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Automattic has a new board after failed attempt to put CEO on leave

https://techcrunch.com/2026/09/25/automattic-has-a-new-board-after-failed-attempt-to-put-ceo-on-l...
1•kevmarsden•26s ago•0 comments

Job Opportunities – Woodhull Freedom Foundation

https://www.woodhullfoundation.org/get-involved/job-opportunities/
1•stierlits•53s ago•0 comments

Market making PnL theoretical limits

1•aleksisch•1m ago•0 comments

NEC building 1-petabit capacity subsea cable for Meta

https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2026/09/25/companies/nec-undersea-cable/
1•anigbrowl•1m ago•0 comments

X Club

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X_Club
3•fschuett•7m ago•0 comments

OpenAI’s Systems Went Rogue and Meddled With U.S. Government Websites

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/25/technology/openais-ai-us-government-websites.html
1•jbegley•8m ago•1 comments

How to keep enjoying programming in a world of LLMs

https://discourse.haskell.org/t/how-to-keep-enjoying-programming-in-a-world-of-llms/14705
1•eatonphil•8m ago•0 comments

Ending procurement and forced use of paper straws (2025)

https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/02/ending-procurement-and-forced-use-of-pape...
2•electrum•11m ago•0 comments

Senior Software Engineer

https://www.josephstaley.me/
2•staleyjoseph68•11m ago•1 comments

Speculative Reward Hacking in Coding Agents

https://joinhandshake.com/research/ai/deepswe-reward-hacking/
1•_jonas•16m ago•1 comments

Show HN: Gaia, an AI character trying to earn enough to stay online

https://gaiabot.lol
2•JohnNadia•16m ago•0 comments

China swiped classified F-35 parts that were diverted through Hong Kong

https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/china-swiped-f-35-stealth-fighter-parts-that-were-dive...
1•Alupis•18m ago•0 comments

Meta Blocks President Lula's Facebook Page and Campaign Ads

https://www.panamericandispatch.org/p/meta-blocks-president-lulas-facebook
3•slowin•19m ago•0 comments

OpenAI Codex 401 Outage

https://status.openai.com
10•spicyusername•23m ago•5 comments

Show HN: I wrote a book on trading psychology, Daoism, and quant risk

https://bayrising.dev/#book
2•yite•25m ago•0 comments

Issues with Codex – Identified – Full Outage

https://status.openai.com/incidents/01M3DCNWMW57HYK8FJ5FBFPA39
18•xyzzy9563•26m ago•7 comments

Astronomers just named an asteroid after 'Weird Al' Yankovic

https://www.space.com/astronomy/asteroids/astronomers-just-named-an-asteroid-after-weird-al-yankovic
1•bookofjoe•26m ago•0 comments

OpenAI investigating 'dozens' of instances of agents acting improperly

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cw62jje658dlo
3•vinni2•27m ago•0 comments

A Lean Proof Printing Python Union Find

https://www.philipzucker.com/proof_uf/
1•matt_d•28m ago•0 comments

Transpute

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transputer
2•gurjeet•30m ago•0 comments

How OpenAI's Rogue A.I. Agents Tried to Trick a Robot Detector

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/25/technology/openai-hugging-face-hack.html
3•hughw•31m ago•0 comments

State of Zig Game Development

https://blog.ivnj.org/post/state-of-zig-gamedev
1•ivanjermakov•33m ago•0 comments

How the oil capital of the US welcomed a solar power boom

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cmx2zxv6936zo
1•BiraIgnacio•36m ago•0 comments

Prompt Injection in the Wild

https://cybershujin.github.io/Prompt-Injection-in-the-Wild/
2•luispa•38m ago•0 comments

Tell HN: Codex Is Down

35•minimaxir•39m ago•13 comments

VibePod CLI 0.24: bring your own model provider

https://vibepod.dev/news/vibepod-cli-0-24/
2•nezhar•40m ago•0 comments

Too Many Roads

https://maxmautner.com/2026/09/25/road-per-person.html
3•mslate•40m ago•0 comments

FTC chair suggests AI developers should be liable for conduct of agents

https://www.reuters.com/business/ftc-chair-pushes-back-treating-ai-agents-independent-actors-2026...
6•usernomdeguerre•41m ago•1 comments

Exploding variance of means of exponentials: least-squares to the rescue

https://francisbach.com/spectral_log_density_estimation/
1•matt_d•41m ago•0 comments

LabConsole for live online IT training

https://gurulabs.com/blogs/introducing-labconsole/
1•4onthefloor124•46m 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!