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Antonio Cuni
Personal blog · antocuni.euprogrammingsystems
Antonio Cuni's personal blog at antocuni.eu covers programming and systems. Since 2025, 9 different Hacker News readers have linked it 12 times, most often “SPy: An interpreter and compiler for a fast statically typed variant of Python”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-05-01, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Posts by Antonio Cuni on Python tooling and implementation, including the SPy language, PyPy's tracing JIT, and Python 3.14 performance. Commenters cite them as background for their own projects.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 3 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Antonio Cuni's blog
Most-linked posts?
- SPy: An interpreter and compiler for a fast statically typed variant of Python4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2025-10-29
- Spy: Comptime for Python3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2026-03-25
- Tracing JITs in the Real World CPython Core Dev Sprint2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2025-09-25
What Hacker News says?
This looks exactly what I'm trying to do with SPy -- although SPy is still "not there" and it's WIP. I literally wrote an intro post about it yesterday: https://antocuni.eu/2025/10/29/inside-spy-part-1-motivations...
Comment linking /2025/10/29/inside-spy-part-1-motivations-and-goals/
on “Uv is the best thing to happen to the Python ecosystem in a decade”Submitted SPy: An interpreter and compiler for a fast statically typed variant of Python as a story · 276 points
HN discussionThere is some information transfer happening. Antonio Cuni was at the latest Coython developer sprint and shared some insights from PyPy https://antocuni.eu/2025/09/24/tracing-jits-in-the-real-worl...
Comment linking /2025/09/24/tracing-jits-in-the-real-world--cpython-core-dev-sprint/
on “Python 3.14 is here. How fast is it?”Submitted Tracing JITs in the Real World CPython Core Dev Sprint as a story · 73 points
HN discussionInterested to try this and compare with SPy: https://antocuni.eu/2025/10/29/inside-spy-part-1-motivations...
Comment linking /2025/10/29/inside-spy-part-1-motivations-and-goals/
on “Show HN: OtterLang – Pythonic scripting language that compiles to native code”Submitted Claude code modified my .bashrc without asking as a story · 11 points
HN discussionSubmitted Spy: Comptime for Python as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Inside SPy, part 1: Motivations and Goals as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Inside SPy, part 2: Language semantics as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Spy: language semantics for a statically-typed compiled variant of Python as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Inside CPython's attribute lookup as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Over the Clouds: CPython, Pyodide and Spy as a story · 1 points
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