Articles by zahlman
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An explanation of performance degradation through false sharing [video] (youtube.com)

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Deno has made its PyPI distribution official (github.com/denoland)

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Epiphany (Holiday) (wikipedia.org)

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Oxidation and Radiation – the Rise of uv in 2025 (zahlman.github.io)

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[flagged] PR adding custom progress bar themes to GNOME Bazaar rejected, citing "racism" (github.com/kolunmi)

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"How to Lose $1.3B Dollars": Veritasium on Overconfidence [video] (youtube.com)

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YouTube broke embed links recently and didn't update their docs (support.google.com)

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Pip 25.3 Release Announcement (python.org)

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How to Escape from the Iron Age? (lowtechmagazine.com)

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Open Infrastructure Is Not Free: A Joint Statement on Sustainable Stewardship (openssf.org)

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Blood-Sharing Drug Trend Fuels Global HIV Surge (nytimes.com)

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Why Central Banks Target 2% Inflation [video] (youtube.com)

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Ask HN: a REPL in an IME?

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Waterloo built an LRT more cheaply than other North American cities [video] (youtube.com)

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Man re-arrested by FBI after after shots fired at ABC affiliate in Sacramento (nbcnews.com)

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Why ruler and compass? – Guest video [on 3b1b] by ⁨ Ben Syversen⁩ (youtube.com)

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PSF Board Election Results for 2025 (python.org)

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Charlie Kirk was Buck Angel's friend [video] (youtube.com)

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The Weird Death of User Interfaces (Enrico Tartarotti) [video] (youtube.com)

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Graham Linehan claims he was arrested at Heathrow for posts about trans people (independent.co.uk)

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WheelNext and Wheel Variants [discussion of future plans for Python wheels] (python.org)

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Nova Scotia bans hiking and use of vehicles in woods due to wildfire fears (cbc.ca)

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[flagged] Tell HN: I'm tired of formulaic, "LLM house style" show HN submissions

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D.A.R.E. – The Real Reason Cops Taught You About Drugs [video] (youtube.com)

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Reinventing the Python Wheel (lwn.net)

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A.I. slop and the epidemic of Bad writing [video] (youtube.com)

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Pre-PEP: Locking a PEP 723 single-file script (python.org)

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Recent Disruptive Changes from Setuptools (lwn.net)

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Enabling AI agents to buy securely and seamlessly (visa.com)

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What's preventing zstandard compression of wheels? (Python packaging discussion) (python.org)

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Tell HN: I forked and republished a popular, abandoned Python library

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Discussion of backwards-incompatible changes in Python build back ends (python.org)

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Python Packaging: why we can't have nice things, part 3: Premature Compilation (zahlman.github.io)

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Making 8-bit Music From Scratch at the Commodore 64 BASIC Prompt [video] (youtube.com)

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Python is 34 years old today (wikipedia.org)

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The LLMentalist Effect (softwarecrisis.dev)

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Muller's Recurrence (scipython.com)

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PEP 751: one last time (discussion thread) (python.org)

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Python Packaging: Why we can't have nice things – Part 2: Stupid Pipx Tricks (zahlman.github.io)

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Python packaging: why we can't have nice things, part 1 – The Old Refrain (zahlman.github.io)

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Ask HN: Lightweight, low-level image loading usable from Python?

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PEP 8106 – 2025 Term Steering Council election (python.org)

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Ask HN: Where Is HN Meta?

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Tim Peters has returned on the Python Discourse forum (python.org)

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Ask HN: What's up with the spam waves lately?

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Fiduciary and CoC Violations by the Executive Director of PSF – David Q Mertz (gnosis.cx)

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PR disaster surrounding recent bylaws changes and core developer suspension (python.org)