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Meet Jack

https://github.com/mlangford75-lgtm/jack
1•Mlangford75•8m ago•0 comments

Smartphones with Popular Qualcomm Chip Share Private Information

https://www.nitrokey.com/news/2023/smartphones-popular-qualcomm-chip-secretly-share-private-infor...
2•airhangerf15•13m ago•1 comments

Historical memory prices 1960-2026

https://dam.stanford.edu/memory-prices.html
2•vga1•15m ago•0 comments

The Cost Yagni Was Never About – By Kent Beck

https://newsletter.kentbeck.com/p/the-cost-yagni-was-never-about
6•kiyanwang•16m ago•0 comments

The Great American Tech "Crackdown" Is Looking Like China's

https://x.com/compose/articles/edit/2070615531422433280
1•ceohockey60•17m ago•0 comments

Scaling Engineering: Ownership over Hiring

https://greenido.dev/2026/06/11/what-changes-at-20-50-and-200-engineers/
1•kiyanwang•18m ago•0 comments

Sun Ra's Full Lecture and Reading List from His 1971 UC Berkeley Course

https://www.openculture.com/2014/07/full-lecture-and-reading-list-from-sun-ras-1971-uc-berkeley-c...
1•mmooss•19m ago•0 comments

Basic Computer Literacy

https://excipio.tech/blog/basic-computer-literacy/
1•lvales•19m ago•0 comments

Agents Are the New Product's Interface

https://www.hopsworks.ai/post/agents-are-your-new-product-interface
2•LexSiga•23m ago•0 comments

The LLM shoggoth meme is weirder than you think

https://hedonicescalator.substack.com/p/the-llm-shoggoth-meme-is-weirder
3•HedonicEscal8r•25m ago•0 comments

Lost your crypto access code? Be wary, there's a scam for that too

https://www.theguardian.com/money/2026/jun/28/scam-watch-panic-thats-just-what-fraudsters-are-wai...
1•Brajeshwar•28m ago•0 comments

A Streptomyces megacluster encodes synergistic biotin-targeting antibiotics

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-026-10647-9
1•Lihh27•29m ago•0 comments

Ask HN: Is your journal hard cover or soft?

1•herodoturtle•29m ago•0 comments

The Lost Art of Leisure

https://www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/2026/06/leisure-productivity/687726/
1•shadow28•31m ago•0 comments

High Schoolers and AI

https://malerchen.com/high-schoolers-and-ai/
1•pokemyiout•34m ago•0 comments

France's heat this week exceeded a 2050 forecast in 19 of 34 locations

https://news.slashdot.org/story/26/06/27/2146244/frances-heat-this-week-was-worse-than-a-dire-sce...
3•logickkk1•35m ago•2 comments

Continuity-Enhancing Degree Elevation and Splits

https://graphics.cs.utah.edu/research/projects/continuity-enhancement/
1•E-Reverance•36m ago•0 comments

'Born to make people laugh': Comedy legend and Jewish icon Mel Brooks turns 100

https://www.timesofisrael.com/born-to-make-people-laugh-comedy-legend-and-jewish-icon-mel-brooks-...
1•sbuttgereit•37m ago•0 comments

Ask HN: Is WordPress the best way to create new websites for beginner

3•anitroves•44m ago•8 comments

AI and the Crisis of 'Classical Liberalism'

https://compactmag.substack.com/p/ai-and-the-crisis-of-classical-liberalism
1•paulpauper•46m ago•0 comments

The Tragic Birth of FM Radio (2006)

https://www.damninteresting.com/the-tragic-birth-of-fm-radio/
2•bookofjoe•47m ago•0 comments

Best Books of the 21st Century

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2024/books/best-books-21st-century.html
1•paulpauper•47m ago•0 comments

Alan Greenspan, RIP

https://scottsumner.substack.com/p/alan-greenspan-rip
1•paulpauper•47m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Iwtlp – Learn to code by solving real domain based projects

https://iwtlp.com/
1•i_w_t_l_p•47m ago•0 comments

The Ben and Jerry's Flavor Graveyard

https://www.benjerry.com/flavors/flavor-graveyard
1•NaOH•48m ago•0 comments

Hacking a Ceiling Fan Remote with RTL-SDR and ESP32 for Home Assistant

https://hackaday.com/2026/06/28/rf-hacking-a-ceiling-fan-via-the-remote/
3•whiteblossom•49m ago•0 comments

Ornith-1.0: Self-Scaffolding LLMs for Agentic Coding

https://deep-reinforce.com/ornith_1_0.html
2•kordlessagain•50m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Borkd – Is it your code or the platform? One dashboard instead of ten

https://borkd.dev/
1•watchready•51m ago•1 comments

Node.js io_uring over napi-rs, more then 2x performance

https://github.com/avifenesh/ferrings
3•anotherCodder•52m ago•0 comments

The (new) place for thoughtful puzzles

https://www.puzzmo.com/today
2•jasonpeacock•52m 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!