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Re:Python's experimental JIT to be removed on Tuesday October 27, 2026 @09:08AM (#50258638)
Microsoft is not financing it any more and laid off most of the team working on it.
Re:Python's experimental JIT to be removed on Tuesday October 27, 2026 @09:05AM (#50258596)
But I want to continue to understand the code. I dont know Rust (maybe AI can teach me?) and if I let Claude rewrite my current 50k LOC project in Rust, how can I understand what is happening and how can I work on it and think it further?
Re:Python's experimental JIT to be removed on Tuesday October 27, 2026 @08:40AM (#50258229)
Sad to read this. I had hoped that with the advance of AI capabilities, features like this could be prototyped, tested, implemented and shipped even faster. And I was really looking forward to see performance gains for my favourite language.

Where do we go from here? Microsoft did not continue to finance the Faster CPython project and the current speed gains are good, but not what we hoped.

Re:Drupal is now light-years ahead of its reputation on Wednesday October 21, 2026 @02:53PM (#50185751)
you can be lightyears ahead of your reputation and still be shit.
Re:Show HN: Gemini 4 Argon plays StarCraft on Friday October 16, 2026 @11:43AM (#50119811)
If you want to see human written bots in action or compete in the bot ladder yourself, try https://aiarena.net (SC2)
Re:Switzerland proposes banning profiling-based ads to minors on Wednesday October 14, 2026 @09:57AM (#50087886)
It's easier to sell when you can say "think of the children! they need to be protected" and then later extend it.
Re:Brood War Bench on Saturday September 19, 2026 @05:02PM (#49770103)
If you want to see human written bots in action or compete in the bot ladder yourself, try https://aiarena.net/
Re:Stockfish 19 on Thursday September 10, 2026 @06:05AM (#49641158)
Whenever I see another Stockfish update I dream of the day that I sit down and code my own chess bot that is good enough to beat me. I would be so happy if I manage to do that.
This may add fuel to the theory (?) that Trump is a russian asset.
Re:4.5B Posts Scraped from TikTok on Thursday September 03, 2026 @09:24AM (#49549621)
You could use it as negative reinforcement to tell the next big AI model what it should not do
Re:Everything You Do Is Being Recorded on Monday August 10, 2026 @04:24AM (#49240884)
Somebody makes a lot of money and generates a lot of power with it.
Until now I thought it was boots-trapped. I am not a native speaker :)
Does this mean religion can be good for the third of the population that needs an imaginary character to be good?
The "minimum viable product" is part of the development process. If you are already at a certain quality and choose to make it worse, this is something else. Enshittification or just greed come to my mind.
Re:So Reddit has decided that plain HTML is unsafe on Wednesday July 22, 2026 @09:35AM (#49006586)
The contributors are already compensated by the ads the are allowed to see.
Re:The worthlessness of Vitamin D is mildly exaggerated on Tuesday June 23, 2026 @03:47PM (#48650334)
What exactly changed?
Re:Three Ways to Get Paid (2018) on Tuesday June 02, 2026 @01:46PM (#48373583)
and they are?
Do you mean by vibecoding these vulnerabilities into the kernel or by finding them?
Re:Mojo 1.0 Beta on Friday May 08, 2026 @04:09AM (#48060149)
Use black as format on save and you will never have a problem with that. https://github.com/psf/black
Re:Mojo 1.0 Beta on Friday May 08, 2026 @02:21AM (#48059322)
When it was announced it was not generally available for everyone to try out. There was a waitlist phase.
Re:Python: The Optimization Ladder on Saturday March 14, 2026 @11:42AM (#47377797)
Be careful with that, numpy arrays can be slower than Python tuples for some operations. The creation is always slower and the overhead has to be worth it.
MY favourite is ChatJippiddy
Re:Canada Announces Divorce from America on Wednesday January 21, 2026 @09:16AM (#46706000)
And right in this moment Trump is talking about how Canada should be grateful for all the American freebies :D
Re:I dumped Windows 11 for Linux, and you should too on Sunday January 11, 2026 @06:51AM (#46574864)
Can you also add why and for who you recommend it?
Re:Venezuela's capital hit by explosions, smoke seen on Saturday January 03, 2026 @03:19AM (#46473993)
I think also many dont have the time or ressources to care. If you live a precarious life, you are happy if you can pay for food and your home.
Re:Pokémon Team Optimization on Thursday January 01, 2026 @03:42AM (#46452387)
Why is y+2x optimal at (0,3) with a value of 3? Isnt it (3,0) with a value of 6?
Re:Python 3.15's interpreter for Windows should be 15% faster on Thursday December 25, 2025 @01:01PM (#46385981)
In the near future we will use lazy imports :) https://peps.python.org/pep-0810/
Re:A “frozen” dictionary for Python on Thursday December 11, 2025 @06:28AM (#46230085)
Can you give a Python example of a use case for this?
No, advertising is putting information in peoples faces as much as possible even if they are not interested at all.

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