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Have you been Flocked? This website lets you find out

https://mashable.com/tech/have-i-been-flocked-license-plate-search
1•gnabgib•2m ago•0 comments

US warns of AI-powered attacks on Siemens PLCs in critical infrastructure

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/us-warns-of-ai-powered-attacks-on-siemens-plcs-in-...
1•sbulaev•4m ago•0 comments

Universality of Gradient Descent Neural Network Training

https://arxiv.org/abs/2007.13664
1•E-Reverance•6m ago•0 comments

Amazon's Drones Will Soon Deliver to Nearly 500 US Cities and Towns

https://www.theverge.com/tech/981908/amazon-prime-air-drone-delivery-us-expansion
1•m463•8m ago•1 comments

Benn Jordan gets kicked from Hilton hotel during flock event [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5vTqFgtM3Wo
2•barryvan•8m ago•0 comments

The epic blockbuster that could be India's answer to The Odyssey

https://www.bbc.com/culture/article/20260818-ramayana-the-epic-blockbuster-that-could-be-indias-a...
1•BiraIgnacio•10m ago•0 comments

Multi-Level Analysis of GPU Utilization in ML Training Workloads [pdf]

https://past.date-conference.com/proceedings-archive/2024/DATA/300_pdf_upload.pdf
2•mfiguiere•14m ago•2 comments

Professional Decline Is Coming (Much) Sooner Than You Think

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2019/07/work-peak-professional-decline/590650/
2•cebert•15m ago•0 comments

If You're Not Studying for Retention, Just Use AI

https://www.fjapm.com/posts/if-youre-not-studying-for-retention-just-use-ai
3•f18m•20m ago•0 comments

Show HN: MeetingIntro, a macOS menu bar app that interrupts you before a meeting

https://github.com/templegit9/MeetingIntro
1•black_observer•26m ago•0 comments

Stripe's August 2026 Investor Letter

https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/28565866-stripes-august-2026-investor-letter/
2•dayve•28m ago•0 comments

Jugwalking: Exercise Your Mind, Your Body, and the Neural Network That Connects

https://davidsmaynard.com/blog/juggle-walking
1•andsoitis•29m ago•0 comments

Gardner police discontinue Flock cameras as license plate readers face scrutiny

https://www.kmbc.com/article/gardner-kansas-flock-cameras-license-plate-readers-privacy/73468724
15•cocacola1•32m ago•1 comments

More tales of App Store curation

https://lapcatsoftware.com/articles/2026/8/9.html
3•cdrnsf•36m ago•0 comments

What makes leaders effective?

https://www.raphaelbauer.com:443/posts/drucker-on-effective-leaders/
1•teleforce•44m ago•0 comments

Remember When Everyone Was Using Solar Energy? (2016)

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/article/160225-solar-calculator-history-energy-objects
1•Eridanus2•44m ago•0 comments

Winning a contentious soft fork in 2026

https://getcofund.com/research/what-is-an-economic-node
1•setzeus•45m ago•0 comments

AI-Powered Cyberattacks

https://www.opswat.com/blog/ai-powered-cyberattacks
1•bps1418•45m ago•0 comments

The Arduino UNO Q is an almost perfect Hermes Agent host

1•etoxin•48m ago•0 comments

The Calculus of Value

https://www.oaktreecapital.com/insights/memo/the-calculus-of-value
1•rzk•49m ago•0 comments

AI Hurtles Ahead

https://www.oaktreecapital.com/insights/memo/ai-hurtles-ahead
1•rzk•50m ago•2 comments

Technical leaders should have the largest AI exhaust

https://schipper.ai/posts/technical-leaders-should-have-the-largest-ai-exhaust/
2•schipperai•58m ago•0 comments

I still hand write my commit messages

https://www.jvt.me/posts/2026/08/17/hand-write-commits/
2•birdculture•1h ago•0 comments

NASA estimates the size of the hole SpaceX made in the moon

https://www.theregister.com/offbeat/2026/08/19/nasa-estimates-the-size-of-the-hole-spacex-made-in...
2•Bender•1h ago•0 comments

ASML tries to keep employees until 2030 with €20K stock

https://www.dutchnews.nl/2026/07/asml-staff-get-e20000-in-shares-if-they-stay-until-2030/
2•jbverschoor•1h ago•5 comments

The Point

https://jamie.ideasasylum.com/2026/08/19/the-point
2•mooreds•1h ago•0 comments

NASA's rescue mission for the Swift space telescope has failed

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/nasa-calls-off-rescue-mission-for-its-falling-swift-sp...
4•sohkamyung•1h ago•0 comments

"Half-Day": 0-Day in the Age of AI

https://margin.re/2026/08/introducing-the-half-day-0-day-in-the-age-of-ai/
2•aaronsdevera•1h ago•0 comments

SvelteKit 3 puts heat on Next.js with approach to RPCs

https://www.theregister.com/devops/2026/08/19/sveltekit-3-puts-heat-on-nextjs-with-radical-approa...
2•Bender•1h ago•0 comments

Drivers are so used to speeding many ignore posted limits, study finds

https://www.freep.com/story/news/local/michigan/2026/08/18/speeding-drivers-traffic-deaths/913503...
4•mandaroVH•1h ago•2 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!