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A bit more about how it works internally. It uses sys.monitoring (or sys.set_trace for older versions of python), as well as LD_PRELOAD / DYNLIB libc patching to track arbitrary io…

Hi HN, I'm the author of Frontrun, a Python concurrency testing library I built over the past 6 months using Claude Code and Codex. It uses bytecode tracing and various forms of mo…

> I do get the impression that multi-threaded Python code is full of hazards that the GIL covers up. It was a design goal of free-threading that any race condition which can occur …

Akasa ( https://akasa.com ) | ML, backend, golang/typescript/python | REMOTE (Must be located in the US) or onsite in SSF Akasa is a healthcare automation company, pioneering "Unif…

I've upgraded a large (~700K LOC) Django project across several versions (1.5-1.9). I think Django does a reasonably good job of maintaining a good upgrade path, though they freque…

Peter Norvig's sudoku solver is beautiful on all levels. http://norvig.com/sudoku.html It's clearly explained code that's shorter than you would have thought. Norvig showcases his …

I definitely agree that the terminator is a good idea, just that "." happened to be an unfortunately historical choice since other languages used that character for a very differen…

Right. I think this is how a lot of business requirements are specified, since they are frequently constructed by non-programmers. Taking a bunch of cases from a spec document gene…

Datalog is a query language, but I haven't found good libraries for the "connector" pieces of translating prolog/datalog predicates to SQL, constructing or syncing schema definitio…

I've been actively trying to learn Prolog for the past few months. It's definitely very different from other languages I've used, and it's changed the way I think about programming…