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Cybersecurity looks like proof of work now

https://www.dbreunig.com/2026/04/14/cybersecurity-is-proof-of-work-now.html
126•dbreunig•1d ago•57 comments

ChatGPT for Excel

https://chatgpt.com/apps/spreadsheets/
42•armcat•1h ago•13 comments

I made a terminal pager

https://theleo.zone/posts/pager/
13•speckx•36m ago•1 comments

The buns in McDonald's Japan's burger photos are all slightly askew

https://www.mcdonalds.co.jp/en/menu/burger/
110•bckygldstn•1h ago•43 comments

Google broke its promise to me – now ICE has my data

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/04/google-broke-its-promise-me-now-ice-has-my-data
920•Brajeshwar•5h ago•394 comments

PiCore - Raspberry Pi Port of Tiny Core Linux

http://tinycorelinux.net/5.x/armv6/releases/README
53•gregsadetsky•3h ago•3 comments

God sleeps in the minerals

https://wchambliss.wordpress.com/2026/03/03/god-sleeps-in-the-minerals/
421•speckx•9h ago•90 comments

Cal.com is going closed source

https://cal.com/blog/cal-com-goes-closed-source-why
162•Benjamin_Dobell•7h ago•138 comments

The Rise of the Em-Dash in Hacker News Comments

https://boazsobrado.com/blog/2026/04/15/the-rise-of-the-em-dash-in-hacker-news-comments/
9•sobradob•34m ago•8 comments

Live Nation illegally monopolized ticketing market, jury finds

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-04-15/live-nation-illegally-monopolized-ticketing-ma...
297•Alex_Bond•3h ago•90 comments

Hacker News CLI

https://pythonhosted.org/hackernews-cli/commands.html
11•rolph•1h ago•0 comments

Want to write a compiler? Just read these two papers (2008)

https://prog21.dadgum.com/30.html
440•downbad_•13h ago•134 comments

Fixing a monitor that goes black, off or blinks due to static electricity (2023)

https://aalonso.dev/blog/2023/how-to-fix-monitor-that-goes-black-off-due-to-static-electricity-in...
103•cyclopeanutopia•3d ago•55 comments

Ask HN: Who is using OpenClaw?

141•misterchocolat•3h ago•172 comments

Does Gas Town 'steal' usage from users' LLM credits to improve itself?

https://github.com/gastownhall/gastown/issues/3649
169•rektomatic•2h ago•82 comments

Golden eagles' return to English skies

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cje4zlxqkqdo
32•techterrier•3d ago•19 comments

Good sleep, good learning, good life (2012)

https://super-memory.com/articles/sleep.htm
345•downbad_•13h ago•171 comments

Adaptional (YC S25) is hiring AI engineers

https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/adaptional/jobs/k7W6ge9-founding-engineer
1•acesohc•6h ago

Retrofitting JIT Compilers into C Interpreters

https://tratt.net/laurie/blog/2026/retrofitting_jit_compilers_into_c_interpreters.html
8•ltratt•11h ago•1 comments

Anna's Archive loses $322M Spotify piracy case without a fight

https://torrentfreak.com/annas-archive-loses-322-million-spotify-piracy-case-without-a-fight/
296•askl•14h ago•327 comments

Do you even need a database?

https://www.dbpro.app/blog/do-you-even-need-a-database
176•upmostly•10h ago•228 comments

How can I keep from singing?

https://blog.danieljanus.pl/singing/
26•nathell•1d ago•3 comments

The Gemini app is now on Mac

https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/products/gemini-app/gemini-app-now-on-mac-os/
45•thm•5h ago•22 comments

Forcing an inversion of control on the SaaS stack

https://www.100x.bot/a/client-side-injection-inversion-of-control-saas
65•shardullavekar•5d ago•40 comments

CRISPR takes important step toward silencing Down syndrome’s extra chromosome

https://medicalxpress.com/news/2026-04-crispr-bold-silencing-syndrome-extra.html
48•amichail•6h ago•48 comments

Ohio prison inmates 'built computers and hid them in ceiling

https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-39576394
6•harambae•58m ago•0 comments

One interface, every protocol

https://openbindings.com/blog/one-interface-every-protocol
13•clevengermatt•3h ago•3 comments

Show HN: Libretto – Making AI browser automations deterministic

https://github.com/saffron-health/libretto
73•muchael•7h ago•23 comments

Costasiella kuroshimae

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Costasiella_kuroshimae
136•vinnyglennon•3d ago•51 comments

Kalshi CEO expects US DOJ to prosecute insider trading cases

https://www.semafor.com/article/04/15/2026/kalshi-ceo-tarek-mansour-expects-us-doj-to-prosecute-i...
105•thm•4h ago•112 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