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How's Linear so fast? A technical breakdown

https://performance.dev/how-is-linear-so-fast-a-technical-breakdown
106•howToTestFE•1h ago•53 comments

Building from Zero After Addiction, Prison, and a Felony

https://gavinray97.github.io/blog/building-from-zero-after-addiction-prison-felony
91•gavinray•2h ago•11 comments

Powering up a module from the IBM 604: an electronic calculator from 1948

https://www.righto.com/2026/06/ibm-604-thyraton-tube-module.html
50•elpocko•3h ago•14 comments

Silurus/ooxml: Pixel-faithful Office documents, rendered in the browser

https://github.com/yukiyokotani/office-open-xml-viewer
60•maxloh•3h ago•25 comments

What is the purpose of the lost+found folder in Linux and Unix? (2014)

https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/18154/what-is-the-purpose-of-the-lostfound-folder-in-lin...
74•tosh•2d ago•30 comments

Making Peace with Your Unlived Dreams

https://nik.art/making-peace-with-your-unlived-dreams/
52•herbertl•2h ago•18 comments

Cloning a Sennheiser BA2015 battery pack

https://blog.brixit.nl/cloning-a-sennheiser-ba2015-accu-pack/
79•zdw•1d ago•13 comments

You'll never guess who made the first wireless telephone

https://signoregalilei.com/2026/05/31/youll-never-guess-who-made-the-first-wireless-telephone/
42•surprisetalk•3d ago•7 comments

My automated doubt development process

https://www.alexself.dev/blog/automated-doubt
17•aself101•2h ago•9 comments

Leiden Declaration on Artificial Intelligence and Mathematics

https://www.lms.ac.uk/news/leiden-declaration-on-ai-and-mathematics
32•_____k•2h ago•1 comments

The complete IPv4 address space, mapped

https://worldip.io/
12•theanonymousone•2h ago•4 comments

The 29th International Obfuscated C Code Contest (IOCCC) 2025 Winners

https://www.ioccc.org/2025/
338•matt_d•14h ago•80 comments

Proliferate (YC S25) is hiring to building open source Codex

https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/proliferate/jobs/L3copvK-founding-engineer
1•pablo24602•3h ago

Show HN: Lathe – Use LLMs to learn a new domain, not skip past it

https://github.com/devenjarvis/lathe
181•devenjarvis•9h ago•37 comments

Backrest – a web UI and orchestrator for restic backup

https://github.com/garethgeorge/backrest
52•flexagoon•5d ago•3 comments

Why isn't the U.S. better at soccer?

https://www.natesilver.net/p/why-isnt-the-us-better-at-soccer
29•7777777phil•59m ago•33 comments

A visual introduction to kernel functions

https://kelvinpaschal.com/blog/kernel-functions/
9•Kelvinidan•2d ago•0 comments

Anthropic, please ship an official Claude Desktop for Linux

https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues/65697
370•predkambrij•7h ago•211 comments

Podman 6: machine usability improvements (2025)

https://blog.podman.io/2025/10/podman-6-machine-usability-improvements/
78•daesorin•6h ago•5 comments

Win16 Memory Management

http://www.os2museum.com/wp/win16-memory-management/
122•supermatou•2d ago•59 comments

sqlite: A CGo-free port of SQLite/SQLite3

https://gitlab.com/cznic/sqlite
27•tosh•6h ago•18 comments

Public Domain Image Archive

https://pdimagearchive.org/
226•davidbarker•20h ago•32 comments

There's no escaping it: an exploration of ANSI codes

https://blog.safia.rocks/2025/12/22/ansi-codes/
23•ankitg12•2d ago•7 comments

The Secret Life of Circuits with lcamtuf / Michał Zalewski (Audio Interview)

https://theamphour.com/725-the-secret-life-of-circuits-with-lcamtuf-michal-zalewski/
57•ChrisGammell•3d ago•5 comments

The curious case of low-protein diets

https://knowablemagazine.org/content/article/living-world/2026/low-protein-diet-animals-live-longer
26•curmudgeon22•2h ago•11 comments

Show HN: Kyushu – A self-hostable WASM sandbox for JavaScript workers

https://kyushu.dev/
67•le_chuck•13h ago•24 comments

Speculative KV coding: losslessly compressing KV cache by up to ~4×

https://fergusfinn.com/blog/kv-entropy-coder/
131•kkm•3d ago•28 comments

Symbolica 2.0: Programmable Symbols for Python and Rust

https://symbolica.io/posts/symbolica_2_0_release/
140•mmastrac•2d ago•12 comments

My Software North Star

https://kristoff.it/blog/north-star/
196•kristoff_it•4d ago•128 comments

Tokenomics: Quantifying Where Tokens Are Used in Agentic Software Engineering

https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.14470
161•Anon84•19h ago•66 comments
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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