Hacker News: Ravencentric

Pylance and Pyrefly: bring your preferred type checker to Visual Studio Code

Ravencentric — Fri, 23 Oct 2026 20:44:31 +0000

Article URL: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/python/announcing-tsp/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50215071

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

Bringing uv and ty together

Ravencentric — Tue, 20 Oct 2026 21:30:56 +0000

Article URL: https://astral.sh/blog/uv-ty-integration

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50172962

Points: 156

# Comments: 37

A plea not to use uv-build

Ravencentric — Tue, 13 Oct 2026 18:09:26 +0000

Article URL: https://blogs.gentoo.org/mgorny/2026/10/12/a-plea-not-to-use-uv-build/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50076048

Points: 90

# Comments: 165

PEP 824 – None-coalescing operators

Ravencentric — Tue, 22 Sep 2026 16:28:28 +0000

Article URL: https://peps.python.org/pep-0824/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49803881

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

PEP 823 – None-aware access operators

Ravencentric — Tue, 22 Sep 2026 12:58:04 +0000

Article URL: https://peps.python.org/pep-0823/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49800514

Points: 2

# Comments: 1

New comment by Ravencentric in "notatallshaw/nab: PubGrub-based dependency resolver for Python packages"

Ravencentric — Sat, 12 Sep 2026 04:43:58 +0000

Relevant pip issue: "Replace resolvelib with nab-resolve to do dependency resolution" @ https://github.com/pypa/pip/issues/13993

This would be a pretty big upgrade to pip and one that I'm looking forward to.

notatallshaw/nab: PubGrub-based dependency resolver for Python packages

Ravencentric — Sat, 12 Sep 2026 04:34:43 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/notatallshaw/nab

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49668858

Points: 2

# Comments: 1

What's missing to have reproducible builds on PyPI

Ravencentric — Sun, 16 Aug 2026 05:48:41 +0000

Article URL: https://snarky.ca/whats-missing-to-have-reproducible-builds-on-pypi/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49317246

Points: 25

# Comments: 14

New comment by Ravencentric in "Call for testing: Restricting trait implementability and field mutability"

Ravencentric — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 07:05:35 +0000

This will get rid of so many getters that solely exist as read-only wrappers over a field.

Python's pre-declared constants are kinda weird

Ravencentric — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 21:58:46 +0000

Article URL: https://sebsite.pw/w/20260801-pythonconstants.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49250370

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

PEP 841 – Adding Frozen Syntax to Optimize Immutable Types

Ravencentric — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 12:47:48 +0000

Article URL: https://peps.python.org/pep-0841/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49209609

Points: 4

# Comments: 1

PEP 842 – Module Exports

Ravencentric — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 19:21:06 +0000

Article URL: https://peps.python.org/pep-0842/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49187637

Points: 2

# Comments: 1