Show HN: Plain – The full-stack Python framework designed for humans and agents

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Plain, a fork of Django with opinionated defaults and Postgres-only models, claims to be optimized for both human developers and AI coding agents.

Returning to Rails in 2026
Hacker News commenters debate the merits of Ruby on Rails in 2026, with many praising its conventions and stability while criticizing lack of typing and AI-oriented marketing.
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What if Maintainer Burnout Isn't Burnout
The article argues that maintainer distress stems from loss of meaning (languishing) due to administrative sediment and AI-generated PRs, not just burnout.
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Fable one-shotted a Rust rewrite of the TerminalTextEffects Python library in 11M tokens. Startup time went from 87ms to 2ms and rendering s
Fable rewrote the TerminalTextEffects Python library in Rust using 11M tokens, reducing startup time from 87ms to 2ms and boosting rendering speed 9.6x with zero dependencies in a 3MB executable.
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Thoughts on OpenAI acquiring Astral and uv/ruff/ty
OpenAI acquires Astral, the company behind uv, ruff, and ty, to accelerate Codex development while promising continued open-source support.
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