Hacker News: Spiritus

New comment by Spiritus in "MCP is dead?"

Spiritus — Sat, 30 May 2026 05:05:57 +0000

CLIs have to be distributed. Also have to be kept up to date. An MCP doesn't t have to concern itself with backwards compatibility and can be changed willy nilly since it's essentially always up to date.

It's also easier to manage for non-tech people. Try telling the people over at HR or finance to install a CLI.

New comment by Spiritus in "Codex is now in the ChatGPT mobile app"

Spiritus — Fri, 15 May 2026 17:39:37 +0000

Not available in Business or? I only see SSH connections in Desktop app and only cloud environments in the iOS app.

New comment by Spiritus in "Dropbox announces new gen server hardware for higher efficiency and scalability"

Spiritus — Mon, 11 Aug 2025 10:34:10 +0000

Curious why? I'm considering doing the opposite since I have to pay for iCloud anyway.

New comment by Spiritus in "A guide to error handling in Rust"

Spiritus — Wed, 09 Nov 2022 11:05:28 +0000

I think you're mixing up try blocks with the old try! macro.

New comment by Spiritus in "TikTok’s greatest asset isn’t its algorithm, it’s your phone"

Spiritus — Wed, 09 Nov 2022 07:36:14 +0000

Unless you're looking for a specific video or trend, don't search. Just scroll.

New comment by Spiritus in "Python 3.11.0 Released"

Spiritus — Tue, 25 Oct 2022 06:32:39 +0000

I'm fairly sure it's Discourse[1]. They switched to it quite recently.

[1] https://www.discourse.org

New comment by Spiritus in "My next Mac might be the last"

Spiritus — Tue, 25 Oct 2022 05:43:15 +0000

It might be worth excluding certain directories from Spotlight to prevent it from indexing node_modules etc which tend to be massive but mostly useless from a Spotlight search perspective.

New comment by Spiritus in "Pypi.org is running a survey on the state of Python packaging"

Spiritus — Thu, 08 Sep 2022 09:54:21 +0000

You can't. But is that possible with any programming language specific package manager? How would that even work given that every flavour of OS/distro have their own way of providing gfortran?

New comment by Spiritus in "Pypi.org is running a survey on the state of Python packaging"

Spiritus — Thu, 08 Sep 2022 06:53:19 +0000

Well we're almost there I think. You can define dependencies and other metadata in pyproject.toml nowadays:

https://setuptools.pypa.io/en/latest/userguide/pyproject_con...

New comment by Spiritus in "NimSkull: A Hard Fork of Nim"

Spiritus — Fri, 08 Jul 2022 05:19:57 +0000

Nimble is Nim's build tool so that's already taken.

New comment by Spiritus in "Apple Passkey"

Spiritus — Tue, 07 Jun 2022 05:23:04 +0000

Get an e-sim

New comment by Spiritus in "Linode Managed Databases"

Spiritus — Wed, 25 May 2022 09:13:59 +0000

Tilaa[1]. They also recently launched a managed database service[2] (beta).

[1] https://www.tilaa.com/ [2] https://www.tilaa.com/en/blog/tilaa-cloud-database-beta-is-l...

New comment by Spiritus in "New(ish) command line tools"

Spiritus — Wed, 13 Apr 2022 07:22:30 +0000

I've actually moved from direnv to shadowenv[1]. It's more powerful since it's using a Lisp dialect called Shadowlisp that lets you easily do things like append/prepend to $PATH, expand paths and other common actions.

[1] https://shopify.github.io/shadowenv/

New comment by Spiritus in "Django: Reformatted code with Black"

Spiritus — Wed, 09 Feb 2022 15:39:23 +0000

> I suspect you are fighting the tide of common practice in the Python community.

I hope not!

> Sorting module- and from-imports separately also makes it much easier for many people to visually scan a block of imports.

For me it's the opposite. My brain skips over the irrelevant parts (i.e. import/from). Not moving the import also produces better git diffs

New comment by Spiritus in "Django: Reformatted code with Black"

Spiritus — Tue, 08 Feb 2022 21:51:26 +0000

For me µsort is a non-starter since it doesn't ignore the import/from part when sorting lexicographically. So when an import changes from `import foo` to `from foo import bar` (and vice versa), the import is moved. Sorting should start at the package name, nothing else.

New comment by Spiritus in "Apple removes Python 2.7 in macOS 12.3 beta"

Spiritus — Fri, 28 Jan 2022 17:06:33 +0000

Python 2 is available from the https://github.com/lithammer/homebrew-deadsnakes Homebrew tap.

New comment by Spiritus in "[dead]"

Spiritus — Tue, 11 Jan 2022 11:06:16 +0000

He's meant to play in the Australian Open, but his visa was revoked because he isn't vaccinated (it has been reinstated now though). So this is mostly just a joke since the opponent is a koala and the ball is the corona virus.

https://www.cbssports.com/tennis/news/australian-open-2022-n...

Django 4.0

Spiritus — Tue, 07 Dec 2021 09:53:44 +0000

Article URL: https://www.djangoproject.com/weblog/2021/dec/07/django-40-released/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29470729

Points: 473

# Comments: 219

Building a Django driver for Psycopg 3

Spiritus — Mon, 02 Aug 2021 09:30:03 +0000

Article URL: https://www.psycopg.org/articles/2021/08/02/psycopg3-django-driver/

Hacker News: Spiritus

New comment by Spiritus in "MCP is dead?"

New comment by Spiritus in "Codex is now in the ChatGPT mobile app"

New comment by Spiritus in "Dropbox announces new gen server hardware for higher efficiency and scalability"

New comment by Spiritus in "A guide to error handling in Rust"

New comment by Spiritus in "TikTok’s greatest asset isn’t its algorithm, it’s your phone"

New comment by Spiritus in "Python 3.11.0 Released"

New comment by Spiritus in "My next Mac might be the last"

New comment by Spiritus in "Pypi.org is running a survey on the state of Python packaging"

New comment by Spiritus in "Pypi.org is running a survey on the state of Python packaging"

New comment by Spiritus in "NimSkull: A Hard Fork of Nim"

New comment by Spiritus in "Apple Passkey"

New comment by Spiritus in "Linode Managed Databases"

New comment by Spiritus in "New(ish) command line tools"

New comment by Spiritus in "Django: Reformatted code with Black"

New comment by Spiritus in "Django: Reformatted code with Black"

New comment by Spiritus in "Apple removes Python 2.7 in macOS 12.3 beta"

New comment by Spiritus in "[dead]"

Django 4.0

Building a Django driver for Psycopg 3

Making CPython Faster