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The Guinndex – The Guinness Index

https://guinndex.ai
1•austinallegro•2m ago•0 comments

Show HN: AI boom or bust, US war footing or not (four scenarios to 2029)

https://elviovicosa.com/war/
1•elvio•2m ago•0 comments

Escaping Only So Far

https://www.city-journal.org/article/escaping-only-so-far
1•barry-cotter•7m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Open-source customer-facing agents

https://github.com/radioso-ai/radioso
1•zualas•14m ago•0 comments

We Opted Out of Google AI Search – Here's What Happened

https://signal.zyppy.com/p/we-opted-out-of-google-ai-search
2•giuliomagnifico•19m ago•0 comments

GitHub Status – Incident with Webhooks and Actions

https://www.githubstatus.com/incidents/xxb3l2bm76dr
2•rschiavone•23m ago•0 comments

Agentic Development and Engineering Strategy

https://learnings.aleixmorgadas.dev/p/agentic-development-and-engineering
1•BerislavLopac•24m ago•0 comments

Phoenix vs. ClickHouse: Why the Fight Never Ends

https://alnovis.io/blog/phoenix-vs-clickhouse
1•alnovis•27m ago•0 comments

Together Compiler: Continual Compilation for AI Inference

https://www.together.ai/blog/together-compiler-continual-compilation-for-ai-inference
1•guystone•30m ago•0 comments

Aegis OS: a transactional multi-tenant OS runtime for autonomous coding agents

https://arxiv.org/abs/2611.08516
1•anatolii1309•31m ago•0 comments

Variable-width Bézier curves (2025)

https://luthert.web.illinois.edu/blog/posts/775.html
1•leduyquang753•37m ago•0 comments

Electric cars are about to overtake petrol in the UK, data shows

https://electrek.co/2026/11/05/uk-ev-sales-october-2026-electric-cars-overtake-petrol/
4•tapper•37m ago•0 comments

Show HN: nocopy – An APCu-compatible PHP extension with zero-copy reads

https://github.com/chrfritsch/nocopy
1•chrfritsch•39m ago•0 comments

Terminal-RSI: Recursive Self-Improving Terminal Agents

https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.22192
1•joshcsimmons•39m ago•1 comments

Six climate and health actions could save 1.6M lives and deliver trillions

https://www.who.int/news/item/04-11-2026-six-climate-and-health-actions-could-save-1.6-million-li...
2•robtherobber•41m ago•1 comments

Wattsec: Display macOS power usage in the menu bar

https://github.com/beutton/wattsec
2•petecooper•42m ago•0 comments

Convenience Is a Hot Commodity

https://www.vox.com/advice/508283/gabe-bullard-questions-to-ask-convenience
2•dabinat•47m ago•0 comments

Fun things to do with your VM/370 CE machine – Fun with big computers

https://rbanffy.github.io/fun-with-big-computers/fun-with-vm370/
16•rbanffy•48m ago•2 comments

Same fab, different paths: Kioxia and SanDisk diverge on HBF

https://www.blocksandfiles.com/flash/2026/11/03/same-fab-different-paths-kioxia-and-sandisk-diver...
2•rbanffy•52m ago•0 comments

Ask HN: How your SEO traffic doing? Up or down?

2•bigmuzzy•52m ago•0 comments

Stop Guessing Interactive Warehouse Size [video]

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/Y1bKrXArpYw
2•yanivleven•52m ago•0 comments

SHOW HN: GerGit - A Free Open-Source Git GUI Client for Linux Inspired by Fork

https://github.com/IcaruzSoftware/GerGit
4•IcaruzSoftware•53m ago•1 comments

Project Steadfast

https://noteflakes.com/articles/2026-11-07-introducing-project-steadfast
2•thunderbong•1h ago•0 comments

A small town in Spain battles again construction of a macro data center

https://english.elpais.com/spain/2026-11-07/a-small-town-in-spain-battles-again-construction-of-a...
4•Betelbuddy•1h ago•0 comments

Envelope encryption APIs: the details beyond encrypt and decrypt

https://github.com/lecodev-26/nexus-q
2•lecodev•1h ago•0 comments

The PHP Singularity

https://blog.codinghorror.com/the-php-singularity/
3•vladde•1h ago•2 comments

The Most Advanced AI Rabbi

https://rebbe.io/
2•Betelbuddy•1h ago•0 comments

Suitable for Taycan Turbo GT model carbon fiber tail

https://www.porsche-km.com/newsinfo/11378510.html
2•edl8888•1h ago•0 comments

AI Shakes Volunteer Sites

https://cacm.acm.org/news/ai-shakes-volunteer-sites/
3•adunk•1h ago•0 comments

Ask HN: Do you still enjoy coding in C++?

17•hasley•1h ago•11 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!