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The Operator That Dethroned a King: Python's Walrus Operator Story

https://techlife.blog/posts/the-operator-that-dethroned-a-king-pythons-walrus-operator-story/
14•clarkmaxwell•4d ago

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flancian•2h ago
"Not dead. Not retiring. Not moving on to start a blockchain company. He was quitting — because of a fight over two characters"

Time to AI tell: 20 seconds? Still, interesting account of how Guido stepped down.

Also, what happened afterwards, which I wasn't aware of:

  > Guido’s departure left Python without a governance model for the first time in its history. What followed was genuinely impressive: the core developer community proposed, debated, and voted on no fewer than seven different governance PEPs (PEP 8010 through PEP 8016).
  > In December 2018, PEP 8016 — “The Steering Council Model” — won. Authored by Nathaniel J. Smith and Donald Stufft, it established a five-person steering council elected by core developers. The design philosophy was explicit: “Be boring. We’re not experts in governance, and we don’t think Python is a good place to experiment with new and untried governance models.”
StilesCrisis•1h ago
"Not retiring. (...) He was quitting." -- is there even a functional difference here? It's not like he went on to become BDFL of a different language.
parallax_error•1h ago
Interesting story but the AI makes it irritating to read

Astral to Join OpenAI

https://astral.sh/blog/openai
462•ibraheemdev•2h ago•238 comments

OpenBSD: PF queues break the 4 Gbps barrier

https://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article;sid=20260319125859
60•defrost•1h ago•19 comments

Juggalo Makeup Blocks Facial Recognition Technology (2019)

https://consequence.net/2019/07/juggalo-makeup-facial-recognition/
98•speckx•2h ago•33 comments

Consensus Board Game

https://matklad.github.io/2026/03/19/consensus-board-game.html
23•surprisetalk•1h ago•0 comments

Afroman found not liable in defamation case

https://nypost.com/2026/03/18/us-news/afroman-found-not-liable-in-bizarre-ohio-defamation-case/
675•antonymoose•5h ago•273 comments

The Shape of Inequalities

https://www.andreinc.net/2026/03/16/the-shape-of-inequalities/
6•nomemory•54m ago•0 comments

Conway's Game of Life, in real life

https://lcamtuf.substack.com/p/conways-game-of-life-in-real-life
253•surprisetalk•11h ago•67 comments

Afroman Wins Civil Trial over Use of Police Raid Footage in His Music Videos

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/19/us/afroman-trial-lemon-cake-verdict.html
239•pseudolus•3h ago•27 comments

Pretraining Language Models via Neural Cellular Automata

https://hanseungwook.github.io/blog/nca-pre-pre-training/
47•shmublu•4d ago•11 comments

macOS 26 breaks custom DNS settings including .internal

https://gist.github.com/adamamyl/81b78eced40feae50eae7c4f3bec1f5a
6•adamamyl•25m ago•1 comments

Nvidia greenboost: transparently extend GPU VRAM using system RAM/NVMe

https://gitlab.com/IsolatedOctopi/nvidia_greenboost
424•mmastrac•3d ago•119 comments

Eniac, the First General-Purpose Digital Computer, Turns 80

https://spectrum.ieee.org/eniac-80-ieee-milestone
71•baruchel•9h ago•32 comments

OpenRocket

https://openrocket.info/
668•zeristor•4d ago•114 comments

Warranty Void If Regenerated

https://nearzero.software/p/warranty-void-if-regenerated
453•Stwerner•18h ago•275 comments

OpenAI to Acquire Astral

https://openai.com/index/openai-to-acquire-astral/
154•meetpateltech•2h ago•78 comments

How many branches can your CPU predict?

https://lemire.me/blog/2026/03/18/how-many-branches-can-your-cpu-predict/
54•ibobev•2h ago•15 comments

2% of ICML papers desk rejected because the authors used LLM in their reviews

https://blog.icml.cc/2026/03/18/on-violations-of-llm-review-policies/
148•sergdigon•5h ago•131 comments

Gluon: Explicit Performance

https://www.lei.chat/posts/gluon-explicit-performance/
8•matt_d•3d ago•0 comments

'Your Frustration Is the Product'

https://daringfireball.net/2026/03/your_frustration_is_the_product
189•llm_nerd•3h ago•118 comments

Stdwin: Standard window interface by Guido Van Rossum [pdf]

https://ir.cwi.nl/pub/5998/5998D.pdf
62•ivanbelenky•2d ago•36 comments

Austin’s surge of new housing construction drove down rents

https://www.pew.org/en/research-and-analysis/articles/2026/03/18/austins-surge-of-new-housing-con...
668•matthest•15h ago•806 comments

A Preview of Coalton 0.2

https://coalton-lang.github.io/20260312-coalton0p2/
9•varjag•4d ago•0 comments

LotusNotes

https://computer.rip/2026-03-14-lotusnotes.html
144•TMWNN•4d ago•74 comments

A sufficiently detailed spec is code

https://haskellforall.com/2026/03/a-sufficiently-detailed-spec-is-code
503•signa11•13h ago•264 comments

Show HN: Duplicate 3 layers in a 24B LLM, logical deduction .22→.76. No training

https://github.com/alainnothere/llm-circuit-finder
191•xlayn•18h ago•71 comments

The next fight over the use of facial recognition could be in the supermarkets

https://www.politico.com/newsletters/digital-future-daily/2026/03/16/the-facial-recognition-groce...
31•speckx•2h ago•7 comments

Wander – A tiny, decentralised tool to explore the small web

https://susam.net/wander/
318•susam•1d ago•78 comments

Nvidia NemoClaw

https://github.com/NVIDIA/NemoClaw
350•hmokiguess•1d ago•230 comments

Autoresearch for SAT Solvers

https://github.com/iliazintchenko/agent-sat
150•chaisan•14h ago•30 comments

The math that explains why bell curves are everywhere

https://www.quantamagazine.org/the-math-that-explains-why-bell-curves-are-everywhere-20260316/
177•ibobev•2d ago•107 comments