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Dinkus Markdown Studio

https://dinkus.textualize.io/
1•willm•36s ago•0 comments

Sam Altman on Building OpenAI [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kG8AoExkX40
1•tosh•1m ago•0 comments

The Vibe Tax

https://insufferable.dev/posts/vibe-tax/
1•allisdust•2m ago•0 comments

Audit on bureaucratic timeline of concrete embankment involved in Jeju Air crash

https://simpleflying.com/deadly-design-decision-responsible-jeju-air-disaster/
1•xeonmc•5m ago•0 comments

Etched Sohu vs. Nvidia: Transformer ASIC vs. GPU (2026) – Spheron Blog

https://www.spheron.network/blog/etched-ai-sohu-vs-nvidia-transformer-asic-inference/
1•rbanffy•6m ago•0 comments

The Forever Library – The Traces

https://thetraces.substack.com/p/the-forever-library
1•feldrim•9m ago•0 comments

Vallley – Live startup jobs around the world

https://vallley.xyz
1•0x4269•9m ago•1 comments

I Sent Facebook a DMCA Takedown Letter – and It Worked [video]

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/lxb1RXZpQ7E
2•fortran77•13m ago•0 comments

Anthropic's best AI model struggles to attract users as cheaper tools thrive

https://www.ft.com/content/5ee49718-c258-4f01-aa32-7e5b76ae5245
3•naves•16m ago•0 comments

My Obituary for Dr Tim King, Tripos, AmigaOS, Helios and UK Online Pioneer

https://www.theregister.com/software/2026/08/18/tim-king-amigados-royalty-dies-aged-70/5289101
3•lproven•20m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Afterlid, guarded lid closed work for macOS

https://afterlid.com/
1•rjsajnani•22m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Civic Nightmare –Browser JRPG about a citizen in a savage civilization

https://github.com/Daniele-Cangi/civic-nightmare
1•DanieleCangi•23m ago•0 comments

Elder fraud scheme that allegedly moved millions through dummy Florida companies

https://www.courtwatch.news/p/the-rabbit-hole-targeting-seniors
1•speckx•23m ago•0 comments

Yuval Noah Harari on the economic and political perils of AI

https://www.economist.com/business/2026/08/20/yuval-noah-harari-on-the-economic-and-political-per...
3•andsoitis•24m ago•0 comments

AI and Infrastructure Engineering

https://omegion.dev/2026/08/ai-and-infrastructure-engineering/
1•0megion•24m ago•0 comments

Explain it to me like I'm ten

https://timharford.com/2026/08/explain-it-to-me-like-im-ten/
2•bookofjoe•25m ago•0 comments

Developer's Open Source Tool Strips Anthropic's New Claude Watermark

https://startupfortune.com/a-paris-developers-open-source-tool-already-strips-anthropics-new-clau...
2•speckx•25m ago•0 comments

The quiet tycoons powering Africa's rise

https://www.economist.com/middle-east-and-africa/2026/08/23/the-quiet-tycoons-powering-africas-rise
1•andsoitis•26m ago•0 comments

Building the Ed-O-Meter: Notes on Writing My Own LLM Benchmark

https://reinvently.co.uk/blog/building-the-ed-o-meter-llm-eval-harness/
1•Bluestein•26m ago•0 comments

I made the first interactive TUI Portfolio

https://twitter.com/i/status/2091469688270393377
2•jdhruv143•28m ago•0 comments

Intermediary Liability in Brazil: The Intricate Path Ahead

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/08/intermediary-liability-brazil-intricate-path-ahead
2•hn_acker•28m ago•0 comments

Intentic.dev – shared chat, UI and billing for independent SaaS tools

https://intentic.dev/
1•radarsu•30m ago•1 comments

Show HN: Modern demo of Douglas Hofstadter et al.'s 2001 Letter Spirit project

https://github.com/Paul-G2/letter-spirit-2-js
2•Paul-G2•31m ago•0 comments

Predicting AI model release dates with stats

https://releaseoracle.xyz/
2•akeyes6•32m ago•0 comments

I turned Unix talk from 1983 into the interface for my AI

https://en.andros.dev/blog/09a21bdd/i-turned-unix-talk-from-1983-into-the-interface-for-my-ai/
1•ibobev•33m ago•0 comments

My agent.md to improve LLM-assisted code quality

https://fabiensanglard.net/agent.md/index.html
2•ibobev•33m ago•0 comments

From Front Panel to Program: Thinking Like a PDP-8

https://pikuma.com/blog/pdp-8-minicomputer
2•ibobev•34m ago•0 comments

Niu Lai and the provenance problem: why "human slop" isn't a moat

https://niu-lai.net/post/niu-lai-provenance-problem/
1•RealLeon•36m ago•0 comments

Show HN: ClaudeGate – Run Claude Code CLI with Any AI Model (DeepSeek, Gemini)

https://github.com/Santosh-Prasad-Verma/ClaudeGate
1•Tarun121•39m ago•0 comments

America Is Building a Surveillance State Like China's

https://reason.com/2026/08/21/america-is-building-a-surveillance-state-like-chinas/
5•pseudolus•41m ago•1 comments
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Show HN: Reaktiv – I built Excel-like reactive programming for Python

https://bui.app/when-frontend-reactivity-meets-backend-python-the-story-of-my-first-1-000-download-library/
2•buibuibui•1y ago
Hi HN! I created Reaktiv, a Python library bringing reactive programming to the backend world that recently hit 1,000+ monthly downloads.

I'm actively promoting it because I believe signal-based reactivity (a concept that spread rapidly in frontend development) has huge untapped potential in Python. My breakthrough came when I stopped describing it as "Angular signals for Python" and started calling it "Excel-like computation graphs" - suddenly Python developers understood the value.

The library automatically tracks dependencies between computations, only recalculating values when dependencies change. This eliminates manual dependency tracking, prevents synchronization bugs, and reduces cognitive load when managing complex state.

Interestingly, I've noticed some initial interest from data scientists, though I'm still exploring what specific problems it might solve for them. I also believe the Home Assistant/IoT communities could benefit greatly from this approach.

Would love your thoughts on bringing frontend patterns to backend development!