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Microsoft exec called AI scraping 'the largest theft of labor in human

https://techcrunch.com/2026/09/17/microsoft-exec-called-ai-scraping-the-largest-theft-of-labor-in...
1•sbulaev•2m ago•0 comments

NASA satellite discovers a new crater on the moon bigger than the Colosseum

https://www.cbc.ca/news/science/new-crater-moon-9.7348242
1•BiraIgnacio•7m ago•0 comments

Forget doomsday: The AI hacking crisis is here

https://www.axios.com/2026/09/17/ai-cyber-doomsday-hacking-threats
1•1vuio0pswjnm7•8m ago•1 comments

Base's B20 Bet Is Growing – Could the Next Billion-Dollar Project Be Built Here?

https://predx-article.fika.bar/base-s-b20-bet-is-getting-bigger-could-the-next-billion-do-01M2PW9...
1•joeymabia1•15m ago•0 comments

The FAA's plan to fix air traffic? $875M worth of AI

https://techcrunch.com/2026/09/17/the-faas-plan-to-fix-air-traffic-875-million-worth-of-ai/
3•danso•19m ago•0 comments

Red and Blue America Have Found Something to Agree On: Flock Cameras Must Go

https://www.wsj.com/us-news/red-and-blue-america-have-found-something-to-agree-on-flock-cameras-m...
5•johncole•19m ago•0 comments

LawConnect

https://lawconnect.com/en-au
1•oliviajameslaw•25m ago•1 comments

Email marketing from Grok Bot official integration

https://twitter.com/Migma_AI/status/2100617616704295197
1•AdamMigma•27m ago•0 comments

OSU's Bag Man - What was his bag, man?

https://oregonstater.org/osus-bag-man/
1•pseudolus•28m ago•0 comments

Mistral Hacked

https://frenchbreaches.com/blog/mistral-ai-de-nouveau-piratee-un-hacker-revendique-la-totalite-de...
2•orixilus•28m ago•0 comments

Dear developers, we are open‑sourcing our dictation app, Blurt

https://www.assemblyai.com/blurt
1•iharnoor•32m ago•0 comments

Can an AI chatbot save lives by answering texts about pregnancy?

https://www.npr.org/2026/09/17/nx-s1-5962840/artificial-intelligence-ai-chatbot-pregnancy-materna...
2•robglick•32m ago•0 comments

Publishers block the robots.txt path their own affiliate redirects live on

https://disclosed.info/the-index/
1•nchzingo•34m ago•0 comments

Productivity Effects Across Generations of AI Coding Tools

https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=6843118
1•fzliu•34m ago•1 comments

Talk to JEV

https://github.com/mkotlikov/jev-grug
1•mkotlikov•35m ago•0 comments

Typing Python, Gradually [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eZbLUgy522s
1•matt_d•41m ago•0 comments

PPPlayer – An open-source music player built with Flutter

https://ppplayer.com
1•lucasveneno•42m ago•0 comments

We Need to Rewild the Internet (2024)

https://www.noemamag.com/we-need-to-rewild-the-internet/
2•jcbhmr•42m ago•0 comments

Egglog and Equality Saturation in a Production Tensor Compiler

https://egraphs.org/meeting/2026-09-17-luminal
1•matt_d•43m ago•0 comments

Fix It in Post

https://chuang.oncemarked.com/fix-it-in-post
1•ovspianist•43m ago•0 comments

Tech continues to be political (2025)

https://www.miriamsuzanne.com/2025/02/12/tech-ai-wtf/
1•jcbhmr•43m ago•0 comments

SHOW HN: I built the fastest PHP webserver in the world

2•EGreg•50m ago•1 comments

Show HN: A repo-aware architecture checkup for Rails apps

https://railsbaseline.com/checkup/run/
1•polysaturate•50m ago•0 comments

EA Safety

https://contraptions.venkateshrao.com/p/ea-safety
1•martialg•52m ago•0 comments

Union Alpha is Unbiased's Pareto

https://openrouter.ai/unbiased/pareto
1•algoth1•52m ago•1 comments

Show HN: 500 TB internet index in ClickHouse, with congestion pricing

https://scry.io/
3•Xyra•53m ago•0 comments

Jev was trained on 100% synthetic data

https://twitter.com/CompleteSkeptic/status/2100617775823966680
2•doh•54m ago•0 comments

Reimagining research papers as interactive and reliable AI agents

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-026-11044-y
3•bucket2015•54m ago•0 comments

Is-odd-jev – check if a number is odd, with a calibrated probability

https://github.com/alxcrt/is-odd-jev
1•alxcrt•1h ago•0 comments

Zeek 9 – Zeek Network Security Monitor

https://zeek.org/2026/09/introducing-zeek-9/
2•happyopossum•1h 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!