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The secret Python switch: How one flag makes your scripts run faster

Python -O won’t magically make every script faster, but in the right workloads it’s a free win—here’s how to test it safely.

So yeah, I vibe-coded a log colorizer—and I feel good about it

Oh, sure, I can “code.” That is, I can flail my way through a block of (relatively simple) pseudocode and follow the flow. I ...

VS Code for Linux may be secretly hoarding trashed files

The reason for this is Snap – a Linux application packaging format – creates a local Trash folder for each VS Code version, ...
Dark Reading

Second Round of Critical RCE Bugs in n8n Spikes Corporate Risk

A new around of vulnerabilities in the popular AI automation platform could let attackers hijack servers and steal ...
Lablab.ai

AI to Code: The Definitive Guide to Winning AI Hackathons via Vibe Coding

Master AI hackathons with this comprehensive playbook on Vibe Coding. Learn how to build winning AI hackathon apps using AI ...
InfoWorld

PythoC: A new way to generate C code from Python

PythoC lets you use Python as a C code generator, but with more features and flexibility than Cython provides. Here’s a first look at the new C code generator for Python. Python and C share more than ...
SecurityWeek

Thousands of Secrets Leaked on Code Formatting Platforms

JSONFormatter and CodeBeautify users exposed credentials, authentication keys, configuration information, private keys, and other secrets. Users of code formatting platforms are exposing thousands of ...
Bleeping Computer

Code beautifiers expose credentials from banks, govt, tech orgs

Thousands of credentials, authentication keys, and configuration data impacting organizations in sensitive sectors have been sitting in publicly accessible JSON snippets submitted to the JSONFormatter ...
Hackaday

Simple Tricks To Make Your Python Code Faster

Python has become one of the most popular programming languages out there, particularly for beginners and those new to the hacker/maker world. Unfortunately, while it’s easy to get something up and ...
thecyberexpress

Code Formatting Tools Share Secrets by the Thousands: Researchers

Platforms that developers use to format their input unintentionally share “thousands” of secrets, according to new research. Researchers from watchTowr captured a dataset of more than 80,000 saved ...
Ars Technica

App or Service to Hard-Code Outline Format

TL;DR: What do I give up when going from 26 AWG to 30 AWG when carrying LVDS or TTL over 3’ of STP? We have been using Cat7/Cat8 cabling in a non-Ethernet application by cutting cheap Cat7 or Cat8 ...
IEEE

Automated Refactoring of Non-Idiomatic Python Code With Pythonic Idioms

Abstract: Compared to other programming languages (e.g., Java), Python has more idioms to make Python code concise and efficient. Although Pythonic idioms are well accepted in the Python community, ...