www.livescience.com/archaeology/ancient-egyptians/we-have-found-traces-of-peace-thousands...
57•gmays•10h ago•8 comments

The Cartesian Hand: In-Hand Manipulation with All-Linear Fingers

https://generalroboticslab.com/cartesian_handv1
59•AareyBaba•1d ago•10 comments

Flip Fluid on Flip Dots

https://mitxela.com/projects/flipflip
365•blutack•1d ago•24 comments

Fakecloud: Local AWS cloud emulator for integration tests

https://fakecloud.dev/
108•theanonymousone•1d ago•59 comments

Show HN: TinyAIArena watch AI agents battle it out

https://tinyaiarena.com/
96•hp6•9h ago•40 comments

Video CDs Break Windows Explorer

https://clydesnotes.blogspot.com/2026/08/video-cds-break-windows-explorer.html
102•ClydeN•1d ago•34 comments

Faster prompt lookup drafting in llama.cpp

https://jadidbourbaki.github.io/blog/prompt-lookup-llama-cpp/
68•pptadversary•1d ago•11 comments

The Normalization of Inexplicable Failures

https://www.ihatethefuture.com/2026/09/the-normalization-of-inexplicable.html
245•pxx•9h ago•99 comments

KICKI: a DECsystem1060

https://icm.museum/blog/?p=207
24•rbanffy•2d ago•3 comments

The Great Crime Decline Is Happening All Across the Country

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/01/great-crime-decline/685695/
12•andsoitis•1h ago•4 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