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Neuron Explorer for Qwen 4B

https://github.com/lyramakesmusic/neuron-explorer
1•vpj•2m ago•0 comments

What the Specification Did Not Say: Gaps in Test-Graded Coding-Agent Benchmarks

https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.30635
1•mehdizare•5m ago•0 comments

Show HN: QualityLayer, put the engineer back in the loop of your coding agent

https://qualitylayer.dev/
1•rittermax•6m ago•0 comments

A hacky f*d up way to portably access errno from outside of C

https://sebsite.pw/w/20260925-errno.html
1•dverlaeckt80•7m ago•0 comments

Multiplayer System in C Supports 50k Players at 60Hz on a Single Server

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=imG2Tt_KOj4
1•birdculture•7m ago•0 comments

US Households Pay 62% More for Water Than They Did a Decade Ago, Study Finds

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/oct/06/households-drinking-water-cost-study
1•karakoram•7m ago•0 comments

Show HN: I replaced tmux with sway workspaces

https://github.com/artemave/hop
1•artemave•7m ago•1 comments

The Hibernate Origin Story (Outsider Edition)

https://fishbowl.pastiche.org/2026/10/23/hibernate-origin-story
1•dverlaeckt80•8m ago•0 comments

Rewriting Excel, PowerPoint, and Word for Agents

https://getcompound.ai/blog/rewriting-excel-powerpoint-and-word-for-agents
2•peterjliu•8m ago•0 comments

The 'else' keyword is probably a literal translation from German (2020)

https://github.com/e-n-f/if-then-else/blob/master/if-then-else.md
1•theanonymousone•9m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Music as a TypeScript program

https://twitter.com/dotproductX/status/2114386390595068154
1•mxudev•9m ago•0 comments

Flock Fever: A Review of Government Surveillance [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OP5GDiLZ1Nw
1•input_sh•12m ago•0 comments

Generating balanced cubes for Magic: The Gathering

https://nishtahir.com/generating-balanced-cubes-for-magic-the-gathering/
1•CarefreeCrayon•14m ago•0 comments

Dolly – scroll animations in plain CSS

https://usedolly.dev/
1•eustoria•17m ago•1 comments

If you've ever wondered why smart TVs are so cheap, this is why

https://twitter.com/Tristan0x/status/2114311011561812476
3•tosh•18m ago•1 comments

Researchers thread the first touchscreen into a garment

https://news.nus.edu.sg/worlds-first-touchscreen-in-garment/
1•geox•21m ago•0 comments

Cap – Open-source, self-hosted CAPTCHA alternative to reCAPTCHA

https://trycap.dev/
1•eustoria•21m ago•0 comments

Ideas

https://www.noahzender.com/ideas
2•andsoitis•22m ago•1 comments

Speech to Bird Song Converter

https://birdspeech.mitpit.com/
1•MitPitt•23m ago•0 comments

The Captain and the Current

https://www.tylerhogge.com/blog/the-captain-and-the-current/
1•andsoitis•23m ago•0 comments

EScan and M-Kavach have issues

1•AngadBasandrai•25m ago•0 comments

Liella: A Glibc Reimplementation in Rust

https://github.com/duskglow/liella
1•duskglow•25m ago•3 comments

Show HN: My Kids TV – Calm, ad-free replacement home screen for Google TV

https://github.com/suboss87/my-kids-tv
2•suboss87•28m ago•0 comments

What Makes Life Beautiful?

https://nautil.us/what-makes-life-beautiful-1285942
3•the-mitr•30m ago•0 comments

A Few Thoughts on Conviction

https://www.tylerhogge.com/blog/a-few-thoughts-on-conviction/
1•andsoitis•32m ago•0 comments

Human Creativity in the Age of AI [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kD5qYiLIhJc
1•epiccoleman•32m ago•1 comments

Red-teaming AI agent monitors with an LLM that fakes tool outputs

https://www.redwoodresearch.org/blog/simulated-control-evaluations
1•sgiannopoulos•33m ago•0 comments

Enjoy – A free AI creative studio for macOS, Windows, and Linux

https://enjoy.dev/hn/
1•mobitar•35m ago•0 comments

Cramdle: A game about packing shapes together tightly

https://cramdle.com/
2•underanalyzer•35m ago•0 comments

Architectural Decision Records

https://adr.github.io/
2•pelasaco•36m 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!