Python on Hacker News

Python releases, libraries, performance, and tooling discussions on Hacker News. Curated from the Hacker News firehose with grephn. Open the live feed for AI compression and signal scores.

1. 1 2214
   Uv is the best thing to happen to the Python ecosystem in a decade

   emily.space · grephn thread → · 1324 comments
2. 2 1616
   Sunsetting Python 2

   python.org · grephn thread → · 704 comments
3. 3 1411
   Grumpy: Go running Python

   opensource.googleblog.com · grephn thread → · 451 comments
4. 4 1208
   A from-scratch tour of Bitcoin in Python

   karpathy.github.io · grephn thread → · 277 comments
5. 5 1081
   Python 3.13 Gets a JIT

   tonybaloney.github.io · grephn thread → · 521 comments
6. 6 983
   Show HN: I built a hardware processor that runs Python

   runpyxl.com · grephn thread → · 265 comments
7. 7 982
   Prettymaps: Small Python library to draw customized maps from OpenStreetMap data

   github.com · grephn thread → · 74 comments
8. 8 937
   Norvig's Python programs to practice or demonstrate skills

   github.com · grephn thread → · 84 comments
9. 9 919
   If AI writes your code, why use Python?

   medium.com · grephn thread → · 980 comments
10. 10 916
    Ty: A fast Python type checker and language server

    github.com · grephn thread → · 287 comments
11. 11 879
    Python Is Eating the World

    zdnet.com · grephn thread → · 957 comments
12. 12 867
    FastHTML – Modern web applications in pure Python

    fastht.ml · grephn thread → · 210 comments
13. 13 864
    An oral history of Bank Python

    calpaterson.com · grephn thread → · 325 comments
14. 14 858
    Microsoft is bringing Python to Excel

    theverge.com · grephn thread → · 445 comments
15. 15 841
    A viable solution for Python concurrency

    lwn.net · grephn thread → · 358 comments
16. 16 833
    What’s New in Python 3.8

    docs.python.org · grephn thread → · 367 comments
17. 17 820
    Python moved to GitHub

    github.com · grephn thread → · 305 comments
18. 18 811
    Google Spreadsheets and Python

    twilio.com · grephn thread → · 140 comments
19. 19 783
    Comparing the Same Project in Rust, Haskell, C++, Python, Scala and OCaml

    thume.ca · grephn thread → · 370 comments
20. 20 779
    Advanced Python Mastery

    github.com · grephn thread → · 155 comments
21. 21 774
    Pip has dropped support for Python 2

    pip.pypa.io · grephn thread → · 673 comments
22. 22 769
    Gooey: Turn almost any Python command line program into a full GUI application

    github.com · grephn thread → · 118 comments
23. 23 755
    PYX: The next step in Python packaging

    astral.sh · grephn thread → · 464 comments
24. 24 753
    uv: An extremely fast Python package and project manager, written in Rust

    github.com · grephn thread → · 336 comments
25. 25 746
    Python 3.14 is here. How fast is it?

    blog.miguelgrinberg.com · grephn thread → · 557 comments