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Texpresso: A True Wysiwyg System for Open-Source LaTeX Design

https://github.com/let-def/texpresso
1•mathlab08•2m ago•0 comments

OpenRing – self-hosted voice AI agents with a Vapi-compatible API

https://github.com/elifalanrocha/openring
1•elifalanrocha•5m ago•0 comments

Sophon-Realtime v1

https://huggingface.co/adventists-ai/Sophon-Realtime-v1
1•keyle•5m ago•0 comments

ByteAsk: Build-Aware Context and a Checking Harness for C++ Coding Agents

https://byteask.ai/research/byteask-system-cpp
1•anirudhak•9m ago•0 comments

Male donkey is a bull's willing partner in rare interspecies affair

https://www.cnn.com/2026/11/09/science/donkey-bull-interspecies-mating-behavior
1•1659447091•12m ago•1 comments

How the Phone Book Taught America to Ask for Answers

https://daily.jstor.org/how-the-phone-book-taught-america-to-ask-for-answers/
1•herbertl•13m ago•0 comments

Three Short Essays on Jazz

https://www.tetragrammaton.com/article/three-short-essays-on-jazz
1•herbertl•14m ago•0 comments

Lab-grown poultry company challenges Florida's ban on 'cultivated' meat

https://www.yahoo.com/news/lab-grown-poultry-company-challenges-183938365.html
1•ArizonaGal•17m ago•0 comments

SVG sky map with Ruby and Astronoby

https://blog.rhannequ.in/posts/svg-sky-map-with-ruby-and-astronoby
1•thunderbong•17m ago•0 comments

HeyWhatsThat – Calculate viewshed and panorama for any point on Earth (2022)

https://www.heywhatsthat.com/
1•zenincognito•18m ago•0 comments

How to Become a Lost

https://www.l3r8y.ru/2026/01/11/how-to-become-lost-developer
1•l3r8y•21m ago•0 comments

Attackers Claim to Have Stolen Data on over 1M Vanderbilt Students, Staff

https://gizmodo.com/attackers-claim-to-have-stolen-data-on-over-1-million-vanderbilt-students-and...
1•pseudolus•21m ago•0 comments

Trump's ties to Nvidia's Huang scrutinized after foreign intelligence concerns

https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/trumps-close-ties-nvidias-huang-scrutinized-after-fore...
2•lakeviewterrace•23m ago•1 comments

Learning Abstractions: The Next Frontier for AI

https://twitter.com/jmugan/status/2119593410268999700
1•jmugan•24m ago•0 comments

Show HN: I abandoned my AVX2 128-bit fixed-point library

https://github.com/arjavsharma91/v4q128
1•arjavsharma91•24m ago•1 comments

Managing Cover Crops Profitably [pdf]

https://www.sare.org/wp-content/uploads/Managing-Cover-Crops-Profitably.pdf
1•Bluestein•25m ago•0 comments

Hundreds of Mundane AI Apps Are Hiding Sexually Abusive Deepfake Features

https://www.wired.com/story/hundreds-of-mundane-ai-apps-are-hiding-abusive-deepfake-features/
1•CharlesW•26m ago•0 comments

Does paying more get you better reviews? Rarely

https://www.bettascore.ai/research/price-vs-reviews
1•tsxng•28m ago•0 comments

Recursive Self-Improving Terminal Agents via Recursive Self-Rewrite

https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.22192
1•UncleOxidant•28m ago•0 comments

Endless Portal Worlds

https://portals-endless-worlds.netlify.app/
1•bigwheels•30m ago•0 comments

Replacing Dairy with Plant-Based Alternatives Can Lead to Nutrient Deficiencies

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/even-replacing-some-of-your-dietary-dairy-with-plant-ba...
2•rdmuser•36m ago•1 comments

What if every Nix build were bit-reproducible?

https://fzakaria.com/2026/11/09/what-if-every-nix-build-were-bit-reproducible
2•iamnothere•37m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Stop Walking – A 10-level, one-button 3D rage game in the browser

https://stopwalking.online
1•admingiftcure•37m ago•1 comments

Welcome to Ed and Sam's great adventure

https://www.hintz.org/trip/
1•mooreds•37m ago•0 comments

Locating the Source of a Mysterious Beep

https://simonwillison.net/2026/Nov/9/mysterious-beeps/
1•bigwheels•38m ago•0 comments

Why Don't Artists Join Together in Co-Op Platforms?

https://www.honest-broker.com/p/why-dont-artists-join-together-in
2•paulpauper•39m ago•0 comments

Perhaps Connecting Fridges to the Internet Was a Bad Idea

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/2026/11/fridge-hacks-europe-supermarkets/689328/
3•paulpauper•40m ago•1 comments

What Constant Surveillance Is Doing to Children

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/2026/12/location-tracking-apps-parental-surveillance/689031/
2•paulpauper•41m ago•0 comments

How I Give Feedback

https://diatone.net/feedback
1•s1ddhant•41m ago•0 comments

Horible Public Key Tricks

https://maurycyz.com/projects/badcert/
2•Curiositry•41m 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!