Stories by zahlman

Enabling AI agents to buy securely and seamlessly

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

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

Discussion of backwards-incompatible changes in Python build back ends

Python Packaging: why we can't have nice things, part 3: Premature Compilation

Making 8-bit Music From Scratch at the Commodore 64 BASIC Prompt [video]

The LLMentalist Effect

Muller's Recurrence

PEP 751: one last time (discussion thread)

Python Packaging: Why we can't have nice things – Part 2: Stupid Pipx Tricks

Python packaging: why we can't have nice things, part 1 – The Old Refrain

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

PEP 8106 – 2025 Term Steering Council election

Ask HN: Where Is HN Meta?

Tim Peters has returned on the Python Discourse forum

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

Fiduciary and CoC Violations by the Executive Director of PSF – David Q Mertz