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Saturday, 12th April 2025

Backticks are traditionally banned from use in future language features, due to the small symbol. No reader should need to distinguish ` from ' at a glance.

Steve Dower, CPython core developer, August 2024

# 3:32 am / programming-languages, python

Tool Hacker News thread export — Export Hacker News discussion threads in a formatted, hierarchical structure by providing a post ID or direct link to the thread. The tool fetches all comments from the specified post and organizes them with numbered paths that show the conversation structure, making it easy to read and copy the entire discussion for archival or sharing purposes.

Slopsquatting -- when an LLM hallucinates a non-existent package name, and a bad actor registers it maliciously. The AI brother of typosquatting.

Credit to @sethmlarson for the name

Andrew Nesbitt

# 4:30 pm / definitions, packaging, ai, generative-ai, llms, supply-chain, slop, ai-ethics, seth-michael-larson

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