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A Tale of Two Cultures: Can Agentic Coding Close the Gap? [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7HWIUTcGFQ4
1•gmays•6s ago•0 comments

Israel's "New" National Security Concept

https://www.inss.org.il/publication/new-concept/
1•newspaper1•36s ago•0 comments

Dutch tax authorities cancel Microsoft 365 cloud rollout and turn to open source

https://www.zdnet.com/business/dutch-tax-authorities-cancel-microsoft-365-cloud-rollout/
1•CrankyBear•51s ago•0 comments

U.S. doctors are aging, raising concerns about patient safety

https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2026/10/12/americas-doctors-are-aging-raising-concerns-abou...
1•bookofjoe•2m ago•1 comments

Surveys on AI and Writing

1•cyndunlop•2m ago•0 comments

OpenAI employee arrested by FBI over hidden listening device, company says

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/fbi-arrests-former-openai-employee-planting-listening-device-202...
2•jawiggins•3m ago•0 comments

OpenAI engineer arrested in bugging of executive conference room

https://sfstandard.com/2026/10/13/openai-engineer-arrested-alleged-bugging-executive-conference-r...
2•tlogan•8m ago•0 comments

Apple Explains Why Chrome Users Should 'Switch to Safari'

https://www.macrumors.com/2026/10/13/apple-switch-to-safari-vs-chrome/
1•greenchair•9m ago•0 comments

Making My Font Smarter

https://blog.alexbeals.com/posts/making-my-font-smarter
1•samtheDamned•9m ago•0 comments

When A.I. Comes for Your Purpose in Life [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LfGenpmOjDQ
1•CretinDesAlpes•10m ago•0 comments

Commodore 64 Raycasting with variable ceiling and floor heights

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ACIszsZND_4
1•gitowiec•11m ago•0 comments

Turn an old junk phone into a Talking Jack-O-Lantern

https://jack-o.io/
1•dakila5•13m ago•0 comments

The AI Curiosity Trap

https://plpxsk.github.io/2026/10/13/curiosity-trap.html
1•antipaul•15m ago•0 comments

Correctly enforcing a rule does not make it justified

https://civicpivot.blogspot.com/2026/10/protocol-over-bureaucracy-replacing.html
2•civicpivot•17m ago•0 comments

Preflight Checker for Advertising Networks

https://hawtads.com/preflight
1•HawtAds•17m ago•0 comments

Mastodon on your own domain without hosting a server

https://blog.maartenballiauw.be/posts/2022-11-05-mastodon-own-domain-without-hosting-server/
2•speckx•17m ago•0 comments

I want to build a time machine for running programs

https://trigora.dev/blog/i-want-to-build-a-time-machine-for-running-programs/
1•hypervs•19m ago•0 comments

Strait of Hormuz Tracker

https://straits.live
1•skadamat•19m ago•0 comments

Behind the Scenes of Paper Writing

https://www.sophielwang.com/blog/paper-writing
2•vikas-sharma•20m ago•0 comments

Trezor Wallets Also Compromised with Implants

https://www.zetter-zeroday.com/trezor-wallets-also-compromised-with-implants/
4•jbegley•20m ago•0 comments

Making a language with row types and bidirectional typing, targeting WASM

https://thunderseethe.dev/series/making-a-language/
2•fanf2•20m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Stack Tender, supplement tracking and product scanning

https://stacktender.com/users/charlie/stacks/memory-and-focus/
2•chrisdavaz•21m ago•0 comments

Come back Twitter/X, all is forgiven

https://disassociated.com/come-back-twitter-x-all-forgiven/
3•speckx•22m ago•0 comments

Heartbleed Encryption: Explained

https://app.getnetchek.com/blog/heartbleed-when-encryption-leaks-memory
2•thegodhand•24m ago•0 comments

N64's Ocarina of Time Online Deathmatch in the Browser

https://twitter.com/aperezpaya/status/2110105441241862544
3•0xInkiep•27m ago•0 comments

Super El Niño sets another record as it strengthens to 'unprecedented levels'

https://www.bbc.com/weather/articles/cmlye0d7q7zno
3•ljf•28m ago•0 comments

Gitslice, Source Control for Agents

https://gitslice.io/blogs/agent-scale-source-control
1•niczy•28m ago•0 comments

DeepSFetch: Open-source developer kit for web extraction and agent workflows

https://github.com/ermultimidia/deepsfetch-developer-kit
1•ermultimidia•29m ago•0 comments

I just got our entire company's Claude Enterprise account suspended

https://twitter.com/heinenbros/status/2110081812169162923
5•bigwheels•29m ago•1 comments

Tell HN: ChatGPT on macOS grants local computer access to cloud account

4•lxgr•29m ago•0 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!