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Ask Me Twice – A longitudinal archive of AI chatbot responses

https://wayback-api.archive.org/services/amt/
1•brokensegue•32s ago•0 comments

Global central bankers gather in Jackson Hole

https://www.semafor.com/article/08/27/2026/global-central-bankers-gather-in-jackson-hole
1•andsoitis•2m ago•0 comments

Time is running out for cyber security, warn top tech firms

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cwyz11475l1o
1•dabinat•2m ago•0 comments

Paging security nerds to read the microduck GitHub

https://github.com/pollen-robotics/microduck/tree/main/docs/design
1•anastasiaess•3m ago•1 comments

Alphabet stock sheds $700B as AI bills climb

https://www.semafor.com/article/08/27/2026/alphabet-stock-sheds-700b-as-ai-bills-climb
1•andsoitis•3m ago•1 comments

The Doomers are Lying to You [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8-ay_OARNe8
1•mudil•10m ago•0 comments

ClipX (Windows clipboard manager) updated after 18 years

https://clipx.org/
2•Lorin•12m ago•1 comments

Anthropic pushes into physical world with standard to help agents run machines

https://www.cnbc.com/2026/08/27/anthropic-pushes-into-physical-world-with-new-standard-to-help-ai...
1•cebert•14m ago•1 comments

AI Lessons from Driving 200M Autonomous Miles

https://waymo.com/blog/2026/08/10ailessons/
2•dsr12•15m ago•1 comments

Praxist – Autonomous research system through parallel experimentation

https://praxist.sapient.inc
1•intpanty•17m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Node.js back end library is 1.0 now

https://github.com/vseryakov/backendjs
1•vlad1719•17m ago•0 comments

Open Session

https://github.com/tellahq/opensession
1•handfuloflight•18m ago•0 comments

Evomal: Self-Poisoning in Self-Evolving Coding Agents

https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.25776
1•sbulaev•20m ago•0 comments

USDA recalls 30k pounds of Argentine beef sold in Texas and Florida

https://cbsaustin.com/news/local/usda-recalls-30000-pounds-of-argentine-beef-sold-in-texas-and-fl...
2•cocacola1•21m ago•0 comments

Judge Rules Trump Administration’s Blacklisting of Anthropic Was Illegal

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/27/technology/anthropic-government-blacklisting-ruling.html
7•jbegley•23m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Asking – A simpler customer support inbox for small teams

https://asking.com.br/
2•wozzp•26m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Alphie – see who's on your website and chat with them from Slack

https://meetalphie.com
1•Riphyak•26m ago•0 comments

Praxist – Autonomous R&D system with parallel research agents

https://github.com/sapientinc/PRAXIST
1•electricsoul•26m ago•0 comments

The whole is greater than the sum of the parts

https://se-scholar.com/se-blog/who-said-the-whole-is-greater-than-the-sum-of-the-parts
1•andsoitis•27m ago•0 comments

Stripe said to abandon $50B pursuit of PayPal

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-08-28/advent-stripe-consortium-is-said-to-drop-pursu...
6•1986•29m ago•1 comments

AI-Powered Tilichu VST/AU Synth Released by Butterlamp Audio

https://rekkerd.org/butterlamp-audio-releases-tilichu-wavetable-synthesizer-vst3-au/
1•boxstream•29m ago•1 comments

Has Gemini AI has altered the interpretation of Google trends?

https://old.reddit.com/r/mildyinteresting/comments/1vzz8y7/my_cycle_has_been_off_this_past_month_...
1•morkalork•32m ago•0 comments

A second model pays off in two shapes

1•Marvin_RunAI•37m ago•0 comments

The Dirty AI lie: How the GREATEST bet in human history started to crack [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WcckBmkauBQ
1•ferryth•37m ago•1 comments

Toyota to roll out near autonomous cars from 2028

https://asia.nikkei.com/business/technology/toyota-to-roll-out-near-fully-autonomous-cars-from-2028
2•cwwc•41m ago•0 comments

ChatGPT Now Supports WebMCP

https://twitter.com/OpenAIDevs/status/2092344959248761263
2•brazukadev•42m ago•0 comments

Welcome Claudeforce

https://twitter.com/Benioff/status/2093028886800109914
2•varun_chopra•44m ago•0 comments

Tanjey – Task Timers and Asana Management

https://www.tanjey.com/
1•linkolnk•45m ago•0 comments

FreeBASIC

https://freebasic.net/
3•tuveson•47m ago•0 comments

For ancient Romans, pooping was a group activity

https://www.popsci.com/science/ancient-roman-toilets/
5•WaitWaitWha•50m 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!