(my) Hacker News #8

Here's a list of the latest resources that grabbed my attention.

CLI

• Interrupting scripts without tracebacks

Career development

• When Staff Engineer is an anti-pattern

Code maintenance

• Cracking the Python Monorepo

Colors

• Glasbey: algorithmically create or extend categorical colour palettes

Computer Vision

• A super-fast Python implementation of seam carving algorithm for intelligent image resizing
• Seam Carving explanation - II
• Seam Carving explanation
• Seam Carving for Content-Aware Image Resizing paper

Courses

• Information Visualization by Beat Signer
• Machine Learning in Production @ Carnegie Mellon University

Data Storytelling

• A Map of Python
• Code Galaxies Visualization
• River Runner: visualize the path of a rain droplet
• SCQA: a framework for structuring information
• Topography Explorer

Database

• Mastering DuckDB when you're used to pandas or Polars
• OpenDAL

Decision Trees

• pybaobabdt BaobabView
• supertree: visualize decision trees in Python

Dimensionality Reduction

• Generalizable Spectral Embedding with an Application to UMAP
• Locally linear embedding (LLE)

Embeddings

• The Best Way to Use Text Embeddings Portably is With Parquet and Polars

Holidays

• holidays

Jobs

• Calcolatore netto dipendente dalla RAL

Jupyter

• euporie: Jupyter notebooks in the terminal
• ipyflow: a reactive Python kernel for Jupyter notebooks

Knowledge Management

• Johnny.Decimal: a system to organise your life
• Why Blog If Nobody Reads It?

Large Language Models (LLM)

• Foundations of Large Language Models
• LLM code generation workflow
• TabPFN: Foundation Model for Tabular Data
• TabbyML: self-hosted AI coding assistant
• The 2025 AI Engineer Reading List

Mathematics

• Introduction to Stochastic Calculus
• Terence Tao class on Perelman's proof of the Poincaré conjecture
• Visual explanations of mathematics

Misc

• television: blazing fast general purpose fuzzy finder TUI

Misc utils

• A python wrapper for fzf, a command-line fuzzy finder
• psutil: cross-platform lib for process and system monitoring in Python

Neural Networks

• Neural Networks: Zero to Hero

OO Programming

• Pipeline Pattern in Python with reduce and partial
• Use case for decorators in Python

Physics

• Atlas of Space

Probability & Statistics

• Think Correlation Isn’t Causation? Meet Partial Correlation

Project packaging

• uv run

Python

• Python Developer Tooling Handbook
• Python Terminology: an unofficial glossary

Regex

• How to Use Regular Expressions in Python

Services

• Awesome Amazon Q Developer

Software Development

• Mistakes engineers make in large established codebases

Standard library

• graphlib: functionality to operate with graph-like structures

Technical writing

• Darwin Information Typing Architecture (DITA)
• The Good Docs Project
• The Seven-Action Documentation model
• Why writing small docs is a game changer

Terminal

• Nushell
• Starship
• The Modern CLI Stack

Time Series

• MFLES: a simple time series method based on gradient boosting time series decomposition

Tools

• yato: yet another transformation orchestrator
• Orange Data Mining

Videos

• Information Visualization Course by Enrico Bertini

Web App Framework

• Preswald: an open-source Python SDK for turning code into interactive data apps
• Taichi: productive, portable, and performant GPU programming in Python