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Google has apparently ended updates for every Chromecast except one

https://9to5google.com/2026/05/22/google-chromecast-updates-ended/
1•theanonymousone•27s ago•0 comments

Show HN: Blacknode – Visual workflow builder Claude can drive via MCP

https://github.com/temiroff/Blacknode
1•temiroff•3m ago•0 comments

Google plans to win the AI war

https://www.axios.com/2026/05/21/google-ai-anthropic-openai-war
1•gmays•4m ago•0 comments

SpaceX's Ambitions Are Intergalactic. Its Business Is Selling You Internet

https://www.wsj.com/business/starlink-spacex-ipo-elon-musk-967fba39
1•fortran77•4m ago•1 comments

Crooked Forest

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crooked_Forest
1•thunderbong•4m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Anime AI Studio – Create AI Anime Videos from Scripts

https://www.animeaistudio.com/
1•deepseekai•5m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Charm – on-device spelling, grammar, and prediction for macOS

https://www.theodorehq.com/charm/
2•theodorehq•7m ago•0 comments

EaglePress – I may have vibe coded this as ready to blog

https://eaglepress.org/post/eaglepress-download
1•eagle10ne•7m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Cq exchange: Hosted knowledge commons for AI coding agents

https://blog.mozilla.ai/cq-exchange-agents-without-borders/
1•angpt•10m ago•0 comments

Can you crack the famous unsolved cipher, created by the Zodiac Killer?

http://www.oranchak.com/zodiac/webtoy/
1•Alifatisk•11m ago•0 comments

Show HN: A botless meeting recorder and summarizer that runs in the browser

https://wocal.app
3•dsingh1990•12m ago•0 comments

Robert X Cringely is back to blogging

https://www.cringely.com/
1•dan_hawkins•12m ago•0 comments

GSD forked to get-shit-done-redux

https://github.com/gsd-redux/get-shit-done-redux
1•darronz•12m ago•0 comments

Software Defaults Create Emotionally Flat Spaces

https://frostecho.neocities.org/posts/software-defaults-create-emotionally-flat-spaces/
1•speckx•13m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Swarmsim – Emergent flocking and predator/prey dynamics

https://github.com/ninjahawk/swarmsim
1•ninjahawk1•13m ago•0 comments

Artificial Intelligence and Grade Inflation

https://escholarship.org/uc/item/80x8d3qd
1•geox•13m ago•0 comments

Fixing LLM Writing with Distribution Fine Tuning

https://rosmine.ai/2026/05/18/fixing-llm-writing-with-distribution-fine-tuning/
1•jbotz•15m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Mercury v3 – Convert Python Notebooks to Web Apps

https://github.com/mljar/mercury
1•pplonski86•17m ago•0 comments

Agent Traces: every browser session as a prompt

https://steel.dev/blog/agent-traces
1•nkko•17m ago•0 comments

Bank boss sorry after describing workers as 'lower value human capital'

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c98rqld1j3yo
3•tartoran•18m ago•0 comments

MCP Specification 2026-07-28 Release Candidate

https://blog.modelcontextprotocol.io/posts/2026-07-28-release-candidate/
2•disintegrator•19m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Agent Capsule – versioned checkpoints for agents you run

1•rmqyeby•20m ago•0 comments

HN isn't swamped yet, just AI-obsessed

https://www.mahl.me/blog/hacker-news-isnt-swamped-yet/
2•gorgmah•21m ago•0 comments

Scott Aaronson – The Truth About Quantum Computing [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cq4atriB-Rc
1•nill0•23m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Runner – desktop app for running Claude Code, Codex as a crew

https://github.com/yicheng47/runner
2•yicheng47•25m ago•0 comments

Macro Wall Display

https://kensingtonhomes.uk
1•postmanag•26m ago•0 comments

I built Search Engine $100 business ideas filtered by budget,niche and AI Tools

https://onehundredbiz.com
1•DaveOne•26m ago•0 comments

Running Gitea Runner with Rootless Podman

https://www.nite07.com/en/posts/quadlet-gitea-runner-podman/
1•speckx•27m ago•0 comments

An AI system to help scientists write expert-level empirical software

https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.06503
1•cyco130•28m ago•0 comments

Plan to declare Dominion Voting Systems machines national security risks fails

https://twitter.com/ErinBanco/status/2057799461435220399
1•cf100clunk•29m 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!