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Ruff is a Rust-based Python linter and formatter. The release folds many broadly useful checks into the default configuration, making a fresh run capable of finding a much wider class of code-quality problems.

HN’s likely concern is not whether more checks are valuable. It is how a project absorbs them: defaults are convenient for greenfield code, but established repositories need an intentional migration boundary.

In last week's GitHub Trending: SimpleX (a messenger that assigns no user identifiers at all, for the privacy-maximalist crowd), CasaOS (a home-server OS that turns a spare box into a personal cloud), Plane (a self-hosted Jira and Linear alternative), and free-for-dev (a directory of free SaaS tiers).

The list sells digital independence. But its second-biggest gainer, CasaOS, hasn't merged a commit in nearly a year, and its own issue tracker is openly asking whether the project is dead.