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ofek

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About ofek

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    Comment #48141807

    Thanks for the clarification! I'm sure your team is already aware but Windows users perceive support as native binaries (no WSL) that can run in a normal environment (no Git Bash o…

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    Comment #48141280

    I won't be able to fully test because the interactive prompt gates on the user having an advanced subscription (I already pay $40 a month) which for now doesn't seem to be worth it…

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    Comment #48078049

    I shared the author's frustration when figuring out how to ship such binaries to end users so I wrote a guide [0] detailing exactly how to do it. Apple's documentation is surprisin…

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    Comment #47986488

    If an agreement can't be reached with your new employer are you certain that folks at Microsoft will continue maintaining this library? I'd like to experiment with it but have trep…

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    Comment #47115215

    The naming of this project is quite unfortunate as it resembles the Simplex [1] specification for guiding agent development, which does look promising in comparison. [1]: https://g…

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    Comment #46785832

    I'd encourage folks to read the recently-published statement [1] about the state of OpenSSL from Python's cryptography project. [1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46624352

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    Comment #46412511

    Indeed, I introduced this [0] as an option for every Python integration that runs on the Datadog Agent. [0]: https://github.com/DataDog/integrations-core/pull/12986

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    Comment #46402718

    The post is entirely authentic; it matches the writing style of the author from before the LLM boom and discusses work that the human author recently released. Can you pinpoint wha…

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    Comment #46402692

    Your C extension guide looks very useful and I quite like the foreword/history behind it. Have you considered updating the resource to account for the freethreaded mode (which will…

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    Comment #46402464

    This is awesome, thanks a lot! I'm going to introduce this in the test suites of the extension modules I maintain [0][1] and, if all goes well, eventually at work [2]. I really app…

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    Comment #46396652

    > pip could implement parallel downloads, global caching, and metadata-only resolution tomorrow. It doesn’t, largely because backwards compatibility with fifteen years of edge case…

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    Comment #46071746

    This release wouldn’t have been possible without Cary, our new co-maintainer. He picked up my unfinished workspaces branch and made it production-ready, added SBOM support to Hatch…

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    Show HN: Hatch v1.16.0 – workspaces, dependency groups and SBOMs

    This release wouldn’t have been possible without Cary, our new co-maintainer. He picked up my unfinished workspaces branch and made it production-ready, added SBOM support to Hatch…

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    Comment #45637462

    Here's an example of Gemini 2.5 Pro hallucinating, which happens so much that I don't trust it https://gemini.google.com/share/99a1be550763

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    Comment #45610602

    The sentiment in this thread surprises me a great deal. For me, Gemini 2.5 Pro is markedly worse than GPT-5 Thinking along every axis of hallucinations, rigidity in its self-assure…

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    Comment #45395699

    The Jellyfin metadata would certainly be a fit but what about streaming video content i.e. sequential reads of large files with random access?

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    Comment #44477110

    For those who are unaware, there is another project [1] that tracks upstream which adds support for various codecs like Zstandard. Many folks (such as myself) opt to install their …

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    Show HN: MCP server for any Python CLI

    I maintain a bunch of CLIs that are based on Click and thought it would be useful to allow models to control all of them. Enjoy!

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    Comment #43984392

    macOS I found to be particularly challenging to support because of insufficient Apple documentation, so hopefully this helps folks.

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    Comment #43536942

    It's only marked as a draft because there has not been a PR to update the status as it was just approved this morning.

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    Comment #43535751

    PEP 751: https://peps.python.org/pep-0751/

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    Comment #43389914

    A long-standing issue with that was just recently fixed: https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/133250

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    Comment #43105032

    Hatchling maintainer here :) What limitations have you personally experienced?