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How NASA built Artemis II’s fault-tolerant computer

https://cacm.acm.org/news/how-nasa-built-artemis-iis-fault-tolerant-computer/
377•speckx•18h ago•133 comments

I still prefer MCP over skills

https://david.coffee/i-still-prefer-mcp-over-skills/
175•gmays•7h ago•150 comments

Native Instant Space Switching on macOS

https://arhan.sh/blog/native-instant-space-switching-on-macos/
508•PaulHoule•14h ago•237 comments

ETH Zurich demonstrates 17,000 qubit array with 99.91% fidelity

https://ethz.ch/en/news-and-events/eth-news/news/2026/04/a-new-trick-brings-stability-to-quantum-...
57•joko42•5h ago•9 comments

We've raised $17M to build what comes after Git

https://blog.gitbutler.com/series-a
130•ellieh•7h ago•271 comments

Generative art over the years

https://blog.veitheller.de/Generative_art_over_the_years.html
148•evakhoury•2d ago•38 comments

Scientists invented a fake disease. AI told people it was real

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-01100-y
29•latexr•1h ago•12 comments

Charcuterie – Visual similarity Unicode explorer

https://charcuterie.elastiq.ch/
232•rickcarlino•13h ago•42 comments

War on Raze

https://gist.github.com/chrispsn/af6844b80687462814fc39d4b97399a6
10•tosh•3d ago•3 comments

The Art of Risk Management (2017)

https://www.bcg.com/publications/2017/finance-function-excellence-corporate-development-art-risk-...
6•walterbell•2d ago•0 comments

RAM Has a Design Flaw from 1966. I Bypassed It [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KKbgulTp3FE
222•surprisetalk•2d ago•59 comments

Artemis II and the invisible hazard on the way to the Moon

https://www.ansto.gov.au/news/artemis-ii-and-invisible-hazard-on-way-to-moon-part-1
8•zeristor•2h ago•7 comments

Unfolder for Mac – A 3D model unfolding tool for creating papercraft

https://www.unfolder.app/
234•codazoda•16h ago•45 comments

Zero-build privacy policies with Astro

https://www.openpolicy.sh/blog/no-build-astro
5•jamie_davenport•1h ago•4 comments

Old laptops in a colo as low cost servers

https://colaptop.pages.dev/
271•argentum47•15h ago•160 comments

CollectWise (YC F24) Is Hiring

https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/collectwise/jobs/Ktc6m6o-ai-agent-engineer
1•OBrien_1107•5h ago

Penguin 'Toxicologists' Find PFAS Chemicals in Remote Patagonia

https://www.ucdavis.edu/health/news/penguin-toxicologists-find-pfas-chemicals-remote-patagonia
9•giuliomagnifico•3h ago•5 comments

Principles of Mechanical Sympathy

https://martinfowler.com/articles/mechanical-sympathy-principles.html
58•zdw•2d ago•7 comments

Afrika Bambaataa, hip-hop pioneer, has died

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c2evppm30p7o
122•mellosouls•5h ago•27 comments

Instant 1.0, a backend for AI-coded apps

https://www.instantdb.com/essays/architecture
150•stopachka•15h ago•78 comments

PicoZ80 – Drop-In Z80 Replacement

https://eaw.app/picoz80/
192•rickcarlino•14h ago•31 comments

Research-Driven Agents: When an agent reads before it codes

https://blog.skypilot.co/research-driven-agents/
178•hopechong•16h ago•48 comments

The Raft consensus algorithm explained through "Mean Girls" (2019)

https://www.cockroachlabs.com/blog/raft-is-so-fetch/
82•vermilingua•6h ago•21 comments

VFX HQ: Visual Effects Headquarters (2000)

https://www.vfxhq.com/index.html
11•exvi•2d ago•0 comments

YouTube locked my accounts and I can't cancel my subscription

https://pocketables.com/2026/04/ai-music-corporate-control-and-the-creator-who-cant-even-leave.html
112•digitalhigh•4h ago•72 comments

Hegel, a universal property-based testing protocol and family of PBT libraries

https://hegel.dev
114•PaulHoule•15h ago•32 comments

An AI robot in my home

https://allevato.me/2026/04/07/an-ai-robot-in-my-home
36•kukanani•2d ago•13 comments

Reverse engineering Gemini's SynthID detection

https://github.com/aloshdenny/reverse-SynthID
151•_tk_•13h ago•51 comments

Will I ever own a zettaflop?

https://geohot.github.io//blog/jekyll/update/2026/01/26/own-a-zettaflop.html
96•surprisetalk•3d ago•62 comments

Kagi Product Tips – Customize Your Search Results with URL Redirects

https://blog.kagi.com/tips/redirects
84•treetalker•12h ago•13 comments
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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