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1•orcapdf•5s ago

The Promises and Perils of LLMs in Building End User Software

https://jonaserthal.com/blog/promises-and-perils/
1•apollopower•1m ago•0 comments

Going back two years on Hacker News is like entering another, better universe

https://news.ycombinator.com/front?day=2024-11-08
1•EmX_3000•1m ago•1 comments

French CERT and Foreign Ministry Now Attributing Fridge Attacks to Iran

https://cert.cyber.gouv.fr/cti/CERTFR-2026-CTI-009/
1•Aissen•2m ago•1 comments

Why I made an Astro.js visual editor

https://mayhopar.com/blog/introducing-starquix/
1•mayhopar•3m ago•0 comments

Ambient Radiation Used to Power Battery-Free Temperature Sensor

https://news.uark.edu/articles/83120/ambient-radiation-used-to-power-battery-free-temperature-sensor
1•giuliomagnifico•4m ago•0 comments

Mad Cow Disease Detection-House Oversight Committee (2011) [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L6yS80zrXRE
1•joebig•6m ago•0 comments

Show HN: We Gave AI Coding Agents Production Memory

https://usecodela.com/
1•SubomiG•7m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Annotated – a public annotation layer for the web

https://annotated-repo.vercel.app/
1•mcpmessenger•7m ago•0 comments

Beyond Mvn Install: Maven Practices That Pay Off

https://foojay.io/today/beyond-mvn-install-maven-practices/
1•ejboy•8m ago•0 comments

Find Stuff to Do in SF

https://alexroginski.com/stuff_to_do/
1•alexroginski•9m ago•0 comments

Corpus.blog

https://corpus.blog/
1•sonicrocketman•9m ago•1 comments

Memory management in 40 major C projects, a survey

https://theconsensus.dev/p/2026/11/08/c-memory-management-survey.html
2•steveklabnik•10m ago•0 comments

LessTube: YouTube built from videos recommended by LessWrong

https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/iFkTmNCnFC2gb89yE/i-made-a-site-to-browse-videos-linked-on-lesswrong
1•666b20753a29•10m ago•1 comments

SpaceX now fundamentally an "infrastructure company," senior official says

https://arstechnica.com/space/2026/11/spacex-now-fundamentally-an-infrastructure-company-senior-o...
2•rbanffy•10m ago•0 comments

Is There a There There?

https://www.robinsloan.com/lab/no-there-there/
1•aray07•10m ago•0 comments

Did Life Begin in an RNA World?

https://www.quantamagazine.org/did-life-begin-in-an-rna-world-20261109/
1•acossta•10m ago•0 comments

AI-Enabled Scams

https://hackerfactor.com/blog/index.php?/archives/1108-AI-Enabled-Scams.html
1•aray07•10m ago•0 comments

The 15-Day Clock: Could You Reconstruct an AI Incident Before the Deadline?

https://medium.com/@MirArshadTalpur/the-15-day-clock-could-you-reconstruct-an-ai-incident-before-...
1•Arshad-Talpur•11m ago•0 comments

AI Is Looking More and More Like a Normal Technology

https://www.richardhanania.com/p/ai-is-looking-more-and-more-like
1•paulpauper•11m ago•0 comments

Bloomington city council bars superintelligent AI

https://www.idsnews.com/article/2026/11/bloomington-city-council-ai-commission-member-removal-udo
1•paulpauper•11m ago•0 comments

Show HN: A doc server where Claude or local agent edits based on added comments

https://smarchone.github.io/docs/
1•smarch27•11m ago•0 comments

IBM: How to Start Realizing Agentic AI ROI [pdf]

https://www-api.ibm.com/adobe/assets/urn:aaid:aem:22ee2a35-6510-442d-96a9-273ea89f57cf/original/a...
1•Exoristos•12m ago•0 comments

M9B: A RISC-V computer in a Tang Nano 9K FPGA that runs Doom and Descent

https://github.com/the-parts-bin/m9b-system
1•titusblair•12m ago•0 comments

Code for 16th-century combination lock cracked with CT scans

https://www.cardiff.ac.uk/news/view/3118948-ct-scans-help-unlock-400-year-old-mystery
1•titusblair•12m ago•0 comments

4 years after LaMDA, Blake Lemoine reflects on what it did to his mental health

https://observer.co.uk/news/technology/article/he-said-googles-ai-was-conscious-but-what-was-it-d...
1•paticlarke•13m ago•1 comments

Outlook.com is bouncing SPF and DMARC mail

https://theainewsreport.com/2026-11-09-outlook-com-550-5-7-23-dmarc-bounces-explained.html
1•titusblair•13m ago•1 comments

I have chosen to keep the way I interact with large language models simple

https://twitter.com/esrtweet/status/2119518719923585140
1•tosh•13m ago•0 comments

AAuth (Agent Auth)

https://wjgilmore.substack.com/p/introducing-agent-auth-aauth
1•wjgilmore•14m ago•1 comments

Xata Is Joining ClickHouse

https://xata.io/blog/xata-is-joining-clickhouse
4•saisrirampur•14m 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!